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How to get conductive gels to stick when wet

moisture from the body. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way of getting conductive polymer gels ... in a paper by MIT doctoral student Hyunwoo Yuk, former visiting scholar Akihisa Inoue, postdoc ... are limited to specific materials. Instead, the MIT team focused on making the fewest changes ...

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Racing into the future of autonomous driving

students. Zhang and her teammates from MIT Driverless — working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center ... Delft; then, programmers at MIT wrote algorithms that would replace its human driver. Together, the two ... benefits of driverless cars, as well as offering teams like MIT Driverless an opportunity to tackle the ...

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Energy storage from a chemistry perspective

storage from a chemistry perspective. Co-founders Ian Hunter of MIT's Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... MIT home at one point or another. “The ideas that we work on in the lab, you’ll see turned into ...

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A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water

Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ... technologies that can scale.” The research team included others at MIT, Stockholm University in Sweden, SLAC ...

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Building a better indoor herb garden

Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at  the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ... was on the MIT Motorsports team and MIT Electric Vehicle Team. He learned how to use the CNC machines ...

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Unlocking new science with devices that control electric power

Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... coauthored with MIT research affiliate Ehsan Haghighat, Seron’s equipment provided constant power to ...

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Microscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections

images fuzzy. In an open access paper in Scientific Reports, a collaboration of MIT engineers and ... Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and MIT’s departments of Biology ... of mechanical engineering and biological engineering at MIT. Newer single-line and the mosTF systems ...

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Creating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way

verifying Lyapunov conditions didn’t scale well to complex machines. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ... formal guarantees that are crucial for safety-critical systems,” says Lujie Yang, MIT electrical ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, vice president of robotics research at TRI, ...

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Knitted microtissue can accelerate healing

MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Mechanical Engineering Group. "That's why if you stretch your ... from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the laboratory's  Defense Fabric Discovery Center ... collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ...

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Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction

mechanical engineering at MIT, and his team in the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab), are at the ... resources,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, in a video discussing his ... capabilities for assessing the scale of impact. Today, his MIT Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab) is at ...

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For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)

paper, and make sketches, and write down key calculations in order to be creative,” says MIT professor of ... problems across different domains,” says Trumper. “MIT students tend to have seen lots of math and lots of ... Trumper has been teaching 2.737 (Mechatronics) since he joined the MIT faculty in the early 1990s. ...

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How engineering students are seeking to solve major food and water security problems

exchanged between producer and seller? Seven MIT graduate students studying food and water security issues ... presented their research and preliminary findings on issues such as these during the MIT Water and Food ... Security Student Symposium held on Nov. 21. Hosted by the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental ...

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Teaching mechanical engineering in a pandemic

history. Well before MIT announced its plans for fall semester in early July, faculty and teaching staff ... housemates, or in the dorms.”  Like Hanumara and the 2.75 teaching team, faculty and staff across MIT have had ... nature of many mechanical engineering classes posed a unique challenge for faculty and staff in MIT ...

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The answer may be blowing in the wind

offshore wind by 2030 — enough to power 10 million homes. At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Spring Symposium, ... R&D advances Moderating a panel on MIT research that is moving the industry forward, Robert Stoner, ... and socially acceptable connections to the onshore grid. MIT scientists described how they are ...

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Coloring outside the lines

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... engineering at MIT, is inspired by butterfly wings and clams when making his color-changing fibers and ... After three years in her group, Kolle applied for a position that happened to open up in MIT ...

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A simpler method for learning to control a robot

Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that ... 1024Azizan.jpg Researchers from MIT and Stanford University created a machine-learning method that can derive ... despite being buffeted by strong winds. Image: MIT News, with figures from iStock “The focus of our work ...

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Leading business past dollars and cents

aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program ... Copy of Copy of 3.jpg At a recent panel discussion hosted by the MIT Leaders for Global Operations, ... her experience in the MIT LGO program strengthened her voice. Knowing she became successful by ...

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Designing a revolution

a political third way,” says Eden Medina, an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Society, Technology, and ... Covarrubias. After three years of collaboration between MIT and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ... says Medina. Student support The project involved MIT graduate students from the Department of ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Steven Dubowsky

Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and serves as director of ... simulations and in our laboratory at MIT, such academic work cannot truly reveal all the challenges of using ... East, and Australia. This project was a far more challenging experience. Our team included MIT students ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Atlas Devices

Mallinson   MechE alumni Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05) entered the MIT ... an issue. In fact, one of our earliest sales was actually to MIT for that purpose: the Department of ... MIT certainly fosters an interest in entrepreneurship and shows the students that it’s a career option ...

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