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To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays

MIT engineers have found that one filter feeder has evolved to sift food in ways that could improve ... ray’s gills. The MIT team has shown that the dimensions of these plates may allow for incoming plankton ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled ...

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MIT engineering students crack egg dilemma, finding sideways is stronger

repeated in pop-science videos: An egg is strongest when dropped vertically, on its ends. But when MIT ... first-year orientation in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “Every year we follow ... the data — it was really unclear.” MITStudentResearch_DynamicTesting1024.jpg MIT engineering students ...

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2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT Teaser Text:  In this ...

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Eleven MIT faculty receive Presidential Early Career Awards

Eleven MIT faculty, including nine from the School of Engineering and two from the School of ... 15 additional MIT alumni were also honored.  Established in 1996 by President Bill Clinton, the ... Bottom row, left to right: Ritu Raman, Ellen Roche, and Justin Wilkerson. The MIT faculty and alumni ...

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MIT students hack assistive technology solutions for local clients

During the event this spring, MIT students develop technological solutions to problems faced by Greater ... a technology that suits those needs," says MIT graduate student Jaya Narain, who co-directed the event ... assistance from several mentors: John Vivilecchia, Kurt Krueger, and Richard Landry of MIT Lincoln ...

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MIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing

of a new MIT spinout — Xibus Systems — that is aiming to make a splash in the food industry with ... the technology, based on MIT research, was supported by two commercialization grants through the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ...

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MIT engineers introduce the Oreometer

stressed. MIT engineers have now subjected the sandwich cookie to rigorous materials tests to get to the ... which turns out to be really hard,” says Max Fan, an undergraduate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... before putting the second wafer on top,” says Crystal Owens, an MIT mechanical engineering PhD candidate ...

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MIT class journeys to fascinating places where mechanical engineering affects biology

Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, co-teaches 2.788 with Mathias Kolle, the ... Rockwell Career Development Professor and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... also is actively involved by setting the bigger framing of the field and research at MIT in his guest ...

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Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves

A team of researchers at MIT and a spinoff company they launched has developed a system to do just that. ... a paper by recent MIT alumni Vishnu Jayaprakash PhD ’22 and Sreedath Panat PhD ’23, graduate student Simon ... Rufer, and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. A recent study  found that if farmers ...

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Two from MIT named to Popular Science's Brilliant 10 list

Popular Science magazine has named two MIT junior faculty members — Pedro Reis and Feng Zhang — to ... list. Ten MIT researchers were included on previous lists. Monday, September 16, 2013 Charles Jennings ...

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