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Engineering Better Sleep During Menopause
This is particularly true in the health space, she says, where she found plenty of MIT role models for ... us. So many companies that come out of MIT are objectively better for the world,” she says. Now backed ... company plans to increase the number of sensors in its wearable and cooling pads to monitor other health ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-better-sleep-during-menopauseLoewen Cavill
says, where she found plenty of MIT role models for the successful launch of businesses geared toward ... quite rare. That’s a value metric that was infused in us. So many companies that come out of MIT are ... shipments going out in July. In the future, the company plans to increase the number of sensors in its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/loewen-cavillOur History, at Hart
MechE displays in MIT Hart Nautical Gallery given a full refresh Situated near the midpoint of the ... first-floor hallway of building 5 is MIT Museum’s Francis Russell Hart Nautical Gallery, one of the oldest ... marine technology archives in the United States. This space tells the story of MIT’s deep history with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-history-hartMotion-Induced Quicksand
Researchers have observed this effect in a number of configurations in the lab, including in what’s called an ... MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... Think of sand through an hourglass: As grains funnel through, they appear to flow like water, but once ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... cells’ shapes, numbers, and biophysical characteristics could make them indicators of cancer. The ... number — a quantity that combines the speed of the flow, the size of the channel, and the viscosity of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsLallit Anand Awarded 2018 William Prager Medal
Last week, the Society of Engineering Science (SES) announced that Lallit Anand, Warren and ... Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will receive the 2018 William Prager Medal. One of ... becoming part of the core knowledge of the field and are having a significant impact on its development.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lallit-anand-awarded-2018-william-prager-medalStudy: There’s real skill in fantasy sports
of your league’s standings at the end of the season, a new MIT study suggests your performance ... win/loss records of thousands of fantasy players over multiple seasons, MIT researchers have found that the ... sports,” says Anette “Peko” Hosoi, associate dean of engineering at MIT. “We ask, does that skill have an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-there%E2%80%99s-real-skill-fantasy-sportsNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery. Liquid ... one developed by members of this MIT team, that used the same chemical compounds as conventional ... could truly inspire a class of passively driven flow batteries.” The work was supported by the Joint ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downA Revolution in Higher Education
the past. MIT Sanjay_1024.jpg Photo illustration: Len Rubenstein “As the volume of knowledge has ... a participatory learning approach,” says Sarma, director of MIT’s Office of Digital Learning. “Now there’s ... a rethinking of pedagogy where the ‘doing’ is making a comeback.” MIT is helping lead the way to this kind of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolution-higher-educationTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso
MGH, and MIT, and Adam Wentworth of BWH and MIT, who have been leading these studies, was could we ... by MIT News and Wing Ngan. Our team is still developing the whole range of camera systems to ... physician, Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso has been leading a number of Covid-19 related projects ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-giovanni-traversoMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
road with. MIT-Heng-Yang-1024.jpg Safety concerns have clouded the future of fully autonomous vehicles. ... precautions enabled widespread adoption of air travel. Today, the future of fully autonomous vehicles is ... “Hank” Yang and his collaborators have developed the first set of “certifiable perception” algorithms, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionTurning heat into electricity
the amount of energy they are able to produce, is currently limited. Now researchers at MIT have ... a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the MIT researchers ... conventional semiconductors like silicon,” says Te-Huan Liu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityYo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale
factories that make real products. The project has earned 2.008 the unofficial moniker of “the yo-yo class ... a product that could be manufactured by the millions. “When students enter this class, they can make one of ... how we teach the class because now, instead of just standing in front of the classroom and talking at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/yo-yos-offer-first-foray-manufacturing-scaleHot New Solar Cell
crystal. Bierman says that such a system could offer a number of advantages over conventional ... research team also included MIT alumnus Andrej Lenert PhD ’14, now a research fellow at the University of ... of Energy. Sunday, May 22, 2016 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration enwang@mit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellThirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships
Photos courtesy of Fulbright winners. Lainie Beauchemin ’22 earned a BS in biological engineering at MIT ... Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Her Fulbright project will focus on broadening neurological ... to incarcerated women. She was chair of the MIT Shakespeare ensemble as well as an actress, producer, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/thirteen-mit-win-2023-fulbright-fellowshipsWhere the wind blows
simply because the technology is mature," says Paul Sclavounos, an MIT professor of mechanical ... leader, gets more than 19 percent of its electricity from wind, and is aiming to boost that number to 50 ... about 0.2 terawatts (trillions of watts) of energy worldwide — a number that pales in comparison to an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-wind-blowsSusan Su
a mechanical engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been ... global scale. After returning from her gap year, she started taking classes in MIT’s D-Lab that focus on ... Stage, a class she took during her junior year after returning to MIT. It explores the society that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/susan-suBy attracting the world’s sharpest talent, MIT helps keep the US a step ahead
corner of the globe, so too has MIT thrived as a magnet for the world’s most keen and curious minds ... Board Collage_1024.jpg Collage of MIT faculty members. Credits: Bearwalk Cinema "To find people ... talent from every corner of the United States and from around the globe,” says MIT President Sally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/attracting-world%E2%80%99s-sharpest-talent-mit-helps-keep-us-step-aheadSolar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
expense. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt ... a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... An estimated two-thirds of humanity is affected by shortages of water, and many such areas in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationFinding Wonderland
that defy expectations, both her own and those of others. Her decision to attend MIT at all surprised ... Moudio will graduate from MIT able to apply the principles of engineering, physics, and material sciences ... “Only at MIT.” Thursday, May 26, 2016 Meg Murphy | School of Engineering Culture Education International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-wonderland