Search Results
Showing Results for: “MIT Class of 2027 admissions numbers”
Ingestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
a drug or tuning the dose of a drug,” says Giovanni Traverso, a visiting scientist in MIT’s Department of ... applications,” says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... Dec. 13 issue of Advanced Materials Technologies. Yong Lin Kong, a former MIT postdoc who is now an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelessly“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
arms to grab and hoist other machines: These are some of the robots developed by MIT-affiliated teams ... teams of MIT students, research staff, and alumni worked to design, construct, and test combat robots ... system to power a robot. The high level of participation by MIT affiliates in “BattleBots” is an example ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9DNew gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ... many applications.” This research was funded, in part, by the Office of Naval Research, the MIT ... Catheters, intravenous lines, and other types of surgical tubing are a medical necessity for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsEngineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
designed to be easily sterilized and used many times. As the number of new Covid-19 cases in the United ... restrict ourselves to methods that could scale,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of ... funded, in part, by the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskA material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
conductive. Image: courtesy of the researchers Now, a team of researchers at MIT have made a major leap ... David Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship International Horizontal A team of ... electrical inputs form the backbone of all of modern electronics. But achieving the same kind of tunable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-willIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
results from various groups that claimed to have exceeded the thermal limit, a team of researchers at MIT ... in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatMaking a remarkable material even better
test it “in the field” — in this case, on the roof of an MIT building. On a sunny day in winter, they ... Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences; and the MIT Tata Center for Technology and ... appears in the Autumn 2019 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of the MIT Energy Initiative. Monday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-remarkable-material-even-betterSeparating finely mixed oil and water
ecosystems. But MIT researchers have discovered a new, inexpensive way of getting the two fluids apart again. ... "they could have a very big impact. Oil-water nanoemulsions are ubiquitous in a number of industries, ... Whenever there is a major spill of oil into water, the two tend to mix into a suspension of tiny ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-finely-mixed-oil-and-waterEngineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity
MIT-Obesity-Treatment-01-PRESS_0.gif MIT engineers have now come up with a new way to take advantage of that phenomenon, using an ... levels of ghrelin, a hunger-promoting hormone, go down. While a graduate student at MIT, Srinivasan ... Health, Novo Nordisk, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, a Schmidt Science Fellowship, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-vibrating-ingestible-capsule-might-help-treat-obesityUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ... Materials, includes David Veysset, Yuchen Sun, and Keith A. Nelson, of MIT’s Institute for Soldier ... A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... has now tackled a new category of consumer and manufacturing woe: how to get much thicker materials to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideVelcro-like food sensor detects spoilage and contamination
MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, ... says Benedetto Marelli, the Paul M. Cook Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of ... .edu Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor John Hart have designed a food sensor from an array of silk ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/velcro-food-sensor-detects-spoilage-and-contaminationVapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
’18, with funding from the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, to improve the efficiency of ... installation on one of the cooling towers of MIT’s natural-gas-powered Central Utility Plant, with funding from ... the MIT Office of Sustainability. After experimenting with various configurations, they were able to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-airA graphene roll-out
MIT engineers have developed a continuous manufacturing process that produces long strips of ... Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT “For several years, researchers have thought of graphene as a potential ... director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at MIT. “We believe this is the first study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outVijay Vaitheeswaran ’90: Engineer, economist, editor
engineering.” This kind of thinking is something MIT fosters extremely well, Vaitheeswaran says, by encouraging ... attended MIT were some of the first when a big push was taking place for students to enroll in humanities, ... society is really the process of innovation. I learned an intuitive appreciation for it at MIT.” After ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vijay-vaitheeswaran-%E2%80%9990-engineer-economist-editorBubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double
equipment and disable plants. Now researchers at MIT have developed an understanding of what causes this ... better. The MIT team’s experiments, which use simultaneous high-speed optical and infrared imaging of the ... New analysis of textured surfaces could lead to more efficient, and less dangerous, power plants ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble%E2%80%A6boiling-doubleFaculty Openings
The Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in ... https://school-of-engineering-faculty-search.mit.edu/meche/register.tcl. Early applications are encouraged, and applications must be received by January 15, 2026. The pay ... FACULTY POSITIONS in Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA ...
https://meche.mit.edu/faculty-positionsAlbatross robot takes flight
in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who led the design of the robot as part of his ... aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. To the bottom of the glider they added a keel, along with various ... fall of 2016, the team put its design to the test, launching the robot from the MIT Sailing Pavilion ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightQS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2023-24
MIT-QSoverall-01-press_0_1024.jpg MIT was also ranked the world’s top university in 11 of the subject areas ranked by QS, as ... international students. MIT was also ranked the world’s top university in 11 of the subject areas ranked by ... 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-2023-24Design could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
MIT_Lithium-Metal-Batteries1024.jpg X-ray tomography images taken at Brookhaven National Lab show cracking of a particle in one ... of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found a novel electrolyte that overcomes these problems and ... now take for granted, as well as the rapid expansion of electric vehicle production. But researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteries