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Membrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis

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A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors

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Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads

Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads

Study provides suggestions for keeping classroom air fresh

Study provides suggestions for keeping classroom air fresh

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Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82

Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82

Climate and sustainability classes expand at MIT

Climate and sustainability classes expand at MIT

A team led by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn shows a new universal descriptor for removal of nitrogen monoxide.

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January 21, 2022 Building an HMCo. Steam Engine: Introduction

MechE students participating in the “Pappalardo Apprenticeship” led by Dr. Daniel Braunstein focus on metallurgy and fabrication to bring an HMCo. steam engine to life.

January 20, 2022 An all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment

MIT engineers led by Giovanni Traverso are working on an app that identifies and quantifies food content, which can aid in carbohydrate counting for people with diabetes.

January 18, 2022 A new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy

SMART researchers, led by Tonio Buonassisi, pioneer a new machine learning model able to design materials of various elements and structures from human-defined properties.

January 18, 2022 School of Engineering fourth quarter 2021 awards

Four MechE professors are among the School of Engineering's award list of faculty recognized for excellence for the fourth quarter of 2021.

January 17, 2022 Controlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact

A new process described in a recent PNAS paper by MechE postdocs Kyle Wilke, Youngsop Song, and Professor Evelyn Wang enables control over liquid-solid interfaces even with the most unlikely pairs of materials.

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MIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga

MIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga

Using machine-learning and sensory hardware, Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and members of MIT's MCube lab, have developed a robot that is learning how to play the game Jenga®. The technology could be used in robots for manufacturing assembly lines.

Learning Through Creation

Learning Through Creation

Class 2.00a, Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth, empowers first-year students to build machines early in their academic careers at MIT.

Designing Toys

Designing Toys

In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on engineering and product design experience while developing a prototype for a new toy.

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