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A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water

Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A new, inexpensive catalyst, developed by Yang Shao ... Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... abundant components. The family of materials allows engineers to precisely tune the catalyst’s structure ...

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Office of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners

This year, undergraduate students taking 2.013 (Engineering Systems Design) and 2.014 (Engineering ... Mechanical Engineering installed an electrified, water-catching dome structure over the steam plumes of MIT ... Anderson in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and now overseen by MIT Research Scientist Jeremy ...

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Working out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle

of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ... as in engineering applications such as soft robots,” Zhao says. Other MIT authors on the paper ... their own creations. They’re strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. A new study by MIT ...

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Infinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition

Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ... Austin, Texas, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).   Infinite-Cooling ... wins-DOE-CleanTech-UP-MIT-1024.jpg Left to right: Infinite Cooling researchers graduate student Karim Khalil, associate professor of ...

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Study: There’s real skill in fantasy sports

sports,” says Anette “Peko” Hosoi, associate dean of engineering at MIT. “We ask, does that skill have an ... research was supported, in part, by FanDuel. Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... of your league’s standings at the end of the season, a new MIT study suggests your performance ...

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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 ...

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Sophia 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 ...

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Ingestible 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 ...

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Inaugural 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 ...

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Motion-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 ...

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To 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 ...

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Professors 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 ...

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Four researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships

Photo courtesy of MIT News. Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering. As ... I have gained at MIT at the interface of physics and engineering to a new discipline.” In her doctoral ... MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, advised by Anantha Chandrakasan, the ...

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How 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 ...

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International 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 ...

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From 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 ...

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High-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet

Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A model developed by researchers, ... such as vaccines through skin without using needles. MIT-Bubble-Jet-1024.jpg New study on water jets ...

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Glassy 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 ...

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Startup 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 ...

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Using “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 ...

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