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Slowing the Spread
stop the spread of the virus. An air of uncertainty descended on MIT’s campus in early March. Whispers ... Within days, the Infinite Corridor’s usual stream of activity and noise was silenced. While MIT’s dorms ... Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spread3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
several books, as well as in classes and workshops at MIT and around the country, and an online class on ... MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ... engineers, Frankel is also a consultant to the MIT News Office. She spoke with MIT News about some of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceVibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
sometimes jiggling the key a bit will help. Now, new research from MIT suggests that coronaviruses, ... cell wall so it can hijack the cell’s reproductive mechanisms. MIT-COVID-Spikes-02-PRESS.jpg New ... research at MIT shows that vibrations of the protein spikes on coronaviruses, including the one that causes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vibrations-coronavirus-proteins-may-play-role-infectionA new way to irrigate crops year-round
lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ... farmers. “We didn’t create this fancy technology at MIT and then think about where it was applicable,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ... windows and lasts up to a decade longer. MIT-Thermal-Control-1024.jpg The visual and thermal properties of ... performance and is promising enough to start commercializing,” says Strobach, who is a PhD Candidate in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsWith a zap of light, system switches objects’ colors and patterns
light. MIT researchers have developed a way to rapidly update imagery on object surfaces. The system, ... through prototypes without getting bogged down with painting or printing. MIT ... have been possible before,” says Michael Wessley, the study’s lead author and a postdoc in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/zap-light-system-switches-objects%E2%80%99-colors-and-patternsA New Era in 3D Printing
hundred years later, a new type of printing was invented in the labs of MIT. Emanuel Sachs, professor of ... layer by layer. Feature Images_01 1024.jpg Each component of this three-piece assembly of MIT’s Building ... Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Ideation Laboratory. “It gives you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
MIT_Lithium-Metal-Batteries1024.jpg X-ray tomography images taken at Brookhaven National Lab show cracking of a particle in one ... of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found a novel electrolyte that overcomes these problems and ... sacrificing the cycle life. The research is reported today in the journal Nature Energy in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteriesMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
road with. MIT-Heng-Yang-1024.jpg Safety concerns have clouded the future of fully autonomous vehicles. ... To accelerate their progress, MIT graduate student Heng “Hank” Yang and colleagues have developed ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionHow much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?
materials is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ... You can submit your own question to Ask MIT Climate here. Original Article from Ask MIT Climate ... Professor Yang Shao-Horn spends time with Ask MIT Climate answering the question: How much CO2 is emitted by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteriesTalking Shop: David Hardt SM ’75 PhD ‘78
class 2.830, Control of Manufacturing Processes. Credit: John Freidah Hardt joined the faculty in MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and later served as Director of the MIT Laboratory for ... of the “Leaders for Manufacturing” (now LGO) program between Sloan School of Management and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-david-hardt-sm-%E2%80%9975-phd-%E2%80%9878Processing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
MIT spinoff Takachar converts agricultural waste into clean-burning fuel, and wins Earthshot ... on a billion-dollar global market — through his MIT spinoff company, Takachar. Takaxhar1024.jpg After ... and wasting potentially valuable resources. The MIT spinoff company Takachar is providing technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsVijay Vaitheeswaran ’90: Engineer, economist, editor
engineering.” This kind of thinking is something MIT fosters extremely well, Vaitheeswaran says, by encouraging ... MIT and beyond, the people I’ve seen who have had the most impact are the ones who, even as they’re ... attended MIT were some of the first when a big push was taking place for students to enroll in humanities, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vijay-vaitheeswaran-%E2%80%9990-engineer-economist-editorCleaning up industrial filtration
in industrial use. Via Separations, a startup that emerged from MIT in 2017, has set out to address ... MITEI Seed Grant The story of Via Separations begins in 2012, when the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) ... Family Professor in Environmental Systems and head of MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-industrial-filtrationEdward Burnell
a graduate student in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering where he works in the Ideation Lab ... his place at MIT Burnell, who also has a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT, didn’t expect to ... around him — a finished bicycle, cup, or piece of furniture. As an undergraduate at MIT, however, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/edward-burnellMIT Hyperloop
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: MIT Hyperloop Teaser Text: MIT students head to the SpaceX ... frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT students head to the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition with ... a concept pod, and a vision for the future of transportation. The MIT Hyperloop Team will be firing their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloopMechE Connects Spring 2024: News and Awards
QS World University Rankings honored MIT with a number one ranking in the subject area of Mechanical, ... direct-drive, skill transfer, and wearable systems. Ellen Roche received MIT’s annual Harold E. Edgerton Faculty ... was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2023. Peko Hosoi received MIT’s Earll M. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-connects-spring-2024-news-and-awardsHugh Herr
sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Herr is building sophisticated devices ... were amputated below the knees. Hugh Herr 1024.jpg Photo courtesy of MIT Media Lab. “It’s alarming to ... a crack. After graduating from Millersville University, Herr came to MIT, where he completed a master’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hugh-herrWe Are MechE at MIT
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: We Are MechE at MIT Teaser Text: What’s so unique about ... the MIT MechE spirit? Hear it straight from our students and faculty in this short video. <iframe ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NWeP8uP-qA What’s so unique about the MIT MechE spirit? Hear it straight from our students and faculty in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/we-are-meche-mitMIT named No. 4 university by U.S. News for 2021
is No. 2. U.S. News and World Report has placed MIT fourth in its annual rankings of the nation’s ... Yale University. MIT’s engineering program continues to top the magazine’s list of undergraduate ... disciplines. No other institution is No. 1 in more than two disciplines. MIT also remains the No. ...
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