Sentences with phrase «m.i.t. mechanical engineering professor»

Duke University mechanical engineering professor Missy Cummings said the recent Uber and Tesla crashes show the «technology they are using is immature.»

University of Alberta mechanical engineering professor Brian Fleck won the Edmonton - Riverbend NDP nomination in a three - way contest against Meheret Worku and Registered Nurse Ruth Alexander.

Scholars at Risk Network Reimprisoned Bahraini mechanical engineering professor Abdul Jalil Al - Singace March 21, 2011

UAlberta mechanical engineering professors Marc Secanell and Pierre Mertiny have discovered definite advantages to using flywheel technology in light rail transit.

University of Alberta mechanical engineering professors Pierre Mertiny and Marc Secanell are looking to make an old technology new again and save some money for transit train operators such as the Edmonton LRT while they do it.

«This represents an important proof of concept of the 3D printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries,» said University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor Michael McAlpine, the study's lead researcher.

In addition to Chiang, the Power Sources paper was co-authored by graduate student Brandon Hopkins, mechanical engineering professor Alexander Slocum, and Kyle Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

Graig Spolek, a mechanical engineering professor from Portland State University in Oregon, set up an experiment to quantify these vague terms.

In an article forthcoming in the Journal of Aircraft of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, mechanical engineering professor Georgios Vatistas looks into the case of a violent tornado that touched down in 1955 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.

«The way we produce electricity today pollutes the environment,» said Henry, a mechanical engineering professor at Georgia Tech.

«It was a challenging optimization problem to solve accurately,» said Kazuhiro Saitou, a U-M mechanical engineering professor and the other co-author of the Environmental Research Letters paper.

In 2004 Francis Tay, a mechanical engineering professor in Singapore, invented the MEMSwear device — a tiny silicon - based sensor embedded in a shirt that notices if the wearer has a fall and then communicates an alert to a cell phone or computer via the wireless Bluetooth standard.

Working with the committee chair, mechanical engineering professor Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou, Brozek brought a draft of the document to the committee's September 2014 meeting.

Yim, a mechanical engineering professor at the GRASP lab at the University of Pennsylvania, says that his robot is one of the first fully active prototypes of a new kind of machine composed of what some researchers call smart matter: mechanical parts that can function independently and act cooperatively.

The new findings are reported in the journal Physical Review Letters in a paper by Ruben Juanes, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, graduate student Amir Pahlavan, research associate Luis Cueto - Felgueroso, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley.

A mechanical engineering professor who got inducted into the NAE in 1988, Mote served as president of the University of Maryland, College Park, from 1998 to 2010.

We already know how to use brain signals to direct robots as they perform simple tasks, says University of California at Berkeley mechanical engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni.

Researchers led by Michael Tolley, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California San Diego, will present the robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation from May 29 to June 3 in Singapore.

«Circulating tumor cells — cells from a tumor that have escaped into the bloodstream with the potential to spread into other tissues — are extremely useful for assessing a patient's disease in order to select the most appropriate treatment,» said UBC mechanical engineering professor Hongshen Ma, the lead researcher.

Mechanical engineering professor Darrell Pepper is using sophisticated numerical models to more accurately predict the prime locations for extraction and to assess possible contamination associated the process.

As Stanford University mechanical engineering professor Chris Gerdes puts it, «You're not going to eliminate human error.

Not exact matches

Not yet, said James P. Lloyd, associate professor of astronomy and mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University.

John Dabiri, a professor of civil and environmental and mechanical engineering at Stanford, says the ocean surface is relatively poorly sampled and there is a need for low - cost ways to collect data.

Jun - Ho Oh, a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, says most homes already incorporate robotics.

One of the experts I interviewed for the story — Jun — Ho Oh, a professor in the department of mechanical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology — said he considers some of the newest cameras on the market to be robots.

The former professor of mechanical engineering believes that there's no technological impediment stopping communities in the future from pooling their 3D printer resources to print something like a car, thereby hurling sectors such as the automakers into the piracy crisis that music industry currently faces.

John Hart, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of Desktop Metal, calls it customized mass production.

The participating scientists — whose ranks include undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and professors — represented a diverse array of disciplines, from mechanical engineering to molecular biology to pharmacology.

