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Pills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when ... on schedule, MIT engineers have designed a pill that can report when it has been swallowed. The new ... maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceA quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat
a material’s thermal conductivity cannot be changed without re-manufacturing it. But MIT engineers have now ... its plastic-like properties. In experiments, MIT engineers demonstrate a fiber, made from a common ... research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Now that we’ve seen this thermal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-stretch-switches-polymer%E2%80%99s-capacity-transport-heatIn Search of a Major She Loves
traditional or direct path to mechanical engineering at MIT — she switched majors twice, determined to find ... the many academic opportunities MIT offers, Magzoub has kept her sights set on developing practical ... assumed she would attend a local university for college, but she decided to apply to MIT. Once she was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-major-she-lovesLeveraging computational tools to enhance product design
As an undergraduate at MIT, Jana Saadi had to find a way to fulfill her humanities class ... had joined a friend in a class offered through MIT D-Lab, a project-based program aimed at helping ... behind product design. Now, she’s pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, researching how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leveraging-computational-tools-enhance-product-designTonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive
tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... industry, taking a research position at Evergreen Solar, a solar-cell company spun out of MIT. But ... opportunity to push the needle” on energy and climate change, he joined the faculty of MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tonio-buonassisi-seeks-make-solar-cells-competitiveFaculty Research: Professor Harry Asada
Engineering Light-Activated Muscles by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Many robotic designs take ... terrain like cheetahs. Photo credit: MIT News Office Now, scientists at MIT and the University of ... Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the group’s design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-harry-asadaA new way to detect leaks in pipes
altogether. Now researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia ... mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. “We’ve proved that the concept works.” ... pipes, and should be effective in gas, water, and oil pipes. MIT mechanical engineering professor Kamal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-detect-leaks-pipesHow to create selective holes in graphene
researchers at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in Saudi Arabia succeeded in creating subnanoscale ... pores, as a filter in desalination has been proposed and analyzed by other MIT researchers. The new work, ... the oxidizing solution, the MIT researchers can control the average size of the pores. A big ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
researchers at MIT says they have found a way to do just that. It has been known for years that making ... overcome that problem, the MIT researchers say. The findings are reported this week in the journal Advanced ... Materials by MIT professors Karen Gleason and Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Adam Paxson and postdoc Jose ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-lastQuick Test for Ebola
treatment and isolation. A new test from MIT researchers could change that: The device, a simple paper strip ... symptoms and it’s not clear what they have,” says Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, a visiting scientist in MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebolaWhy have solar energy costs fallen?
MIT researchers have been awarded a grant of nearly $1.3 million through the U.S. Department of ... investigator Jessika Trancik, associate professor in MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... affiliates of the MIT Energy Initiative — and Robert Margolis of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-have-solar-energy-costs-fallenHarder, better, faster, stronger
a Formula-style electric race car from the ground up. Every year. For students who are members of MIT Motorsports ... — a.k.a. the MIT Formula SAE (FSAE) team, originally founded in 2001 — that task determines how they spend ... shrug at. MIT's team passed all inspections, placed fourth in vehicle cost (spending the least ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harder-better-faster-strongerMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ... that underpins the future of mobility and autonomous systems: energy storage. MIT’s Martin Bazant, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityCombined energy and water system could provide for millions
efficiently using clean-energy resources, a team of researchers from MIT and the University of Hawaii has ... Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. "There was not the extreme ... and his co-authors — Maha Haji, Sasan Ghaemsaidi, and Marco Ferrara of MIT; and A Zachary Trimble of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/combined-energy-and-water-system-could-provide-millionsLet it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
researchers can find safe substitutes. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a promising solution: a coating ... Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Kripa Varanasi and Karen Gleason, former MIT postdoc Dan Soto, and ... ones most in use. What this MIT team did, Varanasi explains, is to combine two things: a shorter-chain ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproofAcoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells
MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using ... different types of cellular processes,” says Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT ... departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/acoustic-waves-can-monitor-stiffness-living-cellsJ-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have ... and food systems to MIT’s innovation ecosystem through the J-WAFS Solutions grant program. The program ... provides one-year, renewable, commercialization grants aimed to support MIT principal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-grants-advance-sustainable-agricultureFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
In early October, the MIT International Design Center and the MIT Edgerton Center hosted a panel ... chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsAccelerating the pace of engineering
company sold its very first order — 10 copies of its first product, MATLAB — to MIT. Decades later, ... engineers across MIT and around the world consistently rely on MathWorks products to accelerate the pace of ... and MIT’s digital learning efforts across campus, including the Department of Mathematics, one of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-pace-engineeringSynthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion
By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ... Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... Junwei Li, a postdoc at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the lead author of the ...
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