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Stamp-sized graphene sheets riddled with holes could be boon for molecular separation
material is grown in the lab. With this technique, they have fabricated relatively large sheets of graphene ... Kidambi’s MIT co-authors are Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, ... professor of electrical engineering and computer science, along with researchers from Oxford University, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stamp-sized-graphene-sheets-riddled-holes-could-be-boon-molecular-separationCollaborating for irrigation access solutions: Where policy and engineering meet
Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, are using an ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and one in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning ... As food demand rises due to growing populations with changing consumption patterns in Africa and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaborating-irrigation-access-solutions-where-policy-and-engineering-meetStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... materials. In their new study, the researchers focused on a special type of nematic liquid crystal ... sensor that interacts with light in certain ways. It could also be used as scaffolds to grow and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsMaking life friendlier with personal robots
Department of Mechanical Engineering, that she was finally able to work on a technology with the potential to ... MIT as a postdoc with the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women, which is housed in the MIT ... to make robots more helpful to people by working with Jibo, a friendly robot companion developed by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-life-friendlier-personal-robotsLiberty Ladd: Going above and beyond
a STEM field, she selected mechanical engineering. Ladd expects to graduate in the spring with bachelor’s ... and master’s degrees in political science and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, and has ... political science and mechanical engineering and a master's in political science. Courtesy of Jodi ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/liberty-ladd-going-above-and-beyondLiberty Ladd
a STEM field, she selected mechanical engineering. Ladd expects to graduate in the spring with bachelor’s ... and master’s degrees in political science and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, and has ... mechanical engineering and a master's in political science. Courtesy of Jodi Hilton MIT News ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/liberty-laddNew 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste
Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at ... worked closely with lead author Mehmet Ozdemir of TU Delft; Marwa AlAlawi, a mechanical engineering ... textured handles that would be easier to grasp for individuals with weakness in their hands. “Today, we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-technique-creates-unique-objects-quickly-and-less-wasteA flexible way to grab items with feeling
Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). In a recent project, Adelson and Sandra Liu — a mechanical engineering PhD ... conform to the shape of the object they come in contact with. The fingers themselves are assembled from ... professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University who was not invovled with the research, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-way-grab-items-feelingEngineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”
Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, ... the team with bacterial cells engineered to light up in response to a variety of chemical stimuli. The ... genetically programmed living cells. The cells are engineered to light up in response to a variety of stimuli. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3-d-print-%E2%80%9Cliving-tattoo%E2%80%9DBubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam
graduate Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18, visiting student Theo Emmerich, and professor of mechanical engineering ... essential. MIT-Bubble-Capture-1024.jpg In a beaker with a constant stream of bubbles, inserting a piece of ... one containing foaming suds with a sheet of the same size, but without the textured material. In the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-capturing-surface-helps-get-rid-foamPropelling Transportation Forward
gradually – to the consumer level. In the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty are researching ... designed and built their own testing machines along with specially designed specimens in order to validate ... transportation made up 14% of the total greenhouse gases in 2010. “The most pressing need in energy production ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/propelling-transportation-forwardEngineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants
inflammation and the buildup of scar tissue. MIT engineers are working on developing soft, flexible neural ... a professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering, the research team has now ... generate a new design in 30 minutes. Hopefully this will streamline the development of neural interfaces, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-soft-rubbery-brain-implantsTackling Greenhouse Gases
faculty members in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are turning to technologies that store, ... professor of mechanical engineering. An expert in heat transfer, Henry has turned to an unlikely class of ... approach many engineers take in assessing a product’s life-cycle is flawed. “Many LCAs ignore real human ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-greenhouse-gasesAlum 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 ... MIT's Translational Fellows Program enables the move with special funding for entrepreneurs. ... Electronics (RLE). Initially launched as a seed program in 2013 with five postdocs, the program grew to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketEngineers design color-changing compression bandage
condition. Now engineers at MIT have developed pressure-sensing photonic fibers that they have woven into ... around a patient’s leg. color-changing compression_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT have developed ... of mechanical engineering at MIT. “These fibers can provide information about the pressure that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-color-changing-compression-bandageAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... out and lift that box with both hands, then hold it on top of your forearms and balance it against ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesWristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
challenge in robotics and virtual reality. Now, MIT engineers have designed an ultrasound wristband that ... manipulate, and interact with objects in video games, design applications, or other virtual settings. “We ... think this work has immediate impact in potentially replacing hand tracking techniques with wearable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wristband-enables-wearers-control-robotic-hand-their-own-movementsA new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items
“MorphoChrome,” developed at MIT, pairs software with a handheld device to make everyday objects ... structural color in the lab, users can focus on expressing various ideas and experimenting with programming ... Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Photonic Engineering group at MIT's Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-%E2%80%9Cpaint-light%E2%80%9D-create-radiant-color-changing-itemsSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty
in computer engineering at the Sharif University of Technology. A computer systems researcher with ... Traverso will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an assistant professor in July. He received ... an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, with a core ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-1Jana Saadi
mechanical engineering, with a concentration in product design. But she wasn’t always sure she would pursue ... process behind product design. Now, she’s pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, researching how ... creating products with people,” she says. Saadi’s experience with D-Lab sparked an interest in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jana-saadi