https://culpepper.mit.edu/about daily 0.75 2025-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647289746124-VEEH1NNVBMN168OF9V33/MIT_logo-01.png About - Make it stand out M.Sc., 1997 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647289873998-06N37ZJIHAZ2Y1N1RCFY/Iowa-01.png About - Make it stand out B.Sc., 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647289754596-PB6100GB84RJT080BCPS/MIT_logo-01.png About - Make it stand out Ph.D., 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647445233886-0CJR79PO2URE658N7UGV/5e875af2aac3c.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://culpepper.mit.edu/home daily 1.0 2025-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647896154858-19W54BMIFEZTG3NTIXB6/Culpepper-shop+-+skinny.jpg Home - Education - Theory Meets Hands-on Hands-on fabrication/testing are key to the work in our lab. Prof. Culpepper teaches advanced design and manufacturing classes wherein theory and applied methods are integrated to produce engineers that truly live MIT’s motto… Mens et Manus - Mind and Hand. If you take his classes, you will learn to use judiciously use rigorous modeling and experiments to design machines… and then you will get your hands dirty learning to deliver hardware that works, that is under budget, and that is ahead of schedule. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647896011697-DAAKUATFZI571H5R6P4T/marty_mech.jpg Home - Research - The Science and Practical Application of Machine and Instrument Design There comes a point in all hardware technology where the state-of-the-art can’t handle emerging applications. Forward motion requires creativity and invention to generate fundamentally new ideas. These ideas must be rapidly made practical and useful via a rigorous combination of advanced machine design science, applied engineering research, manufacturing practice and financial considerations, and application. That is what we enable. People come to us when you can’t buy it, and nobody knows how to “build and make it work.” Then we: (1) Invent, design and fabricate high-performance machine systems; (2) Generate design theory/tools/methods that enable deployment the preceding; and (3) Train scientists/engineers to make and use them via collaboration and professional classes We are creative, hard core, hands-on people that meld advanced engineering and basic science to produce new concepts which change the paradigm for specific machine technologies, thereby enabling rapid advances. We develop understanding of the fundamental issues that dominate/limit these technologies, then create the practical knowledge/tools/theory/proof that engineers need to rapidly design/employ them at scale and acceptable cost. We apply this work to advanced machine technologies that: Make (e.g. manufacturing, machine tools, rapid prototyping, fixturing, etc…) Move (e.g. robotics, actuators, precision motion stages, multi-axis mechanisms, etc…) Measure (e.g. sensors, instrumentation, microscopy, medical devices, telescopes, etc…) https://culpepper.mit.edu/research daily 0.75 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647560880206-6EY87KPCSD27WAIOCKE8/magnetic_screw.jpeg Research - Make it stand out Prototype of magnetic screw actuator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647605016239-Q5C74VQVMHB8A95DCR1L/Deployable+mechanism.png Research - Make it stand out Deployable mechanism for positioning and support of instruments used in harsh, sub-surface cavities for oil rigs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/26bdff25-d137-40e3-ae5b-0e63a81579ad/sectioning.jpg Research - Make it stand out 1st generation brain sectioning instrument with imaging and cutting force measurement capability for thick tissue sectioning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647560900641-97Y7VMB40J3XEOFR5X57/mm-hexflex.jpg Research - Make it stand out Meso-scale six axis manipulator on a chip - contains 3 imbedded 2 DOF electromagnetic actuators https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/6754e901-fdcf-4f79-91da-ade503d6388b/IWC-Portugieser.jpg Research - Make it stand out Design, manufacturing and testing of precision time pieces https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647560857053-JO96MHZWB1HI8BU5Y63B/Gyroscope.jpg Research - Make it stand out Macro-scale model of 2 DOF flexure mechanism for a decoupled gyroscope mechanism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/96ce9026-828d-4531-bc42-fb2c3a575cc2/force.jpg Research - Make it stand out Cutting force measurement and cutting process observation for thick tissue sectioning https://culpepper.mit.edu/education daily 0.75 2024-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647561094399-3Q4G4GQYLZVCOHV8TAA0/272-lathe.jpg Education - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://culpepper.mit.edu/open-positions daily 0.75 2025-12-20 https://culpepper.mit.edu/lab-alumni daily 0.75 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647607977689-PGM2BX7MSB0QFJ8A6FER/1_0gFiEoclbJmtwZUI48gaWg.jpeg Lab Alumni - Make it stand out Monthly alumni highlight - Maria Telleria Degrees done in Culpepper’s lab: BS: “Design of a Six-axis Measurement System for Arrayed Meso-scale Nanopositioners” MS: “Design of Hybrid Flexible Machine Elements for Robotic Systems” PhD: “Design of Cylindrical Compliant Mechanisms” Where they are now: Co-Founder and CTO at Canvas https://culpepper.mit.edu/personal daily 0.75 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647872641096-3VDSMKQRN2KDTT0ERE41/Ducati-1.jpg Personal - I use the repair/customization of my Duc in examples for my machine design class 2.72/2.720. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647872456093-JERX7KZ4WOH2G5TCXHPI/mustang-2.jpg Personal - I use this as in examples teaching beams and structures in 2.001 and in my machine design class 2.72/2.720. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647871271224-VW6P9LXITXYZQOJ0IEMI/mustang-1.jpg Personal - DIY car lift I designed/built to make it easier to rebuild differentials and swap out transmissions, etc… If you want it done right, do it yourself. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/622bb5a80af00d11e5ee5c5e/1647870718797-JZYO7ULJ4VB2BEY9WVEX/Ducati-2.jpg Personal - 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