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Alumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)
in the movie, R2-D2, stole Greiner’s heart and inspired her to apply to MIT to learn how to build ... Rodney Brooks, former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ... conjunction with US News & World Report and Innovator for the Next Century by MIT Technology Review. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-helen-greiner-sb-%E2%80%9989-sm-%E2%80%9990Hydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Foundation. Monday, November 9, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red zhaox@mit.edu Horizontal Xuanhe Zhao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
finale one of MIT’s most-anticipated annual events. Arguably exceeding expectations, this year’s finale ... Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who has been blind since age ... 2015 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red Education Maker DRWALLAC@MIT.EDU Horizontal The theme for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsLearning to Solve
experience. Taking a deep dive into a single problem, participants work under the supervision of an MIT ... say, ‘only at MIT,’ SuperUROP is exactly what we are talking about,” adds Waitz. In fact, nearly 90 ... percent of undergraduate students participate in research during their time at MIT, a hallmark of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-solveRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office sapsis@MIT.EDU Horizontal Themis Sapsis developed a new prediction tool that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
fixing leaks. An MIT Tata Center fellow and Deshpande Center grantee, Swaminathan is developing a modular ... engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ... could work, then conducted several experiments to prove its viability. “After coming to MIT, I’ve done ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-jaichander-swaminathan-sm-14Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Skoltech-MIT Center for Electrochemical Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutter3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... include former MIT postdoc Qi Ge, along with lead author Qiming Wang of the University of Southern ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedRe-engineering the sprinkler
A team of MIT engineers has described a novel way of controlling the flow of water in flexible ... a former postdoc at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design who is now a postdoc at the University of ... conserve resources.” Wang co-authored the paper with three researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/re-engineering-sprinklerMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
friction. A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could offer a new way of making movable parts with ... Physics Letters, co-authored by Daniel Preston, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall ... research team included MIT graduate students Ariel Anders and Yangying Zhu, Research Affiliate Banafsheh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-droplets3-D printing with cellulose
paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... materials. “Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian ... extrude. Instead, the MIT team chose to work with cellulose acetate — a material that is easily made from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-celluloseScientists make microscopes from droplets
Researchers at MIT have now devised tiny “microlenses” from complex liquid droplets comparable in size to the ... Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... microlenses to do imaging in a way people have not done yet,” Kolle says. Kolle’s MIT co-authors are graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsMapping the effects of crystal defects
MIT has been able to learn important details about how those interactions work, which could inform ... unsolved. Now, the MIT team has found a new mathematical approach to analyzing such systems, using a new ... included Zhiwei Ding, Jiawei Zhou, and Professor Hong Liu at MIT, and Qingping Meng and Yimei Zhu at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-effects-crystal-defectsJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentResearchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-%E2%80%9Ciron-out%E2%80%9D-graphene%E2%80%99s-wrinklesWearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
tables or chairs, or determine whether a chair is already occupied. Researchers from MIT’s Computer ... engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ... a postdoc at MIT when the work was done and is now an assistant professor of electrical and computer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wearable-system-helps-visually-impaired-users-navigateTurning emissions into fuel
MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ... chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. The new membrane-based system was developed by MIT ... PhD 1024.jpg XiaoYu Wu pictured with the reactor his team used for the research. MIT researchers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuelStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ... prototypes. The 2.009 final presentation has become a seminal event each year at MIT. For the past 22 years, ... FireSense. The yellow team simulated a search and rescue team’s efforts on MIT’s campus, providing a live ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersStudents demonstrate "calculated imagination" in robot competition
competition has become a seminal event in MIT’s academic calendar. Spearheaded by Professor Emeritus Woodie ... members of the MIT community cheered as the 32 students were whittled down to the final two: Erika Mynio ... omnidirectional wheels to navigate the gameboard’s tight spaces. As a member of MIT’s Combat Robotics Club, Massie ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-demonstrate-calculated-imagination-robot-competitionDepartment of Mechanical Engineering announces new leadership team
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor, who began her role as head of MIT’s Department of ... discoveries.” Lermusiaux joined MIT as associate professor in 2007 after serving as a research associate at ... since 2014. He has served on many MechE and institute committees and is also active in MIT-Woods Hole ...
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