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New 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 ...

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Our hairy insides

currents of the fluids they’re immersed in. MIT-Hair-Beds_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT can predict how beds of ... flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ... Sunday, August 20, 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Our bodies are lined on the inside with ...

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New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum

Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Thursday, February 10, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new ... plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ...

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From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars

chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... ; and Jaya Narain, PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the Fluid Interfaces Group in the MIT ...

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Graphene holds up under high pressure

But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... was supported, in part, by the MIT Energy Initiative and the U.S. Department of Energy. Sunday, April ...

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Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing

hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ... says Luca Rosalia, a graduate student in the MIT-Harvard Program in Health Sciences and Technology. ...

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Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions

2024 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Professor Russ Tedrake and a team of researchers have developed ... 1024-Planning-01_0-1.jpg MIT researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid ... that can avoid false positives are typically too slow for robots in the real world. Now, MIT ...

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Team of MechE and CSAIL Students Wins Grand Prize in Maritime RobotX Challenge

Marina Bay, Singapore. The team was comprised of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Students partnered with Olin College of Engineering students to build an unmanned surface vehicle. ... An MIT-Olin team took home the grand prize this October from the 2014 Maritime RobotX Challenge in ...

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Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves

Culture Education International Maker Horizontal Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working ... met Amy Smith, founding director of MIT D-Lab, who introduced her to D-Lab’s method of manufacturing ... the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ...

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Introducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance

future energy leaders by supporting the New Engineering Education Transformation program (NEET) and ... and climate policy, including  funding three master’s students  in MIT Technology and Policy Program ... other MIT consortium programs related to sustainability, automation and robotics, and AI, including the ...

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Materials Research Laboratory: Driving interdisciplinary materials research at MIT

Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE), two institutions that helped lay the foundation for MIT’s global ... Materials research thrives across MIT, spanning disciplines and departments. Recent breakthroughs ... (Department of Materials Science and Engineering); the discovery of unexpected magnetism in atomically thin ...

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Featured video: Pulling drinking water out of thin air

Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International enwang@mit.edu Horizontal Powered only by solar energy, ... ever. The key, according to Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and department head for MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is in the very air we breathe. “Water vapor is all around us in the ...

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How to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand

processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ... options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ... Wednesday, January 18, 2023 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A method developed by ...

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A Renewable Future

mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions to develop new sustainable technologies, ... mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions to develop new sustainable technologies. ... Betar Gallant, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions ...

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Krithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ... The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) has announced that two MIT PhD ... research. The Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellowship for Water Solutions and the J-WAFS Graduate Student Fellowship Program both ...

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New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

practice. MIT engineers are looking to ease CAD’s learning curve with a new AI model that can use CAD ... software. Credit: iStock MIT engineers are looking to ease CAD’s learning curve with an AI model that uses ... version by clicking buttons and file options, similar to how an engineer would use the software. The MIT ...

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Educating Future Naval Leaders

a remote-controlled vessel to complete a series of tasks in the MIT Towing Tank. Ocean Science and Engineering ... Engineering and Naval Ship Design), naval officers and other graduate students get hands-on experience in ... Security Home Page Education Home Graduate News & Media Home Prospective Grad Home ...

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Whitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health

a master’s degree at MIT in 1961, she was the sole woman in the school’s mechanical engineering department. ... Whitehead Institute, she established an MIT-based summer program to introduce female high school students to ... has announced that Brit Jepson d’Arbeloff SM '61 — a pioneering engineer, advocate for women in ...

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New material could make it easier to remove colon polyps

Mechanical Engineering. Monday, July 29, 2019 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship ... study are former MIT postdocs Yan Pang and Jinyao Liu. Other authors include MIT undergraduate Zaina ... Eliminating these early-stage lesions, known as polyps, is the best way to prevent colon cancer from ...

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