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New parameters in graduate mentoring
for holistic graduate mentorship at MIT. Three of the most recent honorees, professors Cullen Buie, ... their work in the broader world outside of MIT. The impact of the Sikes Lab in the real-world includes ... Education and contributes to its mission of making graduate education at MIT “empowering, exciting, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoringRobots shoot for the moon in MIT’s annual 2.007 competition
Photo: Tony Pulsone On Thursday evening, students of MIT’s popular class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing ... a moonshot,” says Amos Winter, course co-instructor and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... collected and returned to Earth more than 48 pounds of lunar material, including 50 moon rocks that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robots-shoot-moon-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-2007-competitionJani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Two MIT seniors, Jani Adcock and Drew Bent, will be part of this fall’s inaugural class of ... adviser for the student-run MIT Fall Career Fair, and as vice president of career development for MIT ... MIT's Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming. “They are both innovators who plan to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsResearchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
devices is the same in any location,” says Jeehwan Kim, the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-%E2%80%9Ciron-out%E2%80%9D-graphene%E2%80%99s-wrinklesCombined energy and water system could provide for millions
efficiently using clean-energy resources, a team of researchers from MIT and the University of Hawaii has ... Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. "There was not the extreme ... and his co-authors — Maha Haji, Sasan Ghaemsaidi, and Marco Ferrara of MIT; and A Zachary Trimble of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/combined-energy-and-water-system-could-provide-millionsMIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
Six current MIT affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of the ... American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The 2024 class of AAAS Fellows includes 471 ... credit courtesy of the fellows. Noubar Afeyan PhD ’87, life member of the MIT Corporation, was named ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellowsWith campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
In 2015, MIT set a goal to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 32 percent ... on campus while working alongside staff, and priming MIT for an eventual goal of carbon neutrality. ... who are tackling the climate challenges of our world.” Mitigating campus emissions MIT’s buildings ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/campus-test-bed-climate-action-starts-and-continues-mitRobotic “SuperLimbs” could help moonwalkers recover from falls
constrict their movements,” says Harry Asada, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We want to ... a system of wearable robotic limbs built by MIT engineers, is designed to physically support an astronaut ... doing excavation or some sort of job with a tool,” says team member and MIT doctoral student Erik ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-%E2%80%9Csuperlimbs%E2%80%9D-could-help-moonwalkers-recover-fallsA simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders
can sense contractions of the GI tract. MIT researchers have now designed a new device that could ... communicate information. MIT-Quipu-Diagnostic-03.jpeg The quipu, an ancient Incan technology, is a set of ... Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-diagnostic-tool-gastrointestinal-disordersAdvancing technology for aquaculture
working with Associate Professor Otto Cordero of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental ... this semester, working with Robert Vincent, MIT Sea Grant’s assistant director of advisory services, ... learn a lot.” In true MIT fashion, he shares his takeaway from the project: “Try to get the best out of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-technology-aquacultureScientists make microscopes from droplets
Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... tested the properties of the microlenses through a number of experiments, including one in which they ... Liquid droplets are natural magnifiers. Look inside a single drop of water, and you are likely to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ... DDM to explore colloidal gels, a more complex class of materials. “These materials have fascinating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsJ-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
numbers of people. The use of fertilizers can help solve the challenges posed by soil nutrient deficiency, ... the environmental impact of runoff. An interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers has received a J-WAFS ... and academic director of the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, as well as Michael Arnold, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-grants-advance-sustainable-agricultureStudent Spotlight: Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang (Candidate SB ’14)
Clarkson University with two years of college credit already under her belt as a result of the AP classes ... a transfer student, instead of graduating almost two years early. She was accepted and started MIT as ... a pin matrix apparatus for rigid 3D surfaces at the MIT Media Lab, and on the running dynamics of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-guangtao-taotao-zhang-candidate-sb-%E2%80%9914Undersea living: Alumna joins Cousteau mission
Rat" — MIT's class ring — underwater, thousands of miles from Killian Court. Young, a Marshall ... miss MIT's Commencement. “It was a no brainer,” Young says of her decision to flip her "Brass ... What’s it like living on the bottom of the ocean in a habitat no bigger than a school bus for more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undersea-living-alumna-joins-cousteau-missionAn implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses
1024MIT_Overdose-Response-02-PRESS.jpg The device, which is about the size of a stick of gum, can be implanted under the skin, where it ... high-risk population,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Hen-Wei Huang, a former MIT visiting scientist and currently an assistant professor of electrical and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/implantable-sensor-could-reverse-opioid-overdosesPhonon catalysis could lead to a new field
sometimes in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius. In a new study, a team of researchers at MIT and the ... remains cold, by only exciting a select number of vibrations known as phonons. This new approach — which ... a spectrum and not just a single number.” The researchers plan to show more examples of targeted phonon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phonon-catalysis-could-lead-new-fieldTurning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula
and fabricated a number of transformable, 2D kirigami structures, including a circle that turns into ... Untitled design (36).jpg: Inspired by the Japanese paper-cutting art of kirigami, MIT researchers developed ... fabricated a number of transformable, 2D kirigami structures, including a heart that morphs into a triangle. ...
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