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High-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... team noted that the number of tail beats each fish produced was related to the height of the bait: The ... The archer fish is arguably the ninja of the aquatic world, known for its stealth-like, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchA more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
perturbations based on a much smaller number of experiments than traditional methods. Their algorithmic ... Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a researcher at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision ... engineering at MIT and a member of IDSS; and others at Harvard and MIT. Active learning When scientists try to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-effective-experimental-design-engineering-cell-new-stateElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... precisely increase the number of electrons in a thin wafer of silicon by optical methods, and measure any ... Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsProcessing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
MIT Sloan School of Management. The class brought Kung to Kenya to work with a nongovernmental ... Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biomass fuels, including wood, peat, ... 2016 with the help of MIT IDEAS. But that is another story.) Meanwhile, Kung had another top priority: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsSystem provides cooling with no electricity
below the ambient air temperature. MIT-Aerogel-Cooling-03-1024.jpg In field tests, the performance of ... a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ... compared to a number of prior experiments.” He adds, “It might be helpful to quantitatively compare and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
the higher the number of droplets it can launch into the air when the bubble inevitably bursts. ... can emit hundreds of droplets. MIT-Bacteria-Bubbles-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found that ... ubiquitous, indoors and out. A new MIT study shows how bubbles contaminated with bacteria can act as tiny ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airFaculty highlight: A. John Hart
microscope. Hart, who received his PhD at MIT in 2006, returned to MIT from the University of Michigan last ... Michigan and MIT, include: The Robofurnace, an automated system for high-throughput synthesis of ... Center at MIT Exploration of the folding mechanics of paper, and design principles for achieving folding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-john-hartStartup Powers Up for Better Strength Training
MIT delta v accelerator the summer after Rothman’s graduation. “MIT was incredibly supportive of our ... grind it out, how to work hard to get better.” Sunday, June 29, 2025 Ken Shulman | Slice of MIT red ... Perch, the fitness startup he cofounded with friends from MIT, provides users with a new way to monitor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-powers-better-strength-trainingJacob Rothman
real-time information as number of repetitions, speed, and power output—the amount of work done per unit of ... Jacob Rothman Perch, the fitness startup he cofounded with friends from MIT, provides users with a new ... Carolina, Rothman originally came to MIT to study aerospace engineering, but his plan changed after he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jacob-rothmanFaculty Advising
http://adviseme.mit.edu UROP supervisors (research interests, grad school, career/networking advice) Instructors (class ... Faculty Advising When students enter the Department of Mechanical Engineering, they are assigned ... a faculty academic advisor. The principal role of the academic advisor is to help individual students plan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/faculty-advisingThree MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars
at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The MIT students were selected from a pool of over 5,000 ... applicants. This year’s class of 150 scholars represents 38 countries and 105 universities from around the ... Global Operations program at the MIT Sloan School of Management, earning a dual MBA and a MS degree in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-students-named-2026-schwarzman-scholars3-D Printing 101
a wide range of disciplines. He’s also hoping to form an industry consortium at MIT to support efforts in ... for the creativity of the world to figure that out.” Tuesday, May 10, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News ... Office Culture Education Maker ajhart@mit.edu Horizontal Professor John Hart teaches students of new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-101MechE Students Win 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
automated kitchen. The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the winners of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, ... Lemelson_MIT_Dan_Dorsch_Media 1024.jpg Dan Dorsch of MIT is the $15,000 Lemelson-MIT “Drive it!” Graduate Winner for his ... invention, the first lightweight clutchless hybrid transmission for cars. Photo courtesy of the Lemelson-MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-students-win-2016-lemelson-mit-student-prize3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... predictably morph in response to temperature can be useful for a number of applications, from soft actuators ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesComputing for ocean environments
“The ocean is a fascinating environment with a number of current challenges like microplastics, algae ... accuracy in existing dynamical system models. Their framework can be used for a number of applications, ... including improved predictions of Loop Current eddies around oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/computing-ocean-environmentsAbe Schneider
to MIT was a major culture shock, but they loved the atmosphere of problem solving and ... degrees. All the while, they never lost sight of hydropower. In the 1998 MIT $100K Entrepreneurship ... about 30 gigawatts, enough to power millions of homes.: Natel Energy, founded by sibling MIT alumni, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abe-schneider“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ... surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... materials on surfaces, whatever their properties,” Varanasi says. MIT postdoc Seyed Mahmoudi, a co-author of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themCell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
a particular drug. This can lead to months of treatment with a drug that isn’t working. Researchers at MIT have ... Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. “For infectious diseases, antibiotic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsSaving the radome
in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and ... Courtesy of MIT News The call to action Starting in the early 1980s, the MIT Radio Society took up ... points," says Milo Hooper, a senior in mechanical engineering and president of the MIT Radio Society. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeFrom the Classroom to the Lab
Undergraduates have a wide range of opportunities to be part of research Through labs, or by ... participating in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), MechE students step into the world of ... in protective gel membranes that allow the selective passing of secreted biomolecules while blocking ...
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