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From microfluidics to metastasis

Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT, it would take Jacks and Manalis more than five ... engineering advancements over the years have made it possible to extract cells via liquid biopsy and analyze ... significant progress toward creating genetically engineered mouse models, liquid biopsies hold great promise ...

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A Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes

MIT’s Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc: punching through ... typically very slow, so a robot has difficulty reacting in time,” says Ramos, of MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering. “Instead, we’d like to use the human’s natural reflexes and coordination. An example ...

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Interactive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions

box, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Aarhus University ... researchers have now engineered “MouthIO,” a dental brace that can be fabricated with sensors and feedback ... Stefanie Mueller, the TIBCO Career Development Associate Professor in the MIT departments of Electrical ...

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Innovation at the Interfaces

interface between mechanical engineering and biology. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering was at ... http://meche.mit.edu/people/cloud. Thank you, as always, for your continued support of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering Dear Friends, Education and research innovations in mechanical engineering are increasingly ...

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Stephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92

Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random ... in mathematics from MIT in 1946, he transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, ... vibrations and rotordynamics, and a leader in transforming mechanics into an engineering science, passed away ...

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US Manufacturing: A Modern-Day Renaissance

heart. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing has been a part of our DNA since the ... creation of our first lab in 1874 with the donation of a steam engine—all the way to 1977, when MechE ... Today, MIT continues to lead in manufacturing, spearheading in-depth research and analysis on the subject ...

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Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements

challenge in robotics and virtual reality. Now, MIT engineers have designed an ultrasound wristband that ... of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “It could also provide huge amounts of training data for dexterous ... Chandrakasan, MIT provost and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Other ...

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Pedro Reis receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation

Career Award from the NSF’s Structural Mechanics and Materials program for his project, “Smart Morphable ... Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Work in his research lab — the Elasticity, Geometry ... behavior of everyday phenomena that also have significant engineering relevance. For example, he has ...

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Startup with MIT roots wins R&D 100 Award

Leslie Bromberg, a research scientist at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, and Alexander ... measures the amount, type, and distribution of contaminants on filters used to reduce engine and vehicle ... emissions, while Sappok was still a graduate student at MIT’s Sloan Automotive Laboratory. The two first met ...

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Letter from the Department Head

regarded Naval Construction and Marine Engineering programs in the country to one of the first autonomous ...   “As engineers, the untapped potential of the oceans calls to us…but we also feel responsible for ... protecting them.” Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head Dear ...

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