«Beyond a certain velocity, all things fluid get unstable — they will fluctuate and become turbulent,» says Danesh Tafti, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech.

Now, the M.D. Anderson Chair Professor and mechanical engineering department chairman at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Pradeep Sharma, and his doctoral student, Matthew Zelisko, in collaboration with scientists at Rice University and University of Washington, have identified one of the thinnest possible piezoelectric materials on the planet — graphene nitride.

In the second session, Developing a Narrative About Your Data, Michael Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, contrasted his experiences discussing technical topics with technical audiences to communicating in the public arena.

The research team led by Schneider; David Go, Rooney Family Associate Professor of Engineering in aerospace and mechanical engineering; and Jason Hicks, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, discovered that because the nitrogen molecules are activated by the plasma, the requirements on the metal catalysts are less stringent, allowing less expensive materials to be used throughout theProfessor of Engineering in aerospace and mechanical engineering; and Jason Hicks, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, discovered that because the nitrogen molecules are activated by the plasma, the requirements on the metal catalysts are less stringent, allowing less expensive materials to be used throughout theprofessor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, discovered that because the nitrogen molecules are activated by the plasma, the requirements on the metal catalysts are less stringent, allowing less expensive materials to be used throughout the process.

The key to successfully tracing the source of an airline cabin threat is inverse computational fluid dynamics modeling, which analyzes how a material disperses throughout the cabin and then runs the dispersion in reverse to find its origin, says Qingyan (pronounced Chin - Yan) Chen, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering and principal director of the center, which was formed and is funded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

«For several years, researchers have thought of graphene as a potential route to ultrathin membranes,» says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at MIT.

The study includes first author Piran Kidambi, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University; MIT graduate students Dhanushkodi Mariappan and Nicholas Dee; Sui Zhang of the National University of Singapore; Andrey Vyatskikh, a former student at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology who is now at Caltech; and Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.

«From an engineering standpoint, the diesel fuel and the way we use it allow us to be more thermodynamically efficient,» said Margaret Wooldridge, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan.

They're spread by the same mosquito,» says Kimberly Hamad - Schifferli, an associate professor of engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and a visiting scientist in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.

For example, researchers are developing «smart» biomaterials such as temperature - sensing hydrogels that can respond biologically to environmental conditions by changing their biomechanical or drug - releasing properties, says Seeram Ramakrishna, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore.

In Germany, for example, universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschule or Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften in German) require professors to have at least three years of employment in industry, notes Klemens Gintner, a professor of mechanical engineering and mechatronics at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.

He is the Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and AppliedProfessor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Appliedprofessor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have published their results in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Metalized fabric Metal is very good at absorbing and scattering infrared light, says Cheng Sun, a Northwestern University assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

«It's like two bubbles [joined] side by side,» explains Alejandra Uranga, an assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering now at the University of Southern California.

«Our work will revolutionize three - dimensional precise assembly of complex and heterogeneous tissue engineering building blocks and serve to improve complexity and understanding of tissue engineering systems,» said Metin Sitti, professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Robotics Institute and head of CMU's NanoRobotics Lab.

Tour is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of mechanical engineering and nanoengineering and of computer science.

They're often older, more mature, and more committed to their education than students who enter the university right out of high school, says Derek Dunn - Rankin, faculty director for California's statewide CAMP program and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Irvine.

In fact, politics seemed to trump science in discussions over the last two years, said Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a member of the Bulletin's Science and Security board.

«We have engineered a material that can be used to transplant islets and promote vascularization and survival of the islets to enhance their function,» said Andrés García, a Regents» Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The nation began ramping up its investments into biomedical research around 2000, notes Chwee Teck Lim, an entrepreneur and provost's chair professor in the departments of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

In addition to Vogel and Aizenberg, the research team included: Rebecca A. Belisle, a former Wyss research assistant who is now a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University; Benjamin Hatton, Ph.D., formerly a Technology Development fellow at the the Wyss Institute and a research appointee at SEAS who is now an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Toronto; and Tak - Sing Wong, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Wyss Institute who is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State Unprofessor of materials science and engineering at the University of Toronto; and Tak - Sing Wong, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Wyss Institute who is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State UnProfessor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State University.