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Faculty Research: Professor Neville Hogan

elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, developed the ... Anklebot Helps Determine Ankle Stiffness   by David Chandler, MIT News Office   For most healthy ...

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Catching (radio) waves

mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ... In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency ... MIT’s Auto-ID Center, ThingMagic developed RFID readers for the supply chain that could read many tags, ...

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Lallit Anand selected for ASME Drucker Medal

Mechanical Engineering yellow anand@mit.edu ... Lallit Anand, the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been ... American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1997, the medal recognizes distinguished contributions to the ...

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Five from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2021

Five MIT faculty members are among more than 250 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, ... humanities and culture, and education. Those elected from MIT this year are: Linda Griffith, the School of ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, Biological Engineering, and Mechanical engineering; Muriel ...

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Lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber

carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... Materials Engineering. Sunday, February 17, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration International ...

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New tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease

hopes of discovering new treatments for these liver diseases, MIT engineers have designed a new type of ... disease,” says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT ... , a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and the senior author of both studies. ...

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Noninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time

engineering at MIT, director of MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center, and one of the authors of the paper. ... making it difficult to study ongoing changes in gene expression. An alternative approach developed at MIT ... Koseki Kobayashi-Kirschvink, a postdoc at MIT and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, is the lead ...

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Electrifying boilers to decarbonize industry

of AtmosZero) Tapping into steam Stark joined the Technology and Policy Program when he came to MIT in 2007. He ... change.” Stark stayed at MIT to earn his PhD in mechanical engineering, studying thermochemical biofuels. ... ultimately completed a dual master’s degree by adding mechanical engineering to his studies. “I was ...

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Harvesting fresh water from fog

surface chemistry, the team — which includes MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gareth McKinley and ... MIT professor of chemical engineering Robert Cohen — has been able to increase the fog-collecting ... electrodialysis can provide cost-effective treatment of salty water from fracked wells. Researchers at MIT ...

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Broadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography

of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the past 10 years, recently ... fund the creation of the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE), a five-year program ... actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ...

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A new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy

investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ... (LEES) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), ... MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of ...

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Tiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens

Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Additionally, we hope this approach will eventually ... cases, the wait time has to do with time-consuming steps in sample processing and analysis. Now, MIT ... engineers have identified a new optical signature in a widely used class of magnetic beads, which could be ...

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A data-driven response to a pandemic

elections — and has raised difficult questions about MIT’s capacity to reopen in the fall. To help ... policymakers at MIT and beyond make informed decisions, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) has ... Munther Dahleh, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). “Probability and ...

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AI-driven tool makes it easy to personalize 3D-printable models

co-senior author Stefanie Mueller, an associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering ... project. This research was supported by the MIT-Google Program for Computing Innovation and used facilities ... these challenges, MIT researchers developed a generative-AI-driven tool that enables the user to add ...

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Microbes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech

mankind that could benefit from microscale engineering." Wednesday, May 28, 2014 MIT Industrial ... Liaison Program green Collaboration crb@mit.edu ... wastewater, and potentially sell some back to grid," says Cullen Buie, who heads up MIT's Laboratory ...

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