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An inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight

.  Monday, December 2, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Giovanni ... limitation.” The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Karl van Tassel Career ... Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and the Boston University Yawkey Funded Internship Program ...

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For cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better

professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ... was partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and by a Total Energy Fellowship through the MIT ... Energy Initiative. Saturday, January 25, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture ...

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MIT Hyperloop team competes in SpaceX global competition

Freidah/Department of Mechanical Engineering | 3 min, 7 sec Tuesday, January 24, 2017 MIT News Office Collaboration ... Jan. 27-29, followed by a final competition this summer. MIT’s team of 28 students was awarded Best ... The MIT team includes students concentrating in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, electrical ...

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The environmental toll of disposable masks

Program, the National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ... which is disposable masks. Photo Courtesy of MIT News, Stock Photo. Throughout the pandemic, hospitals ... to protect you and others.” The research was funded by the MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities ...

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2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style

annual competition for Course 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing), MIT’s popular undergraduate course in ... Chu | MIT News Office Culture Education Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal 2.007 robots battle it out ... before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, ...

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Dexter Ang

change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... MIT through the Advanced Study Program. Ang enrolled in classes at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, ... limitless ways. We’re not going to bottleneck that.” Zach Winn MIT News Office Thursday, February 18, 2021 ...

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Bold research visions recognized and rewarded

McCarthy | MIT News correspondent Horizontal ... Since 2013, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has been supporting MIT faculty with big, ... bold, and unconventional research visions. In the latest round of grants, four proposals from six MIT ...

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Design’s new frontier

thesis in 1963, MIT professor Ivan Sutherland developed Sketchpad, a game-changing software program that ... sparked a second revolution in design engineering. Researchers and faculty at MIT’s Department of ... MIT’s Design Computation & Digital Engineering Lab (DeCoDE) use an AI-driven design method that can ...

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Adventures in the Pappalardo Lab

calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space. In about 2010, working as a principal and ... Daniel Braunstein, director of the Pappalardo Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories, found his ... director of mechanical engineering at Continuum, a global innovation firm, Daniel Braunstein says he felt ...

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Microfluidics from LEGO bricks

EAGER/Cybermanufacturing Program. Monday, January 29, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture Maker ... MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of ... mechanical engineering at MIT.   Indeed, LEGO bricks are manufactured so consistently that no matter where in ...

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Derek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing

drones, and breath monitors. He earned a master's of engineering in manufacturing degree at MIT ... engineers' minds to AM designs and the functions they can enable. Last year, 39 percent of hardware programs ... by layer, in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's additive manufacturing (AM) machines. They were also ...

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Designing off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya

Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ... a research engineer at MIT D-Lab. They are also collaborating with researchers at the University of Nairobi ... them at the best price is a balancing act. If crops aren’t sold early enough, they wilt or ripen too ...

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Hybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half

News Office ghoniem@mit.edu Horizontal Coal-gasification and fuel-cell hybrid system could cut ... a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... emissions for a given amount of power produced. The concept, proposed by MIT doctoral student Katherine Ong ...

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Making 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper

“That’s a big aspect of what we’re working on.” Thursday, May 4, 2017 Rob Matheson | MIT News Office ... designs are manually programmed into the printer, and each finished part is manually removed before ... handles all prints, which can be expensive. Now MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to ...

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Temperature difference propels droplets

mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... devices.” The work was supported by the MIT France program and the Swiss National Science Foundation. ... Thursday, October 13, 2016 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Kripa Varanasi ...

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Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?

part, by the Draper Fellow Program. Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Daniel Ackerman | MIT News Office ... sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... Beckwith is lead author and a PhD student in mechanical engineering. Coauthors are Beckwith’s co-advisors ...

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Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition

Mechanical Engineering. “Over the course of six years of research and development at MIT, we’ve overcome ... as part of his ongoing PhD in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Finally, the audience ... $30 billion a year.”   Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Zach Winn | MIT News Horizontal CoFlo Medical’s ...

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MIT plays key role in statewide effort to produce PPE

engineer Michael Rein PhD ’17, and CEO Sasha Stolyarov, who has worked at MIT for more than a decade, ... Palmer with MIT's Industrial Liaison Program (ILP). Within minutes, Palmer replied that he would ... tackle those problems.” Tuesday, June 9, 2020 Zach Winn | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture ...

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Overcoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion

Initiative. Tuesday, January 11, 2022 David Chandler | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT researchers led by Kripa ... a power plant or other emissions sources. Now, researchers at MIT have identified, quantified, and modeled ... conversion systems, were published today in the journal Langmuir, in a paper by MIT postdoc Álvaro Moreno ...

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