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Bringing life to computer models of marine microbes
equations we use to describe plankton physiology," says Follows, ever armed with historical context. ... point," he admits. Follows takes a pragmatic approach. "To me, its not clear how much of that detail ... courage." Follows is happy to remain at MIT to inch closer and closer to understanding how diverse microbes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesMIT mechanical engineering course invites students to “build with biology”
how cells feel and respond to forces in their environment. “When students take this class, ... and see how cells respond to forces in their environment in real time, and it was a change that was ... dimension to our teaching methods. We hope that students seeing firsthand how living cells sense and respond ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-mechanical-engineering-course-invites-students-%E2%80%9Cbuild-biology%E2%80%9DFrom counting blood cells to motion capture, sensors drive patient-centered research
research methods — such as drawing inspiration from dancers’ movement to study how muscles represent rhythm ... fabrication and design of sensors, and the CCTR has the clinical research space to study how these sensors can ... a noninvasive method of using near-infrared and shortwave infrared to track the progression of liver disease. As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/counting-blood-cells-motion-capture-sensors-drive-patient-centered-researchSchools of Science and Engineering join hands to transform learning
two have helped students learn how to make a piano out of paper and use a flick of the wrist to create ... students how to solder, and then traveled to Israel and Peru, where she taught students product design and ... equipment than they were using it. At the same time, Shvonski realized that it wasn’t effective just to give ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/schools-science-and-engineering-join-hands-transform-learningMIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
have to think of every bit of energy in the system, and how to use it, to minimize the cost,” Ghoniem ... energy source when considered from the start of its production to its end use. In contrast, solar ... Only about 7 percent of incoming sunlight is used to make hydrogen. The results so far have been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelEngineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
nozzle used to spray the material onto a substrate, and the methods of curing the material. Many of these ... optimizing the power output, but the system could also be used to simultaneously incorporate other criteria, ... run it,” he says. “We’re happy to help companies get started in using our code.” Already, several ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-enlist-ai-help-scale-advanced-solar-cell-manufacturingMIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel gives major gift to solve urgent challenges in world food and water security
at MIT, where I witnessed firsthand how MIT uses science, technology, and scholarship to solve ... insecurity as well as energize MIT’s efforts to tackle the broadest questions about how we ensure ... mankind simply cannot survive. How will we find enough food to feed 2 billion more people by mid-century ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-alumnus-mohammed-abdul-latif-jameel-gives-major-gift-solve-urgent-challenges-worldStefanie Mueller changes everything: A hands-on class responds to Covid
Mueller had used the familiar MIT tool Piazza to facilitate student discussions outside of class. “Piazza ... students to get in-person help and use tools too bulky and expensive for individual distribution. ... the laboratory space to use large fabrication tools like the 3D printer. Deep cleaning followed each ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stefanie-mueller-changes-everything-hands-class-responds-covidPushing the limits of athletic performance
athletic performance by using engineering to enhance endurance, speed, accuracy, and agility in sports. ... a company that uses 3-D cameras to assess the velocity of a weightlifter’s movements and provide instant ... feedback on how to improve form and minimize the risk of injury. Fay and Rothman are not alone applying the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-limits-athletic-performanceA new way to make droplets bounce away
contact, trying to minimize how far a droplet spreads out before bouncing away. The new findings are ... a pattern created through an etching process similar to that used in microchip manufacturing. Other rings ... In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayAt least 30 from MIT named to 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 lists
a wearable device that measures oxygen levels in muscles to determine how hard athletes should push ... called single-virus tracking, super-resolution imaging to understand more about how influenza infects ... a drug company that uses his work using the gene-editing technology CRISPR, to look for new drugs.” Kwami ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/least-30-mit-named-2017-forbes-30-under-30-listsBringing meaningful technologies to market
expecting that at some point they’ll be able to use [the prosthesis],” he says, recalling the moment he ... pure engineering to thinking about how technologies go from research and development to scale, and ... I began to see how policy and finance was really important to that. Dr. Bonvillian’s course tied together ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-meaningful-technologies-marketDora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
from her first year as an LGO student to optimize the final assembly line while researching how best to ... not worried about how much we’re wasting beyond the direct use of the product. When we’re all very ... Dreamliner plane, headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai. To a typical passenger, the twin-engine jet airliner ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dora-aldama-drawn-multidimensional-problemsAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
diabetes often use two types of insulin to control their blood sugar levels: long-acting insulin, which ... their finger to draw blood and placing a drop of blood onto a test strip. They must also estimate how ... devices. We also used a smartphone camera and deep learning to create an app that identifies and quantifies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentResearchers hope to make needle pricks for diabetics a thing of the past
toward making this technique practical for patient use: They have shown that they can use it to directly ... Technology, are the lead authors of the paper. Seeing through the skin Raman spectroscopy can be used to ... used for Raman spectroscopy can only penetrate a few millimeters into tissue, so one key advance was to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-hope-make-needle-pricks-diabetics-thing-pastBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
control the volume and size of each bubble. When a bubble rose to the surface, the team used high-speed ... Wherever there’s water, there’s bound to be bubbles floating at the surface. From standing ... puddles, lakes, and streams, to swimming pools, hot tubs, public fountains, and toilets, bubbles are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airA flexible way to grab items with feeling
problem. The authors used a very smart design to make their vision-based sensor work for the compliant ... environment. The technology has lots of potential to be widely used for robotic grippers in real-world ... steps is somewhat hard to shake. But practitioners in the field of soft robotics have an entirely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-way-grab-items-feelingTwenty-three MIT faculty honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2023-25
opportunity in understanding the breadth and depth of possibility in how to be a caring mentor in academia.” ... students adjust to a postpandemic normal, many professors have played a pivotal role by helping them ... to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty members who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/twenty-three-mit-faculty-honored-committed-caring-2023-25Mens et Manus Across the Universe
faculty how to motivate students, designing individual hands-on engineering classes similar to 2.007 and ... critical. Your time together allows you to convey not only how to get things done but also the attitude and ... ethics that make MIT what it is, and in turn to understand how that will fit into their context.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mens-et-manus-across-universeTwelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships
education could be used to uplift others. This led to her joining many activities that would continue to ... their challenges balancing home and professional responsibilities. His goal is to use these interviews ... in Philadelphia as the child of Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants gave her an appreciation for how ...
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