Profile of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering
October 5, 2012
PhD student Josh Leighton gathers up equipment after testing an underwater communications and navigation system with autonomous kayaks in the Charles River at the MIT Sailing Pavilion at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Students build snowball throwing machines in the Pappalardo Laboratories for the 2.009 Product Engineering Processes course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Grad student Kelsey Stoerzinger uses a laser microscope in the Electrochemical Energy Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Students build snowball throwing machines in the Pappalardo Laboratories for the 2.009 Product Engineering Processes course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Students work during a lab class in the 2.12 Introduction to Robotics course at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Students were working on control systems for a robot that would run along a course and detect magnets underneath the course as a simulation for mine detection.
A view of the robotic cheetah in the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Students build snowball throwing machines in the Pappalardo Laboratories for the 2.009 Product Engineering Processes course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Students build snowball throwing machines in the Pappalardo Laboratories for the 2.009 Product Engineering Processes course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Dr. Sangbae Kim, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor, is the director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The lab has developed a robotic cheetah
Students compete with snowball throwing machines in Killian Court after building them for the 2.009 Product Engineering Processes course in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Visitors look at displays in the Hart Nautical Gallery at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The gallery was started by the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, later renamed to the Department of Ocean Engineering, a section of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Postdoc Reza Kavian positions a chemical tank in the Electrochemical Energy Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
A view of the robotic cheetah in the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Grad student Kelsey Stoerzinger (right) and postdoc Alexys Grimaud talk in the Electrochemical Energy Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
A detail view of workspaces in the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The lab has built a robotic cheetah.
Kamal Youcef-Toumi (green shirt), professor of Mechanical Engineering, helps students during a lab class in the 2.12 Introduction to Robotics course at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Students were working on control systems for a robot that would run along a course and detect magnets underneath the course as a simulation for mine detection.
Students listen to Professor David Wallace introduce a lab exercise in 10-250 for the 2.009 Product Engineering Processes course at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
As part of a series of profiles of MIT departments, I photographed classes, labs, and activities around the Department of Mechanical Engineering.