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Even as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
Michigan State University. Against intuition Evelyn Wang’s group in MIT’s Device Research Lab aims to ... drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... 50 degrees Celsius (77 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit), the team reports. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... collaborator on the work, which appears in Nature Communications. MIT postdocs William Whyte and Debkalpa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsDesalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Zhang’s study co-authors include MIT graduate student Yang Zhong and Evelyn Wang, the Ford Professor of ... Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... MIT-Solar-Desalinization-01-PRESS_0.jpg A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir. Credit: Jintong Gao and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-waterHow “2D” materials expand
a research scientist. MIT-Thermal-Expansion1024.jpg A green laser shines onto an atomically thin material. By ... Zhang Co-authors include senior author Evelyn N. Wang, the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as others from the Department of Electrical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-%E2%80%9C2d%E2%80%9D-materials-expandMeet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows
Accenture Fellows advance technology at the crossroads of business and society The MIT and ... Michelle Vaccaro. Bottom row, left to right: Chonghuan Wang and Aaron Michael West Jr. The 2023-24 ... these areas. Chonghuan Wang is a PhD candidate in computational science and engineering whose research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-2023-24-accenture-fellowsLetting robots manipulate cables
tasks in the auto industry. Yu She wrote the paper alongside MIT PhD students Shaoxiong Wang, Siyuan ... Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT CSAIL can handle cables with ... a group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) pursued ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letting-robots-manipulate-cablesAlumni Spotlight: Professor Woodie Flowers (SM ‘68, MEng ‘71, PhD ‘73)
Photo Credit: Tony Pulsone For Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers (SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73), ... Flowers breathed new life into the MIT way of teaching engineering by doing, a reinvigoration at the right ... technology, engineering, and math) around the world. Photo credit: Tony Pulsone. Flowers developed one of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-woodie-flowers-sm-%E2%80%9868-meng-%E2%80%9871-phd-%E2%80%98732.009 gets “Wild!”
fruition before pitching to a live audience on MIT’s largest stage. The event also attracts a global ... Pappalardo Lab staff member Stephen Haberek who is retiring after 29 years at MIT. Haberek and course ... Credit: 2.009 Team & Tony Pulsone Purple Team In the first pitch of the night, the Purple Team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-gets-%E2%80%9Cwild%E2%80%9D“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
maker culture is on display in ABC network’s “BattleBots” competition. Photo by Tony Pulsone For the MIT ... MIT’s thriving maker culture is on display in ABC network’s “BattleBots” competition. A robot that ... arms to grab and hoist other machines: These are some of the robots developed by MIT-affiliated teams ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9DMeet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia
director Kamal Youcef-Toumi. Image: Tony Pulsone While the program was launched in MIT’s Department of ... Since 2012, a handful of Saudi Arabia’s top scientists and engineers have arrived on MIT’s campus ... research at MIT. Each fellow is paired with an MIT faculty for a research project and exposed to a number ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-women-shaping-science-and-engineering-saudi-arabia3-D Printing 101
As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with ... Engineering at MIT, says early education on 3-D printing is the key to helping the technology expand as an ... industry. In 2013, Hart created an MIT graduate course, 2.S998 (Additive Manufacturing), that explores the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-1012023-24 Takeda Fellows: Advancing research at the intersection of AI and health
fourth year, the MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda, ... Song, and Peiqi Wang. Bottom row, from left to right: Oscar Wu, Soojung Yang, and Yuzhe Yang The 2023-24 ... candidate in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Gopalakrishnan’s goal is to develop ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2023-24-takeda-fellows-advancing-research-intersection-ai-and-healthEight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2018
Eight MIT faculty members are among 213 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the ... culture, and education. Those elected from MIT this year are: Alexei Borodin, professor of mathematics; ... Franklin in the 18th century, Maria Mitchell and Daniel Webster in the 19th century, and Toni Morrison and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eight-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2018Basketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
analyst who’s being paid $9 million,” says study author Henry Wang, a graduate student in the MIT Sports ... sense of return-on-investment,” Wang notes. Numbers value The MIT researchers aimed in their new study ... according to a new study by MIT researchers, there’s one member who consistently boosts their team’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesTalking Shop: Professor Ian W. Hunter
The Micro Mass Spectrometer by Alissa Mallinson Photo credit: Tony Pulsone Professor Ian W. ... Zealand, where he is an honorary professor, and has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since ... Electronic and Electrical Engineers. He is the director of MIT’s BioInstrumentation Lab. Monday, December 10, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-ian-w-hunterSurface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize
efficient power plant steam condenser that leverages a surface coating developed in the lab of Evelyn Wang ... , MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... ’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-coating-designed-improve-power-plant-efficiency-wins-2022-water-innovation-prizeSlowing the Spread
Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This ... stop the spread of the virus. An air of uncertainty descended on MIT’s campus in early March. Whispers ... Within days, the Infinite Corridor’s usual stream of activity and noise was silenced. While MIT’s dorms ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spreadMIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation
MIT President L. Rafael Reif today announced the creation of the MIT Morningside Academy for ... research programs across MIT, especially between the School of Architecture and Planning and the School of ... Engineering. It provides a hub that will encourage design work at MIT to grow and cross disciplines among ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-morningside-academy-design-created-new-hub-cross-disciplinary-education-research-andIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ... MIT researchers have designed an ingestible sensor that can lodge in the stomach for a few weeks and ...
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