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Reducing inequality across the globe and on campus
of mechanical engineering senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John ... in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t want to limit myself to working on a single discipline. ... a mechanical engineering perspective,” she adds. Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-inequality-across-globe-and-campusA quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat
lower when it was relaxed, over thousands of cycles,” says study co-author and MIT graduate student Duo ... Energy, the Office of Naval Research Global via Tec de Monterrey, MIT Evergreen Graduate Innovation ... Fellowship, MathWorks MechE Graduate Fellowship, and the MIT-SUSTech Centers for Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-stretch-switches-polymer%E2%80%99s-capacity-transport-heatPeter Lehner
solidified his interest in mechanical engineering. A few years later, he came to MIT on the GI Bill and ... there were only two women in his class. In 1948 and 1949, Lehner was a member of the MIT Crew team. In ... lost out by six inches. “That was definitely a highlight of my time at MIT,” he recalls, “topped only ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-lehnerArtificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration
researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Lehigh ... Cordero, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and ... engineering at MIT; S. Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-meets-%E2%80%9Cblisk%E2%80%9D-new-darpa-funded-collaborationRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
hope.” Zhao and his team, including lead author Yoonho Kim, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of ... other co-authors are MIT graduate student German Alberto Parada and visiting student Shengduo Liu. In ... MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsRainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds
smell in the air after a light rain? Now scientists at MIT believe they may have identified the ... Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “It’s a very common phenomenon, and it ... around MIT’s campus and along the Charles River. He also collected sandy soil from Nahant Beach in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-study-findsProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsCustom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
says Luca Rosalia, a graduate student in the MIT-Harvard Program in Health Sciences and Technology. ... hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/custom-3d-printed-heart-replicas-look-and-pump-just-real-thingKeeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19
We know proper indoor ventilation is key to reducing the spread of Covid-19. Now, a study by MIT ... Society Interface, the MIT team reports that maintaining an indoor relative humidity between 40 and 60 ... humidity,” suggests lead author Connor Verheyen, a PhD student in medical engineering and medical physics in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/keeping-indoor-humidity-levels-%E2%80%9Csweet-spot%E2%80%9D-may-reduce-spread-covid-19Untangling How Cables Coil
can significantly slow telecommunications around the world. Now engineers at MIT, along with computer ... theoretical analyses. In the lab, MIT engineers set up a desktop system to spool spaghetti-like cables onto ... used for simulating animated hair and, incorporating the parameters of the MIT experiment, found that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-how-cables-coilHybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half
a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... emissions for a given amount of power produced. The concept, proposed by MIT doctoral student Katherine Ong ... system proposed by MIT researchers. At the bottom, steam (pink arrows) passes through pulverized coal, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-system-could-cut-coal-plant-emissions-halfProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) program at MIT. John H. Lienhard V, the Abdul Latif ... the program has received and funded grant proposals from all five of MIT’s schools, provided 24 seed ... a multimillion dollar award for a project on food safety and supply chains, led by MIT Sloan School of Management ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-make-inroads-global-food-and-water-challengesArtificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
changes wrought by the virus. MIT researchers have now found that people who are asymptomatic may differ ... a factory, or a restaurant,” says co-author Brian Subirana, a research scientist in MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. ... Subirana’s co-authors are Jordi Laguarta and Ferran Hueto, of MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. New AI model ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-model-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections-through-cellphoneFaculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi
Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient Hyukmin Kwon. “The time ... Droplets Break a Theoretical Time Barrier on Bouncing By David Chandler, MIT News Office Those ... bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that perceived ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-kripa-varanasiProgrammable Aperture Light Field Cameras
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: Programmable Aperture Light Field Cameras Teaser Text: PhD ... frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> PhD candidate Thomas Milnes explains his thesis research: the ... PhD candidate Thomas Milnes explains his thesis research: the development of novel hardware and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/programmable-aperture-light-field-camerasMIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition
In early January 2018, MIT professor John Lienhard opened an unexpected email. A panel of water ... Group at MIT focuses on developing technologies for clean water through a wide variety of approaches, ... at MIT, he leads an Institute-wide initiative to cultivate new water and food systems research across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-growing-global-leadership-water-achieves-industry-recognitionResurrecting an MIT “learning by doing” tradition: NEET scholars install solar-powered charging station
team. Students enrolled in MIT’s New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program recently ... in a quiet campus courtyard, the station provides the MIT community with climate-friendly power for ... undergraduate engineering education at MIT, NEET seeks to empower students to tackle complex societal challenges ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/resurrecting-mit-%E2%80%9Clearning-doing%E2%80%9D-tradition-neet-scholars-install-solar-powered-chargingAging Brain Initiative symposium showcases “cutting-edge” research across MIT
representing 15 MIT and affiliated labs. Postdocs and graduate students described research on topics ranging ... disciplines, presenters at MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative Symposium Oct. 23 delivered a rich and diverse sampling ... Institute for Learning and Memory. “So at MIT we have sought to encourage new thinking for the aging brain.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-symposium-showcases-%E2%80%9Ccutting-edge%E2%80%9D-research-across-mitSophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
learned about MIT D-Lab when she was a Florida middle schooler. She drove with her family from their home ... in Clearwater to Tampa to an MIT informational open house for prospective students. There, she heard ... Madagascar 1.jpg Sophia Chen, pictured here in Madagascar on an MIT D-Lab project to test a water vapor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sophia-chen-it%E2%80%99s-our-duty-make-world-better-through-empathy-patience-and-respectMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
Physics Letters, co-authored by Daniel Preston, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall ... research team included MIT graduate students Ariel Anders and Yangying Zhu, Research Affiliate Banafsheh ... friction. A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could offer a new way of making movable parts with ...
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