Sentences with phrase «university mechanical engineering professor»

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

«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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organization and Stony Brook University — could be used to build deformable surgical robots.

In addition to Hong and Sotiropoulos, other University of Minnesota researchers who were part of this study include civil engineering assistant professor Michele Guala, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Mostafa Toloui, civil engineering Ph.D. student Kevin Howard, mechanical engineering student Sean Riley, St. Anthony Falls Lab engineer James Tucker, and former post-doctoral researcher Leonardo Chamorro who is now at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

«Usually interdisciplinary means non-disciplinary,» says Ben Freund, a mechanical engineer at Brown University in Providence, R.I., who in 1983 recruited Suresh as an assistant professor there.

Hosni is a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the University Engineering Alliance at Kansas State University.

Jacobitz is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of San Diego's Shiley - Marcos School of Engineering.

«NUS is moving up in the world, and Shih certainly deserves some of the credit,» says Rodney Clifton, a professor of mechanical engineering at Brown University, where Shih was a faculty member for 15 years before moving back to Singapore in 1996.

The concept is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Ian W. Hunter, doctoral student Seyed M. Mirvakili, and three others at the University of British Columbia.

Andrew Dimarogonas, professor of mechanical engineering at Washington University in St Louis, says that his patented device should be safer and more accurate than X-rays.

«The most exciting aspect to this analyzer is that it uses whole blood and does not require the additional steps and reagents to prepare a sample,» said Nathan Sniadecki, associate professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Washington and one of the authors.

Led by Taher Saif, the University of Illinois Gutgsell Professor of mechanical science and engineering, the team published its work in the journal Nature Communications.

A mechanical engineer by training who is now a biology professor at Stanford University, Schneider, 55, says his advocacy began with the heightened environmental awareness that bloomed around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970.

Droplets from bursting bubbles are the principle means by which aerosols are produced above the open ocean, said first author Luc Deike, a Princeton University assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI).

Co-authors are former Rice postdoctoral researcher Tharangattu Narayanan, now at the CSIR - Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikundi, India; Chandra Sekhar Tiwary, who has a research appointment at Rice and is a scientist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; and Rice alumna Karen Lozano, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Mircea Chipara, an assistant professor of physics and geology, both of the University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, Texas.

The U of A researchers — Rick Ulrich, professor of chemical engineering; Darin Nutter, professor of mechanical engineering; Jennie Popp, professor of agricultural economics and agribusiness; and Marty Matlock, professor of biological and agricultural engineering, in addition to Thoma — partnered with researchers at Michigan Technological University.

He is professor of mechanical engineering at Middlesex University, London.

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.

A 1977 graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, he earned his doctoral degree from MIT in 1981 and taught at Brown University before joining the MIT faculty as professor of mechanical engineering in 1993.

«These meta - atoms can be integrated as building blocks for unconventional optical components with exotic electromagnetic properties over a wide frequency range,» write Dr. Jie Gao and Dr. Xiaodong Yang, assistant professors of mechanical engineering at Missouri S&T, and Dr. Lei Sun, a visiting scholar at the university.

«If you destroy this layer, your bleeding time can go way up, by 60 percent or more, which is a real issue in trauma,» said Eric Shaqfeh, the Lester Levi Carter Professor and a professor of chemical engineering and mechanical engineering at Stanford UnProfessor and a professor of chemical engineering and mechanical engineering at Stanford Unprofessor of chemical engineering and mechanical engineering at Stanford University.

But that is precisely what Yuebing Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is working toward with his «nanotweezers» — a new tool for handling nanoparticles using light that could create opportunities for innovations in nanotechnology and individual health monitoring.

The findings, the result of microscopic analysis of bacteria inside microfluidic devices, were made by MIT postdoc Roberto Rusconi, former MIT postdoc Jeffrey Guasto (now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University), and Roman Stocker, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT.

«Haptic feedback,» or feedback that is based on the sense of touch, «is the future of computing interfaces,» says Allison M. Okamura, a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Marsden, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California (UC), San Diego, is creating similar models for other heart conditions, including Kawasaki disease and coronary artery bypass grafting.

Kim's MIT co-authors are first author and graduate student Yunjo Kim; graduate students Samuel Cruz, Babatunde Alawonde, Chris Heidelberger, Yi Song, and Kuan Qiao; postdocs Kyusang Lee, Shinhyun Choi, and Wei Kong; visiting research scholar Chanyeol Choi; Merton C. Flemings - SMA Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Eugene Fitzgerald; professor of electrical engineering and computer science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared Johnson and Jinwoo Hwang from Ohio State University, and Ibraheem Almansouri of Masdar Institute of Science and TeProfessor of Materials Science and Engineering Eugene Fitzgerald; professor of electrical engineering and computer science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared Johnson and Jinwoo Hwang from Ohio State University, and Ibraheem Almansouri of Masdar Institute of Science and Teprofessor of electrical engineering and computer science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared Johnson and Jinwoo Hwang from Ohio State University, and Ibraheem Almansouri of Masdar Institute of Science and Teprofessor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared Johnson and Jinwoo Hwang from Ohio State University, and Ibraheem Almansouri of Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.

Brun, who is now an assistant professor at Princeton University, carried out this current work at MIT with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT's Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette «Peko» Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineeriMechanical Engineering, and Anette «Peko» Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineerimechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT.

«Many applications, such as power plant reactors, require the management and control of the movement of water droplets at very high temperatures,» says Wang, an associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at City University.

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.

To better understand why the seahorse tail deviates from the norm, and what mechanical advantages its curious shape might confer, researchers led by Michael Porter, an assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, created a 3D - printed model of the tail that was roughly the size of a soda can, as well as a hypothetical cylindrical version.

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.