Sentences with phrase «professor of mechanical engineering»

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.

Co-author Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says sapwood is a promising, low - cost, and efficient material for water filtration, particularly for rural communities where more advanced filtration systems are not readily accessible.

«A critical feature of our fly eye cameras is they incorporate integrated microlenses, photodetectors and electronics on hemispherically curved surfaces,» said Jianliang Xiao, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of Colorado Boulder and coauthor of the study.

Jones and Ph.D. advisor Geoff Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in OSU's College of Engineering, have built a framework for the vehicles to plan energy - efficient trajectories through disturbances that are strong and uncertain, like ocean currents and wind fields.

Especially in high - speed conditions, «it's hard for people to maintain vigilance and even some of the muscle memory that goes along with controlling a car,» said J. Christian Gerdes, a Stanford University professor of mechanical engineering who has tested and researched autonomous vehicle technology since the 1990s.

By STEVE NADIS A professor of mechanical engineering sits typing at a computer keyboard, conjuring up a scene on his monitor that looks something like the classic computer game PacMan.

«Designing and building enough of these recharging stations requires massive infrastructure development, which means the energy distribution and storage system is being rebuilt at tremendous cost to accommodate the need for continual local battery recharge,» said Eric Nauman, co-founder of Ifbattery and a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering, basic medical sciences and biomedical engineering.

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.

to reduce emissions at a magnitude and timing consistent with averting dangerous human interference with the climate will skyrocket,» said Steven Skerlos, U-M professor of mechanical engineering.

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.

In 1988, Bryan Willson, a newly arrived professor of mechanical engineering, discovered it.

The findings are published this week in the journal Nature Biotechnology, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering Domitilla Del Vecchio and professor of biological engineering Ron Weiss.

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.

The Splash Lab team, led by USU assistant professor of mechanical engineering Tadd Truscott, used high - speed video and an environmental scanning electron microscope to gather highly visual data.

The team — which also includes U-M associate professor of mechanical engineering Kevin Pipe, mechanical engineering graduate researcher Chen Li and materials science and engineering graduate student Apoorv Shanker — used a chemical process to expand and straighten the molecule chains.

In 2012, Boyd, then working in the lab of the late David Goodwin, at that time a Caltech professor of mechanical engineering and applied physics, was trying to reproduce a graphene - manufacturing process he had read about in a scientific journal.

The new results are presented today in the journal Nature Physics, in a report by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Jolet de Ruiter, and postdoc Dan Soto.

Last month the team at the university, led by associate professor of mechanical engineering Norbert Mueller, presented a bench - scale prototype to the Energy Department.

One new addition to the suite of actions to create greater progress toward MIT's stretch goal of seeking carbon neutrality is a new class that will be offered in the spring 2018 semester, taught jointly by Director of Sustainability Julie Newman and professor of mechanical engineering Timothy Gutowski.

Professor of mechanical engineering explains the importance of advancing internal combustion engines and offers his take on recent EPA rollbacks.

When an Iowa State professor of mechanical engineering followed his hunch about spider webs, it paid off: he proved biological materials can rival metals in conducting heat.

Now, researchers led by Xiaoyu «Rayne» Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3 - D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3 - D architectures.

Venkat Viswanathan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved in this work, says the analysis presented in the new paper «addresses a very important question of when is it better to build a flow battery versus a static model.

When it comes to artificial muscles for soft and biologically inspired robots, we tend to think of controlling shape through bending or contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, who was not involved in the research.

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).

«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.

«We print live cells, layer by layer, and then fold them onto a 3D structure,» explains Tao, a professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University, who is also Medprin's chief technology officer.

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

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.

«Stoves took off when people in developed countries realized it affected our environment,» said Mark Bryden, a professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University.

«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.

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.

A professor of mechanical engineering sits typing at a computer keyboard, conjuring up a scene on his monitor that looks something like the classic computer game PacMan.

Melody Baglione, associate professor of mechanical engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, agrees.

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 Applied Science.

«Intrigued by these odd sounds emanating from the dunes, Nathalie Vriend researched this phenomenon as a Ph.D. student at Caltech with Melany Hunt, a professor of mechanical engineering.

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.

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.

«And because our «ink» consists of a solvent containing silver nanowires that are typically more than 20 micrometers long, the resulting circuits have the desired conductivity, flexibility and stretchability,» says Yong Zhu, a professor of mechanical engineering at NC State and co-corresponding author of the paper.

Bryan Willson — this Bryan Willson is actually a professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University, and he has been doing a lot of great things about simple, new kinds of technologies that can greatly improve some of the sorts of technologies that are very commonly used in lots of the developing world.

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.

«A food manufacturer could easily incorporate this into its production process,» says Didar, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and member of the McMaster Institute for Infectious Disease Research.

«When you get a lot of structures forming next to one another that are different but still have similar internal energies, you get a sort of frustration as the material tries to crystalize,» said Eric Perim, a postdoctoral researcher working in the laboratory of Stefano Curtarolo, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and director of the Center for Materials Genomics at Duke.

He collaborated with Caltech's Ares Rosakis, the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at EAS, and Nadia Lapusta, professor of mechanical engineering and geophysics, who has joint appointments with EAS and the Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.

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