Sentences with phrase «use of mechanical engineering»

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One version of Desktop Metal's 3D - printing system sells for $ 120,000 and was designed to be used by mechanical engineers for prototyping and printing a small number of parts at corporate offices rather than factories.

As a mechanical engineer which would include using math and physics principles to help with the design of a product with a particular function; I challenge you now; that when you can create a living person with all your intelligence and not use a woman to do it; I will be happy to listen to you... until then, I believe that God the Father and Son and Holy Spirit worked together in 6 literal days and rested on the 7th Day and Santified and Hallowed that day.

David Hassel, a mechanical engineer who worked at the Hoosick Falls plant now owned by Saint - Gobain, helped design the ovens that were part of a high - heat process used in the manufacturing.

For students and mid-career professionals interested in commode - related careers, McHale recommends studying fluid dynamics and mechanical engineering, learning software used for industrial design such as Pro / Engineer CAD, and having a basic understanding of the science of ceramics.

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 the process.

«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.

Chemicals used to process the wood work for various tree species and don't pose any significant pollution concerns, says study coauthor Teng Li, a mechanical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park.

«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 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.

So a team of researchers led by mechanical engineer Scott White of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, set out to see if they could give plastic composites — materials composed of two or more components that are typically used for the most demanding applications — a bit more longevity.

Until now, pyroshock tests to ensure aerospace parts were ready for the rigors of flight had used explosives encased in lead to provide the impacts to parts needed for such experiments, mechanical engineer Mark Pilcher said.

Asked to research whether an alternative means of testing was possible using a gas gun, Sandia mechanical engineer Bo Song turned to a 1 - inch - diameter Hopkinson bar.

Toxins in PVC are found in much larger quantities in the pipes, window frames and siding that people use in their homes, but the iPhone is a more personal piece of equipment that is kept much closer to the user's body and has not generally been identified as a health hazard, says Timothy Gutowski, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The process, using room temperature mechanical ball milling, provides a lower cost method to produce these alkali metals which are widely used in industrial processes as reducing and drying agents, precursors in synthesis of complex metal hydrides, hydrogen storage materials, and in nuclear engineering.

Using as their basis a system published today in Nature Communications, mechanical engineers Tom Krupenkin and Ashley Taylor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison are now developing «in - shoe technology» that could generate up to 10 watts of power per footstep.

«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.

«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.

«The most intriguing aspect of this work is that it demonstrates the capability to use computational modeling in conjunction with biological design to optimize performance, or design entirely different types of swimming bio-bots,» said center director Roger Kamm, a professor of biological and mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Samuel Schorr, a mechanical engineer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who studies haptics in virtual reality, praises the work for comparing different types of devices using different types of tasks.

The lead author, BYU mechanical engineering PhD student Zhao Pan, took the first sets of data and hypothesized that the moss was indeed using the unique nano, micro and barb - like structures to collect and transport water at various scales.

«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.

«These programs can't read body language or tone of voice, or deal with new colloquialisms or unusual variations in dialect,» says Craig Schlenoff, a mechanical engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology who has evaluated translation software used by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan for «knock and talks» — visits to local residents for gathering intelligence and improving relations.

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.

He qualifies for the loan and uses the money to come within five credits of completing his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.

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.

With his usual style and wit, he discusses the use of methods and models adapted from physics and mechanical engineering to explore how organisms move and function.

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 sensors could give surgeons real - time feedback on how much force they can use during surgery without damaging the tissue,» said Kaiyan Qiu, a University of Minnesota mechanical engineering postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the paper.

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But it's turned out to be an exciting career transition that has allowed me to make use of my background in mechanical and biomedical engineering in a fast - moving, fun business environment.

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.

In order to provide the benefits of palpation to minimally invasive surgery, a team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University headed by Pietro Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and medicine, has designed a special - purpose wireless capsule equipped with a pressure sensor that fits through the small ports that surgeons use for what is also called «keyhole» surgery.

Now, an international team of researchers led by Bingqing Wei, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware and the director of the Center for Fuel Cells and Batteries, is doing work that could lay the foundation for more widespread use of lithium metal batteries that would have more capacity than the lithium ion batteries commonly used in consumer electronics today.

«If you really want to make an engineering structure, at this point it's not practical to use graphene,» says Itai Stein, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.

«Our focus has been to make a practical machine that can be used for the Defense Department's forces,» says Homayoon Kazerooni, chief scientist for Berkeley Bionics and a professor of mechanical engineering at U.C. Berkeley's Robotics Laboratory.

Prof. Chen Li's research group in the Mechanical Engineering Department is using high pressure as a tool to (1) understand the physics of fundamental excitations in the materials; (2) tune the properties of existing energy materials; and (3) engineer innovative multi-functional materials through high pressure synthesis or other indirect approaches.

Because molecular manufacturing cuts across a number of fields — physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, software, and more — and because it uses a rather novel approach to building stuff, almost any scientist will find something in the proposal that violates one or more intuitions.

«Imagine that the tons of metal waste discarded every year could be used to provide energy storage for the renewable energy grid of the future, instead of becoming a burden for waste processing plants and the environment,» said Cary Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University.

A 2017 study co-authored by John Bischof, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, and published in Science Translational Medicine, used specially coated iron oxide nanoparticles.

This past summer a team of engineers invented a mechanical device designed to be installed on ITER, the multinational fusion machine being built in the south of France, using 3D printing and parts bought at Walmart.

Mechanical engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have reported success in using inexpensive materials to produce thermoelectric devices that transform low - level waste heat...

«Optomechanics is an area of research in which extremely minute forces exerted by light (for example: radiation pressure, gradient force, electrostriction) are used to generate and control high - frequency mechanical vibrations of microscale and nanoscale devices,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.

Liam is one of 28 candidates who will shortly complete the programme, which equips trainees with core skills and competencies needed for key engineering tasks such as preparing and using milling machines and lathes, and producing mechanical engineering drawings using computer - aided design (CAD) technology.

Instead, Podgursky insists that teaching is a swell job, using data showing that elementary teachers actually earn a few pennies per hour more than mechanical engineers (even though their salaries fall short of salaries in mechanical engineering by $ 17,000 per year).

Comments on lab reports by mechanical engineering teaching assistants: Typical practices and effects of using a grading rubric

It uses «a combination of computers, actuators, levers, other mechanicals, and a lot of engineering know - how.»

Mercedes - Benz engineers use ABC's interplay of hydraulic, electronic and mechanical parts to reduce body roll by 68 percent (compared to the same vehicle with a conventional suspension), providing the driver with needed feedback through the vehicle chassis.

Hydraulics is a crucial part of civil engineering and requires an in - depth knowledge about the mechanical properties and use of liquids.

Noting the groomer's struggle, Sciarrino, a mechanical engineer and the owner of a beauty salon and barber supply company, fabricated a metal - edged tabletop for his neighbor, putting it on a hydraulic base, like those used in the beauty industry.