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Orienteering for robots

student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ... Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ... his advisors, John Fisher, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...

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New surface treatment stops scale buildup

Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... at MIT has come up with a potential solution to this huge but little-recognized problem. A new kind ... when warm, moist air cools suddenly as it meets a cooler surface. For the most part, engineers have ...

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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication

twist, MIT researchers have discovered that two other inactive ingredients may actually boost medication ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Machine ... increasingly helping to identify and design new drugs. In a recent discovery, MIT researchers used a deep ...

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J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants

Engineering, Chemistry, and Economics, as well as the Media Lab (School of Architecture and Planning), MIT ... Zegher, the Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor in the operations management program at the MIT ... on the influence of this grant program: “The betterment of society drives our research community at MIT. Water and ...

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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... which is led by Nathaniel Hanson. The program is conducted out of the laboratory's  Human ... tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ...

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Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14

engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ... Recover and reuse. Despite having two degrees in mechanical engineering, a passion for ... fixing leaks. An MIT Tata Center fellow and Deshpande Center grantee, Swaminathan is developing a modular ...

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A closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy

chemotherapy they receive. To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with an ... 1024-Closed-Loop-Chemo-01-press_0.jpg To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with a way to continuously ... engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ...

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Big data dreams for tiny technologies

small-molecule partners will form nanoparticles among the millions of possible pairings. MIT researchers have ... Engineering, and senior corresponding author of the study. Their findings point to a strategy for that solves ... Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is also a senior author ...

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Student product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun

The theme for this year’s student projects in the mechanical engineering class called Product ... Engineering Processes was “rough, tough, and messy,” but the student teams’ product ideas were much more ... and music-filled set of final class presentations in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, were designed to assist ...

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MIT affiliates receive 2024-25 awards and honors from the American Physical Society

MIT Materials Research Laboratory and the   MIT Center for Quantum Engineering, Checkelsky is working ... faculty co-director for MIT’s  MISTI Eurasia  program. Ruben Juanes, professor of civil and environmental ... A number of individuals with MIT ties have received  honors  from the  American Physical Society ...

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A microchip for metastasis

Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... mechanical engineering. “We only waited until day five, but if we had gone longer, [the size of the clusters] ...

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Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Faye Wu (SB ’09, SM ’12)

designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab. Wu – who earned an SB and an SM in mechanical engineering from MIT ... Engineering red Maker asada@mit.edu Horizontal Student Faye Wu is designing a robotic finger system you can ... in mechanical engineering, demonstrates the "supernumerary robotic fingers" device.  Photo: ...

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New Faculty

engineering from MIT, his NE in naval engineering from MIT, and his PhD in hydrodynamics from MIT. He is the ... 2010, respectively, in mechanical engineering from MIT. His research interests include design for ... R&D 100 award. He received the 2010 MIT School of Engineering Graduate Student Extraordinary Teaching ...

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How to get conductive gels to stick when wet

moisture from the body. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way of getting conductive polymer gels ... in a paper by MIT doctoral student Hyunwoo Yuk, former visiting scholar Akihisa Inoue, postdoc ... Baoyang Lu, and professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao. Most electrodes used for biomedical ...

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Graphene holds up under high pressure

But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... possibilities for energy-efficient desalination at high salinities.” Karnik’s co-authors are lead author and MIT ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Thomas Ober, SM ‘10, PhD ‘13

a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula 1 during his job search, it quickly rose to the top of his ... in North Carolina. As a computational fluid dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his ... experience here. I work in a fairly small group of eight or 10 engineers. We are all working on our own small ...

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Researchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans

challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... research was supported in part by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Biomedical Line Program for the United States ... Medicine Research Program. Wednesday, December 18, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ...

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Loewen Cavill

waking in a sweat due to hot flashes. A new MIT startup is working to change that last one. Loewen Cavill ... ’20 and Felipe Radovitzky ’20, her teammates in DeltaV, an MIT startup accelerator. Cavill wasn’t ... The group continued to iterate as an MIT Sandbox team, where Cavill met with several MIT mentors who’d ...

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MIT MechE DEI Community Values

Code of Conduct Community Values Personal Competencies MIT MechE Code of Conduct I anchor my work in ... Excellence and Scientific Inquiry: As a premier educational and research program, we value curiosity, ... environment. This enables us to uphold MIT’s high standards of honesty, fairness, respect, integrity and ...

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