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Giving robots a sense of touch

a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Chenzhuo Zhu, an undergraduate ... area. The MIT researchers adopted the same approach. Wenzhen Yuan, a graduate student in mechanical ... of silicone objects, with 16 objects per group. In each group, the objects had the same shapes but ...

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Tian, Tian Senior Research Engineer

Coloring outside the lines

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... a chemical pigment or dye. In fact, these colors are way more brilliant than what can be achieved with ... play with light to give functionality to materials in novel ways.” Untitled design (38).jpg Top ...

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MIT MechE DEI Community Values

cultural identities, personal blindspots, and biases and take the next steps in our identity development ... Code of Conduct Community Values Personal Competencies MIT MechE Code of Conduct I anchor my work in ... excellence, integrity, collaboration, and curiosity; I act ethically and in service to the betterment of ...

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Batch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach

needs in the face of population growth, development, and climate change. However, removing salt from ... mechanical engineers, PhD candidate Emily Tow and postdoc David Warsinger, and also includes MIT PhD student ... saltwater storage atmospheric pressure. “The batch system starts with a fixed amount of solution in ...

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New electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases

e-GLUE first came about when Binbin Ying, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering ... Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering and Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career ... After just one minute of electrical stimulation, these polymers interact with proteins in mucosal ...

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A simpler method for learning to control a robot

in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Marco Pavone, associate professor of ... structure,” says Nikolai Matni, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering ...

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Socrate, Simona Senior Lecturer

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How “2D” materials expand

turn to another type of ruler to measure the TEC,” says Yang Zhong, a graduate student in mechanical ... author and former mechanical engineering graduate student Lenan Zhang SM ’18, PhD ’22, who is now ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as others from the Department of Electrical ...

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Rapid rovers, speedy sands: fast-tracking terrain interaction modeling

Shashank Agarwal (also of Mechanical Engineering at MIT) in collaboration with Daniel Goldman, Dunn Family ... rovers," notes Ken Kamrin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the ... larger moving bodies. "This is why, over the past century, scientists and engineers have developed ...

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New Faculty

mechanical engineering from Wichita State University, an MS in materials science and engineering from MIT, ... Applied Physics at Yale University, and then in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering here ... interfacial phenomena. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature and includes collaborations with ...

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MechE Connects: Spring/Summer 2015 Issue

technology that’s been developed – some of it right here in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Through advanced programming, clever mechanics, and optimized dynamics, we are developing the robots we ... a door. In this issue, you will also read about Professor Neville Hogan, who has developed a robotic aid ...

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Printing with Light

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  Printing with Light Teaser Text:  Nick Fang's research ...

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Reducing the burden of tuberculosis treatment

Traverso, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at ... difficult for about half of all patients to adhere to, especially in rural areas with limited access to ... of the smaller, ingestible devices that Traverso and Langer have developed. “In many situations, ...

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Remembering Dr. Victor Wong

With great sadness, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering shares the news that our colleague ... with him and will be greatly missed by his team. His many research contributions, particularly in ... diagnostics of diesel engine exhaust treatment systems, lubricant films in internal combustion engines, clean ...

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Controlling bubble formation on electrodes

mechanical engineering at MIT, says that “what’s really exciting is that as the technology of water splitting ... continues to develop, the field’s focus is expanding beyond designing catalyst materials to engineering mass ... clean-burning hydrogen fuel, with further benefits if that electricity is generated from renewable energy ...

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Smart laser cutter system detects different materials

with “SensiCut,” a smart material-sensing platform for laser cutters. In contrast to conventional, ... researchers Steven Acevedo Colon and Varnika Sinha in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and ... MIT Mechanical Engineering MathWorks Seed Fund Program. Thursday, August 19, 2021 Rachel Gordon | MIT ...

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MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2023

Engineering and Science. He is a leading researcher in the fields of nanotherapeutics and biomaterials. ... Science); Kevin Kelly SM ’88, PhD ’91 (Mechanical Engineering); Ali Khademhosseini PhD ’05 (Biological ... Engineering); Joshua Makower ’85 (Mechanical Engineering); Marcela Maus ’97 (Biology); Milos Popovic SM ’02, PhD ...

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