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Better batteries through biology?
number of charging-discharging cycles the batteries can withstand. Now, MIT researchers have found that ... by graduate student Dahyun Oh, professors Angela Belcher and Yang Shao-Horn, and three others. The ... area. Belcher, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/better-batteries-through-biologySeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
— a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ... Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ... researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-iceAlumni Spotlight: John Wall (SB, SM ’75, ScD ’78) and Jennifer Rumsey (SM ’98)
engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, Leroy returned to his job at Chevron Research in San Francisco,” ... to be up until his retirement from Cummins just this past October – the MIT educational counselor for ... Wall, in his role as MIT educational counselor, first saw Rumsey’s technical capability and interest. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-john-wall-sb-sm-%E2%80%9975-scd-%E2%80%9978-and-jennifer-rumsey-sm-%E2%80%9998Solving the puzzle of ice age climates
Physical Oceanography in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, “and what we really ... patterns. In a new application of ocean physics, Ferrari, along with Malte Jansen PhD ’12 of Princeton ... National Science Foundation. Monday, June 2, 2014 Genevieve Wanucha | Oceans at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-puzzle-ice-age-climatesTackling a global warming conundrum
a multinational team of researchers, including John Marshall at MIT, published this week in the early online ... makers.” Rong Zhang PhD ’01, lead author and oceanographer in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab at NOAA, ... January 11, 2013 Genevieve Wanucha | Oceans at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-global-warming-conundrumReducing the burden of tuberculosis treatment
authors. The paper’s lead author is MIT graduate student Malvika Verma; the team includes others at MIT, as ... medical facilities. To help overcome that, a team of researchers led by MIT has devised a new way to ... Traverso, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-burden-tuberculosis-treatmentEngineers turn the body’s goo into new glue
coming to MIT, Degen was a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he ... recent years to design similar bioinspired, waterproof adhesives. Now engineers from MIT and Freie ... fibers (blue strand) from mucin and mussel-inspired polymers, MIT researchers have created a new glue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-body%E2%80%99s-goo-new-glueDrive-By Heat Mapping
roads around the world. Now MIT spinout Essess is bringing similar “drive-by” innovations to energy ... Intelligence Lab student Long Phan PhD ’12 made key innovations to the rig that allowed low-cost cameras (about ... Kinetic Super Resolution — co-invented with Sarma and MIT postdoc Jonathan Jesneck — that computationally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-heat-mappingFaculty Promotions
education and mentoring of students. His courses at MIT challenge students in the rigorous design of machine ... profession and to MIT. He has played an active leadership role in shaping the Laboratory for Manufacturing ... and Productivity, and currently serves as Graduate Admissions Officer in Mechanical Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotionsYour future home might be framed with printed plastic
MIT engineers are using recycled plastic to 3D print construction-grade floor trusses. The plastic ... bottle you just tossed in the recycling bin could provide structural support for your future house. MIT ... wood-based framing. In a paper published in the Solid FreeForm Fabrication Symposium Proceedings, the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/your-future-home-might-be-framed-printed-plasticA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ... (LEES) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), ... MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracy3D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving
are rotating. MIT engineers have now developed a way to easily integrate sensors into these types of ... by MIT News Even though advances in 3D printing enable rapid fabrication of rotational mechanisms, ... a mechanism and potentially limit its motion. Instead, the new system the MIT researchers developed enables ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-revolving-devices-can-sense-how-they-are-movingSun-powered desalination for villages in India
study, by MIT graduate student Natasha Wright and Amos Winter, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ... grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Now an analysis by MIT ... Technology and Design at MIT. Monday, September 8, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaGetting a grip on robotic grasp
— or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ... way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... jars and lifting heavy objects. He and graduate student Faye Wu presented a paper on the robot this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspGetting a charge out of water droplets
correlated condensation with energy-harvesting before.” The research, which also included MIT graduate ... Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ... student Daniel Preston and former postdoc Ryan Enright, now at Lucent Ireland Ltd., was supported by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsWatching tumors burst through a blood vessel
cancer metastasis. Now researchers at MIT have developed a microfluidic device that mimics the flow of ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We could take circulating tumor cells from a patient and subject those cells ... learning a lot as we go along.” Kamm’s co-authors on the paper include graduate students Michelle Chen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watching-tumors-burst-through-blood-vesselAutonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ... (HAUV), originally developed as part of MIT’s Sea Grant program. The technology has since been ... commercialized by spinoff Bluefin Robotics Corp., and the MIT engineers have continued to work to improve its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... in a constantly changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and ... AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students Tapovan Lolla and Mattheus Ueckermann ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineLearning to Solve
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), are immersed in a graduate-level research ... experience. Taking a deep dive into a single problem, participants work under the supervision of an MIT ... say, ‘only at MIT,’ SuperUROP is exactly what we are talking about,” adds Waitz. In fact, nearly 90 ...
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