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Guardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
MIT-Guardian-Ag-01-press_1024x768.jpg Guardian Ag is offering an alternative in the form of a large, purpose-built drone that can ... Guardian Ag, founded by former MIT Electronics Research Society (MITERS) makers Adam Bercu and Charles Guan ... engineering at MIT, and the two robot enthusiasts became lifelong friends. “When Charles came to MIT, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsMerging engineering and education
to earn a bachelor’s degree. MIT-Student-Etienne-1024.jpg Senior Nikayah Etienne is majoring in ... science, and encouraged her to consider engineering. That’s when Etienne started looking into MIT. After ... and Science (MITES) program at MIT, where she stayed in Simmons Hall and attended six weeks of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/merging-engineering-and-educationAlbatross robot takes flight
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ... in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who led the design of the robot as part of his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightDrug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
paper. Former MIT graduate student Alex Abramson and Novo Nordisk scientists Morten Revsgaard Frederiksen ... injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugsThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... material,” says Carlos Díaz-Marin, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the Device ... Research Lab at MIT. “But now we are exploring widely different problems like how to make air conditioning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airBenchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials
authors on the study include first author and MIT graduate student Thomas Butruille, and Joshua Crone of ... being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... MIT-MetaImpact-01-press_0.jpg: By firing microparticles at supersonic speeds, MIT engineers can test the resilience of various ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/benchtop-test-quickly-identifies-extremely-impact-resistant-materialsWatering the world
co-authors are lead author and graduate student Pulkit Shamshery, former MIT postdoc Ruo-Qian Wang, and ... MIT-Drop-Irrigation.JPG Engineers at MIT have found a way to cut the cost of solar-powered drip systems by half, by ... environments where they cost farmers more than $3,000 per acre to install. Now engineers at MIT have found ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watering-worldNew approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
land instead of bouncing off. MIT-Mesh-Droplets-1024.jpg Photos illustrate how the tiny droplets ... Varanasi Research Group Now, a team of MIT researchers has found a way to balance those properties and get ... findings are reported today in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-makes-sprayed-droplets-hit-and-stick-their-targetsSolar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... expense. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt ... runs,” he adds. MIT-Reject-Salt-01-press_1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationNew 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste
waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ... solvents. MIT-Dissolvable-Supports-01-press_1024x768.jpg Researchers have developed a resin that turns into ... that is easily dissolvable in certain solvents. Image: Courtesy of the researchers; MIT News The team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-wasteOur hairy insides
author and MIT postdoc José Alvarado, former graduate student Jean Comtet, and Emmanuel de Langre, ... currents of the fluids they’re immersed in. MIT-Hair-Beds_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT can predict how beds of ... flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-hairy-insidesEngineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... environment. Unlike some of the gels now used to grow tissue, the new MIT gel is completely synthetic, easy to ... assemble and can be produced with a consistent composition every time. MIT-Pancreatic-Tumor-1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingOn a mission to measure
students start, there is such a tentativeness about it,” says Senior Lecturer Dawn Wendell ’04, SM ’06, PhD ... in the future.” While these skills will be valuable once students graduate and start the next chapter ... Maker IHUNTER@MIT.EDU Horizontal In the Go Forth and Measure Project during course 2.671, Measurement ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-measureUnderstanding combustion
a huge difference.” This discussion inspired Deng to study combustion. After graduating with a bachelor’s ... degree in thermal engineering, she received her master’s and PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton, ... dynamics.” Along with her team at the Deng Energy and Nanotechnology Group at MIT, she hopes that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionPhonon catalysis could lead to a new field
sometimes in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius. In a new study, a team of researchers at MIT and the ... upon her previous research, specifically the work of Sokseiha Muy PhD ’18 on design principles for ion ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phonon-catalysis-could-lead-new-fieldBy attracting the world’s sharpest talent, MIT helps keep the US a step ahead
smart, adventurous graduate students.” The give-and-take among MIT faculty and students also inspires ... MIT is a global community whose international engagement bestows benefits well beyond the ... corner of the globe, so too has MIT thrived as a magnet for the world’s most keen and curious minds ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/attracting-world%E2%80%99s-sharpest-talent-mit-helps-keep-us-step-aheadMIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation
MIT President L. Rafael Reif today announced the creation of the MIT Morningside Academy for ... research programs across MIT, especially between the School of Architecture and Planning and the School of ... Engineering. It provides a hub that will encourage design work at MIT to grow and cross disciplines among ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-morningside-academy-design-created-new-hub-cross-disciplinary-education-research-andIra Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91
prominent scientists, and he served as head of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering (which later ... nurtured. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and studied at MIT under the GI bill ... following the war, receiving his PhD in physics in 1954. In 1949 Dyer married his sweetheart, Betty ...
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