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3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... its actuation mechanisms are at the micron scale.” Printing with light To print shape-memory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... PhD ’14; Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical ... Engineering and vice president for open learning; and three others. “The way we measure street lighting is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); Tomas ... Lozano-Perez, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence; Leslie P. Kaelbling, the Panasonic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationResearchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), a senior ... challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... pulse. The resulting mechanical vibrations generate sound waves that travel back up, where they can be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-produce-first-laser-ultrasound-images-humansUnleashing the potential of the mind
Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “I was really passionate about the problem [of ... Ang on a mission that would change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical ... engineering degree, he returned to the Institute to immerse himself in its work around wearable technology, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-potential-mindDexter Ang
change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “I was really passionate about the problem [of ... the School of Engineering, and the Media Lab. One offering that particularly attracted him was an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dexter-ang-0Making self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
more toward mechanical engineering, as it intersects with so many other fields,” says Yang. Yang went ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ... to cell mechanics. “My curiosity drove me to study a lot of things. Over time, I started to drift ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... one were to observe the Unruh effect, “one would have observed a mechanism that is common to both ... stimulate the conventional, or resonant, effects, but we show that by engineering the trajectory of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowNew 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste
Professor A. John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Waste removal Conventional vat ... mechanical properties necessary for durable products,” says professor of mechanical engineering John Hart. ... waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-wasteTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ... States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DGame changer: How Christopher Weaver transformed video games and game studies at MIT
the company’s founder and president, had a background in physics, mechanical engineering, and computer ... In the mid-1980s, an electrical engineer and avid sports fan named Ed Fletcher approached his boss ... a physics engine bounded by the rules of football and see what it looks like. It will be a hell of a lot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/game-changer-how-christopher-weaver-transformed-video-games-and-game-studies-mitRacing into the future of autonomous driving
a dual-degree MBA and mechanical engineering master’s student in the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) ... white, the automobile named DUT18 wasn’t an ordinary race car. First, it was built by engineers at TU ... — vehicles. For Zhang, the competition was the test of a year’s work. A Course 6 (electrical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/racing-future-autonomous-drivingCounting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads
David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ... can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... Engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the senior author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/counting-cells-may-shed-light-how-cancer-spreadsTurning history of science into a comic adventure
departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering. “During crises like the ... member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES); and an associate professor in the ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IMES, and the MIT Libraries. “We wanted to use visual art ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-history-science-comic-adventureInaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named
assistant director for education at MAD; and David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering, MacVicar ... into the design classroom to empower engineers and designers. His research goals are to develop new ... generation of engineering innovators. Wallace is known both inside and outside of MIT for his development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inaugural-morningside-academy-design-professorships-namedMaterials Research Laboratory: Driving interdisciplinary materials research at MIT
around medical implants (departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering ... (Department of Materials Science and Engineering); the discovery of unexpected magnetism in atomically thin ... Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering who became MRL director in April. “Our goal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials-research-laboratory-driving-interdisciplinary-materials-research-mitManipulating the future
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Tedrake developed the course after robotic manipulation became the new focus ... manipulation going forward, engineers today must learn to hover above the whole field, connecting an ... systems. Last fall, MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science launched a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manipulating-futureTen from MIT awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
from MIT in 2018 with a BS in mechanical engineering. The Soros fellowship will fund his graduate ... graduated from MIT in 2016 with a BS in mechanical engineering. She was born in San Diego, California, the ... studies at Harvard University where he will earn dual MBA and MS in engineering sciences degrees. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ten-mit-awarded-2020-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants
with mechanical engineering Research Scientist Micha Feigin-Almon, aim to study and generate a modeling ... engineers, performing artists and data scientists will work to change the way humans think, study, interact, ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Associate Professor Mohammad Alizadeh proposes using artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-2020-seed-grants