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Students strive for “Balance!” in a lively product showcase
colorful celebration of student product designs, as part of the final presentations for MIT’s popular class ... challenges and uncover problems and opportunities,” Hosoi said. “The class’s six phases of product design ... of attendees along with thousands more who tuned in online to see students pitch their products. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-strive-%E2%80%9Cbalance%E2%80%9D-lively-product-showcaseLobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... Qu and Fei Deng of Harvard University, and Zhao Qin, who is a research scientist in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberFaculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley
world’s driest regions. By David Chandler, MIT News Office Photo courtesy of researchers. In some of ... pull it right out of the air, from fog that drifts in from warm oceans nearby. Now researchers at MIT ... a publication of the American Chemical Society, in a paper by MIT postdoc Kyoo-Chul Park (PhD ’13), MIT alumnus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-gareth-mckinleyHow to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed
the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... representations? “These models just output a vector, comprised of some numbers, so we can’t compare them easily,” ... of general-purpose, unlabeled data. They can be applied to a variety of tasks, like generating images ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-general-purpose-ai-model%E2%80%99s-reliability-it%E2%80%99s-deployed“In everything I do, I’m a creator”
by MechE- Gazdus, who created prints of these paintings of MIT campus scenes. “I’ll always be writing ... MIT by project classes such as 2.00B (Toy Design) and 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing). “It was so ... Mechanical engineer and storyteller Hannah Gazdus integrates her love of art into all of her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-everything-i-do-i%E2%80%99m-creator%E2%80%9DCapturing the Sun in a box: Thermal battery inventor wins the 2021 Bell Labs Prize
on fossil fuels and cutting CO2 emissions. An Associate Professor at MIT and Director of the ... The winner of the 2021 Nokia Bell Labs Prize is proposing a remarkable new use for carbon, the ... primary source of global greenhouse gas. Instead of burning carbon in the form of coal and other fossil ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/capturing-sun-box-thermal-battery-inventor-wins-2021-bell-labs-prizeProfessor Koichi Masubuchi, Leading Expert in Welding Science and Fabrication Technology, Passes Away at 92.
Associate Professor of Naval Architecture at MIT. In 1971, he was promoted to Professor in the Department ... and spent most of his career at Batelle and MIT dedicated to progressing the science and engineering ... of welding fabrication. He spent his first 10 years at MIT focused on solving welding problems NASA ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-koichi-masubuchi-leading-expert-welding-science-and-fabrication-technologyA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Iowa have ... cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy. Image: iStock; MIT News When the researchers ... altogether. “This affects a huge number of patients, and it can manifest as something as simple as mouth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapyA Cleaner Burn
from MIT’s D Millions of people die each year as a result of soot or smoke inhalation from these ... wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are ... of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaner-burnClimbing the ‘power ascension’ market
ways to accomplish things.” Important piece of the equipment locker In its early days, MIT’s Venture ... speak at MIT classes from time to time. MIT helped in one other capacity: The Institute was Atlas’s ... Since MIT spinout Atlas Devices’ flagship product, the Atlas Powered Rope Ascender (APA), first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climbing-%E2%80%98power-ascension%E2%80%99-marketBlending medicine and mechanical engineering
enrolled in all of the same classes as mechanical engineering majors, with additional biomedical courses. ... joined an online Irish network to stay connected to her roots. “When I emailed an online group of MIT and ... both industry and academia. As an assistant professor at MIT, she holds a joint appointment in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blending-medicine-and-mechanical-engineeringResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
to explain them. MIT-Lithium-i-1024.jpg This series of photographs shows the chemical reaction that ... Environmental Science, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy; Paula Hammond, the ... Tulodziecki, a recent MIT postdoc at the Research Laboraotory of Electronics; Graham Leverick, an MIT graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialHealing with hydrogels
Collegiate Inventors Competition, Yuk has received a number of accolades including being named one of Forbes ... Inventor’s Hall of Fame. Yuk was named the graduate winner for his invention SanaHeal, a bioadhesive tape ... that can easily bind to tissues or organs. The tape could one day be used in place of sutures to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/healing-hydrogelsStudent Spotlight: Paul Lazarescu
he says. Watch a video of his hand exerciser at http://youtu.be/AaaCkv8jgcI or read the original MIT ... A Modern-Day Inventor by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman As ... a child, Paul Lazarescu (SB ‘13) dreamed of becoming an inventor. “I always loved building things,” he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-paul-lazarescuThree professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows
inspiring MIT undergraduates as he leads them through fundamental questions that shape our understanding of ... students has long been an enormous part of what makes the fit to MIT feel so right to me. Our students ... and seasoned faculty alike,” says Michael Sipser, dean of MIT’s School of Science. “He is the model of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-professors-named-2017-macvicar-fellowsTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Solutions Initiative, and I have also received a great deal of support from the MIT International Policy ... Professor Matthew Alford at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. We had other researchers from MIT, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ... described this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), in a paper by MIT ... demonstrated before,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactIngestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Zhao and senior collaborator Giovanni ... the researchers envision the pill may safely deliver a number of different sensors to the stomach to ... MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-expanding-pill-monitors-stomach-monthSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... funded by the Office of Naval Research and by the MIT Sea Grant College Program. Glen Gawarkiewicz, ... autonomous vehicles. As the capabilities and the numbers of autonomous vehicles increase, this methodology ...
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