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3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?
Program in Mechanical Engineering. He weighs in on why sensing is ubiquitous and how advancements in ... — and shape our understanding of the world. SENSE.nano is an MIT.nano Center of Excellence, with a focus ... on Sept. 30 at MIT, will dive deep into the impact of sensors on two topics: sensing for augmented ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-why-sensing-why-now-what-nextMIT engineers propose a safer method for sharing ventilators
Engineering and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Sunday, May 17, 2020 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office ... difficulty in ensuring that each patient is receiving the right amount of air. A team of researchers from MIT ... help patients in extreme need of ventilator support,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-propose-safer-method-sharing-ventilatorsFaculty Feature: Gene Delivery Technique Combines Microfluidics With Electric Shock
electric fields. Funded by The Engine, MIT’s new program for disruptive technology, Kytopen aims to greatly ... The MIT Industrial Liasion Program (ILP) features Professor Cullen Buie, director of MIT ... technology.” As luck would have it, MIT had just launched The Engine, a group that helps fund innovative, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-feature-gene-delivery-technique-combines-microfluidics-electric-shockUsing mechanics for cleaner membranes
soon be in sight. A team of researchers from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, supported by ... materials. MIT-Lienhard-Zhao1024.png Mechanical engineering professors John Lienhard and Xuanhe Zhao teamed ... ’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. The unique perspective that each team member brought helped foster ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanics-cleaner-membranesCoatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces
research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation, ... Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Sahab Babaee is the lead author of the paper, along with Simo Pajovic, an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesDavid Bierman
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ... renewable energy by enabling its use in industry, a sector of the U.S. economy that accounted for nearly ... a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. Antora says it is able to deliver on the long-sought ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-biermanUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
. Wednesday, June 23, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal “Nanoarchitected” materials ... A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsTo design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays
MIT engineers have found that one filter feeder has evolved to sift food in ways that could improve ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled ... Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. A better trade-off The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-better-water-filters-mit-engineers-look-manta-raysSustainable solutions at home and abroad
Patel_1024-lpr.jpg Portrait of mechanical engineering senior Arnav Patel outside Building 7 at MIT. Photo Credit: ... departments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and MIT D-Lab, was the first class ... courtesy of MIT D-lab. “Arnav has used his engineering intuition and user research skills that he learned ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sustainable-solutions-home-and-abroadSchool of Engineering Awards for 2016
Two MechE professors win excellence in teaching awards. The MIT School of Engineering recently ... education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering’s five other academic ... Engineering, and/or the MIT Sloan School of Management, who inspires students in pursuing and achieving ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-20163 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers
2015, Martin Culpepper surveyed all undergraduate and graduate students at MIT about their activities ... engineering and MIT’s “Maker Czar,” asked students what they build, where they work, what kinds of equipment ... MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them. During the summer of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-martin-culpepper-making-future-makersUnleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells
Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal A team of researchers including Professor ... MIT-Perovskite-Efficiency-1024.jpg Solar cells made of perovskite have great promise, in part because they can easily be made on ... a paper by former MIT postdoc Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, MIT professors Tonio Buonassisi and Moungi Bawendi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-perovskites%E2%80%99-potential-solar-cellsSuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress
annual Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (SuperUROP), featured more than 130 poster ... SuperUROP-2018-poster-screens-MIT-1024.jpg About 130 undergraduates discussed the progress of their yearlong research projects at during the ... success of MIT’s flagship UROP program. While traditional UROP experiences last just one term, SuperUROP ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/superurop-showcasing-students-research-work-progressTalking Shop: Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy
powered by wind and the wind does not blow? What’s the best course of action if a bird hits a plane engine ... a senior research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can design smart ... successful intelligent systems. And I think mechanical engineers are in the best position to understand how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-dr-anuradha-annaswamyMaking her way through MIT
projects in the MIT MakerWorkshop or inspiring other students to try their hands at engineering. “The best ... MIT), she has found ways to make building things and engineering more accessible to others — from ... considerable time and energy over her years at MIT to helping others explore making and engineering. As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-her-way-through-mitLiberty Ladd
mechanical engineering and a master's in political science. Courtesy of Jodi Hilton MIT News ... Space Force and I am in the Air Force ROTC Reserve Officer Training Corps program through MIT. Through ... logistical operations of our training program. I used to be on the MIT Mock Trial team, which I joined ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/liberty-laddEngineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made ... Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Imagine connecting a neuromorphic device to ... through an image processing task, programming the memristors to alter an image, in this case of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-put-tens-thousands-artificial-brain-synapses-single-chipFive MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023
MIT faculty in 2001. Chen served as department head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering from ... Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). She has also been named an MIT MacVicar Fellow, a AAAS fellow, an ASBMB ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), director of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-faculty-elected-national-academy-sciences-2023Team Led by MechE Engineers Places Second at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
Nevan Hanumara. The students involved in the project were mechanical engineering undergraduates Jarrod ... Engineering, and the Office of Digital Learning. With this second place win under their belt, MIT EVT looks ... KOMMIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), led by members of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team and professional ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-led-meche-engineers-places-second-pikes-peak-international-hill-climbThree professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows
mechanical engineering. Now in its 25th year, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program was created to honor the ... research, primarily through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). UROP was established by ... honor the new MacVicar Fellows. The program and reception are open to the entire MIT community. Caspar ...
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