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A simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders
Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ... can sense contractions of the GI tract. MIT researchers have now designed a new device that could ... inspired by the design of an ancient Incan technology, the quipu — a set of knotted cords used to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-diagnostic-tool-gastrointestinal-disordersA leg up for STEM majors
mechanical engineering because I really enjoy the hands-on aspects of the field.” In parallel to her design ... going on.” With one year to go, Hovendon is contemplating graduate school in mechanical engineering ... Senior Kevin Guo, a computer science major, and junior Erin Hovendon, studying mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsSoft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devices
Researchers from the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT; the National ... mechanically actuated soft robotic device known as a dynamic soft reservoir (DSR) that has been shown to ... between the device and the body. The device uses mechanical oscillation to modulate how cells respond ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robotics-breakthrough-manages-immune-response-implanted-devicesCooling when there’s too much heat
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... Bird, who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University. “Common ... a professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatImaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
author along with mechanical engineering professor Peter So and principal research scientist Brian ... a 0.7-milimeter-thick slice of mouse brain tissue. In fact, says co-lead author and mechanical engineering postdoc W. ... regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-tech-promises-deepest-looks-yet-living-brain-tissue-single-cell-resolutionMission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
80-pound human they are each designed to hold, the kayaks carry an array of electronics and a pull along ... kayaks star in robotic control systems research led by Franz Hover, associate professor of mechanical ... engineering at MIT and graduate student Brooks Reed and colleagues, which was just accepted into the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-tulip-robotic-pursuit-charles-riverHealing with hydrogels
to develop a bioadhesive tape for repairing damaged tissue. In November, mechanical engineering PhD ... promote healing and minimize complications after surgery. 1024_Hyunwoo Yuk_04.jpg Mechanical engineering ... in rehabilitation. Shortly after being accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/healing-hydrogelsSeaPerch, a robot with a mission
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Anne Wilson, Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Education Horizontal SeaPerch II, ... interested in ocean science and engineering The SeaPerch underwater robot is a popular educational tool for ... has had a tremendous impact on the fields of ocean science and engineering,” says Andrew Bennett, ‘85 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seaperch-robot-missionPhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and ... Godart of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mark Brennan of the Department of Urban Studies ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. He spent his childhood in Tanzania, received his undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsArtificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration
mechanics analyses with cutting-edge generative AI design technologies to unlock the plastic reserve of ... Department of Mechanical Engineering; Faez Ahmed, ABS Career Development Assistant Professor of mechanical ... CMU; and Natasha Vermaak, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-meets-%E2%80%9Cblisk%E2%80%9D-new-darpa-funded-collaborationTurning extreme heat into large-scale energy storage
a mechanical engineer would come up with a design and say, ‘Give me the best materials to do this,’” Henry ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. Heat transfer systems are usually made out of metals like iron and ... energy as heat. But building them requires a carefully designed system with materials that can withstand ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-extreme-heat-large-scale-energy-storageNot stuck on silicon
science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared ... light-emitting diodes, and other electronic and photonic devices. A new technique developed by MIT engineers may ... engineers worked out carefully controlled procedures to place single sheets of graphene onto an expensive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-siliconHow to Hide Like an Octopus
Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and Duke University Professor of Chemistry Stephen ... their surroundings — a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says the new material is essentially a layer of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-hide-octopusScientists make microscopes from droplets
Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... Blankschtein, professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis, and John D. MacArthur Professor of ... postdoc Julia Kalow, research affiliate Vishnu Sresht, professor of chemical engineering Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-droplets3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the tide of global warming
author and the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, about this grand vision. Q: Before we get into the specifics of the five challenges you lay out, ... needs to be spread much more broadly. This particular paper is about thermal science and engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-asegun-henry-five-%E2%80%9Cgrand-thermal-challenges%E2%80%9D-stem-tide-global-warmingJ-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
professor of mechanical engineering, and Chintan Vaishnav, senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management ... a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. J-WAFS Solutions funding is supporting the ... runoff Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received a 2017 grant to support ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-grants-advance-sustainable-agriculture