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Graduate Admissions FAQ

Who is eligible to apply to MechE? How do I apply? Are there separate admission procedures for SM ... engineering or in science may apply. How do I apply? Applicants to the MIT MechE graduate program should apply ... and PhD programs? What is the deadline for applying? What documents are necessary for applying to ...

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How much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?

It depends exactly where and how the battery is made—but when it comes to clean technologies like ... rock mines  or  underground brine reservoirs, and much of the energy used to extract and process it ... burning fossil fuels, which again adds to CO2 emissions.   Exactly how much CO2 is emitted in the long ...

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Faith Brooks

in coastal ponds is a process that was initially used to enhance salinity for herring and shellfish ... I gained a much better understanding of how to design instruments and systems in accordance with what the ... age of 4: to become a pilot. “At around 8 years old, my neighbor knew I wanted to fly and showed me ...

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Iridescent Displays

used for quite a few years afterward as a tool to help subsequent engineers understand how all the ... the technology behind his team’s discovery and his role in helping to shape it. How did the team come ... efficiency to provide weeks of battery life. Our displays use microscopic mirrors to reflect ambient light. ...

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Clarence Chui

Chui_Clarence.jpg Photo by Ken Hansen How did the team come up with the idea to simulate the mechanism for ... able to achieve full color even in direct sunlight and consume less energy than most displays. How?  At ... displays use microscopic mirrors to reflect ambient light. This means they do not use a backlight, one of ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Atlas Devices

the then-current equipment? Comparing it to standard climbing or rescue equipment, which uses similar ... faced is how to grab onto the rope and climb it efficiently across the whole load range we want to be ... we need it to be rugged for mountainous use and submersible for maritime applications. Meeting those ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-atlas-devices

Nate Ball

the then-current equipment? Comparing it to standard climbing or rescue equipment, which uses similar ... faced is how to grab onto the rope and climb it efficiently across the whole load range we want to be ... we need it to be rugged for mountainous use and submersible for maritime applications. Meeting those ...

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Baran Mensah: Savoring college life in a new country

MIT senior Baran Mensah recalls taking apart his toys as a child, curious to see how every piece ... Afro-Caribbean dance group, and belongs to the Rho Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Untitled design ... hopes use his engineering skills to help improve socioeconomic conditions in his home country of Ghana. ...

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New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

version by clicking buttons and file options, similar to how an engineer would use the software. The MIT ... Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending ... practice. MIT engineers are looking to ease CAD’s learning curve with a new AI model that can use CAD ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Davide Marini, PhD ‘03

additional equipment to use our products. These hydrogel particles are more sensitive than existing ... that love excellence for its own sake. How did your PhD work in MechE inspire you to start Firefly? My ... I came to appreciate the importance of applying theoretical principles to building useful products. In ...

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Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves

predict. Now, MIT engineers have found a new way to model how waves break. The team used machine learning ... rolling to shore. For decades, the dynamics of how and when a wave breaks have been too complex to ... along with data from wave-tank experiments to tweak equations that have traditionally been used to ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Ian W. Hunter

using our micro mass spectrometer to determine how well done the meat is or if a particular sauce is ... a special “tuned” mode can measure up to 500 m/z. There is also a growing interest in using mass ... imagine a patient using this device at home for early detection. Of course it also brings new meaning to ...

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Using Engineering Savvy to Improve Product Designs

windmill or improving engineering software, he enjoys using his skills to figure out innovative solutions ... joysticks are designed for hospital use, they tend to be large and overbuilt, with poor portability and ... project involves testing design programs that are used to solve structural problems. In the standard ...

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Using mechanical forces to improve wound healing

how to regenerate both the epidermis and the dermis of the skin. He developed a process of infusing ... found to promote healing even better than the original scaffold Yannas and Burke had used. Rather than ... heal better. “My group has been conducting research on how mechanical forces are helping wounds to ...

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How to get conductive gels to stick when wet

Polymers that are good conductors of electricity could be useful in biomedical devices, to help ... widespread use: their inability to adhere to a surface such as a sensor or microchip, and stay put despite ... situations,” he says. The team has begun talking to manufacturers to see “how we can best help them to test ...

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Startup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts

structures. “3-D printing lets you transform complexity to simplicity,” Hart explains. “Consider how many ... It’s not hard to understand why some of the world’s largest corporations have made huge ... investments in metal 3-D printing recently. Manufacturing metal parts at scale currently requires companies to ...

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3 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment

patients, some have suggested that technologies like 3D printing be used to quickly manufacture masks. In ... Gershenfeld and A. John Hart, detail the risks associated with using 3D printing to build PPE and ... can do to address the PPE shortage. Q: What are the risks associated with using 3D printing to make ...

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Using aluminum and water to make clean hydrogen fuel — when and where it’s needed

how to use scrap aluminum plus water to generate the flow of hydrogen needed for a particular ... contact with water. Using the aluminum-water reaction to generate hydrogen doesn’t produce any greenhouse ... approach needs to use scrap aluminum from various sources. But scrap aluminum is not an easy starting ...

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Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases

be used to test drug toxicity. More recently, she has been working on small-scale replicas of many ... a platform that could be used to model interactions between up to 10 organs at a time. These kinds of devices ... They also wanted to study how the immune system, especially T cells, influences those organs. It is ...

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Using combustion to make better batteries

droplets vaporize, employing tools and methods they have used in the past to study how hydrocarbons ... use to investigate a low-cost method of synthesizing materials critical for manufacturing lithium-ion ... team have developed: They could explore the use of combustion to make materials for the energy ...

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