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Graduate students win first place in 2019 Patagonia Case Competition

and Ty Christoff-Tempesta. A group of six MIT PhD and MBA students collaborated to develop and hone ... Horizontal A team of MIT students, including MechE grad student Jordan Landis, worked on cost-effective and ... packaging for apparel and food products that can be implemented at scale by 2025. The pervasive use of ...

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Morphable surfaces could cut air resistance

caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... drag on a variety of surfaces — including domes that sometimes crumple in high winds, or perhaps even ... vehicles. Detailed studies of aerodynamics have shown that while a ball with a dimpled surface has half the ...

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Cancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests

Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ... of an ongoing effort at MIT and elsewhere to study the physical changes that occur in cancer cells ...

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Droplets Made to Order

New method allows microdroplets of any shape to form on a surface. MIT researchers have developed ... a new way of creating surfaces on which droplets of any desired shape can spontaneously form. They say ... applications. The work is described in the journal Nature Communications by associate professor of mechanical ...

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Aviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory

an MIT undergraduate who was a member of a joint MIT and Lincoln Laboratory team that developed ... degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. As a member of the Engineering Division, he has worked on ... the lab and in his research work at MIT as part of the Lincoln Scholars program." Through the ...

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For MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Faith Brooks, the sky’s the limit

[WHOI]?” In the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, Brooks is researching the impact of coastal pond breaching on ... Brooks isn’t knee-deep in the waters of the Sesachacha or training with her MIT Triathlon team, she takes ... Faith Brooks, a graduate student in the  MIT-WHOI Joint Program, has had a clear dream since the ...

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MechE announces three new appointments

of the Battelle/MIT Postdoctoral Associate Program. Hosoi’s research interests lie in developing and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ... head for Ocean Science and Engineering in MechE, as co-director of the Ford-MIT Alliance, and as head ...

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Harvesting Fresh Water from Fog

src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h8vlzZ25vtg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT's School of ... McKinley's team is harvesting potable water from the coastal fog that forms along one of the driest regions ... Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable ...

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Can your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?

accelerometer data,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Sensable City Laboratory and co-author of a new paper ... MIT; and Ratti, who is also professor of the practice in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and ... study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ...

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New model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together

predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... absorbability of new drugs by adding excipients that enhance their interactions with transporters. Former MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s ...

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Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time

alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ... Consortium (MCSC); alongside Florian Allroggen, executive director of MITs Zero Impact Aviation Alliance; and ...

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System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat

a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a way to generate ... others at MIT and IIT Bombay. The key to the new system is the use of optically transparent aerogel, ... Center at MIT and from the U.S. Department of Energy. Tuesday, November 17, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT ...

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Ocean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle

surface. Through a sequence of carefully conceived maneuvers. the MIT scientists used the vehicle to ... of the conjecture,” says study co-author Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Ouillon, and Souha El Mousadik of MIT; and Matthew Alford of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Deep ...

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Fast, furious, and soon to be electric

certified Formula One cars. To Sly and the rest of the MIT Formula SAE team, this is home. Seated ... unassumingly next to the MIT Museum, N51 houses multiple student teams working under the auspices of the ... Early on Saturday mornings, before the rest of campus stirs awake, Jacqueline Sly ’14 grabs coffee ...

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Membrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis

Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... University of California at Santa Diego, and MIT postdoc Yu Long Han. Blowing up The basement membrane ... For cancer cells to metastasize, they must first break free of a tumor’s own defenses. Most tumors ...

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