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Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water
a tube, as clean and drinkable water. MIT-Water-Harvester-01-press_1024x768.jpg A close-up of a new ... Whitaker Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. “It’s a test ... currently an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). MIT co-authors include ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-waterWhitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health
Page, Whitehead Institute director and MIT professor of biology, who leads the sex differences ... University, graduating at the top of her class, but she had difficulty finding a job. When she earned ... biological consequences of the sex chromosomes on women's health and disease. The gift, one of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whitehead-institute-receives-10-million-study-sex-chromosomes%E2%80%99-impact-women%E2%80%99s-healthHow to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion
down further, that should increase the number of buyers who would consider buying the credit, he says. ... Foundation, and made use of the facilities at MIT.nano. Monday, May 19, 2025 David L. Chandler | MIT News ... release CO₂ efficiently are not very efficient at capturing it. Optimizing one part of the cycle tends to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-solve-bottleneck-co2-capture-and-conversionEldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall
38.9, which is nearly a decade older than it was in 1980. And the number of adults older than 65 is ... urgent societal issue. To help address the eldercare challenge, a team of MIT engineers is looking to ... of multiple possible assistance scenarios with a prototype of a new robot being developed at MIT. Top ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-and-stand-and-catches-them-if-they-fallTa Corrales
she says. Back at MIT, Corrales switched her major to engineering. She was only a few classes shy of ... classes that teach MIT students how technological innovation can bring people together. The students, in ... improvement, and then repeat the process. Small groups of MIT students sometimes travel to Oaxaca to join in, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/ta-corralesMIT.nano courses bring hands-on experimentation to virtual participants
Jorg Scholvin, assistant director of user services for Fab.nano. That’s why users of the MIT ... was one of five courses highlighting the breadth of MIT.nano’s capabilities, initiated during MIT ... MIT.nano The three-part series of virtual tours brought 56 attendees inside MIT.nano’s facilities. With ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-courses-bring-hands-experimentation-virtual-participantsEvelyn Wang joins leadership team in MechE
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and the director of MIT’s Device Research ... (MechE). Evelyn N. Wang 1024.jpg Professor Evelyn Wang, the director of MIT’s Device Research Laboratory, ... Wang’s blood. Her parents met at MIT while earning their PhDs. They married in MIT Chapel. Both of her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-joins-leadership-team-mecheEngineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
pumping mechanism of trees and other plants. Now engineers at MIT and their collaborators have designed ... head for operations in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the chip’s passive pumping may ... the paper are lead author Jean Comtet, a former graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-%E2%80%9Ctree-chip%E2%80%9DMIT engineers grow “perfect” atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers
True to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We’ve unlocked a way to catch up to Moore’s Law using ... 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to soon plateau because silicon — the backbone of modern ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-grow-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-atom-thin-materials-industrial-silicon-wafers2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
a laser-cut trophy of the MIT dome, for his autonomous robot, designed to launch from a custom-designed ... the MIT crowd: “I’ve come to collect innovations, and I want no fabrication! Fabrication is a waste of ... before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-styleFaculty Opening in Music Technology
and Theater Arts (MTA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA seek ... make discoveries that would not be possible without a deep understanding of both disciplines. MIT ... a growing cohort of faculty at MIT with a multidisciplinary focus. The tenure home department will be agreed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/faculty-positions-mtSenior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing
nanoengineering course at MIT exposed her to many different applications of nanotechnologies, such as building ... time at MIT, where her curiosity about how things work and enthusiasm for hands-on discovery have ... continued to motivate her. MIT-Larissa-Senatus-1024.jpg Photo by Ian MacLellan Senatus grew up in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/senior-larissa-senatus-learns-about-world-doingHow artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future
electrolyzers. Researchers at MIT and elsewhere are actively investigating aspects of those and other ... Annaswamy, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of MIT ... matching of supply and demand must still happen, even as the number of small, intermittent sources of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-achieve-clean-energy-futureJim Magarian
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... work, never. MIT has been an incredibly supportive place for that. I couldn’t think of another place ... and faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research centers around two questions. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-magarianNot stuck on silicon
Kim, the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor in the departments of Mechanical ... Kim. Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT “You end up having to sacrifice the wafer — it becomes part of the ... performance and not cost.” Kim’s research team discovered this new technique at MIT’s Research Laboratory of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-silicon3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers
MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them. During the summer of ... and interests in “making.” “MIT has a strong history and culture of hands-on ‘making’ in every field ... engineering and MIT’s “Maker Czar,” asked students what they build, where they work, what kinds of equipment ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-martin-culpepper-making-future-makersQS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2020-21
proportion of international students. MIT earned a perfect overall score of 100. MIT was also ranked the ... MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the ninth year in a row MIT has received this distinction. The full ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2020-21QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2022-23
ratio, proportion of international faculty, and proportion of international students. MIT was also ranked ... the QS World University Rankings for the 11th year in a row. Earlier this year, QS ranked MIT number ... MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2022-23Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
prosthetics have come a long way. Beyond traditional mannequin-like appendages, there is a growing number of ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “There’s huge potential to make ... 15-minute training, the volunteers were asked to perform a number of standardized tests to demonstrate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlCrystal Winston
Winston’s favorite classes at MIT has been the one she’s in now: 21W.744 (The Art of Comic Book Drawing). ... She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which provides ... were at risk of going bad. Engaging others in engineering Since her first year at MIT, Winston has been ...
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