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Quick Test for Ebola

Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ... Engineering and Science (IMES), are the senior authors of a paper describing the new device in the journal Lab ... University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, says he is impressed with the ...

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Focusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges

student in mechanical engineering; and Harvey Michaels, a professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management. ... engineering and MIT EnergyHack’s communications director. A total of 260 students comprising 64 teams ... Department of Chemical Engineering. Team Joules in Lockdown came in third, winning $1,000 for their solution ...

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Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025

2025 are: Christopher S. Chen SM ’93, PhD ’97, an alumnus of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Nicole Pham Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her ... Engineering; and a recipient of the ACM Computing Prize.  Additional MIT alumni who were elected to the NAM for ...

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Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

more than half of their crops. Kripa Varanasi, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, is working ... graduate student Maher Damak (left) and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa K. Varanasi, ... Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ...

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New surface treatment stops scale buildup

Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... when warm, moist air cools suddenly as it meets a cooler surface. For the most part, engineers have ... there’s mechanical damage, the lubricant can return to that surface,” Subramanyam says. “It can maintain ...

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A new strategy for choosing cancer drugs

Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... cells and analyzing them to understand mechanisms of resistance,” Manalis says. In a recent paper in ...

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Spreading kindness far and wide

though I’m definitely a mechanical engineer at heart.” Heading into her senior year, Arkhurst is ... cake mix, and craft materials. And she did all of this while balancing a demanding mechanical ... engineering course load, a teaching assistant position in a Physics I class, and roles with   MIT’s gospel ...

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Bettina Arkhurst

a demanding mechanical engineering course load, a teaching assistant position in a Physics I class, and roles ... though I’m definitely a mechanical engineer at heart.” Heading into her senior year, Arkhurst is ...

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Ingestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients

Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Celero Systems. Authors of the paper also include Pless, James ...

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Drug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition

Mechanical Engineering. “Over the course of six years of research and development at MIT, we’ve overcome ... as part of his ongoing PhD in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Finally, the audience ...

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Building robots to expand access to cell therapies

a great adventure for someone like me, a physician-scientist, to interact with mechanical engineers and ... engineering team of Multiply Labs. Photo Courtesy of Multiply Labs. In a recently announced project, Multiply ... requires scientists to extract blood from a patient, isolate immune cells, genetically engineer those ...

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The MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4

and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the Human-Computer Interaction Group at ... not have existed if we worked together for a short period of time,” says Douglas Hart, MIT mechanical ... engineering professor and MPP co-director. Hart and John Hansman, the T. Wilson Professor of Aeronautics and ...

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Meet Our Faculty

at MIT Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale Printing with Light Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature The ... Wonders of Thin Structures Visual Thinking for Engineers Bacteria: The Good and the Bad Hope Regenerated ...

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MIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications

says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... insight into the mechanisms of the treatments, so that we can target those mechanisms and improve the ...

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Letting robots manipulate cables

Dong, and Neha Sunil; Alberto Rodriguez, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering; and Edward ... slow and incremental deformations, as well as mechanical fixtures, to get the job done. Recently, ... uses a pair of soft robotic grippers with high-resolution tactile sensors (and no added mechanical ...

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Study predicts heart cells’ response to dwindling oxygen

student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The rapid return of oxygen is necessary for the ... Chemistry. McDougal’s co-author and advisor is C. Forbes Dewey, emeritus professor of mechanical engineering ... and biological engineering. Changes of heart McDougal and Dewey sought to trace the metabolic, ...

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A technique for more effective multipurpose robots

on PoCo.       Wang’s coauthors include Jialiang Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate student; ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of CSAIL. The research will be ... Wang, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper ...

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Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT

the MIT campus on Sept. 29. Wright earned a BS in mechanical engineering and spent two and a half ... research. After earning his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, Wright entered into graduate ... years pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before ...

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Cells get ready for their close-up

professor of mechanical engineering and biological engineering who is senior author of the new paper. “We ... engineering and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, says the new system is “a very ...

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MIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award

a senior at MIT studying mechanical engineering, was named as the 2018 winner. “Even after 12 years, I am ... in Ghana. He uses his engineering skills to help others as well, working to develop prosthetic ... electrical engineering; Noam Watt, of Lexington, Massachusetts, who is currently finishing his senior year at ...

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