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Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
AUVs. “Not all data are equal,” says Arkopal Dutt, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... what to sample for the most informative data, and how to optimally reach sampling locations. MIT ... MIT-Sea-Sensing-01-1024.jpg WHOI and MIT researchers deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle to test new navigation and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-03-D Printing 101
industry. In 2013, Hart created an MIT graduate course, 2.S998 (Additive Manufacturing), that explores the ... As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with ... Engineering at MIT, says early education on 3-D printing is the key to helping the technology expand as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-101Technique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ... MIT researchers, including MechE graduate student Donggyu Kim, surmounts longstanding problem of light ... scattering, but it also reduces imaging resolution. MIT-Subcutaneous-Superresolution-1024.jpg MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-could-boost-resolution-tissue-imaging-much-tenfoldPutting projects at the forefront
skills, and exposure in areas likely to be in demand after graduation. “We’re targeting MIT education at ... all in. She is among MIT’s 45 second-year students engaged in a pilot educational initiative that has ... the potential to re-engineer engineering education. MIT-NEET-1024.jpg Second-year student Albert Go ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/putting-projects-forefrontReducing runoff pollution by making spray droplets less bouncy
But a team of MIT researchers aims to fix that. By using a clever combination of two inexpensive ... of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Maher Damak, research scientist Seyed Reza ... Mahmoudi, and former postdoc Md Nasim Hyder. MIT-Cutting-Herbicide-1_1024.jpg A team of researchers, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-runoff-pollution-making-spray-droplets-less-bouncyWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ... and Gabe Alba intend to bring their product, the Coffee Cookie, to market before graduation. “We like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchNew gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
one. Now MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or ... MIT-Hydrogel-Lam-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed a gel-like material that can be coated onto standard plastic or rubber ... Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
their own creations. They’re strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. A new study by MIT ... through a vigorous workout. MIT-Hydrogel-Muscles-1024.jpg A mechanically trained artificial muscle resists ... of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleTackling air pollution with autonomous drones
and Saat graduated from MIT with a certificate from NEET’s Autonomous Machines “thread,” or area of ... pollution monitoring system is the capstone project of recently graduated New Engineering Education ... entered NEET during their sophomore year at MIT. MIT NEET students.jpg Left to right: Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-air-pollution-autonomous-dronesMicrofluidics from LEGO bricks
Owens, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We hope in the future, others ... MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of ... MIT-LEGO-Lab-02-1024.jpg LEGO bricks, milled with tiny fluidic channels. Image: Felice Frankel Now the MIT team, looking ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-lego-bricksBubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch
first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an ... processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate ... student Jeremy Cho, and recent graduate Jordan Mizerak ’14, published in the journal Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble-flick-switchFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
to a different shape, to adapt to its environment.” The team also includes MIT graduate student Emily ... oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ... MIT-Robo-Plant-01-1024.jpg The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantRobotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
and the SINTEF BIFROST project. Sunday, April 2, 2023 Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Horizontal Graduate ... Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses ... required. Instead, the MIT team built a robotic finger with a rigid skeleton encased in a soft outer layer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspA technique for more effective multipurpose robots
a unique task and environment. MIT-Policy-Comp-01-press.jpg Four photos show, on top level, a simulation of ... multipurpose robots, MIT researchers developed a technique to combine multiple sources of data across domains, ... Wang, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-more-effective-multipurpose-robotsNew Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
lead author of the paper is Deepak Mishra, an MIT graduate student in biological engineering. Other ... Innovation from MIT could allow many biological components to be connected to produce predictable ... researchers at MIT has now come up with a way of greatly reducing that unpredictability, introducing a device ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-device-could-make-large-biological-circuits-practicalGetting more heat out of sunlight
Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit). MIT-Heat-Collection-01-1024.jpg The key to the process ... and that therefore scattered the light much less. In tests on a rooftop on the MIT campus, a passive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightStudy predicts heart cells’ response to dwindling oxygen
MIT-Cardiac-Muscle-1024.jpg Graduate student Anthony McDougal has developed a model that predicts a single heart cell’s ... July 19, 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A study from graduate student ... response to dwindling supplies of oxygen. “It’s a double-edged sword,” says Anthony McDougal, a graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-predicts-heart-cells%E2%80%99-response-dwindling-oxygenSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
MIT graduate student George Ni holds a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device that soaks up natural ... Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightTurning heat into electricity
might one day become a reality. MIT-dirac-heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers, looking for ways to turn heat ... Daniloff/MIT Thermoelectric devices are made from materials that can convert a temperature difference into ... the amount of energy they are able to produce, is currently limited. Now researchers at MIT have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityHairy tongues help bats drink up
with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new model developed by graduate student Alice Nasto and ... tasty sap. MIT-Bat-Tongues_10124.jpg Animals have evolved all manner of adaptations to get the nutrients ...
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