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How to get conductive gels to stick when wet

Baoyang Lu, and professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao. Most electrodes used for biomedical ... uncoated polymer, he says. The result is a mechanically strong and conductive gel that bonds tightly with ... chemical engineering at Stanford University, who was not associated with this research. “Wet adhesives are ...

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Driving a human-machine collaboration

Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Is there a sort of future ...

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Alum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market

Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... Photo by: Lillie Paquette/School of Engineering  The secret of the approach, according to McGovern, is ...

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Let it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof

water-resistant,” says Varanasi, who is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. “If you’re standing out in ... Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate provost at MIT. Credit for ...

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A new way to make droplets bounce away

and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The key to the process, they explain, is ... In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ...

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Digital Instruments for Musical Togetherness

measured, and is converted to a sonic output. Today, as a graduate student in mechanical engineering ... Engineering graduate student Joseph Ntaimo ’23 builds instruments that “empower people to jam with ... is Ntaimo’s “capaci-harp,” a digital instrument he created for  21M.370 Digital Instrument Design ...

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Advancing industry convergence through technology and innovation

a master’s student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, exploring how robot-aided therapy could ... complex mechanisms for robotics and medical devices, Shiozawa aims to design a variable impedance cane and ... wave of change and innovation. The five-year initiative is designed to advance three main pillars: ...

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Five with MIT Ties Tapped for Inventors Hall of Fame

'97, a mechanical engineering major, and Barrett Comiskey '97, a mathematics major, worked with ... for billions of people in developing countries. And Albert teaches product design, engineering, and ... entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania and is the director of engineering for Bresslergroup, a product ...

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Sarah Tress wins 2019 Rhodes Scholarship

in mechanical engineering. As a Rhodes Scholar, Tress will pursue an MPhil in Development Studies at ... Oxford. She envisions a career in humanitarian engineering, using her skills as an inventor and designer ... returning to MIT, Tress became involved with MIT D-Lab, which strives to apply engineering design principles ...

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At the forefront of building with biology

father is a mechanical engineer, and her grandfather is a civil engineer. A common thread among her ... community.   Raman is, as she puts it, “a mechanical engineer through and through.” She earned her BS, MS, ... and PhD in mechanical engineering. Her postdoc at MIT was funded by a L'Oréal USA for Women in ...

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Bridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices

Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; nano-etching and testing from ... etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Department ... of Materials Science and Engineering and mounted on the mission’s Lunar Outpost MAPP Rover. The ...

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Tabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible

scientist in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). Through on-campus learning, participants ... Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing and Design program. They adapted and scaled the original ... recently, an emphasis on design and smart manufacturing. Now, the collaboration has also expanded to include ...

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A new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items

Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Photonic Engineering group at MIT's Department of Mechanical ... designers alike have resorted to adding existing color-changing objects like feathers and gems to things ... “ MorphoChrome.” MorphoChrome allows users to design and program iridescence onto everyday objects (like a glove, ...

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SAE honors MIT researchers for best paper

of Mechanical Engineering — C. Justin Kamp, Alex G. Sappok, and Victor W. Wong — with the 2014 Arch ... 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering orange ... The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recently presented three researchers in the Department ...

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“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio

Mechanical Engineering, and Jerry Lu MFin ’24, a former researcher at the MIT Sports Lab, visit The Curiosity ...

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New approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets

mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Dan Soto, graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, and ... spraying fuel into engines or water into cooling towers, and printing with fine droplets of ink. The new ... method is purely passive and mechanical, Girard says. “Here, we let the mesh do the atomization ...

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Bursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air

ocean,” says Andrea Prosperetti, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, who ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... “The mechanism [Bourouiba] identified is also at work when foam bubbles burst at the surface of the ...

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Spray tuning

specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ...

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