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Refrigerator magnets
so you can essentially use a magnet as a refrigerator,” says Bolin Liao, a graduate student in MIT ... according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ... Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishWater, water everywhere … even in the air
including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ... Polytechnic Institute), and alumnus Ari Umans SM ’15. The Berkeley co-authors include graduate student Eugene ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airUnlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence
a unique need for artificial intelligence — it’s crucial,” says MIT Professor Henrik Schmidt, the course’s ... seabeds, and further our understanding of oceanography. According to graduate student Gregory Nannig, ... understanding of ocean environments, they enter the MIT Sailing Pavilion prepared to test their artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-marine-mysteries-artificial-intelligenceSoft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devices
Researchers from the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT; the National ... engineering at NUI Galway and former researcher in the Roche and Duffy labs at MIT and NUI Galway, says “We ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robotics-breakthrough-manages-immune-response-implanted-devicesUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... use to predict heat transfer from flat plates.” Monday, April 27, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesSchool of Engineering first quarter 2021 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-first-quarter-2021-awardsDroplets Made to Order
New method allows microdroplets of any shape to form on a surface. MIT researchers have developed ... engineering Evelyn Wang, former postdocs Rishi Raj and Ryan Enright, and graduate student Solomon Adera. Wang ... supported by the National Science Foundation, MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Batelle’s National ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-made-orderInside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor
of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, says one of the major ... says. “So we had to make [our design] extremely fail-safe.” He and his graduate students, Anirban ... place. Exerpted from a story by Jennifer Chu. To read the whole story, visit MIT’s New Office: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inside-innards-nuclear-reactorResearch update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces
Researchers at MIT have followed up on their discovery that droplets of water acquire an electric ... reported in the journal ACS Nano by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical ... engineering Evelyn Wang, graduate student Daniel Preston, and former postdoc Ryan Enright. The finding could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-update-electric-fields-can-push-droplets-surfacesRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ... an MIT spinout based in Quincy, Mass. Energy-saving anchoring Winter first began developing the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsExploring growth within a confined space
analytical efforts, respectively. MIT PhD students Chockalingam Senthilnathan, Thomas Henzel, and Xuanhe Li ... confinement. Photo: moonimage/Flickr Now, MIT and Yale University researchers have developed a theoretical framework ... a research team led by Tal Cohen, MIT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-growth-within-confined-spaceAging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
expertise to join the field, MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) this month awarded five seed grants after ... a competition among labs across the Institute. Founded in 2015 by nine MIT faculty members, the ABI promotes ... were very pleased that many groups across MIT were eager to contribute their expertise and creativity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-awards-fund-five-new-ideas-study-fight-neurodegenerationFaculty Spotlight: C. Forbes Dewey Jr.
aeronautics from California Institute of Technology. Between his PhD at Caltech and his position at MIT, he ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering C. Forbes Dewey Jr. first came to MIT ... engineering from Yale University, an MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, and a PhD in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlight-c-forbes-dewey-jrA flexible way to grab items with feeling
Friday, April 15, 2022 Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL Collaboration Horizontal PhD Student Sandra Liu and her ... Professor Edward Adelson and his Perceptual Science Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). In a recent project, Adelson and Sandra Liu — a mechanical engineering PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-way-grab-items-feelingInteractive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions
box, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Aarhus University ... Stefanie Mueller, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT departments of Electrical ... PhD student Yijing Jiang. “Since the tongue can touch the front teeth in our open-bite design, users ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/interactive-mouthpiece-opens-new-opportunities-health-data-assistive-technology-and-handsA leg up for STEM majors
engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... his work at MIT's Election Data and Science Lab. “When I started, I was just looking for a place ... at MIT's Environmental Dynamics Lab (ENDLab) developing monitoring technology for marine carbon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm that could ... MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on ... adaptation,” says Navid Azizan, who is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environments2.500: Desalination
graduate students studying mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, and materials ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Led by John H. Lienhard, Course 2.500: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2500-desalinationForging ahead with care and compassion
a number of MIT professors are forging thoughtful ways to support students’ well-being and scholarly ... supplies they needed to work from home. Attending to the financial precarity of some graduate students, Li ... prior to MIT’s ramping down of research, which enabled them to be intentional with their discussions of ...
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