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Mechanical engineer-led startups offer healthcare solutions
Traverso, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Traverso is no stranger to startups. He has ... first year on MIT’s faculty, Traverso introduced a new class called Translational Engineering (2.s988), ... solutions all the more pressing. “There were a number of startups from MIT that addressed problems related ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineer-led-startups-offer-healthcare-solutionsThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... Zhong, Bachir El Fil, Xinyue Liu, and Evelyn Wang. “Best of both worlds” In MIT’s Device Research Lab, ... and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Wednesday, June 14, 2023 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airStudent Awards
Undergraduate Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in ... Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Jacqueline Sly, Grace Young AMP Inc. Award (Outstanding Performance ... Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering) Edward Burnell, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awards-0MIT Scientists Twist Apart More Than 1,000 Oreos in Search for Perfect Method
Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s mechanical engineering department. She led a group of researchers on ... in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering and co-author of the study. Another was to attach both ... torsion, or twisting forces. One day during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2021, she said, “we just kind of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-scientists-twist-apart-more-1000-oreos-search-perfect-methodCooling homes without warming the planet
Friday, March 26, 2021 Zach Winn | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship Maker Horizontal MechE alum Ross ... ’07, who is also a lecturer at MIT D-Lab, and CTO Matt Dorson, a mechanical engineer who worked with ... neutral ACs as part of a mechanical engineering class at MIT. When Covid-19 began sweeping through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-homes-without-warming-planetAdvocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill
In late March, 29 MIT graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates traveled to Washington to ... R&D in fiscal year 2020 and beyond. The delegation met with 69 offices of the U.S. Senate and House of ... works at the intersection of research and public policy. This is the 13th consecutive year MIT students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-federal-research-funding-capitol-hillEngineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Jeehwan ... electronic waste. Now MIT engineers have taken a step toward that modular vision with a LEGO-like design for ... elements that can communicate with each other. Figure courtesy of the researchers and edited by MIT News ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-build-lego-artificial-intelligence-chipControlling bubble formation on electrodes
China. Friday, March 26, 2021 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A study from ... mechanical engineering at MIT, says that “what’s really exciting is that as the technology of water splitting ... MIT engineers, including Professor Evelyn Wang, Associate Professor Betar Gallant, and grad student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-bubble-formation-electrodes"Biomedical lab in a box" empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries
Wilson, Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal A team from MIT has created ... graveyards,’” says Nevan Hanumara, SM ‘06, PhD ‘12, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, referencing piles of broken, imported equipment, often bearing stickers indicating their origins ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/biomedical-lab-box-empowers-engineers-low-and-middle-income-countriesStrengthening America’s manufacturing base
U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu serves as the Department ... presented a wide range of research programs that the DoD has supported. Shyu_BeaverWorks.jpg U.S. Under ... Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu (center) visited the Beaver Works space in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strengthening-america%E2%80%99s-manufacturing-baseMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
successfully unveil to the public.” Thursday, September 16, 2021 Hannah Meiseles | MIT News Office ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ... road with. MIT-Heng-Yang-1024.jpg Safety concerns have clouded the future of fully autonomous vehicles. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionOvercoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft
undergraduate years at the University of Texas. He came to MIT determined to further the technology and, in the ... engineering. MIT’s entry was the only fully-functioning levitating pod in the competition at SpaceX ... amount of time, under deadline. But we made it.” The MIT team emerged as the No. 1 U.S. university at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-obstacles-electric-hovercraftGoing for the gold
and Carlo Salmini MBA ’11, a material engineer and MIT Sloan School of Management alum. “Of all the ... MIT-Shred-Optics-01-1024.jpg Ted Ligety wearing the helmet and goggle collection that Shred will be debuting at the Olympics. ... MIT students and faculty helped enhance the lens technology used in the lenses of these goggles. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-goldThree from MIT named 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
curricula for the MIT Educational Studies Program, mentored younger students in the Physics Mentorship ... MIT senior Pam Stark and alumni Bhav Jain and Sreya Vangara are recipients of this year’s ... Stanford University. The Knight-Hennessy Scholars program aims to develop emerging leaders who have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-2023-knight-hennessy-scholarsEngineers develop nanoparticles that cross the blood-brain barrier
Sciences. Paula Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and ... Institute. Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal MIT ... chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that surround the brain. A team of MIT researchers is now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-nanoparticles-cross-blood-brain-barrierCaitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21
training in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program — wherein she obtained both her MBA and SM ... process can often take six months to a year.) While engineering is important, Braun is most excited about ... in mechanical engineering — helped her balance diplomacy with technical discipline. So did a 2020 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caitlin-braun-mba-%E2%80%9921-sm-%E2%80%9921Sarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship
curiosity, and civic-mindedness that together represent MIT at its very best,” says Professor Will Broadhead, ... summer after her first year at MIT as a biomedical engineering intern at LV Prasad Institute in ... returning to MIT, Tress became involved with MIT D-Lab, which strives to apply engineering design principles ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sarah-tress-wins-2019-rhodes-scholarshipMicroscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly
Program. Wednesday, July 7, 2021 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A team of ... requires scanning individual pixels one at a time. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has now ... neurons within the brain, the researchers say. MIT-Fast-Brain-Imaging-01-1024.jpg This image shows ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscopy-technique-makes-finer-images-deeper-tissue-more-quicklyHyunwoo Yuk
accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, Yuk received an email from a new faculty ... engineer. “I believe that personal problems are the best problems for engineers to solve,” adds Yuk. “If ... Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation and MIT Venture Mentoring Service. These programs helped Yuk ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hyunwoo-yukEngineering Fluids at the Nanoscale
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale Teaser Text: Rohit ... frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Professor Rohit Karnik addresses real-world challenges with ... Nanotechnology Health Security Impact Home Research Home Undergraduate Graduate Post-Doc Alumni Home Prospective ...
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