Yiğit Mengüç

Yiğit Mengüç

Yiğit Mengüç

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Organizations
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Address

MECH, IND, & MFG ENGINEERING G318 Graf Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Degrees
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, 2006
Biography

Dr. Mengüç works at the interface of mechanical science and robotics, creating soft devices inspired by nature and applied to robotics. During his doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon he developed micro-scale robotic manipulators exploiting controllable adhesion and a self-cleaning adhesive that equaled the gecko’s toe in stickiness. Prior to joining the School of MIME, Dr. Mengüç was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, where he lead the development of hyper-elastic sensors for wearable motion tracking and soft robotics.

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