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Robots shoot for the moon in MIT’s annual 2.007 competition
a moonshot,” says Amos Winter, course co-instructor and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... occasion in astronaut gear. The 2.007 competition is a yearly tradition that dates back to the 1970s, with ... Engineering, who developed 2.007 as one of the first hands-on, project-based undergraduate courses. Each year, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robots-shoot-moon-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-2007-competitionEngineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip
electronic waste. Now MIT engineers have taken a step toward that modular vision with a LEGO-like design for ... devices will expand dramatically,” says Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... with artificial synapse arrays, each of which they trained to recognize certain letters — in this case, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-build-lego-artificial-intelligence-chipAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
percent less trajectory tracking error than baseline methods in simulations and perform better with new ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), a principal ... the structure of potential disturbances. But in a real world filled with uncertain conditions, it is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsStartup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
Department of Mechanical Engineering and germs were top-of-mind for everyone. In 2020, Li connected with ... homeowners and developers,” said Li. “Several large plumbing companies with interest in the product have also ... product. Cleana’s current seat is battery-free and in fact uses no electronics. It lifts mechanically after ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsStudent Spotlight: Nikolai Begg
the tip withdraws within 1/100 of a second. The mechanism, which is purely mechanical in nature with ... make surgical procedures less invasive. Begg first became interested in medical device engineering ... health. Today he works with doctors and nurses across medical disciplines in hospitals throughout Boston ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-nikolai-beggNew fund makes MIT a living sustainability lab
The four project teams are lead by Kripa Varanasi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Randy ... Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Materials ... Water recapture at MIT’s power plant Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Kripa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-fund-makes-mit-living-sustainability-labIn it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students
Mechanical Engineering makes the members of his lab feel secure in their positions — and they are happier for ... Lienhard2 1024.jpg Professor John Lienhard of the Department of Mechanical Engineering makes the members of ... program). In group meetings, he initiates discussions with graduate students concerning many topics that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/it-together-faculty-mentors-and-graduate-studentsA measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind
technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Jain and Singhal, PhD candidates in Course 2 (mechanical ... since last year, in partnership with the National Braille Press, and received the Louis Braille Touch of ... Genius Prize for Innovation in recognition of their thoughtful integration of Braille with existing tools ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measurable-improvement-stem-access-blindSeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... benignly in healthy individuals. But the bug poses a risk to those with weakened immune systems, and can ... turn pathogenic in patients with cystic fibrosis, forming thick layers of mucus in the lungs. However, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaIn the World: Remote Mexican Village Uses Solar Power to Purify Water
engineering at MIT, says the case study in La Mancalona demonstrates that with careful design and proper ... System developed at MIT proves practical for remote communities. Deep in the jungles of the ... operators in the village. Photo by Leah Kelly Steven Dubowsky, a professor emeritus of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/world-remote-mexican-village-uses-solar-power-purify-waterEngineers design sutures that can deliver drugs or sense inflammation
Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of ... tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. The sutures are coated with hydrogels ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-sutures-can-deliver-drugs-or-sense-inflammationEngineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
properties, meaning that it can both produce an electrical signal in response to mechanical strain and ... mechanically vibrate in response to an electrical impulse. MIT-Chip-Free-Sensor-1024.jpg The device senses and ... says the study’s corresponding author, Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-fabricate-chip-free-wireless-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9DEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and a principal investigator in ... engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... has built a small chip with artificial synapses, made from silicon germanium. In simulations, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwareForging ahead with care and compassion
campus in June. In talking with his advisees, Li provided two principles to guide their decision-making: ... often escalate before students raise them with her. In the past, a simple hallway interaction or tagging ... issues in the news.” Concurring, Professor Anna Mikusheva empathizes with the challenges students face. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/forging-ahead-care-and-compassionDeep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark
impossible to decipher. But now, engineers at MIT have developed a technique that can reveal these ... right), engineers produced a photograph in the dark (top left), then attempted to reconstruct the object ... technique that involves training a computer to associate certain inputs with specific outputs — in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-technique-reveals-%E2%80%9Cinvisible%E2%80%9D-objects-darkEnhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy
undergraduate studies, he also interned with Microsoft, developing tools for cloud incident response, and with ... maritime GPS spoofing,” says Saurabh Amin, the Edmund K. Turner Professor in Civil Engineering. “Such ... research with industry experience. In summer 2025, he interned with the Network Detection team at the AI ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/enhancing-maritime-cybersecurity-technology-and-policyMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Institute, and Yunguang Zhu in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The work was supported by the MIT ... the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Capacitors are in principle very simple ... a source of electricity, as with a battery, energy gets stored in the plates, and then when connected to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsDepartment snapshot: Civil and Environmental Engineering
every other department in the School of Engineering,” he says, with particularly close relationships ... with the departments of chemical, biological and mechanical engineering. CEE researchers also work ... over time, as reflected in its renaming 20 years ago, when environmental engineering was added to its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-snapshot-civil-and-environmental-engineeringTwo projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions
project, led by principal investigator Asegun Henry, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Professor in ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-principal investigator Paul Barton, the Lammot du ... the Victor P. Starr Career Development Chair in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-projects-receive-funding-technologies-avoid-carbon-emissionsRichard Li
homeowners and developers,” said Li. “Several large plumbing companies with interest in the product have also ... Engineering and germs were top-of-mind for everyone. In 2020, Li connected with Cleana co-founders Kevin Tang, ... height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when he was a master’s student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
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