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Robot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ... an MIT spinout based in Quincy, Mass. Energy-saving anchoring Winter first began developing the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsNew surface treatment stops scale buildup
at MIT has come up with a potential solution to this huge but little-recognized problem. A new kind ... Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... to be proven on an industrial scale, the new approach developed by the MIT team could make ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildupBetter batteries through biology?
number of charging-discharging cycles the batteries can withstand. Now, MIT researchers have found that ... area. Belcher, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... and Shao-Horn, the work was carried out by MIT research scientists Jifa Qi and Yong Zhang and postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/better-batteries-through-biologySeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
— a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ... Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaMick Mountz
When a handful of MIT graduates get together to solve a problem, amazing things can happen – in ... were roommates as MechE undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) ... Mick_Mountz 1024 copy.jpg “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company – we created the business about 15 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mick-mountzThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
China Sea, are produced. The new findings come from a team effort involving MIT and several other ... Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... la Recherche in France, and the MIT-France Program. Tuesday, January 7, 2014 David L. Chandler, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-powerOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ... and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-iceSolving the polar climate conundrum
may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better understanding of the elemental ... the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT, and his group investigated this phenomenon ... explain why the Arctic has warmed faster than the Antarctic. In MIT computer simulations of the ocean and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-polar-climate-conundrumBroadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ... founding SCOPE investigators, along with others at MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the ... of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the past 10 years, recently ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/broadening-scope-microbial-oceanographyStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT ... Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... by the Office of Naval Research, the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, and the National ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsArtificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... object’s path, its size, and even its shape. Michael Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor in MIT ... Naval Research, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and the MIT Sea Grant program. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-whisker-reveals-source-harbor-seal%E2%80%99s-uncanny-prey-sensing-ability-0Alumni Spotlight: John Wall (SB, SM ’75, ScD ’78) and Jennifer Rumsey (SM ’98)
to be up until his retirement from Cummins just this past October – the MIT educational counselor for ... engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, Leroy returned to his job at Chevron Research in San Francisco,” ... Wall, in his role as MIT educational counselor, first saw Rumsey’s technical capability and interest. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-john-wall-sb-sm-%E2%80%9975-scd-%E2%80%9978-and-jennifer-rumsey-sm-%E2%80%9998Alumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... when he received a fellowship from the Legatum Center at MIT to develop a technology-based business in ... research and development performed at MIT and Gradiant. CGE is less expensive and less complex than ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
managed by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, is in its second year. Like direct ... Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Professor, says that MIT faculty continue to devise ... “Commercializing effective technologies with sound business models is one of MIT’s most effective mechanisms to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishMethod may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ... which require patients to travel long distances,” says former MIT postdoc Mohammad Qasaimeh. “Capturing ... co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesWater, water everywhere … even in the air
MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ... including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... humidity of 100 percent, explains Wang, who is the Gail E. Kendall Professor at MIT. But such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... explored for applications in electronics, Piran Kidambi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... reporting the technology, published today in Advanced Materials. Six co-authors are from MIT, including ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... MIT have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. The framework ... at MIT. “We have applied this framework to turbulent fluid flows, which are the Holy Grail of extreme ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsA new way to mix oil and water
researchers at MIT might turn that expression on its head, providing a way to get the two substances to mix ... the proportion of surfactant. The findings, by MIT graduate student Ingrid Guha, former postdoc ... down wells are also emulsions, Varanasi says. The work was supported by the MIT Energy Initiative, the ...
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