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Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
what to sample for the most informative data, and how to optimally reach sampling locations. MIT ... MIT-Sea-Sensing-01-1024.jpg WHOI and MIT researchers deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle to test new navigation and ... AUVs. “Not all data are equal,” says Arkopal Dutt, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0Gliding From Classroom to Market
MIT-Ello_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ELLO In 2012, a team of students in MIT’s well-known product-design class, ... Glyde, is already being used by hundreds of people worldwide. And the MIT spinout selling the product, ... their people aren’t getting hurt.” Data-driven design From its early days at MIT, ELLO has followed what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gliding-classroom-marketChanging lives with heart, humor, and engineering
7. MIT-Schwartz-Nick-01_1024.jpg “The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can ... change people’s lives for the better,” says MIT senior Nick Schwartz. Image: Ian MacLellan “I came up ... tradition, which is funded by the MIT SHASS-based de Florez Fund for Humor. Schwartz tends to make a lot of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/changing-lives-heart-humor-and-engineeringReliable energy for all
studying … because by then you’d usually have electricity.” MIT-Student-Nyovanie-1024.jpg “The best thing ... about being at MIT is that people are working on all these cool, different things that they’re ... knew he wanted to study engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reliable-energy-allAsegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... that has not been without hurdles, much like Henry’s own path to MIT. In 2020, he was granted a faculty ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunThe environmental toll of disposable masks
That toll could be dramatically cut by adopting reusable masks, according to a new study from MIT that ... greatest cost savings, but also significant reduction in waste,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant ... strongly consider and minimize the potential negative impact on the environment.” MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masksMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
needles. Now, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... pigs. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowEngineers 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 ... designs not reconfigurable. The MIT design uses light, rather than physical wires, to transmit information ... on, for instance to add new sensors or updated processors. MIT-Stackable-AI-01-press_1024.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-build-lego-artificial-intelligence-chipWindow-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water
such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT ... With that goal in mind, the MIT team has developed and tested a new atmospheric water harvester and ... a tube, as clean and drinkable water. MIT-Water-Harvester-01-press_1024x768.jpg A close-up of a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-waterNew Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
Innovation from MIT could allow many biological components to be connected to produce predictable ... researchers at MIT has now come up with a way of greatly reducing that unpredictability, introducing a device ... MIT-Biological-Circuit-1024.jpg Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT (yeast cell images from National Institutes of Health) The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-device-could-make-large-biological-circuits-practicalA new strategy for choosing cancer drugs
become resistant. In a new approach to devising more personalized treatments, researchers at MIT and ... cells, based on how it affects their growth rates. MIT-Cancer-Cell-Mass.jpg Researchers have developed ... Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-strategy-choosing-cancer-drugsInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ... wins-DOE-CleanTech-UP-MIT-1024.jpg Left to right: Infinite Cooling researchers graduate student Karim Khalil, associate professor of ... Cooling researchers, including MIT Associate Professor Kripa Varanasi and graduate students Maher Damak ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competition3D printing tiny parts for big impact
parts that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by MIT ... functions. MIT-BMF-Technologies-1024.jpg Boston Micro Fabrication’s machines use a technology co-developed by ... MIT Professor Nicholas Fang to print millimeter-sized products with details at the micron scale. Image ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printing-tiny-parts-big-impactEngineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by ... MIT_Injectable-Microcrystals 1024.png MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), an associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-better-way-deliver-long-lasting-drugsWhere to Grab Space Debris
a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ... Station (ISS). Image courtesy of NASA (edited by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT) Space trash “There are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-grab-space-debrisSenior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing
time at MIT, where her curiosity about how things work and enthusiasm for hands-on discovery have ... continued to motivate her. MIT-Larissa-Senatus-1024.jpg Photo by Ian MacLellan Senatus grew up in ... started thinking about college, she began looking abroad for opportunities to study engineering. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/senior-larissa-senatus-learns-about-world-doingMicrochip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells ... environmental conditions. MIT-Cell-Mass-Sensor.jpg A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the ... respond to drugs,” MIT professor Scott Manalis says. Illustration by Christine Daniloff/MIT The technique, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-enables-fast-precise-measurement-single-cell-growthFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
developing world. Now, a new system developed by researchers at MIT could provide a fast, inexpensive ... MIT-Leak-Detection-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in ... MIT team, called PipeGuard, intends to commercialize its robotic detection system to help alleviate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fixOn the cutting edge
a passion for engineering, the young Denton, Texas, native made it a goal to study engineering at MIT. In ... Winter Olympics, for short-track speedskating. MIT-Student-Malone-1024.jpg “Before I ever wanted to be ... Malone says. The MIT senior studies mechanical engineering and hopes to draw from both his education and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cutting-edgeResearchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
researchers at MIT and elsewhere outlines a roadmap for how this promising technology could move from the ... laboratory to a significant place in the global solar market. MIT-Scaling-Perovskite-1024.jpg Perovskites, ... potential for new kinds of solar cells. A new study from MIT shows how these materials could gain a foothold ...
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