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“Colloidal gels,” ubiquitous in everyday products, divulge their secrets

and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Our results enable researchers to determine why weak ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and first author of the new study, which appears in PNAS. The research ... microstructural mechanisms underlying how the gels change naturally over time, and how their elastic properties ...

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Tata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio

Village-Scale Water and Sanitation Systems" — Amos Winter of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... The MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design recently announced eight new projects for the ... Treatment in Rural Communities" — Alan Hatton of the Department of Chemical Engineering "A Novel ...

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How to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand

options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ... through sand, gravel, or other soft media can help engineers drive a rover over Martian soil, anchor ... processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ...

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Lincoln Laboratory and National Strategic Research Institute launch student research program to tackle biothreats to national security

conducted a pilot of the program embedded within the MIT Engineering Systems Design and Development II ... engineering design and prototyping, challenges students to take what they learned in the classroom in their ... fluid mechanicals, controls, and solid mechanics." In total, 12 mechanical engineering students ...

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Morphable surfaces could cut air resistance

of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering. “Less is known about what happens ... efficiency, he says. John Rogers, a professor of materials research and engineering at the University of ... of how controlled processes of mechanical buckling can be used to create three-dimensional structures ...

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Researchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles

Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ...

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Department News

rotordynamics, and a leader in transforming mechanics into an engineering science, passed away Oct. 29, in ... transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, he was appointed to assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering in 1947, associate professor in 1951, then to professor in 1958. He was named Ford ...

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Illustrating Covid-19 hygiene education

Product Engineering Processes, she learned the importance of good user research and user design ... a graduate student studying mechanical engineering at MIT. For her master’s thesis, she worked on household ... skill,” says Maria Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and Florentine’s graduate advisor. ...

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Stents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract

structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that could be used to ... an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... stents in patients. The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)

degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... timeframe, that comes to more than $4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive? ... method is very important to address even before you create a design. If you have the freedom to apply it ...

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Danielle Zurovcik

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... $4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive? “If you look at it from ... important to address even before you create a design. If you have the freedom to apply it incorrectly, the ...

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DOE selects MIT to establish a Center for the Exascale Simulation of Coupled High-Enthalpy Fluid–Solid Interactions

(1937) Professor of Mechanical Engineering and co-director of CCSE, who will serve as associate ... , Mathematics, and Mechanical Engineering. Franklin Hadley will lead center operations, with administration and ... high-performance computing for open science and engineering applications relevant to national security mission ...

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Rainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds

Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “It’s a very common phenomenon, and it ... an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University, says that scientists have long ... mechanism that releases this aroma, as well as other aerosols, into the environment. Using high-speed ...

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Four MIT faculty members receive U.S. Department of Energy early career awards

assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Each year, the DoE selects researchers for significant ... Science (LNS); Karthish Manthiram, assistant professor of chemical engineering; Phiala Shanahan, assistant ... Engineering, is working to synthesize these chemicals and materials in a sustainable manner that eliminates the ...

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Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air

“atmospheric water harvesting.” MIT-Water-Shaker01-press_460.jpg MIT engineers designed an ultrasonic system to ... Mechanical Engineering. “Now we have a way to recover water quickly and efficiently.” Boriskina and her ... “shake” water out of an atmospheric water harvester. The design (two prototypes shown in photo) can ...

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A light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds

Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... Esther and Harold E. Edergton Career Development Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Buie and his colleagues identified a mechanism by which rain produces aerosols: As a falling droplet ...

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New method for propulsion in fluids

journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... propel objects. In the natural world, the mechanism may influence the motion of icebergs floating on the ... such follow-up experiments, to figure out “whether the effect can be exploited, in an engineering ...

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