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Powered by the sun

On a recent April afternoon, MIT sophomore Francis Wang drove out of the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 ... late nights in the student shop. Flux-on-road-in-Georgia 1024.jpg In January, Flux and the MIT Solar ... Electric Vehicle Team went on a road-testing trip in Georgia. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric ...

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Let it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof

researchers can find safe substitutes. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a promising solution: a coating ... Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Kripa Varanasi and Karen Gleason, former MIT postdoc Dan Soto, and ... ones most in use. What this MIT team did, Varanasi explains, is to combine two things: a shorter-chain ...

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Acoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells

MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using ... different types of cellular processes,” says Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT ... departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ...

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J-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture

MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have ... and food systems to MIT’s innovation ecosystem through the J-WAFS Solutions grant program. The program ... provides one-year, renewable, commercialization grants aimed to support MIT principal ...

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

In early October, the MIT International Design Center and the MIT Edgerton Center hosted a panel ... 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; ...

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Accelerating the pace of engineering

company sold its very first order — 10 copies of its first product, MATLAB — to MIT. Decades later, ... engineers across MIT and around the world consistently rely on MathWorks products to accelerate the pace of ... and MIT’s digital learning efforts across campus, including the Department of Mathematics, one of the ...

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Synthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion

By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ... Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... Junwei Li, a postdoc at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the lead author of the ...

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Smart laser cutter system detects different materials

naked eye, scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up ... commonly found in workshops and reduce overall waste,” says Mustafa Doga Dogan, PhD candidate at MIT CSAIL. ... researchers Steven Acevedo Colon and Varnika Sinha in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and ...

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What drives ecosystems to instability?

communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ... a professor of physics at MIT. “We can trace out a boundary that predicts the loss of stability and the onset ... Science. Jiliang Hu, an MIT graduate student, is the lead author of the paper. Other authors include Daniel ...

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Can your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?

study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ... accelerometer data,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Sensable City Laboratory and co-author of a new paper ... MIT; and Ratti, who is also professor of the practice in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and ...

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Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications

a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used ... says Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Engineering and a professor in MIT ... Amherst, and Emre Tekoğlu and Alexander O’Brien, both of MIT. Li, who is also affiliated with the Materials ...

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School of Engineering awards for 2023

Each year, the MIT School of Engineering honors outstanding faculty, students, and staff across ... the following members of the engineering community at MIT as winners of its 2023 awards. Faculty and ... education at MIT.” This year’s recipients include: Kevin Chen, the D. Reid Weedon, Jr. Assistant Professor ...

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Making life friendlier with personal robots

Alghowinem says she dreamed of coming to MIT one day to develop Arabic-based technologies, and of creating ... MIT as a postdoc with the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women, which is housed in the MIT ... the founder of the Personal Robots Group (PRG) and the social robot startup Jibo Inc., MIT Professor ...

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New model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together

they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ... predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... absorbability of new drugs by adding excipients that enhance their interactions with transporters. Former MIT ...

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“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"

Dhawan Willeman, an MIT graduate student studying maritime shipping and innovation. “A ship is so huge ... engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... shipbuilding at MIT starting in 1971. With support from the American Bureau of Shipping, Willeman and Marcus ...

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Welcome to the “most wicked” apprentice program on campus

fellow apprentice Jade Durham. The mold was made using CNC machining. (Aditya Mehrotra/MIT MechE) ... at the MIT Museum. This spring will focus on copper alloys and fabrication of a replica of an 1899 ... sloops, designed by MIT Class of 1870 alumnus  Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for wealthy New York Yacht Club ...

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Searching for Global Water and Food Solutions

issues need complex solutions, and, for that, MIT has created the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food ... approach, coupled with MIT’s unique capabilities, that will set the lab apart and bring innovative solutions ... provide MIT is having a clear presence in solving global food needs. The impact of population growth is ...

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Running on Waste Heat

change, thanks to thermoelectric innovators such as MIT’s Gang Chen. Thermoelectric materials convert ... of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, used nanotechnology to ... — including Institute Professor Emeritus Mildred Dresselhaus at MIT — began using nanotechnology to ...

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Climbing the ‘power ascension’ market

Since MIT spinout Atlas Devices’ flagship product, the Atlas Powered Rope Ascender (APA), first ... — which began as a prototype for MIT’s Soldier Design Competition in 2005 — has a handle with direction ... rope-grabbing mechanism, invented primarily by Ball, who won the 2007 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his work ...

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System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat

a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a way to generate ... a paper by MIT graduate student Lin Zhao, MIT Professor Evelyn Wang, MIT Professor Gang Chen, and 10 ... others at MIT and IIT Bombay. The key to the new system is the use of optically transparent aerogel, ...

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