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New 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsSeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... — a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaAlumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alum Prakash ... when he received a fellowship from the Legatum Center at MIT to develop a technology-based business in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12Cocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs
An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... time,” Bush says. “Engineers often take it to the next step by asking, ‘How can we apply this?’ In this ... collaboration, scientists and engineers have combined with chefs, allowing us to follow the entire route from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cocktail-novelties-inspired-nature%E2%80%99s-designsStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
emerge from chiral forces and building blocks. But that assumption may need some retuning. MIT engineers ... co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... which an object cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. 1024_Twisted-Liquid-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsMaking solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
year. From surgical robots to solar robots While majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, Hunter found ... with fellow MIT alumnus Max Justicz ’17. “We’re going from a very bespoke, hands on, manual ... plenty of excuses to build things. One such excuse was Course 2.009 (Produce Engineering Processes), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-solar-projects-cheaper-and-faster-portable-factoriesBuilding nursery 2.0
monitor” — an innovative, sensor-implanted onesie being commercialized by a team of MIT alumni through ... their startup, Rest Devices. Dubbed the Mimo kimono, the baby monitor, based on the co-founders’ MIT ... a student who is currently on leave from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This month, Rest Devices ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20New electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... easier to integrate,” Xinyuan Zhang, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ... Engineering (DMSE). “For example, it could be directly worn on glasses.” The heat-sensing film could also have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9D-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glassesA Not-So-Trivial Pursuit
Senior Ernesto Ramirez is the first MIT student to compete in the "Hispanic College ... program, and working at Camp Kesem, a summer camp for kids whose parents have been afflicted by cancer. OME ... Crayton says Ramirez did very well: “He did a great job representing his family, his culture, and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-so-trivial-pursuitUnder the sea
the sea. Yet when ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of ... oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major, will take charge of marine ... remaining a full-time MIT student. “Hopefully we’ll resurface before final exams,” she says with a smile. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesFaculty Research: Professor Rohit Karnik
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “You could potentially buy a $5 or $10 kit and get the cells sorted without ... Photo Credits: MIT News Office by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Cell rolling is a common mechanism ... slowing down to help in the healing of inflamed areas. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-rohit-karnikA new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
particular problem that they have, so a lot of engineering and not so much flexibility in terms of the ... specific task,” says Alberto Rodriguez, an MIT visiting scientist who is a former member of the MechE ... members of the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube) under Rodriguez’ direction. “In this work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-offers-robots-precise-pick-and-place-solutionsResearchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-%E2%80%9Ciron-out%E2%80%9D-graphene%E2%80%99s-wrinklesA bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Council of Canada, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the ... clouds, researchers from MIT and Novo Nordisk have developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractDeep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell
splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a way to ... engineering at MIT. “By accurately modeling this early period, we can start to uncover how local cell ... Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; George Roy and Tomer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-model-predicts-how-fruit-flies-form-cell-cellStudent Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Under the Sea By Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman A house by ... ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living ... Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major who was recently awarded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814A New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
difficulties in transferring the graphene from the foil to useful substrates. Now researchers at MIT and the ... led by A. John Hart of MIT. Lead authors of the paper are Dan McNerny, a former Michigan postdoc, and ... Viswanath Balakrishnan, a former MIT postdoc who is now at the Indian Institute of Technology. Currently, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneNew method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... such follow-up experiments, to figure out “whether the effect can be exploited, in an engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamics