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Scientists make microscopes from droplets
microlenses to do imaging in a way people have not done yet,” Kolle says. Kolle’s MIT co-authors are graduate ... Researchers at MIT have now devised tiny “microlenses” from complex liquid droplets comparable in size to the ... Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentAlumni Spotlight: 6dot Innovations
made.” After graduation, a handful of students from her original 2.009 team continued to work on the ... 6dot Innovations. A year later, she recruited Robert Liebert, a graduate from Duke University with ... Anna Anita Leyfell Health Innovation Award at the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge in 2009, as well as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-6dot-innovationsNeed a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to ... decide exactly what to explore in their experiments. What if artificial intelligence could help? MIT ... Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiThe physics of curly hair
Curie; and former MIT graduate student James Miller, who is now a research associate at Schlumberger-Doll ... researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ... Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairNew electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
easier to integrate,” Xinyuan Zhang, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ... MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... films. Their results are reported today in a paper appearing in the journal Nature. The study’s MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9D-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glassesRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
help a human is an even thornier exercise. Now, MIT roboticists have a way to cut through the data ... a novel Relevance framework developed at MIT, the robot identifies and prioritizes objects in the scene to ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “A robot wouldn’t have to ask a human so many questions about what they need. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansA “ChatGPT for spreadsheets” helps solve difficult engineering challenges faster
critical features to focus on,” Rosen Yu says. Image: MIT News; iStock MIT researchers developed a new ... a graduate student in computational science and engineering and lead author of a paper on this technique. Yu ... is joined on the paper by Cyril Picard, a former MIT postdoc and research scientist, and Faez Ahmed, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cchatgpt-spreadsheets%E2%80%9D-helps-solve-difficult-engineering-challenges-fasterTalking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma
earning his PhD from University of California at Berkeley. Renowned for his co-development of ... MIT/Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Collaboration. Can you tell us about the current ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-sanjay-e-sarmaA Customizable Curriculum
M. Scott Brauer by Alissa Mallinson As is often the case, the MIT Department of Mechanical ... field when they graduate, for example. They can focus in on what they’re most interested in, which is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/customizable-curriculumToday's Annoyances, Tomorrow's Technology
physics graduate students at a cousin’s wedding. If he had met a NASA scientist that day he might have ... a silk purse. Friday, August 1, 2014 Deborah Halber | MIT Spectrum orange ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/todays-annoyances-tomorrows-technologyFaculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux
Chandler, MIT News Office Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer Sometimes the fastest pathway ... changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and Assimilation Systems ... incorporate obstacle-avoidance functions to protect the AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-pierre-lermusiauxFaculty Research: Professor John Lienhard
Credit: David Castro-Olmedo/MIT by Alissa Mallinson If you live in a First World country, you probably do ... University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and leads the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT; he ... by converting undrinkable water to usable water.” To do this, Lienhard and his team of graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-john-lienhard-0Squishy robots
applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ... robotics.” Monday, July 14, 2014 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent red Collaboration PEKO@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsA microchip for metastasis
Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... experiment’s fifth day. “You can see how rapidly they are growing,” says Jessie Jeon, a graduate student in ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ... Tuesday, August 4, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Maker ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU Horizontal Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspDesigning a revolution
says Medina. Student support The project involved MIT graduate students from the Department of ... a political third way,” says Eden Medina, an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Society, Technology, and ... Covarrubias. After three years of collaboration between MIT and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-revolution3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint
MIT Sports Lab researchers are applying AI technologies to help figure skaters improve. They also ... a figure skater’s jump and make recommendations on how to improve. Lu, a former researcher at the MIT ... can be. Meanwhile, Professor Anette “Peko” Hosoi, co-founder and faculty director of the MIT Sports ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-using-ai-help-olympic-skaters-land-quintInternational development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
in mechanical engineering and co-director of MIT's D-Lab, which she founded, says the question ... learned from the fall semester to address the needs of the community. In the spring, back at MIT, they ... Ghana, but for the world export market as well.” Graduate student Amos Winter, who went to Tanzania to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/international-development-through-dialogue-design-and-disseminationHow cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components
at MIT, who will join Guo’s lab as a graduate student this fall. Other co-authors include Yulong Han, ... MIT have found that these organelles and other intracellular components may experience the surrounding ... team, led by Ming Guo, the Brit and Alex d'Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT ...
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