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The Wonders of Thin Structures
& Statistics Laboratory at MIT. Reis' work focuses on the mechanics of large deformations of ... very small to the very large. Mechanics Innovation Security Impact Home Research Home Graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wonders-thin-structuresResearchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans
MIT postdoc Xiang (Shawn) Zhang, recent doctoral graduate Jonathan Fincke, along with Charles Wynn, ... challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... we could do with laser ultrasound,” says Brian W. Anthony, a principal research scientist in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-produce-first-laser-ultrasound-images-humansSolar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
graduate student Alina LaPotin; and six others at MIT and in Korea and Utah. The earlier device ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ... source. The system, which builds on a design initially developed three years ago at MIT by members of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-extracts-drinkable-water-%E2%80%9Cdry%E2%80%9D-airHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
team also included MIT research scientist Ivan Celanovic and former graduate students Yi Yeng, ... reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou, professors Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Fang, Evelyn Wang, and Sang-Gook ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberBasic training
A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ... build the makerspace itself this summer. MakerLodge_01_1024.jpg MIT has over 40 design/build/project ... to 10 of MIT’s makerspaces; pairing with a maker community; and up to $100 in “makerbucks,” a stipend ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basic-trainingCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... A study from MIT now shows that tumor cells become much softer as they undergo this process. The findings ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsMaking data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ... Isolat research produced a number of tangible impacts, informing not only MIT’s reopening and testing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plansCSAIL, MechE marine experts win international self-driving boat competition
researchers from MIT and Olin College as one of 15 teams competing in the Maritime RobotX Challenge, which ... searching underwater for acoustic sources. MIT-Olin outperformed other universities from Australia, Japan, ... (autonomy), postdoctoral associate Liam Paull and graduate student Nick Rypkema (vision/lidar), and principal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/csail-meche-marine-experts-win-international-self-driving-boat-competition3-D scanning, with your smartphone
Systems integrate the Viztu technology, Milnes returned to MIT to finish his PhD in mechanical ... and technological expertise. But MIT spinout Viztu Technologies helped change that: Back in 2011, ... Thomas Milnes PhD ’13, Viztu’s chief technology officer, who developed the software behind Hypr3D as part ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-scanning-your-smartphoneAviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory
a Lincoln Scholar assigned to MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Rapid Prototyping Group, and Raichelle Aniceto, ... an MIT undergraduate who was a member of a joint MIT and Lincoln Laboratory team that developed ... recognize top undergraduate and graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aviation-weeks-2014-twenty20s-include-two-ties-mit-lincoln-laboratoryMIT IDEAS celebrates social innovation at the Institute
graduate student, though teams may include members outside the MIT community. “Beyond the numbers, the ... Members of the MIT community from around the world gathered virtually on Sunday, April 26 to ... celebrate the 19th annual IDEAS Awards presented by the PKG Center for Public Service. IDEAS is MIT’s social ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-ideas-celebrates-social-innovation-instituteA data-driven response to a pandemic
elections — and has raised difficult questions about MIT’s capacity to reopen in the fall. To help ... policymakers at MIT and beyond make informed decisions, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) has ... information to impact policymaking.” The I DS S C O VID-19 col la bor at ion (Isolat) consists of MIT faculty, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-response-pandemicNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
says MIT graduate student Eunice Aissi. “The whole system would allow us to give a computer a materials ... improving solar energy to transparent electronics and transistors,” adds MIT graduate student Alexander ... MIT co-authors include graduate student Fang Sheng, postdoc Basita Das, and professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materialsTough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
with biological functions,” Zhao says. The paper’s lead author is MIT graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk. ... Co-authors include MIT graduate students German Alberto Parada and Xinyue Liu and former Zhao group postdoc ... Now engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a technique that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
refrigeration. To address this challenge, an MIT research team funded by a 2019 seed grant from the Abdul Latif ... MIT principal investigators are leading this effort: Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenyaTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
cases, the wait time has to do with time-consuming steps in sample processing and analysis. Now, MIT ... bound to the beads. The MIT team found a faster way to confirm the presence of Dynabead-bound pathogens, ... known pathogens in food and water,” says study co-author Marissa McDonald, a graduate student in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensHow to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed
consequences. To help prevent such mistakes, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed ... the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... about the work by lead author Young-Jin Park, a LIDS graduate student; Hao Wang, a research scientist ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-general-purpose-ai-model%E2%80%99s-reliability-it%E2%80%99s-deployedEngineers design color-changing compression bandage
condition. Now engineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into ... around a patient’s leg. color-changing compression_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT have developed ... of mechanical engineering at MIT. “These fibers can provide information about the pressure that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-color-changing-compression-bandageSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... a postdoc at MIT. “You could scale this up to something that could be used in remote climates to generate ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamFor cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better
researchers at MIT and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have outlined a pathway to slashing ... detailed in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by MIT postdoc Zhe Liu, ... professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-better