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April 16, 2021
An artistic approach to designing medical devices
Jessica Xu, a senior studying mechanical engineering, draws upon her skills as an artist to develop medical devices and assistive technologies.
April 14, 2021 Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82A leader in thermodynamics, heat transfer, cryopreservation of biomaterials, and energy conversion, Ernest Cravalho shaped thermodynamic and biomedical education at MIT.
April 5, 2021 A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensorsMIT engineers, including Professor Xuanhe Zhao, have devised a way to encapsulate bacterial sensors into a tough hydrogel sphere, which prevents them from interacting with other microbes in the environment.
April 1, 2021 A robot that senses hidden objectsMIT researchers including Associate Professor Alberto Rodriguez have developed a picking robot that combines vision with radio frequency sensing to find and grasps objects, even if they’re hidden from view.
April 1, 2021 A streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloysIn a September 2020 essay in Nature Energy, three scientists posed several “grand challenges” — one of which was to find suitable materials for thermal energy storage devices that could be used in...
