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Cooling when there’s too much heat
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT ... his co-authors, recent MIT PhD recipient Hyuk-Min Kwon and former MIT postdoc J.C. Bird, was to find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatMechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US
designed for US and European markets. Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT), an MIT MechE ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering to create a wheelchair that fits the needs of people with ... drivetrain as needed, based on the environment. Some engineers may consider the restrictive parameters ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-spinoff-launches-all-terrain-wheelchair-usNoninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for people with diabetes
(LBRC) and an MIT professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering; and Youngkyu Kim and ... A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes ... patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day. The MIT team used Raman spectroscopy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-could-replace-finger-pricks-people-diabetesControl Instrumentation Robotics
who aim to combine mechanical engineering (design, control, dynamics) with course 6 disciplines such ... guom@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/control-instrumentation-roboticsWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise ... Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsThis ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... engineering at MIT. “With this wearable sticker, we can continuously monitor changes in rigidity over long ... that the sticky sensor can detect early signs of acute liver failure in rats. The engineers are working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organsEldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall
urgent societal issue. To help address the eldercare challenge, a team of MIT engineers is looking to ... Engineering at MIT. “Our design concept is to provide older adults having balance impairment with robotic ... Bolli, a graduate student in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. “All the demographic trends ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-and-stand-and-catches-them-if-they-fallJ-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions
Solutions program helps move these water and food technologies from labs at MIT into commercial use, where ... Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, has been awarded ... commercialized breakthroughs The J-WAFS Solutions program aims to help MIT faculty and students commercialize ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-commercialization-grants-develop-technologies-water-and-food-solutionsDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... collaborator on the work, which appears in Nature Communications. MIT postdocs William Whyte and Debkalpa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsMicrofluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, MIT researchers describe a microfluidics-based system that ... A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing ... MIT-BioChip-Sensor-01-1024.jpg Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to infection triggers an inflammation chain reaction ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutesAlumni Profile: RJ Scaringe SM ’07, PhD ‘09
sustainability. Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... a journey that has its roots in MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab, where Scaringe conducted his master’s and ... compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low emissions. “RJ was a low key but ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-rj-scaringe-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9809New electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases
peeled off,” says Ying. Collaborating researchers from the MIT Mechanical Engineering department include ... e-GLUE first came about when Binbin Ying, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering ... polymers, thereby creating a dual-layer ionic hydrogel. At MIT, Ying and his colleagues, including ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electroadhesive-hydrogel-may-be-used-deliver-sustained-drug-administration-giMIT IDEAS celebrates social innovation at the Institute
“It is programs like IDEAS that differentiate MIT from its peers. I am truly inspired by all the work ... industry and community experts. All IDEAS teams are led by at least one full-time MIT undergraduate or ... Members of the MIT community from around the world gathered virtually on Sunday, April 26 to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-ideas-celebrates-social-innovation-instituteBridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
SM ’21, from the MIT Technology and Policy Program. The team invited people to share what space means ... cutting-edge MIT payloads: a depth-mapping camera and a mini-rover called “AstroAnt.” Also on that craft were ... etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bridging-earth-and-space-and-art-and-science-global-voicesLetter from the Department Head
Department Head Dear Friends, The Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT has been at the forefront of ... MIT. Sincerely, Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head ... innovators, and engineering leaders.” Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-1Fast, furious, and soon to be electric
certified Formula One cars. To Sly and the rest of the MIT Formula SAE team, this is home. Seated ... unassumingly next to the MIT Museum, N51 houses multiple student teams working under the auspices of the ... and fun — a home for mechanical and electrical engineers exploring their love for design and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-furious-and-soon-be-electricInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ... wins-DOE-CleanTech-UP-MIT-1024.jpg Left to right: Infinite Cooling researchers graduate student Karim Khalil, associate professor of ... mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and graduate student Maher Damak. Photo: Alexi Taylor Ko Infinite ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competition“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ... particles or droplets moving over them. MIT-Active-Surfaces-01.jpg Photo shows a water droplet sitting on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themBreaking through the mucus barrier
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... the National Institutes of Health and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors of the ... a hospital. A new drug capsule developed at MIT may one day be able to replace those injections. The capsule ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierTechnique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ... an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ... scattering, but it also reduces imaging resolution. MIT-Subcutaneous-Superresolution-1024.jpg MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-could-boost-resolution-tissue-imaging-much-tenfold