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A new way to provide cooling without power

MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ... metal suspended above the device blocks the sun’s direct rays. MIT-Radiative-Cooling_1024.jpg Two ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ...

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A technique for more effective multipurpose robots

of these data to train a general machine,” Wang says. The MIT researchers developed a technique that ... a unique task and environment. MIT-Policy-Comp-01-press.jpg Four photos show, on top level, a simulation of ... multipurpose robots, MIT researchers developed a technique to combine multiple sources of data across domains, ...

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Re-engineering the sprinkler

conserve resources.” Wang co-authored the paper with three researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... A team of MIT engineers has described a novel way of controlling the flow of water in flexible ... “Food and its relationship to water is one of the biggest problems in the world,” says Ruo-Qian Wang ...

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Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

the Vice President for Research Tony Lee, coach, MIT Women's Volleyball Club, Student ... On Thursday, June 5, 11 individuals and four teams were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the ... protecting and serving MIT. The medal recognizes an individual or group whose actions demonstrate the ...

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MechE Milestones

MIT celebrates the 150-year anniversary of its first lab opening and its designation as Course ... current research. Credit: Tony Pulsone “In the report, Whitaker details a big change in the curriculum and ... engineering at MIT dates back to the founding of the Institute in 1861. In fact, when the first students ...

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Engineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies

As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... skies. Slice_24_02_12_PhillipDaniel.jpg Phillip Daniel | Photo credit: Tony Pulsone Today, 90 percent of ... specializing in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at ...

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Light-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post trauma

students in her lab (Photo: Tony Pulsone, MIT MechE) “We engineer optogenetic muscle grafts that contract ... professor and d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT ...

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Finding Joy in Making, and the Making of #HellaJuneteenth

Tony Stark is fictional, you’re the real-deal MIT alum. You make, and through making you change the ... suburb of Maywood, Illinois, Harris majored at MIT in mechanical engineering and architecture and minored ... thinker and former MIT faculty member John Maeda ’89, SM ’89. On the eve of Juneteenth, Harris went on ...

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Tunable ultrasound propagation in microscale metamaterials

coauthored by Portela, MIT Mechanical Engineering collaborators Rachel Sun, Jet Lem, and Yun Kai, and ... Carlos Portela 06.JPG  Rachel Sun and Carlos Portela in the lab. Credit: Tony Pulsone “Our work proposes ...

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3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers

MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them. During the summer of ... 2015, Martin Culpepper surveyed all undergraduate and graduate students at MIT about their activities ... and interests in “making.” “MIT has a strong history and culture of hands-on ‘making’ in every field ...

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School of Engineering fourth quarter 2022 awards

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... centers. mit-killian-autumn_0.jpg Photo: Lillie Paquette Paul Blainey of the Department of Biological ... Academy of Inventors Fellow on Dec. 8.   Evelyn Wang of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was named ...

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MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body

Xiaoyu Chen, and co-authors Liu Wang, Mitsutoshi Makihata, and Tao Zhao at MIT, along with Hsiao-Chuan ... they cannot image deep organs,” says Chonghe Wang, who is an MIT graduate student. An inside look The ... MIT-Ultrasound-sticker-1024.jpg MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The ...

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Putting projects at the forefront

Rose Wang loves to work on projects — especially ones that exceed the bounds of her declared ... involves making an aerodynamic drone. “We’ll see how that goes,” she says. So when Wang spotted a campus ... all in. She is among MIT’s 45 second-year students engaged in a pilot educational initiative that has ...

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Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor

coverings trap the heat that the devices produce. Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a polymer ... 10 times as much heat as most commercially used polymers. MIT-Polymer-Conductor.JPG Engineers at MIT ... as a heat conductor, dissipating heat rather than insulating it. Image: Chelsea Turner/MIT ...

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System provides cooling with no electricity

engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and seven others at MIT and at the Pontifical Catholic University ... magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do exactly that. The device, ... below the ambient air temperature. MIT-Aerogel-Cooling-03-1024.jpg In field tests, the performance of ...

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Making catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals

research at MIT could open the door to ways of making certain catalysts more active, and thus enhancing the ... Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... materials science and engineering, and a member of the Research Lab of Electronics (RLE); Tao Wang ...

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Inaugural MechE Rising Stars Workshop will introduce early-career women to the world of academia

early-career researchers interested in pursuing a career in academia This fall, MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop,” says Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor, department ... place October 25-26, 2018 at MIT’s campus in Cambridge, MA. Future Rising Stars in Mechanical ...

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Student Spotlight: Nikolai Begg

2013 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner   by Stephanie Martinovich, Lemelson-MIT Program   Photo ... credit: Tony Pulsone PhD candidate Nikolai Begg (SM ‘11) grew up in a box of LEGO® bricks and hasn’t ... and is a recipient of the prestigious 2013 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventions that ...

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Le Morte d’Arthur and the engineer

21L.460 (Medieval Literature: Legends of Arthur) at MIT for six years, Arthur Bahr took a leap of faith. ... Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur.” “These are MIT students," says Bahr, an associate professor of ... that Meeker's creativity and craftsmanship — mens et manus — will be be part of Literature at MIT ...

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Virtual Open House

Laboratory (Prof. Evelyn Wang) http://drl.mit.edu/ view     Research Area Faculty Panels 12:00PM Area 4: ... Event View Zoom Recording 10:00PM-11:00AM Welcome Session Prof Wang, Prof Trumper, GAME, MEGAwomen, ... Makerworkshop view 11:00AM Mechatronics Research Lab (Prof. Kamal Youcef-Toumi) https://mechatronics.mit ...

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