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Exploring growth within a confined space
a research team led by Tal Cohen, MIT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of ... confinement. Photo: moonimage/Flickr Now, MIT and Yale University researchers have developed a theoretical framework ... mechanical engineering, grew cholera bacteria inside a soft gel, observing the architecture of the expanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-growth-within-confined-spaceAlumni Spotlight: Professor David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ’06)
Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ... David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology at Georgia Institute of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-david-hu-sb-%E2%80%9901-phd-%E2%80%9906Microscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections
images fuzzy. In an open access paper in Scientific Reports, a collaboration of MIT engineers and ... of mechanical engineering and biological engineering at MIT. Newer single-line and the mosTF systems ... that have been engineered to fluoresce when stimulated. The new system proved in the team’s tests to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscope-system-sharpens-scientists%E2%80%99-view-neural-circuit-connectionsA brave new ocean world
research engineer at MIT, says to describe the ceiling-to-floor map of the world ocean and continents that ... covers the walls outside his office in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ... of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), a very widely used ocean modeling tool. Development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/brave-new-ocean-worldMorphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... layer is bonded tightly to a layer of a photonic crystal, which is precisely engineered so that when it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-light3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design
makeup — have been redefining the engineering materials space for the last decade. To date, however, most ... metamaterials have been lightweight options designed for stiffness and strength. New research from the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering introduces a computational design framework to support the creation of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-metamaterials-stretch-and-fail-designRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “If we could design a device to reverse blood ... hope.” Zhao and his team, including lead author Yoonho Kim, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsHow cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components
computer science, and mechanical engineering at MIT; along with Somaye Jafari and Shengqiang Cai at the ... crowded, ever-changing cytoplasmic space to deliver materials to various parts of a cell. Now engineers at ... MIT have found that these organelles and other intracellular components may experience the surrounding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cytoplasm-%E2%80%9Cfeels%E2%80%9D-cell%E2%80%99s-componentsAdhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants
that kind of device failure, MIT engineers have found a simple and general way to eliminate fibrosis by ... MIT engineers found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by ... for a drug, no need for a special polymer,” says Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-coatings-can-prevent-scarring-around-medical-implantsVine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ... says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Allison Okamura, the Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objectsHow some skills become second nature
MIT engineers wondered: Could an expert’s unconscious know-how be accessed, and even taught, to ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can make that knowledge explicit, ... type of visual-learning task. A new study by MIT researchers directly shows that visual attention can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-some-skills-become-second-natureChisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert ... genomic level to its role in the global biosphere. Langer, a biomedical engineer who focuses on ... engineering, where his discoveries led to the creation of new tissues such as artificial skin for burn victims. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/chisholm-langer-receive-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-honors-scientists-and-inventorsForging ahead with care and compassion
a number of MIT professors are forging thoughtful ways to support students’ well-being and scholarly ... prior to MIT’s ramping down of research, which enabled them to be intentional with their discussions of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/forging-ahead-care-and-compassionResearchers hope to make needle pricks for diabetics a thing of the past
biological and mechanical engineering at MIT. “Today, diabetes is a global epidemic,” says So, who is one of ... such as skin, by shining near-infrared light on it. MIT scientists have now taken an important step ... the senior authors of the study and the director of MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center. “If there ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-hope-make-needle-pricks-diabetics-thing-pastSun-powered desalination for villages in India
grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Now an analysis by MIT ... study, by MIT graduate student Natasha Wright and Amos Winter, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, appears in the journal Desalination. Winter explains that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaHarvesting Fresh Water from Fog
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h8vlzZ25vtg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT's School of ... Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fog-0Scientists make microscopes from droplets
Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... Researchers at MIT have now devised tiny “microlenses” from complex liquid droplets comparable in size to the ... microlenses to do imaging in a way people have not done yet,” Kolle says. Kolle’s MIT co-authors are graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsMechE Faculty Contact Information
Abeyaratne, Rohan ROHAN@MIT.EDU Ahmed, Faez FAEZ@MIT.EDU Gaken, Joe jgaken@mit.edu 617-324-6108 Akerson, ... Andrew AKERSON@MIT.EDU Cabral, Alexandra cabrala@mit.edu 617-324-2805 Akylas, Triantaphyllos ... R TRAKYLAS@MIT.EDU Canfield, Laura lkampas@mit.edu 617-452-4123 Anand, Lallit ANAND@MIT.EDU Eisenbach, Katherine ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/meche-faculty-contact-informationNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... such detections possible in real time, according to a team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital ... Engineering. With this method, that’s essentially what you get: In a process the team calls “inertio-elastic ...
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