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Putting projects at the forefront
all in. She is among MIT’s 45 second-year students engaged in a pilot educational initiative that has ... the potential to re-engineer engineering education. MIT-NEET-1024.jpg Second-year student Albert Go ... Mitchell Guillaume, Michael Everett, and Yu Liang (Gloria) Fang. Photo: Lillie Paquette/MIT School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/putting-projects-forefrontOn the cutting edge
a passion for engineering, the young Denton, Texas, native made it a goal to study engineering at MIT. In ... Winter Olympics, for short-track speedskating. MIT-Student-Malone-1024.jpg “Before I ever wanted to be ... Malone says. The MIT senior studies mechanical engineering and hopes to draw from both his education and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cutting-edgeResearchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
researchers at MIT and elsewhere outlines a roadmap for how this promising technology could move from the ... laboratory to a significant place in the global solar market. MIT-Scaling-Perovskite-1024.jpg Perovskites, ... potential for new kinds of solar cells. A new study from MIT shows how these materials could gain a foothold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cellsGiving robots better moves
That’s what MIT spinoff RightHand Robotics has incorporated into its robotic piece-picking systems, which ... efficiency. MIT-Righthand-robotics-1024.jpg Righthand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent ... a simpler, streamlined process.” Pushing the limit Odhner completed his PhD in the lab of Harry Asada, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-movesAn easier way to remove medical devices
By taking advantage of a phenomenon that leads to fractures in metal, MIT researchers have ... Traverso, the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... Traverso is the senior author of the study, which appears in Advanced Materials. Vivian Feig, an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/easier-way-remove-medical-devices“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ... surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... particles or droplets moving over them. MIT-Active-Surfaces-01.jpg Photo shows a water droplet sitting on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
a fundamental level by researchers at MIT. The underlying process is the same in all of these cases: Layers of ... resulting texture. MIT-Rules-Wrinkles- 1024.jpg Why do layered materials form one kind of wrinkly pattern or ... another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasing2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, ... annual competition for Course 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing), MIT’s popular undergraduate course in ... Bridge, and a Boston Tea Party ship dubbed the H.M.S. Beaver. MIT-2007-Robots-2016_1024.jpg Course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-stylePrintable electronics
MIT-Printed-Electronics-1-1024.jpg MIT researchers have fabricated a stamp made from forests of carbon nanotubes that is able to ... Engineers at MIT have invented a fast, precise printing process that may make such electronic surfaces an ... Technology and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the team’s stamping process should be able to print ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-electronicsUsing light to propel water
A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... separate water from oil at a drilling rig, the researchers say. MIT-pushingwater-1-1024.jpg A new system ... developed by MIT engineers could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-light-propel-waterResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
to explain them. MIT-Lithium-i-1024.jpg This series of photographs shows the chemical reaction that ... Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Now, a team at MIT has carried out detailed tests that seem to resolve the questions ... Environmental Science, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Paula Hammond, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialHow to assess new solar technologies
question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ... by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ... (pink). Credit: Tatsuya Osaki/MIT “We found striking differences between the healthy cells and the ALS ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DProfessor Emeritus T. Francis Ogilvie, former ocean engineering department head, dies at 89
architecture programs educated students. He served as department head for MIT’s Department of Ocean Engineering ... — then known as Course 13 — from 1982 to 1994. t-francis-ogilvie-mit 1024.jpg Born in Atlantic City in ... he resigned from his role at the University of Michigan, and in 1982 he arrived at MIT as professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-t-francis-ogilvie-former-ocean-engineering-department-head-dies-89-0Coatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces
Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... especially among the elderly, the researchers say. MIT-Shoe-Grip-01-PRESS_1024.jpg MIT researchers drew on ... that facilitates an increase of friction with a surface,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesControlling bubble formation on electrodes
bubbles that can block or clog the reactive surfaces. Now, a study at MIT has for the first time analyzed ... described today in the journal Joule, in a paper by MIT visiting scholar Ryuichi Iwata, graduate student ... resistant to blockage by larger bubbles. MIT-Water-Splitting-1024jpg.jpg This image shows the interplay ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-bubble-formation-electrodesFour researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships
Four MIT-affiliated researchers are among 28 around the world to have been named to a competitive ... they undertake.” MIT-SchmidtFellows1024.jpg Left to right: Álvaro Fernández Galiana, Fatima Hussain, ... Photo courtesy of MIT News. Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering. As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-earn-interdisciplinary-schmidt-science-fellowshipsSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
more robustly, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), ... feedback to adjust the position of the robot arm in order to apply the desired force. 1024MIT ... courtesy of MIT CSAIL. This could be useful, for example, for someone using tools when there’s uncertainty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceBreaking through the mucus barrier
a hospital. A new drug capsule developed at MIT may one day be able to replace those injections. The capsule ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... injected. Shriya Srinivasan, a research affiliate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
wear off as the stomach becomes used to the sensation of fullness. To overcome that limitation, MIT ... MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. Neil ... Zixun Jia, who received a PhD from MIT in 2023, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in ...
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