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Alex Kachkine
made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he drove up the East Coast and ... Kachkine, a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to ... .Nano, with additional support from the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories, the MIT Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-kachkineResearchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans
’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), a senior ... challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... produced using remote lasers focused on a volunteer from half a meter away. “We’re at the beginning of what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-produce-first-laser-ultrasound-images-humansAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member of ... research was funded, in part, by the Gates Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ... other marine animals, researchers from MIT and other institutions have designed a mechanical adhesive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterEldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall
Bolli, a graduate student in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. “All the demographic trends ... urgent societal issue. To help address the eldercare challenge, a team of MIT engineers is looking to ... expected to balloon from 58 million to 82 million by 2050. The challenge of caring for the elderly, amid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-and-stand-and-catches-them-if-they-fallStrengthening America’s manufacturing base
Engineering, and Professor Chris Voigt’s lab in the Department of Biological Engineering — all of whom ... Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu (center) visited the Beaver Works space in MIT ... U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu serves as the Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strengthening-america%E2%80%99s-manufacturing-baseOvercoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft
Maker Horizontal The MIT team, which includes a number of mechanical engineering students, placed first ... undergraduate years at the University of Texas. He came to MIT determined to further the technology and, in the ... amount of time, under deadline. But we made it.” The MIT team emerged as the No. 1 U.S. university at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-obstacles-electric-hovercraftSensing the body at all scales
symposium,” says Vladimir Bulović, founding faculty director of MIT.nano and Fariborz Maseeh Professor of ... opportunities for commercial innovations. Elazer Edelman, director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering ... Sensors that track everything from infection in the lungs to WiFi usage on a busy university ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-body-all-scalesNeedles that hit the right mark
which the needles are inserted too far or placed in the wrong tissue. A team of researchers from MIT and ... teamed up with researchers at MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center, headed by Peter So, a professor of ... mechanical engineering and biological engineering. So and MIT research scientist Jeon Woong Kang designed and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/needles-hit-right-markCatching (radio) waves
mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ... from a Somerville, Mass., garage to an office in MIT’s neighborhood of Kendall Square, the company, ... the technology and they needed the skills we had assembled coming out of MIT,” says Bernd Schoner PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catching-radio-wavesHow to create selective holes in graphene
led by graduate student Sean O’Hern and associate professor of mechanical engineering Rohit Karnik, is ... Kong, the ITT Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; MIT graduate students ... materials engineering at the University of Kentucky who was not involved in this work, says, “Previous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneFaculty Promotions
R&D 100 Awards. Most recently, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... the Institute as well as from other universities. Professor Shao-Horn has published over 130 archival ... authority in the field of precision engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotionsCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum honors MIT D-Lab with National Design Award
the world. From MIT D-Lab’s work to address the daily challenges of poverty through design to Open ... a tremendous example of MIT’s mission to serve the world,” comments Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT ... School of Engineering. “The D-Lab team deeply understands that designing and developing products and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooper-hewitt-smithsonian-design-museum-honors-mit-d-lab-national-design-awardA Cleaner Burn
wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are ... of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in ... from MIT’s D Millions of people die each year as a result of soot or smoke inhalation from these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaner-burnSensing the world around us
principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, spoke about his work on robotic ... magnificent.” Minchew’s group is working with other researchers at MIT to build a drone capable of flying for ... in Media Arts & Sciences and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usJessica Xu
a research assistant. Under the guidance of Ellen Roche, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... a senior studying mechanical engineering, has combined her passion for art and engineering through her work ... between things and trying to draw inspiration from just about anywhere,” Xu says. Upon coming to MIT, Xu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jessica-xuMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... University of California at Santa Diego, and MIT postdoc Yu Long Han. Blowing up The basement membrane ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have found that a biological membrane ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisSeal-whisker-inspired Sensing
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Inspired by the ability of seals to detect flow features and ... other underwater information through their whiskers, Dr. Heather Beem (PhD ’15) has designed a sensor ... Science and Engineering Bioengineering Environment Security Impact Home Research Home Undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seal-whisker-inspired-sensingA flexible way to grab items with feeling
Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). In a recent project, Adelson and Sandra Liu — a mechanical engineering PhD ... Professor Edward Adelson and his Perceptual Science Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... Conference on Soft Robotics. Courtesy of MIT CSAIL The fin ray has become a popular item in soft robotics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-way-grab-items-feelingMitigating the Impact of a Blowout Preventer Failure
Text: PhD candidate Folkers Rojas researches how to mitigate the impact of a Blowout Preventer failure. ... feed of an occluding medium into an uncontrolled well. Energy Science and Engineering Ocean Science and ... uncontrolled well. PhD candidate Folkers E. Rojas researches how to mitigate the impact of a Blowout Preventer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitigating-impact-blowout-preventer-failureSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ... Guo SM ’22, and professor of mechanical engineering Sangbae Kim, the director of the Biomimetic ... Horizontal Engineers from Professor Sangbae Kim's Biomimetics Lab have now developed a gripper that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spaces