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Ancient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT

coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: ... smelting-courtyard-mit-1024.png MIT students and volunteers take turns working the bellows on a mud-and-straw furnace in the style ... lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The first half of the class, taught by ...

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New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology The device, about the size of a U.S. dollar coin, is designed ... Engineering at MIT, as well as research scientists Andrea Pavesi and Giulia Adriani, postdoc Majid Ebrahimi ... BioSystems and Micromechanics interdisciplinary research group. Monday, July 4, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News ...

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Bubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs

work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under the ARPA-E program. Monday, October 7, 2024 ... David L. Chandler | MIT News Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi published a new study of bubbles on ... findings are reported today in the journal Nanoscale, in a paper by recent MIT graduate Jack Lake PhD ’23, ...

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MIT J-WAFS awards eight grants in seventh round of seed funding

drive the development of solutions at and beyond MIT. Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Andi Sutton | Abdul Latif ... The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has announced its seventh round ... of seed grant funding to the MIT community. J-WAFS is MIT’s Institute-wide initiative to promote, ...

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Autonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines

(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 ... the Office of Naval Research. Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office blue hover@mit.edu ...

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Teaching first-year students fundamental principles through creation

they are eager to create something tangible during their time at MIT. Typically, an engineering ... the undergraduate experience. In class 2.00a (Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea ... of what studying mechanical engineering at MIT will be like. “The classes 2.00, 2.00a, and 2.00b are ...

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Cell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade

Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have tracked the evolution of individual cells within an initially ... engineering at MIT. “When they grow, they build up compressive stresses inside the tumor, and that will ... supported, in part, by the National Cancer Institute. Sunday, October 20, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...

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Learning Through Creation

Undergraduate Graduate Prospective Student Home News & Media Home Prospective Undergrad Home Prospective ... Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth, empowers first-year students to conceptualize, design, and ... build machines early in their academic careers at MIT. Home Page Culture Home Education Home ...

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Counting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads

of Health. Tuesday, September 28, 2021 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Horizontal A team of MIT ... can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ...

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Reimagining an Iconic Design Class

Home Culture Home Education Home Undergraduate Graduate Prospective Student Home News & Media Home ... Image Teaser Headline:  Reimagining an Iconic Design Class MIT faculty and staff reimagine an ... iconic mechanical engineering class- 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I)- so students can go head-to-head ...

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Four from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science

Center for Computational Engineering and the MIT Flexible Engineering Degree Program. He became an ... Emeritus and former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, was awarded the National Medal of Science. ... tomography represents one of the biggest engineering breakthroughs from MIT in the past few decades. The ...

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A simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders

Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ... Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... a postdoc at MIT and Brigham and Women’s; Christina Patterson, an MIT undergraduate; and Ahmad Mujtaba ...

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Mechanics of Biological Systems

Impact Home Research Home Culture Home Undergraduate Graduate Alumni Home News & Media Home ... Engineering and Design of Living Systems, students explore how mechanics, structure, and materials intersect ... the engineering behind biological systems. Mechanics Bioengineering Health Environment Home Page ...

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New Solar Absorber Could Improve Efficiency of Solar Thermal Technology

The MIT and Masdar Institute Cooperative Program helped launch the Masdar Institute in 2007. Research ... 2016 MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Nicholas Fang develops a low-cost solar ... Masdar Institute-MIT team develops device that harnesses more sunlight, enhancing efficiency of ...

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MIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles

inspired by future opportunities. “The purpose of the program is to bring together undergraduate students ... further than the collaboration between MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).  ... AFFOA_MIT-FIT_3415 1024.jpg New Balance Knit Innovation Designer Michelle Dunbar (standing at right) addresses ...

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Where to Grab Space Debris

Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA). Wednesday, September 10, 2014 Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office ... a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ...

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There’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus

Professor of Engineering at MIT, and also a composer of experimental music. “This is the beginning of ... mechanics of the life,” he says. Friday, May 21, 2021 Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence ... SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT ...

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Droplets get a charge out of jumping

Alcatel-Lucent. The work received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through the MIT Solid-State ... Wednesday, October 2, 2013 David L. Chandler, MIT News Office gray Collaboration enwang@mit.edu Horizontal ... In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that ...

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3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles

As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor ... Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and ...

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