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MIT Maritime Consortium releases “Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook”
Gallery. Credits: Tony Pulsone/MIT MechE: “This handbook is a critical tool in efforts to support the adoption of ... Engineering at MIT, director of the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, and co-director of the MIT Maritime ... the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), director of the MIT Sociotechnical Systems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-maritime-consortium-releases-%E2%80%9Cnuclear-ship-safety-handbook%E2%80%9DHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple, pioneered by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton. ... The MIT team’s new videos, of a water jet fired through a droplet, reveal surprisingly similar impact ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-droplet“Robot, make me a chair”
toward enabling that future,” says lead author Alex Kyaw, a graduate student in the MIT departments of ... Gupta, an MIT architecture graduate student; Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering; ... with words. Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Crobot-make-me-chair%E2%80%9DPower Efficiency in the Violin
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team modeled the airflow through a simple round ... New study identifies key design features that boost violins’ acoustic power Some of the most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. MIT ... A variety of medical devices can be inserted into the gastrointestinal tract to treat, diagnose, ... or monitor GI disorders. Many of these have to be removed by endoscopic surgery once their job is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightMIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use
— José del Águila Ferrandis, Jack Kimmeth, and Michael Triantafyllou of MIT Sea Grant and the Department ... hull,” explains Michael Triantafyllou, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT Sea ... Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship’s hull ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-demonstrate-ship-hull-modifications-cut-fuel-use-03 Questions: How to control biofilms in space
Researchers from MIT will be collaborating with colleagues at the University of Colorado at ... sick. MIT News asked professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi and doctoral student Samantha ... experiment is looking for ways to address the formation of biofilms on surfaces within the space station. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-how-control-biofilms-spaceA droplet walks into an electric field …
student in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics. “With our equation, one can predict ... the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, BAE Systems, the Assistant Secretary of Defense ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A team of researchers including Professor A. John Hart have found ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplet-walks-electric-field-%E2%80%A6A technique for more effective multipurpose robots
a unique task and environment. MIT-Policy-Comp-01-press.jpg Four photos show, on top level, a simulation of ... multipurpose robots, MIT researchers developed a technique to combine multiple sources of data across domains, ... of these data to train a general machine,” Wang says. The MIT researchers developed a technique that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-more-effective-multipurpose-robotsHow much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?
materials is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ... amount of energy they can store in a small space, charging capabilities, and ability to remain effective ... after hundreds, or even thousands, of charge cycles. These batteries are a crucial part of current ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteriesAlumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... Water treatment with a twist. Prakash Govindan, co-founder and CTO of water technology company ... Srinivas. The hot sun on their backs, they were on their way to pick up buckets of water that were being ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12Building a better indoor herb garden
winner of the 2010 2.007 robot competition class, he was excited to work on designing fighter planes one ... Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... arrived, Briggs found that many aspects of the design fell short. The plants weren’t getting enough light ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-better-indoor-herb-gardenA Message from New MechE Department Head John Hart SM ’02, PhD ’06
doing this at MIT, and to have an extended network of alumni and friends so invested and engaged in our ... success. My predecessor as Department Head, Evelyn Wang, the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering, ... Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering, led our department since 2018 and through an especially ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/message-new-meche-department-head-john-hart-sm-%E2%80%9902-phd-%E2%80%9906Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... launched another startup company, in partnership with MIT professor of chemical engineering and Associate ... me — not just a proof of concept.” Wednesday, January 18, 2017 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Cancer Research, and Tiffany Hua, a former technical associate at MIT, are the lead authors of the paper. ... Melinda Gates Foundation. Other MIT authors of the study are Alison Hayward, Aniket Wahane, Aaron Lopes, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesOnce-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials
a variety of medications,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... contraceptives. “We are delighted that this technology which started at MIT has reached the point of phase ... 3 clinical trials,” says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, who was an author of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-week-pill-schizophrenia-shows-promise-clinical-trialsOutside-the-Box Thinker
it himself, of course. At age 13, Nathan Spielberg — now an MIT senior — began building his first ... MIT, he has held onto this tenet, but turned his attention to a new means of production: 3-D printing. ... an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerOur hairy insides
currents of the fluids they’re immersed in. MIT-Hair-Beds_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT can predict how beds of ... flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ... Our bodies are lined on the inside with soft, microscopic carpets of hair, from the grassy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-hairy-insidesHacking for Lilly
their knowledge of mechanical engineering to develop assistive technologies for people living with ... brainstorming, designing, and creating a prototype that improves the daily lives of a member of the Greater ... technologies can improve the lives of others in the process. Health Innovation Impact Home Culture Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-lillyArtificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
unit.” Credit: Courtesy of the researchers; edited by MIT News But for the most part, these designs are ... limited in the amount of motion and power they can produce. Now, MIT engineers are aiming to give bio-bots ... author Ritu Raman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT. “Such modularity ...
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