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Hybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half
a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... emissions for a given amount of power produced. The concept, proposed by MIT doctoral student Katherine Ong ... system proposed by MIT researchers. At the bottom, steam (pink arrows) passes through pulverized coal, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-system-could-cut-coal-plant-emissions-halfProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) program at MIT. John H. Lienhard V, the Abdul Latif ... the program has received and funded grant proposals from all five of MIT’s schools, provided 24 seed ... a multimillion dollar award for a project on food safety and supply chains, led by MIT Sloan School of Management ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-make-inroads-global-food-and-water-challengesNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... which is the basis for a startup company called Infinite Cooling that last month won MIT’s $100K ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsMagnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with ... Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... Nature. His co-authors include Yoonho Kim, Hyunwoo Yuk, and Ruike Zhao of MIT, and Shawn Chester of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “If we could design a device to reverse blood ... hope.” Zhao and his team, including lead author Yoonho Kim, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsHow strong is your knot?
what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now. MIT ... whether a knot is strong or not,” says Jörn Dunkel, associate professor of mathematics at MIT. “With this ... adds Mathias Kolle, the Rockwell International Career Development Associate Professor at MIT. “And now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsArtificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
changes wrought by the virus. MIT researchers have now found that people who are asymptomatic may differ ... a factory, or a restaurant,” says co-author Brian Subirana, a research scientist in MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. ... Subirana’s co-authors are Jordi Laguarta and Ferran Hueto, of MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. New AI model ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-model-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections-through-cellphoneCustom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ... replica of a patient’s heart. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT. The procedure involves first converting medical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/custom-3d-printed-heart-replicas-look-and-pump-just-real-thingNew purification method could make protein drugs cheaper
which help them to form protein crystals. Courtesy of the Researchers, colorized by MIT News. In an ... effort to help reduce those costs, MIT engineers have devised a new way to perform this kind of ... formation at low concentrations,” says Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-purification-method-could-make-protein-drugs-cheaperInvisible tagging system enhances 3D object tracking
could lead you to dangerous links and viruses. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and ... counterparts,” says MIT CSAIL and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD candidate Mustafa ... BrightMarker is just the beginning,” says MIT CSAIL visiting researcher Raúl García-Martín, who is doing his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/invisible-tagging-system-enhances-3d-object-trackingNew 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste
Researchers from MIT and Delft University of Technology have now introduced a more efficient, less wasteful, ... MIT and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Doğan ... graduate student at MIT; and Jose Martinez Castro of TU Delft. The research will be presented at the ACM ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-technique-creates-unique-objects-quickly-and-less-wasteNew electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... easier to integrate,” Xinyuan Zhang, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ... films. Their results are reported today in a paper appearing in the journal Nature. The study’s MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9D-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glassesA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Iowa have ... cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy. Image: iStock; MIT News When the researchers ... mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso and James ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapyRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
help a human is an even thornier exercise. Now, MIT roboticists have a way to cut through the data ... a novel Relevance framework developed at MIT, the robot identifies and prioritizes objects in the scene to ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “A robot wouldn’t have to ask a human so many questions about what they need. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansRooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience
stress on the grid, MIT engineers say. An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can harness our smart dishwashers, ... grid.” The study’s MIT co-authors include lead author Vineet Nair and John Williams, along with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceMicrofluidics and nanofluidics research address global challenges
Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, addresses real-world ... July 22, 2014 John Freidah | Mechanical engineering green International karnik@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-and-nanofluidics-research-address-global-challengesNewly tenured engineers
tenure by MIT. “Each of these faculty members exemplify the best of MIT,” says Ian A. Waitz, dean of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/newly-tenured-engineersSchool of Engineering awards for 2017
engineering education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering’s five other academic ... the MIT Sloan School of Management who inspires students in pursuing and achieving excellence. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2017In it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students
research, the pressure to reach academic milestones, and the management of life outside MIT can tax even the ... explore problems, but in their words, “carve our own path toward a solution.” A lecturer in MITs D-Lab, ... a group meeting on sexual harassment, Olsen encouraged the group to come up with ways to make MIT more ...
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