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An easier way to remove medical devices
Traverso, the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of ... postdoc, is the lead author of the paper. MIT-Dissolving-Devices-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have shown ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/easier-way-remove-medical-devicesMaker Break: A celebration of making at MIT
for the win. Dan Dorsch, a mechanical engineering PhD candidate and the winner of the RC car ... lathes, and other shop tools and equipment,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering ... the Institute. The event was organized by Project Manus, led by professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maker-break-celebration-making-mitLinda Griffith and Douglas Lauffenburger honored for contributions to biological engineering education
Professors awarded the National Academy of Engineering's prestigious Bernard M. Gordon Prize ... Linda G. Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in the Department of ... Biological Engineering, and Douglas A. Lauffenburger, the Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/linda-griffith-and-douglas-lauffenburger-honored-contributions-biological-engineeringMIT engineers build smart power outlet
scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the smart power outlet is able to connect to ... and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at ... detectors, according to a team of MIT engineers, is that they often err on the side of being overly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-build-smart-power-outletWhat drives ecosystems to instability?
a professor of physics at MIT. “We can trace out a boundary that predicts the loss of stability and the onset ... University of Montpellier, France; and Guy Bunin, a professor of physics at the Israel Institute of ... communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-drives-ecosystems-instability3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?
.nano Horizontal Brian Anthony, Principal Research Scientist in mechanical engineering and co-leader of SENSE.nano, ... — and shape our understanding of the world. SENSE.nano is an MIT.nano Center of Excellence, with a focus ... on Sept. 30 at MIT, will dive deep into the impact of sensors on two topics: sensing for augmented ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-why-sensing-why-now-what-nextBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... graduate student, Fanny Monteiro PhD '09, now at the University of Bristol, began to model ... Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, Professor of Environmental Studies in MIT's Department of Civil and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
more than half of their crops. Kripa Varanasi, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, is working ... Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeCell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade
Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have tracked the evolution of individual cells within an initially ... “You can think of the tumor like a sponge,” says Ming Guo, assistant professor of mechanical ... A team of engineers led by Assistant Professor Ming Guo found that tumors with softer, larger cells at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-stiffness-may-indicate-whether-tumors-will-invadeA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... management in high-performance devices.” Chang-Jin Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering ... The colors are caused by diffraction of visible light from the tiny structures on the surface, ridges ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfaces“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “With this nanofiber yarn, the hope is, you won’t have ... heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ... The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, engineered by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cnanofiber-yarn%E2%80%9D-makes-stretchy-protective-artificial-tissueA cool new way to study gravity
Shin, a PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). “The key to answering ... 08_1024x768.jpg Dongchel Shin, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a new paper that ... Department of Mechanical Engineering include Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cool-new-way-study-gravityExploring growth within a confined space
Sharma, the M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. “One of ... a research team led by Tal Cohen, MIT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of ... mechanical engineering, grew cholera bacteria inside a soft gel, observing the architecture of the expanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-growth-within-confined-spaceMIT engineers print synthetic “metamaterials” that are both strong and stretchy
properties. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers MIT engineers have now found a way to fabricate a metamaterial ... Associate Professor at MIT. “You could print a double-network metal or ceramic, and you could get a lot of ... other forms has little to no stretch and shatters easily once cracked. MIT engineers have found a way to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-print-synthetic-%E2%80%9Cmetamaterials%E2%80%9D-are-both-strong-and-stretchyMIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Imagine creating thousands of these inexpensive RFID tag ... of Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT. The researchers presented their ... Auto-ID Lab at MIT has long been at the forefront of developing RFID technology. Now engineers in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-configure-rfid-tags-work-sensorsNot stuck on silicon
science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared ... Kim, the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor in the departments of Mechanical ... Materials Science and Engineering Eugene Fitzgerald; professor of electrical engineering and computer ...
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