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No more blackouts?

at MIT have developed a method for guaranteeing the stability of any microgrid that runs on direct ... current, or DC — an architecture that was originally proposed as part of the MIT Tata Center’s uLink ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “In the end, it is a step toward lower-cost microgrids that can ...

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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ... A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... work,” says co-author Christopher Rackauckas, an applied mathematics instructor at MIT. “Instead, good ...

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MechE Faculty Contact Information

Abeyaratne, Rohan ROHAN@MIT.EDU Ahmed, Faez FAEZ@MIT.EDU Gaken, Joe jgaken@mit.edu 617-324-6108 Akerson, ... Andrew AKERSON@MIT.EDU Cabral, Alexandra cabrala@mit.edu 617-324-2805 Akylas, Triantaphyllos ... R TRAKYLAS@MIT.EDU Canfield, Laura lkampas@mit.edu 617-452-4123 Anand, Lallit ANAND@MIT.EDU Eisenbach, Katherine ...

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Talking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V

problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... irrigation. Amazing things are being done at MIT in all of these areas, and the Department of Mechanical ... your role as director of MIT’s water and food initiative, J-WAFS, what do you see as the Institute’s ...

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Internet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other

Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... lost in the supply chain. So, Sarma, along with research scientist David Brock of MIT and Kevin Ashton, ... remains active today, emerged from the MIT Auto ID Center. “In many ways that effort also laid the ...

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Derek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing

by layer, in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's additive manufacturing (AM) machines. They were also ... drones, and breath monitors. He earned a master's of engineering in manufacturing degree at MIT ... coined by an MIT professor when machines first used inkjet heads to dispense adhesives to bind layers ...

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Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip

MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals ... developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... hallways of MIT’s Pappalardo Lab and along the slightly uneven ground of Killian Court. In both ...

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Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics

inflexible. Now a process developed by MIT engineers may be the key to manufacturing flexible electronics with ... functionality, in one flexible chip,” says Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Jackson Bauer, and Caroline Ross from MIT, along with collaborators from the University of Wisconsin at ...

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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication

twist, MIT researchers have discovered that two other inactive ingredients may actually boost medication ... increasingly helping to identify and design new drugs. In a recent discovery, MIT researchers used a deep ... postdoc at MIT’s  Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. If a promising biological association is ...

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Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions

The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center, one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s ... meet these challenges with a cohort of industry members that are supporting promising MIT research, ... resulted in 15 entries by MIT researchers. “The application process revealed a great deal of interest from ...

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Turning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula

turn one into the other,” says Gary Choi, a postdoc and instructor in applied mathematics at MIT. “But ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that can transform ... Untitled design (36).jpg: Inspired by the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, MIT researchers developed ...

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A bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract

clouds, researchers from MIT and Novo Nordisk have developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst ... Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... of the study. Traverso and his students at MIT developed the new capsule along with researchers at ...

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Cells get ready for their close-up

In 2007, MIT scientists developed a type of microscopy that allowed them to detail the interior of ... distribution of the cells’ mass to sort them,” says Yongjin Sung, a former postdoc in MIT’s Laser Biomedical ... PRApplied. Instead of using fluorescent tags, the MIT method analyzes the cells’ index of refraction ...

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Preview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects

a fellow EECS graduate student; Raul Hernandez, an MIT undergraduate; SooYeon Ahn, a graduate student at ... waste time, effort, and material. MIT researchers developed an easy-to-use tool that generates an ... envision how a fabricated object will look, researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed an easy-to-use ...

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Projects advance naval ship design and capabilities

convened on MIT’s campus each spring for the MIT Ship Design and Technology Symposium. The daylong event is ... construction and engineering being conducted at MIT. 2n Program 1024.jpg Students enrolled in the Course 2N ... program who also graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy pose with Rear Admiral Brian Antonio, a curriculum ...

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Meg O’Neill

things about an MIT education is the emphasis on problem solving. It’s been very helpful for me as I’ve ... education. But MIT taught me how to define and tackle a problem, figure out what I need to solve it, and ... Prospective-Students Prospective-Undergrad Research Education Graduate Undergraduate Alumni /node/414 Managing ...

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Turning extreme heat into large-scale energy storage

through metal pipes. Fourth Power, founded by MIT Professor Asegun Henry SM ’06, PhD ’09, is turning these ... costs.” A career in heat Henry earned his master’s and PhD degrees from MIT before working in faculty ... positions at Georgia Tech and MIT. As a professor at both schools, his research has focused on thermal ...

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Powered by Literature on Her Way Toward an MD

Senior Cara Lai cites MIT Literature studies as key to her preparation for medical practice. When ... she first arrived at MIT, a freshman in 2012, Cara Lai was focused on engineering studies. But it ... wasn't long before Lai discovered that the breadth and depth of an MIT education is designed to help ...

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Remembering ‘Papa Flash’

The late MIT Professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton enchanted the world with his high-speed flash ... reconnaissance. He also took his cameras underwater. Oceans at MIT remembered Edgerton’s major contributions to ... ocean exploration and marine biology on the 23rd anniversary of his death by pouring through MIT ...

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Understanding and treating disease

Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. “Rather than ... devices that can be used in physical rehabilitation. One such tool is the MIT-MANUS — a robot developed by ... Professor Neville Hogan to help stroke victims recover and regain mobility. Feature_04_1024.jpg Graduate ...

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