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Rohit Karnik seeks sustainable solutions through nanotechnology
interviewed for and ultimately accepted a faculty position at MIT. However, he was still completing his PhD ... challenges. MIT-Karnik-Rohit-1_1024.jpg “I try to guide my research by... asking myself the question, ‘What ... civilization?’” says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rohit-karnik-seeks-sustainable-solutions-through-nanotechnologyAn Eye for Design
Development). Academic pull After graduating from MIT, Yang headed to Stanford University, where she earned ... a master’s and PhD from the mechanical engineering department’s design division. During graduate school, she ... freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designEllen Roche and Justin Solomon named Edgerton Award winners
MIT associate professors Ellen Roche of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and ... the 2023 winners of MIT’s annual Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. ... ellen-roche-justin-solomon-mit-00_0.jpg Ellen Roche (left) and Justin Solomon Credits: M. Scott Brauer (Roche) and Lillie Paquette ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ellen-roche-and-justin-solomon-named-edgerton-award-winnersStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
Anquetil joined Hunter’s lab in 1999 and graduated with a PhD from MIT in 2004. For years, he kept in close ... anxiety associated with needles, some patients stop adhering to these treatments. MIT spinout Portal ... patient adherence. MIT-Portal-Instruments-1024.jpg Based on research by Ian Hunter, the George N. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealSuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress
If one overarching message emerged from the 2018 SuperUROP Showcase, it was this: MIT ... SuperUROP-2018-poster-screens-MIT-1024.jpg About 130 undergraduates discussed the progress of their yearlong research projects at during the ... Dinner, which featured a keynote address by Tom Leighton PhD ’81, the CEO and co-founder of Akamai, a $2.5 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/superurop-showcasing-students-research-work-progressBatteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout ... same applications. MIT-OpenWater-2-1024.jpg Open Water Power’s battery that "drinks" in sea ... co-inventor Ian Salmon McKay ’12, SM ’13, who co-founded OWP with fellow mechanical engineering graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batteries-%E2%80%9Cdrink%E2%80%9D-seawater-could-power-long-range-underwater-vehicles-0A material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
Nature Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Bilge Yildiz and Gang Chen, recent graduates Qiyang Lu PhD ... ’18 and Samuel Huberman PhD ’18, and six others at MIT and at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Thermal ... MIT-Thermal-Conductivity-1024.jpg Researchers found that strontium cobalt oxide (SCO) naturally occurs in an atomic configuration ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-willSaving the radome
promise and potential in the dish that we did,” says Gregory Allan, a PhD student in the MIT Department of ... Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, ... a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeHow to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
work by recent MIT graduates Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Henri-Louis Girard PhD ’20 with professor of ... MIT-Crystal-Droid-01-PRESS.jpg When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on ... processes and often requires expensive countermeasures such as water pretreatment. Now, findings from MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectGliding From Classroom to Market
MIT-Ello_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ELLO In 2012, a team of students in MIT’s well-known product-design class, ... Glyde, is already being used by hundreds of people worldwide. And the MIT spinout selling the product, ... co-founded ELLO with mechanical engineering classmates Nate Robert ’13, Tyler Wortman PhD ’16, and Chris ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gliding-classroom-marketVishnu Jayaprakash
On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... then-graduate student Maher Damak SM ’15, PhD ’18 to apply their work in interfacial phenomena to pesticide ... Prospective-Undergrad Graduate Undergraduate Alumni AgZen-Cloak SM '19, PhD '22 gray ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/vishnu-jayaprakashHot New Solar Cell
underlying theoretical limitations, MIT PhD student David Bierman says, “with solar thermal photovoltaics you ... research team also included MIT alumnus Andrej Lenert PhD ’14, now a research fellow at the University of ... MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
Genevieve Flaspohler, a PhD student and in CSAIL and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Joining Preston and ... An autonomous robotic system invented by researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic ... coral reef most exposed to air. MIT-Robotic-Sampling-1024.jpg Even in unexplored waters, an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... Solomon PhD ’16. The new work is described today in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideHow to prevent biofilms in space
a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ... September 6, 2023 David L. Chandler | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Microbial or fungal biofilms on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceThere’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus
work with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and PhD student Yiwen Hu, Buehler discovered that the proteins ... SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT ... Professor of Engineering at MIT, and also a composer of experimental music. “This is the beginning of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-symphony-antibody-protein-body-makes-neutralize-coronavirusDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
practical direction. MIT-Student-Winston-1024.jpg Crystal Winston Image: Ian MacLellan “He was like, ‘Yeah, ... mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... which provides two years of funding toward a graduate degree in the United Kingdom. And the field she’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swimEducating future naval leaders
Since 1901, MIT has offered a graduate program unlike any other at the Institute. The Naval ... Commander Douglas Jonart Eng ’14, SM ’14, PhD ’16, associate professor of the practice at MIT and Course 2N ... a remote-controlled vessel to complete a series of tasks in the MIT Towing Tank. Graduate student and U.S. Coast Guard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/educating-future-naval-leadersHugh Herr
a crack. After graduating from Millersville University, Herr came to MIT, where he completed a master’s ... sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Herr is building sophisticated devices ... were amputated below the knees. Hugh Herr 1024.jpg Photo courtesy of MIT Media Lab. “It’s alarming to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hugh-herrBuilding and reconnecting MIT in Minecraft
way to stay connected. Many MIT students, like their beaver mascot, are well-known for engineering ... project to build a 1:1 scale replica of MIT in Minecraft may come as no surprise. “As MIT students ... processing some of my own grief from leaving campus,” says Ahteck. The initial idea to recreate MIT’s campus ...
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