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Student-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
professors. At the beginning of the one-semester class, each student is issued an identical kit of parts ... of the 164 students in the class elect to take part in the competition; an alternative allows ... Simulated ski run challenges mechanical engineering students to produce a wide array of robots. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-built-robots-compete-slopesIlluminating a complex disease
the Center for Gynepathology Research at MIT to study endometriosis and similar diseases. One of the ... Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illuminating-complex-diseaseA pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy
expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... every evaluation,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist at MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... and Javier Gervas-Arruga of Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. Network training At MIT, Krebs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsyMIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education
benefit from high-quality education.” Since 2017, the Jameel World Education Lab, part of MIT Open ... years, grants have supported educational innovations across a rich variety of MIT fields: mechanical ... Education Lab. “We look forward to connecting the innovative work of our grantees to the broader MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-win-grants-develop-and-test-14-innovative-ideas-improve-educationStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that could be used to ... an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... Babaee, an MIT research scientist, is the lead author of the paper, which appears today in Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractFocusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges
Guided by principles of engagement, impact, and innovation, “the goal of MIT EnergyHack 2020 was to ... engineering and MIT EnergyHack’s communications director. A total of 260 students comprising 64 teams ... countries, and degree programs. The EnergyHack organizing team was composed of 11 MIT undergraduate and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/focusing-innovative-solutions-world%E2%80%99s-energy-challengesMIT IDEAS celebrates social innovation at the Institute
Members of the MIT community from around the world gathered virtually on Sunday, April 26 to ... learning from other phenomenal cohort members, and being a part of a movement at MIT for social ... graduate student, though teams may include members outside the MIT community. “Beyond the numbers, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-ideas-celebrates-social-innovation-instituteEngineers repurpose 19th-century photography technique to make stretchy, color-changing films
in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Now that we’ve cleared this scaling hurdle, we can ... Miller’s co-authors are MIT undergraduate Helen Liu, and Mathias Kolle, associate professor of mechanical ... Imagine stretching a piece of film to reveal a hidden message. Or checking an arm band’s color to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-repurpose-19th-century-photography-technique-make-stretchy-color-changing-filmsTackling social issues through engineering and theater
engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been exposed to ... 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/news-media/tackling-social-issues-through-engineering-and-theaterFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering; ... many numbers were exchanged. And, at the end, everyone had the chance to look under the hood of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsMIT engineers introduce the Oreometer
which turns out to be really hard,” says Max Fan, an undergraduate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... fluids are in the same class of materials as Oreo cream,” she says. “So, this new understanding can help ... in rheology — the study of how a non-Newtonian material flows when twisted, pressed, or otherwise ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-introduce-oreometerMIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and from MIT D-Lab, Associate Director for Research ... effort. guatemalan-woman-workshop-1024.jpg MIT D-Lab and the Department of Mechanical Engineering will ... work at the community level,” comments Leith of MIT D-Lab. Guatemala has a substantially ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-15m-usaid-award-promote-research-and-innovation-universities-latin-americaWater, water everywhere … even in the air
MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ... harvesting” systems that have been deployed in a number of coastal locations. And there are very expensive ... including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airTechnique quickly identifies extreme event statistics
research by MIT scientists may help engineers design more resilient offshore platforms. Courtesy of the ... researchers Now engineers at MIT have developed an algorithm that quickly pinpoints the types of extreme ... structure,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-quickly-identifies-extreme-event-statistics-0MIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications
says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ... measurements will help us identify promising treatments with smaller numbers of patients and provide better ... The development of drugs to treat acute stroke or aid in stroke recovery is a multibillion-dollar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-may-accelerate-trials-stroke-medicationsFive MIT PhD students awarded 2022 J-WAFS fellowships for water and food solutions
and family. Aditya Ghodgaonkar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... research, Ghodgaonkar is a mentor in MIT Makerworks and has been a teaching assistant for classes such as ... collaborate with MIT on water and food research. A portion of each research affiliate’s fees supports this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-phd-students-awarded-2022-j-wafs-fellowships-water-and-food-solutionsRemembering George
Image Teaser Headline: Remembering George Hatsopoulos MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... thermodynamics, Hatsopoulos founded Thermo Electron and served as a life member emeritus of the MIT Corporation. ... remembers the incredible life and legacy of senior lecturer emeritus George Hatsopoulos. An expert in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/remembering-georgeExpanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
for a particular combination of purposes in his third experience with the MIT International Science ... countries,” he says of Sierra Leone, “and I wanted to be a part of that.” The mission of the MIT ... professor faculty director of the MIT-Africa program, for a three-day short course. There, he, Reda, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-education-africa-cambridge-and-back-again