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A 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence

production of specialized parts. Now Inkbit, a startup out of MIT, is working to bring all of the benefits of ... Wojciech Matusik, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Javier Ramos BS ... printing, and the following year the four engineers received support from the Deshpande Center to ...

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Ocean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice

researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ... and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ...

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Probing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...

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3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint

help figure skaters improve. Credit: Bryce Vickmark, edited by MIT News; MIT Mechanical Engineering Q: ... MIT Sports Lab researchers are applying AI technologies to help figure skaters improve. They also ... a figure skater’s jump and make recommendations on how to improve. Lu, a former researcher at the  MIT ...

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3-D printing with cellulose

paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... materials. “Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian ... The paper is co-authored by associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart, the Mitsui ...

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Building a better indoor herb garden

Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at  the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...

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Novel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surface

associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “There’s a lot of controversy, and there’s no easy way ... Karnik and his colleagues — Jongho Lee, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Tahar ... Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM. Sunday, March 16, 2014 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office ...

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Need a water filter? Peel a tree branch

fact, an MIT team has discovered that this low-tech filtration system can produce up to four liters of ... blocking most types of bacteria. Co-author Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... at MIT, says sapwood is a promising, low-cost, and efficient material for water filtration, ...

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Folkers Rojas (SB ‘09, SM ‘11, PhD ‘14)

the 22 MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering wellbore cross-section. You also have to be able to ... from unintentionally spilling into the ocean, a purposefully engineered blockage. But the mechanics behind each of them ... says. “This problem had breadth; it had depth;  it was a great engineering challenge.  You’re looking at ...

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Competing Mechanisms Influence Tumor Cell Migration

Singapore Research Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and Mechanical Engineering ... December 5, 2011 sadlers gray rdkamm@mit.edu ...

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Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer

Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ... began far from muddy trails and snow-capped mountains. Safely within the halls of MIT, Christian was ...

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Three graduate students honored for hydrofoil research

Stefano Brizzolara, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... Engineering students — Vasileios Georgiadis SM '14, Kyle Miller SM '14, and Leon Faison SM '14 ... of Mechanical Engineering ...

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A new way to make steel could reduce America’s reliance on imports

lab of Gang Chen, MIT’s Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. She studied thermal ... entrepreneurship when she explored commercializing some of that research. Meroueh received a grant from the MIT ... experience taught Meroueh a lot about startups, but she ultimately decided to stay at MIT to pursue her PhD ...

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Researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging

have been prevented. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent ... journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ... the Italian energy company Eni S.p.A. through the MIT Energy Initiative. Thursday, April 13, 2017 ...

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Ice Bucket Challenge: The MechE Way

Home Undergraduate Prospective Undergrad Home http://youtu.be/J-d-kSOahiI Department Head Gang Chen ...

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