Mechanical Engineering - Engineer's degree

Biomimetic improvement of the maneuvering qualities of unmanned underwater vehicles

Trakht, Yuri. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)

In recent years, biomimetics has been used as a source of inspiration to improve the performance of engineered systems in several disciplines. In this thesis, we emulate the function of the retractable dorsal fins in tunas ...
Engineering a human Factors analysis of a novel one Atmosphere Diving Suit (ADS) elbow joint

Ingraham, David M. (David Michael) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)

An Atmospheric Diving Suit (ADS) is a one person anthropomorphic submersible which is used to facilitate undersea work while keeping the diver/operator at atmospheric pressure thus removing them from the harmful physiological ...
An automatic, multi-fidelity framework for optimizing the performance of super-cavitating hydrofoils using Gaussian process regression and Bayesian optimization

Parker, Benjamin W. (Benjamin Wade) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)

Computer automated design of complex physical systems is often limited by the computational resources required for the high precision solvers. Determining an optimum design necessitates high accuracy simulations due to the ...