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A Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee
awinter@mit.edu Vertical Assistant Professor Amos Winter has calculated the ideal torque for prosthetic knees and ... prosthetics, at a fraction of the cost. MIT-Prosthetic-Knee-4-1024.jpg A prototype of the prosthetic knee ... going after this disruptive opportunity,” says Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-high-performance-prosthetic-kneeResearchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
electronic devices. MIT-Graphene-Wafers-01-1024.jpg Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT have developed a technique to harvest 2-inch ... materials, according to Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-quickly-harvest-2-d-materials-bringing-them-closer-commercializationGetting more heat out of sunlight
Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit). MIT-Heat-Collection-01-1024.jpg The key to the process ... Engineering; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering; and five others. The key to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlight2.150: Celebrating Mechanical Engineering at MIT
150 years ago, in 1873-74, MIT opened its first mechanical engineering laboratory. Around then, ... all of the alumni, friends, industry guests, and MIT community members who joined us! Event Photos ... Mechanical Engineering History at MIT Since MIT’s founding, mechanical engineers have led the charge in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/2150-celebrating-mechanical-engineering-mitMIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use
hull,” explains Michael Triantafyllou, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT Sea ... supported by the MIT Maritime Consortium, led by MIT professors Themis Sapsis and Fotini Christia. The ... Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship’s hull ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-demonstrate-ship-hull-modifications-cut-fuel-use-0Tackling Greenhouse Gases
manufacturing. Tim Gutowski 1024.jpg Professor Timothy Gutowski (center) is joined by Julie Newman (left), MIT ... Researchers across MIT are working on a myriad of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across ... every industry. Many faculty are looking at sustainable energy. Associate Professor Tonio Buonassisi and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-greenhouse-gasesPhysics and the machine learning “black box”
class 2.C01, Physical Systems Modeling and Design Using Machine Learning, Professor George Barbastathis ... check and develop more accurate predictions. George Barbastathis 1080.jpg In class 2.C01, Professor ... Additionally, as mechanical engineering students move on from MIT to their careers, many will need to manage ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-and-machine-learning-%E2%80%9Cblack-box%E2%80%9DBringing closure to models: Deep learning physics
according to Pierre Lermusiaux, the Nam Pyo Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean ... forecasts, and even new human health models. Pierre Lermusiaux (Right), the Nam Pyo Suh Professor of ... Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering, and Abhinav Gupta PhD '22 An ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-closure-models-deep-learning-physicsNew fund makes MIT a living sustainability lab
Water recapture at MIT’s power plant Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Kripa ... academic community and contribute to MIT’s mission,” plant manager Sepich says. “If we can help Professor ... technology who is inspired by his late father, longtime MIT Physics Professor Malcom W.P. “Woody” Strandberg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-fund-makes-mit-living-sustainability-labPioneering Pedagogy
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and as director of MIT’s Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman Laboratory for ... design process, transforming the design curriculum in mechanical engineering at MIT. He also wrote ... development of the Utah Elbow and the MIT Knee, shown here working with Flowers, who was then a graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-pedagogyStephanie Chou
members of the MIT community to express themselves and find support in challenging times. Her piece ... Hunter, an MIT student, passed away after a brief illness in 2017. Dealing with her friend’s passing and ... advisor, professor of mechanical engineering Maria Yang, with an idea to build an engineering-intensive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/stephanie-chouAnnMarie Thomas
MIT education, especially Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers SM ’68, SM ’71, PhD ’73. “Woodie Flowers’ ... University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Thomas is an associate professor. The OK Go Sandbox is ... ocean engineering (now a part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) while at MIT. “He had an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/annmarie-thomasFive with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025
professional achievement and commitment to service. batista-katabi-nam-2025_1024.jpg MIT professors Facundo ... as the first Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Professor in the MIT Department of Biology. The National ... Nicole Pham Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2025Minimally invasive 3D-printable bioadhesive cardiac pacing lead may reduce complications, improve safety for cardiac patients
Professor Xuanhe Zhao offers safer application and removal options, along with improved bioelectronic ... bioadhesive technologies,” said Hyunwoo Yuk SM ’16, PhD ’21, a former MIT research scientist who is now the ... happen.” The team, comprising researchers affiliated with the lab of Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/minimally-invasive-3d-printable-bioadhesive-cardiac-pacing-lead-may-reduce-complicationsManufacturing a cleaner future
John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and ... Productivity at MIT, the CHIPS Act is just the latest example of significantly increased interest in ... faculty and alumni from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering offer solutions for manufacturing’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manufacturing-cleaner-futureENDLab develops and demonstrates new abyssal ocean sensor to inform deep-sea mining
exists that can make this measurement,” says Thomas Peacock, professor and director of the Environmental ... Carlos Muñoz-Royo and Raphael Ouillon of MIT; Matthew Alford of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; ... led by Professor Tom Peacock report first accurate data collection technique for in situ particle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/endlab-develops-and-demonstrates-new-abyssal-ocean-sensor-inform-deep-sea-miningTunable ultrasound propagation in microscale metamaterials
Career Development Chair and assistant professor of mechanical engineering. “But challenges in ... coauthored by Portela, MIT Mechanical Engineering collaborators Rachel Sun, Jet Lem, and Yun Kai, and ... | Mechanical Engineering Horizontal New framework from Professor Carlos Portela and graduate student Rachel Sun ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunable-ultrasound-propagation-microscale-metamaterialsNew bioadhesive strategy can prevent fibrous encapsulation around device implants on peripheral nerves
Professor, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering at MIT. “We further demonstrated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-bioadhesive-strategy-can-prevent-fibrous-encapsulation-around-device-implantsMIT announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing
of Mechanical Engineering; Suzanne Berger, Institute Professor at MIT and a political scientist who ... MIT today launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an Institute-wide effort to ... elevate its impact. MIT-ManufacturingAnn-01-press_1024x768.jpg The Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-initiative-new-manufacturingDouble-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures
MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo ... Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao have designed a double-sided tape that can ... medical devices. Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/double-sided-tape-tissues-could-replace-surgical-sutures