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graduate experience. Recent doctoral graduates from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on how they overcame challenges during their time as ... graduate students. Recent doctoral graduates from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering reflect on how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-journeyAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member of ... the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the senior author of the study. MIT research scientist ... features, the MIT team was able to create a device with similarly strong adhesion for a variety of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterTalking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson
Designer, Inventor, and Author of “The Bike Bible” Discusses His Lifelong Love of the Bicycle For ... has been his preferred mode of transportation since he first rode on two wheels at the age of nine in ... engineering. Over the course of six decades, Wilson’s career has been peppered with many achievements, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilsonBefore the wreckage comes ashore
maps, animations and pictures bring the message home more than tables of numbers and probabilities. The ... place a blob of spilled oil or dangerous tsunami debris would hit a coastline two days ahead of time. ... rapid-response actions and efficient use of limited resources only hint at the potentials of smarter disaster ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wreckage-comes-ashoreA robot that senses hidden objects
Kinetics Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her MIT co-authors include Adib, who is the director of the Signal ... Kinetics Group; and Alberto Rodriguez, the Class of 1957 Associate Professor in the Department of ... been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-senses-hidden-objectsWaves in the Deep
wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ... and other nutrients around the globe in a matter of hours. MIT-Deep-Ocean-Waves-1024.jpg Usama Kadri, ... a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepTough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out
Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ... material’s potential in a number of applications, including wearable electronics and on-demand ... funded, in part, by the Office of Naval Research, Draper Laboratory, MIT Institute for Soldier ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tough-new-hydrogel-hybrid-doesn%E2%80%99t-dry-outResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
windows and lasts up to a decade longer. MIT-Thermal-Control-1024.jpg The visual and thermal properties of ... Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship ... problem. According to the Department of Energy, heat that either escapes or enters windows accounts for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windows3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... curious class of heat-shrinking materials. The team, led by Nicholas X. Fang, an associate professor of ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedEngineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
MIT’s RoboTuna, for example, was composed of about 3,000 different parts and took about two years to ... Gershenfeld, head of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, adds that “this is a third way that marries the best ... technologies, like the MIT team’s demonstration of the feasibility of hydrodynamic morphing in cellular systems, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-devise-modular-system-produce-efficient-scalable-aquabotsBubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs
David L. Chandler | MIT News Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi published a new study of bubbles on ... are hampered by the formation of bubbles that block parts of the electrode surface, reducing the area ... available for the active reaction. Such blockage reduces the performance of the electrodes by anywhere from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-findings-could-unlock-better-electrode-and-electrolyzer-designsProfessor A. Douglas Carmichael, Leading Ocean Engineer, Passes Away at 86
in the Department of Ocean Engineering at MIT from 1970 to 1996, and was a lead developer of the ... MIT. Photo courtesy of MIT Museum. Professor Carmichael earned his BSc in mechanical engineering from ... Electric Company as a technical advisor for large steam turbine design. He joined the MIT Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-douglas-carmichael-leading-ocean-engineer-passes-away-86Three awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political science
award winners from MIT: Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and ... a wonderful recognition of a promising scholar." Full story at MIT SHASS News MIT Political Scientist ... of Political Science at MIT. The award recognizes the best book published over the past two years in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-awards-mit-research-anthropology-economics-and-political-scienceUsing light to propel water
Communications, was developed by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, School of ... A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... separate water from oil at a drilling rig, the researchers say. MIT-pushingwater-1-1024.jpg A new system ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-light-propel-waterCoatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces
Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... that facilitates an increase of friction with a surface,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ... Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Sahab Babaee is the lead author of the paper, along with Simo Pajovic, an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
alternative to batteries — that could provide storage of electrical energy. As an example, the MIT researchers ... Damian Stefaniuk at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, James Weaver at the Wyss ... Institute, and Yunguang Zhu in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The work was supported by the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsMinimally invasive 3D-printable bioadhesive cardiac pacing lead may reduce complications, improve safety for cardiac patients
authors of the study, former MIT researcher Jue Deng is the paper’s first author. “This work introduces ... with improved bioelectronic performance In 2012 at the age of 82, Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk ... on the moon, died of post-surgery complications following what should have been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/minimally-invasive-3d-printable-bioadhesive-cardiac-pacing-lead-may-reduce-complicationsJ-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
products that could have nourished a number of people. Fadel Adib, an assistant professor at the MIT Media ... (J-WAFS) at MIT. J-WAFS is funding these and other projects through its fifth round of seed grants, ... ambitious goals of MIT’s Institute-wide effort to address global water and food systems challenges through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-seven-new-seed-grantsWhat will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?
engineering at MIT. “Our study is the first of its kind on these midwater plumes, and can be a major ... Peacock, who is the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Laboratory. To pin down these dynamics, the ... In certain parts of the deep ocean, scattered across the seafloor, lie baseball-sized rocks ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-will-happen-sediment-plumes-associated-deep-sea-miningNew plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its ... microscopic cells. A single wood cell wall is constructed from fibers of cellulose — nature’s most abundant ... polymer, and the main structural component of all plants and algae. Within each fiber are reinforcing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminum