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Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... demand due to energy storage,” says Richard Roth, director of MIT’s Materials Systems Laboratory. While ... receiving seed funding from MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), Peacock was able to apply his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningA data-driven response to a pandemic
elections — and has raised difficult questions about MIT’s capacity to reopen in the fall. To help ... policymakers at MIT and beyond make informed decisions, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) has ... information to impact policymaking.” The I DS S C O VID-19 col la bor at ion (Isolat) consists of MIT faculty, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-response-pandemicPanel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future
Five speakers at a recent public panel discussion hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and ... engineering at MIT, moderated the panel discussion. She said that achieving the ambitious net-zero goal “has ... these needs, she said the five topics chosen for the panel discussion were “places where MIT has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/panel-addresses-technologies-needed-net-zero-futureA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
chemotherapy they receive. To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with an ... 1024-Closed-Loop-Chemo-01-press_0.jpg To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with a way to continuously ... engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapyPioneering the future of materials extraction
facing Brendan Smith PhD ’18, co-founder and CEO of SiTration, a startup formed out of MIT’s Department ... based on work done at MIT to develop a novel type of membrane made from silicon, which is durable enough ... technology. After years of study under Grossman’s mentorship, and with support from several MIT incubators and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-future-materials-extractionDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
refrigeration. To address this challenge, an MIT research team funded by a 2019 seed grant from the Abdul Latif ... MIT principal investigators are leading this effort: Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenyaTough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
Now engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a technique that ... Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ... with biological functions,” Zhao says. The paper’s lead author is MIT graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outBold research visions recognized and rewarded
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 ... and current awardees, hosted by MIT President L. Rafael Reif. Bose Grants are awarded to support ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bold-research-visions-recognized-and-rewardedEngineers design color-changing compression bandage
condition. Now engineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into ... around a patient’s leg. color-changing compression_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT have developed ... of mechanical engineering at MIT. “These fibers can provide information about the pressure that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-color-changing-compression-bandageSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... a postdoc at MIT. “You could scale this up to something that could be used in remote climates to generate ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamStudents present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact
participating in poster sessions for the first time, the events can be daunting. RS3592_2019 MERE 1024.jpg MIT ... Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are working to remove the intimidation ... the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which was held on Oct. 11 in MIT’s student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-mechanical-engineering-projects-have-global-impactFostering forward momentum
Management, a professor of work and employment research, and the co-director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work ... and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on updating ... Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, where she develops innovative computational models and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fostering-forward-momentumFor cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better
researchers at MIT and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have outlined a pathway to slashing ... detailed in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by MIT postdoc Zhe Liu, ... professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-betterFaithfully supporting well-being
Transportation Planning at MIT, Zhao founded and directs the JTL Urban Mobility Lab. He brings behavioral science ... diversity are attributes Zhao works hard to develop in the Urban Mobility Lab. In under seven years at MIT ... member of his lab is paramount to Youcef-Toumi. Kamal 1024.jpg Professor Youcef-Toumi joined the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faithfully-supporting-well-beingNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, are the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentEngineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made ... Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Imagine connecting a neuromorphic device to ... through an image processing task, programming the memristors to alter an image, in this case of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-put-tens-thousands-artificial-brain-synapses-single-chipEngineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they ... much less N95 material than a traditional N95 mask. mask_1024.jpg Researchers at MIT and Brigham and ... restrict ourselves to methods that could scale,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskInnovations in water accessibility
her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... point, Klise had focused on medical devices throughout her undergraduate experience at MIT. Concerned ... individual glasses. Last fall, she worked as a student researcher for MIT Sea Grant, helping develop an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovations-water-accessibilityBuilding robots to expand access to cell therapies
founded by Fred Parietti PhD ’16 and former visiting PhD at MIT Alice Melocchi, is hoping to bring the ... startup came from Melocchi, who was a visiting PhD candidate in MIT’s chemical engineering department in ... 2013 and 2014. Melocchi had been creating drugs by hand in the MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
(LEES) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), ... MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of ... investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ...
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