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Breaking Through the Bacteria Barrier
needed,” says Cullen Buie, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ... engineering. Genetically engineering any organism requires first getting its cells to take in foreign DNA. To ... developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-bacteria-barrierFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
mechanical engineering at MIT. “After you open the engine roof, you have to be flexible enough to make sharp ... for a product at the back of a cluttered shelf, or snaking around a car’s engine parts to unscrew an ... oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ... study of cell mechanics, with a focus on the behavior of cancer cells and the processes that drive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisThomas Ober
aerodynamics department. So when he came across a job opening for a computational fluid dynamics engineer at ... department. So when he came across a job opening for a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula ... dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his physical knowledge with computer software to analyze ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/thomas-oberTaking a break and making connections
a newfound interest in sustainable design. “I changed my mechanical engineering concentration to sustainable ... patterns and I wasn’t learning how to fix them,” says Jahnavi, now a senior majoring in mechanical ... engineering. “I would start off each semester doing really well academically, then I’d lose momentum and become ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-break-and-making-connectionsJahnavi Kalpathy
fix them,” says Jahnavi, now a senior majoring in mechanical engineering. “I would start off each ... design. “I changed my mechanical engineering concentration to sustainable development and energy because ... to MIT, Jahnavi took classes in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and aerodynamics at a local ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jahnavi-kalpathyMaker Break: A celebration of making at MIT
for the win. Dan Dorsch, a mechanical engineering PhD candidate and the winner of the RC car ... lathes, and other shop tools and equipment,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering ... the Institute. The event was organized by Project Manus, led by professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maker-break-celebration-making-mitKrithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ... Mechanical Engineering, who researches novel designs for drip irrigation emitters that operate at lower ... across its various funding mechanisms. From the development of a novel, environmentally sustainable, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/krithika-ramchander-and-andrea-beck-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsPeter Godart
a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... Beth Gallagher Department of Mechanical Engineering Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Culture Prospective-Grad ... materials while providing clean energy and fresh water,” adds Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-godartSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
and Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL. “Here we explore regulating ... scientist at Toyota Research Institute; Tao Pang, mechanical engineering PhD student at MIT and CSAIL ... position controller,” says Hyung Ju Suh, a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceHow to make hydrogels more injectable
a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... researchers have created a set of computational models to predict the material’s structure, mechanical ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableMIT Scientists Twist Apart More Than 1,000 Oreos in Search for Perfect Method
Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s mechanical engineering department. She led a group of researchers on ... in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering and co-author of the study. Another was to attach both ... Materials with similar mechanical properties to Oreo creme—toothpaste, yogurt, ice cream—split down the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-scientists-twist-apart-more-1000-oreos-search-perfect-methodThree MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023
University Research Initiative (MURI) awards for 2023. This year, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... modalities. Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Kimberly Tecce | Rachel Gordon | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... (MechE) professors George Barbasthasis and John Hart, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-led-projects-awarded-muri-funding-2023Protecting machine learning datasets
to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... GAME – the Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers – and an active member of MIT’s Latin Graduate ... Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-machine-learning-datasetsTwo MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards
environmental research. “No Drop to Spare,” created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was ... users.” Freidah has worked with Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... 2024 Katherine Ouellette | Anne Wilson | MIT Open Learning | Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-films-nominated-new-england-emmy-awardsBuilding 31 powers back up
a full-scale car in,” says Amos Winter, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Laboratories for Aircraft and Automotive Engines, originally opened in 1928 as a single-story home for MIT’s ... internal combustion engine research, funded by General Motors CEO Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Class of 1895. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-31-powers-backBuilding and reconnecting MIT in Minecraft
Despite being far from campus because of the pandemic, some students are engineering a creative ... way to stay connected. Many MIT students, like their beaver mascot, are well-known for engineering ... to improve MIT’s computing environment since 1969. Alexander Patton, a senior in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-and-reconnecting-mit-minecraftInspired by hands-on learning, MechE junior creates Haiti’s first of its kind open-use Makerspace
inaugurated in Haiti on August 19. Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering ... experience motivated him to work on a project to foster hands-on education for aspiring young engineers back ... and so that Haitian kids could learn basic engineering skills before going to college. “We are working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspired-hands-learning-meche-junior-creates-haiti%E2%80%99s-first-its-kind-open-use-makerspaceAn Eye for Design
freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... She wound up majoring in mechanical engineering, and was instantly drawn to the design courses. Not ... a master’s and PhD from the mechanical engineering department’s design division. During graduate school, she ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designPeeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
Yaqoob, professor of mechanical engineering and biological engineering Peter So, and associate professor ... of mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle. MIT-Butterfly-Growth-1024.jpg Larger, overlapping scales in ... a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scales