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Drive-By Heat Mapping

roads around the world. Now MIT spinout Essess is bringing similar “drive-by” innovations to energy ... co-founder Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical Engineering ... Kinetic Super Resolution — co-invented with Sarma and MIT postdoc Jonathan Jesneck — that computationally ...

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Pills of the future: nanoparticles

far. Now, researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have developed a new type of ... Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... former MIT grad student Eric Pridgen and former BWH postdoc Frank Alexis, and the senior author is Omid ...

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Ingestible sensor could help doctors pinpoint GI difficulties

Engineers at MIT and Caltech have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ... (25).jpg MIT engineers have shown that they can use magnetic fields to track the location of this ...

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Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp

robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. Most robots on ... mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ...

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Graduate student Sami Khan receives research award

Sami Khan, a dual-degree graduate student in mechanical engineering and technology and policy, ... recently received a research award from the Hydro Research Foundation. Khan — who conducts research in MIT ... 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering green ...

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When healthy meets fast food

a degree in mechanical engineering, he decided to start a business that helped to tackle health and ... wellness. 09.13.17_Veggie-Grill-TK-Pillan-1024.jpg T.K. Pillan ’90, a mechanical engineering major while at ... MIT, now runs the largest vegan/vegetarian restaurant company in the U.S. “I saw the issues in the ...

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Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... Naval Research, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and the MIT Sea Grant program ... object’s path, its size, and even its shape. Michael Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor in MIT ...

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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award

MIT Professor Markus J. Buehler has been named the recipient of the 2025 Washington Award, one of ... the nation’s oldest and most esteemed engineering honors.  The Washington Award is conferred to “an ... engineer(s) whose professional attainments have preeminently advanced the welfare of humankind,” recognizing ...

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How to float your coffee creamer

able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... engineering, John Bush, professor of applied mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, and Gareth ... Foundation and MIT Energy Initiative through the Energy Fellowship Program. Monday, November 13, 2017 ...

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Panel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future

engineering at MIT, moderated the panel discussion. She said that achieving the ambitious net-zero goal “has ... Five speakers at a recent public panel discussion hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and ... these needs, she said the five topics chosen for the panel discussion were “places where MIT has ...

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