Sentences with phrase «of mechanical»

Normally, extensive manual adjustments to each of the individual components of the mechanical structure would have been necessary — a task that is tedious if not downright impossible for non-experts.

In these real - world situations, fluid flow can interfere with the delivery of the chemical messengers used in quorum sensing, said co-corresponding author Howard Stone, Princeton's Donald R. Dixon»69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

If your goal is to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, then maybe you should switch to LEDs now,» said Lixi Liu, first author of the study and a doctoral student at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability and at the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Surgeons in the US have pioneered the use of a mechanical arm laden with sensors to track the positions of their surgical instruments while they operate on patients» brains.

The properties of the lattice are significantly affected by these «grain boundaries,» said Amin Salehi - Khojin, UIC assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and principal investigator on the study.

Study co-authors include Samuel Evans (University of California - Berkeley), Ernie Marx, Mark Easter (Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at CSU), Paul Adler (United States Department of Agriculture), Thai Dinh (University of Oklahoma), Bryan Willson (Energy Institute and Department of Mechanical Engineering, CSU) and Keith Paustian (Department of Soil and Crop Science, CSU).

Combining the classic but usually disparate physics of airplane wings and golf balls, the surprising reversal might serve to make a new type of mechanical switch that would flip off or on depending on how fast fluid flows past it or perhaps to stabilize machines like underwater gliders.

Her co-authors are graduate students Shaoting Lin and Hyunwoo Yuk, along with Xuanhe Zhao, the Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.

The researchers, led by Xuanhe Zhao, the Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and computer science, say that their technique can be used to fabricate «active» materials for wearable sensors and interactive displays.

Wings based on humpback flippers could do away with wing flaps and flow - control devices, minimizing risk of mechanical failure and increasing fuel space, the researchers recount in the May issue of Physics of Fluids.

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.

«It was not until the fourteenth century that an hour of uniform length became customary due to the invention of mechanical clocks,» Beard writes with several coauthors in a recent review of the leap - second debate.

«These clocks were significant, not only because they were masterpieces of mechanical ingenuity, but also because they altered the public's perception of time.»

MacIver, associate professor of mechanical and of biomedical engineering, and Patankar, a theorist and professor of mechanical engineering, worked closely together on the study.

The concept is described in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet - Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO Professor of Materials Science and Engineering W. Craig Carter, as well as postdoc Xinwei Chen, graduate student Brandon Hopkins, and four others.

«The goal of the toolkit is to advance the field of soft robotics by allowing designers and researchers to build upon each other's work,» says Conor Walsh, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

«We've explored the convergence of two things, location and technology, to come up with a framework for predicting solar panel energy output,» says senior author Tonio Buonassisi, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

«The problem is, the weight of the tool, the weight of the mechanical arm and the weight of the vest you're wearing — that all goes to your back.

«Open design can have as disruptive an influence on technology development in this century as open source did in the last,» says Gareth J. Bennett, assistant professor of mechanical and manufacturing engineering at Trinity College Dublin and a coauthor of a paper in Soft Robotics that describes the toolkit development.

«These adhesives take the form of thin flexible films with bioinspired mushroom - shaped micropillars uniformly spread on the surface of microstructure,» says Hyun - Ha Park in the Ph.D. program of Mechanical Engineering, the first author of the study.

«Many K - to - 12 teachers are not aware of how engineering can be used to inspire and improve student performance,» says Mo Hosni, vice president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers» board on education.

Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the spongelike structure can be made from relatively inexpensive materials — a particular advantage for a variety of compact, steam - powered applications.

«We drew our inspiration for the soft actuated material from the elegant design of the heart,» said Wyss Core Faculty member Conor Walsh, Ph.D., the senior author, who is also an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at SEAS and founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab.

This breakthrough has been led by Professor Hoon - Eui Jeong in the School of Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering and his research team at UNIST.

A group of mechanical engineering students are working on a project that will fly drones into the middle of tornadoes in an effort to learn more about the inner workings of these destructive storms.

«The technique is like nowhere else in the world,» said John McCloy, associate professor in the WSU School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and co-author on the paper.

The researchers collected data from about 400 users of Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourced marketplace that allows members to earn money for completing various tasks.

«Our experimental setup consists of a paper device with eight electrochemical biosensors — for handy, one - time, disposable use — and a custom - made, handheld electrochemical reader, or potentiostat, to keep costs as low as possible,» explained Xinyu Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.

«With an overall injury rate of 0.5 percent, the track is pretty comparable to 16 other sliding tracks across the planet,» said lead investigator Peter Cripton, a professor of mechanical engineering at UBC whose research focuses on biomechanics.

To see a dramatic and mind - bending example of how light behaves like a wave, all you need is three pieces of mechanical pencil lead, a laser pointer and a dark room.

In a comparison of mechanical prosthetic vs bioprosthetic mitral valves among patients 50 to 69 years of age undergoing mitral valve replacement, there was no significant difference in survival at 15 years, although there were differences in risk of reoperation, bleeding and stroke, according to a study in the April 14 issue of JAMA.

A professor of mechanical engineering who led NSF's engineering directorate for 3 years before going to Purdue in 2008, Buckius immediately asked for some wiggle room.

Equal to the threat of mechanical failure, medical risk underlies the «culture of safety» mantra that vibrates through the space center.

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).

«This new development of very light metal matrix composites can swing the pendulum back in favor of metallic materials,» forecasted Nikhil Gupta, an NYU School of Engineering professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the study's co-author.

Sage Kokjohn, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, worked on RCCI as a graduate student under Reitz.

Alexander H. Slocum Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology

These observations suggested the toe is twisted as a result of mechanical forces imposed on it by the embryonic musculature.

«The challenge has always been how to combine the two,» said Tonio Buonassisi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

And after being doctored by a group led by Rolf Reitz, a professor of mechanical engineering at UW - Madison, this is the most efficient diesel in the engine - research world.

In thinking about how to restore today's forests to more balanced conditions, the researchers at the tree - ring laboratory favor the standard combination of mechanical thinning and prescribed burning.

Use of mechanical thrombectomy on qualifying stroke patients could result in major savings to the healthcare economy in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and other western countries with a similar healthcare structure, according to a new study presented at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery 12th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

While the clot - busting drug known as tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) had been the only medical therapy approved for treatment of acute stroke in the United States (U.S.), the projected U.K. cost savings of mechanical thrombectomy treatment as reported in the study could correlate to the U.S., making the treatment an even better option.

Herr threw out his climbing shoes and glued climbing rubber directly to the bottom of his mechanical feet.

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.

University of Adelaide Ph.D. student Zahra Bagheri and supervisor Professor Benjamin Cazzolato (School of Mechanical Engineering) with the robot under development.

«Our combination of high thermal conductivity and elasticity is especially critical for rapid heat dissipation in applications such as wearable computing and soft robotics, which require mechanical compliance and stretchable functionality,» said Majidi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering.

«Long - distance Wi - Fi requires a fair amount of power,» says Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, «but it may not be needed for very long.»

To Marcello Canova, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Ohio State, this successful application of NDP represents a huge step forward in studies of how batteries work.

«We are the first to use both light and heat to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons in a single stage reactor from carbon dioxide and water,» said Brian Dennis, UTA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and co-principal investigator of the project.