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3D printing tiny parts for big impact

means you can basically go four times faster.” Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Zach Winn | MIT News Office ... partners like Johnson and Johnson in MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program. Many of BMF’s early customers were ... parts that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by MIT ...

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Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining

mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... study of such plumes. He was joined by Alford and Eric Adams, senior research engineer at MIT, as well ... as other researchers and engineers from MIT, Scripps, and the United States Geological Survey. With ...

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A new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome

However, MIT biological and mechanical engineers have now designed a specialized device in which they can ... Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. “We showed that you can grow ... new-micro-model-1024.jpg MIT biological and mechanical engineers have designed a specialized device in which they can grow ...

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Engineering art

MIT-Stephanie-chou-kinetic-sculpture-Mess-of-Gold 1024_0.jpg Stephanie Chou ’19 stands with her kinetic art sculpture, "Mess of Gold." ... sculpture to encourage members of the MIT community to express themselves and find support in challenging ... sculpture’s central hue. One of Chou’s best friends, Katherine Hunter, loved yellow roses. Unfortunately, ...

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Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

Engineer Eric Verploegen of  MIT D-Lab  have  released their open-source design  for a forced-air ... quickly transferred to cold — or at least cool — storage, much of it can go to waste. Now, MIT Professor ... Leon Glicksman of the  Building Technology Program  within the Department of Architecture, and Research ...

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Clearing the air

four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ... founder of Plume Labs and an alumnus of MIT’s Technology and Policy Program. That’s because pollution ... Engineering   “This was probably the best summer I’ve had in my life, and I think that was partially because ...

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Engineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing

Advanced Research Projects Agency. Monday, September 13, 2021 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ... MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... environment. Unlike some of the gels now used to grow tissue, the new MIT gel is completely synthetic, easy to ...

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MIT engineers develop a soft, printable, metal-free electrode

inflammation that in turn can degrade an implant’s performance. Now, MIT engineers have developed a metal-free, ... biological tissue. MIT_Hydro-Electrode-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers developed a metal-free, Jell-O-like ... environmental engineering at MIT. Zhao, Yuk, and others at MIT and elsewhere report their results today in ...

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To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds

generating new content that resembles everything they’ve seen before. But as MIT engineers say in a new ... a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT. “The objective of these models is to mimic a dataset. But as ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “But in design, being different could be important if you want to innovate.” ...

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Engineers design bionic “heart” for testing prosthetic valves, other cardiac devices

engineers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a bionic “heart” that offers a more realistic model for ... and animal tests,” says Ellen Roche, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “[The new ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who specializes in developing hydrogel-based ...

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Engineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors

Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ... Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT. Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...

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Makris, Nicholas Professor

Engineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies

As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... specializing in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at ... a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts research for the ...

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Merging engineering and education

science, and encouraged her to consider engineering. That’s when Etienne started looking into MIT. After ... and Science (MITES) program at MIT, where she stayed in Simmons Hall and attended six weeks of ... Etienne served as a STEM mentor for the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs, working a middle schooler ...

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Culpepper, Martin Professor

Building an HMCo. Steam Engine: Introduction

thoughts about MIT’s most famous naval architect and steam engineer, Captain Nathanael Herreshoff, were ... next apprentice class would fabricate a Herreshoff Mfg Co. steam engine using drawings from MIT ... would be our fourth attempt casting a particularly vexing part for our Herreshoff steam engine.   The ...

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MIT engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water

co-authors are lead author Krithika Ramchander and Luda Wang of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... engineers, including researchers in the MIT D-Lab, worked in mountain and urban regions, facilitated by local ... Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT and the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design. Thursday, March 25, 2021 ...

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Evelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

engineering from MIT in 2000. After receiving her master’s degree and PhD from Stanford University, she ... as co-chair of the inaugural Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering program to encourage women ... a faculty member at MIT while she serves in this role. MIT School of Engineering Dean Anantha Chandrakasan ...

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Ocean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle

of the conjecture,” says study co-author Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Tuesday, September 20, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal In a new ... and highly contested. Now MIT ocean scientists have shed some light on the topic, with a new study on ...

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Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor

coverings trap the heat that the devices produce. Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a polymer ... 10 times as much heat as most commercially used polymers. MIT-Polymer-Conductor.JPG Engineers at MIT ... wearable biosensors,” says Yanfei Xu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Our polymer ...

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