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Pushing through sand
For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you ... mechanical engineering at MIT, says scientists have regarded granular RFT as “somewhat like magic,” unsure of ... supported, in part, by the Army Research Office. Sunday, August 28, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-through-sandSophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
as an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program student and worked on a point-of-use desalination ... Sophia Chen, a fifth-year senior double majoring in mechanical engineering and art and design, ... learned about MIT D-Lab when she was a Florida middle schooler. She drove with her family from their home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sophia-chen-it%E2%80%99s-our-duty-make-world-better-through-empathy-patience-and-respectIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship International ... Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyInaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named
the reach of design education, he directs the undergraduate design programs at MIT and contributes to ... generation of engineering innovators. Wallace is known both inside and outside of MIT for his development of ... two iconic design classes at MIT, 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), and 2.00B (Toy Product ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inaugural-morningside-academy-design-professorships-namedMotion-Induced Quicksand
mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... research was funded by the National Science Foundation. Monday, November 17, 2014 Jennifer Chu | MIT News ... MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandTo make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze
into more specialized cells. Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says that ... Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Researchers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have shown that ... like ideas, information, and even infection. Now researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/make-mini-organs-grow-faster-give-them-squeezeProfessors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
MIT professors Ahmed Ghoniem and Katherine “Kate” Kellogg have been selected as the most recent ... honorees of the student-driven “ Committed to Caring ” (C2C) program. Started in the spring of 2014, ... Committed to Caring seeks to recognize and celebrate MIT faculty members who go above and beyond to make an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringHow light can vaporize water without the need for heat
partly supported by an MIT Bose Award. Monday, April 22, 2024 David L. Chandler | MIT News Horizontal ... In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that ... any source of heat. MIT-Evaporation-Light-01-press_0-1.jpg Researchers at MIT have discovered a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-need-heatInternational Study
by MIT faculty or go on IAP or summer external programs to explore new subject areas or hone ... undergraduate in MechE, you have many great options: STUDY MechE Semester Academic Exchanges: Study at ETH ... Zurich or at the University of Tokyo Direct Enrollment Programs: Study at one of these universities for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/international-studyFrom large labs to small teams, mentorship thrives
Each year, new MIT graduate students are tasked with the momentous decision of choosing a research ... arts and sciences at MIT, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab. ... She is also the MIT dean for digital learning, leading MIT Open Learning’s business and research and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/large-labs-small-teams-mentorship-thrivesGlassy carbon, now with less heat
Department of Defense, National Science Foundation MRSEC Program, and the MIT Materials Processing Center. ... support through MIT's Nano-Engineered Composite Aerospace Structures Consortium. Stein was supported ... Last winter, MIT researchers discovered that a phenol-formaldehyde polymer transformed into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatCookstoves and Connections in the Himalaya
undergraduate sophomores in mechanical engineering. Working with partner universities in India and Nepal, we ... MIT D-Lab "In this time of isolation, this trip was a precious chance to connect with the ... universities." The project and the team In January 2022, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period, a team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cookstoves-and-connections-himalayaStartup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts
John Hart, an associate professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the ... 2018 Zach Winn | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship Maker Horizontal Desktop Metal, ... printing prototypes and small batches of metal parts. MIT-Desktop-Metal-1024.jpg Desktop Metal co-founders ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-uses-3-d-printing-reinvent-production-metal-partsUsing “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases
MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships ... Trust Foundation. Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT biological ... human gut plays an important role under these inflammatory conditions. MIT-Gut-Liver-1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-%E2%80%9Corgans-chip%E2%80%9D-model-complicated-diseasesJ-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
program aims to help MIT faculty and students commercialize promising innovations for our water and food ... grants provide one year of financial support to MIT principal investigators with bench-scale, ... commercialization. Since the start of the program in 2015, J-WAFS Solutions grants have already been instrumental in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-2018-solutions-grants-commercialization-mit-food-and-water-technologiesMIT Energy Initiative awards seven Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research
through its Seed Fund Program, which supports early-stage innovative energy research at MIT through an ... Chemical Engineering. Sunday, June 30, 2019 MIT Energy Initiative Collaboration Horizontal Professor Yang ... The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) recently awarded seven grants totaling approximately $1 million ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-awards-seven-seed-fund-grants-early-stage-energy-researchLetting robots manipulate cables
Dong, and Neha Sunil; Alberto Rodriguez, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering; and Edward ... Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT CSAIL can handle cables with ... a group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) pursued ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letting-robots-manipulate-cables“In everything I do, I’m a creator”
exciting to learn how engineering at MIT is not just technical but so creative,” she says. Initially she ... News correspondent Horizontal Mechanical engineer and storyteller Hannah Gazdus integrates her love of ... Mechanical engineer and storyteller Hannah Gazdus integrates her love of art into all of her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-everything-i-do-i%E2%80%99m-creator%E2%80%9DStudent-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
legendary at MIT. Clare Zhang, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, built that winning robot. While ... Mechanical Engineering, who originated MIT’s robotics competition (then called 2.70) and ran it for many ... years. Friday, May 9, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office blue Culture Education Maker ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-built-robots-compete-slopesNew test rapidly diagnoses Zika
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ... engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, a visiting scientist in MIT’s Department of ... September 26, 2017 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship International Horizontal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zika