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MechE students win 2017 Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes honoring promising collegiate inventors around the country.
This process gives prosthetic foot designers rules and guidelines about how to produce a product that ... calculating how it will bend in response to a certain amount of weight. Lemelson-MIT Student Prize applicants ... prizes to four undergraduate teams and five individual graduate inventors. Each winning team of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-students-win-2017-lemelson-mit-student-prizes-honoring-promising-collegiateMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
help basement membranes control how tumors grow. The fact that the membranes appear to stiffen as they ... tumors to metastasize. The researchers had been investigating how these cells interact with their ... properties, scientists have employed atomic force microscopy (AFM), using a tiny mechanical probe to gently ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisAging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
Computer Science (EECS) and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, proposes to use artificial ... mice, Research Scientist Ayano Matsushima and Graybiel hope to determine whether and how pathology, such ... investigation of possible disruption of intercellular messages in ALS using a new tool to finely sample ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-awards-fund-five-new-ideas-study-fight-neurodegeneration2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
how to approach complex problems in dynamics, and break them down into their components. Professor Kim ... figure out which of Newton’s laws apply, and then use the appropriate mathematics to arrive at the ... material. “We have given a lot of thought not just to what we teach, but also how we teach it,” Gossard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/203x-dynamics-aims-improve-learning-and-campusMIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt
change,” Ghoniem says. “If we learn how to solve these problems there, we can learn to scale the solutions ... and use them in many other places that need them as well.” The USAID award will enable the MIT team to ... bring faculty and graduate students from Egypt to the Institute, to learn how to approach large, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-30-million-help-address-energy-challenges-egyptLearning to Solve
developing uses an inverted cushioning structure and 3-D printing to produce a snug fit. “I took SuperUROP ... project uses deep-learning techniques to identify and perhaps predict trends in currency exchange rates ... such as Bitcoin. “I’m interested in how technology can disrupt industries like finance, and I’d like to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-solveA safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors
Many bacteria and other microbes are able to exchange genes, even between different species, using ... bacterial cells. The researchers used the spheres to encapsulate E. coli bacteria that were designed to ... In recent years, scientists have developed many strains of engineered bacteria that can be used as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/safer-way-deploy-bacteria-environmental-sensorsResearchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
to see how we could minimize the initial adhesion on the pipe walls.” The approach is similar to that ... being used in a company Varanasi established to commercialize earlier work from his lab, which creates ... are using the liquid that’s in the environment itself,” rather than applying a lubricant to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-cloggingFrom “cheetah-noids” to humanoids
research and undergraduate thesis, he began to look at how to utilize pieces built for the electronics ... cheetah to backflip,” says Katz. Using offline non-linear optimization to generate the backflip ... recalls Katz. “We used custom-built actuators on each of the Rubik’s Cube’s faces alongside webcams to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ccheetah-noids%E2%80%9D-humanoidsMore than 25 from MIT Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists in 2016
working to commercialize ion propulsion technology for small satellites using a liquid ionic propellant ... “Elmachtoub’s research is focused on using data science and optimizing algorithms to make businesses more ... the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Almost all NBA championship contenders use his work to gain ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-25-mit-named-forbes-30-under-30-lists-2016Processing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
that can be used in the field to convert that agricultural waste into a solid, clean-burning fuel. ... says. What Takachar’s technology provides is a way to use biomass more cleanly and efficiently by ... gigatons per year at scale. (“Carbon dioxide equivalent” is a measure used to gauge global warming ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsPhysicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
“We’ve demonstrated how to prepare kilogram-scale objects in quantum states. This finally opens the door ... to an experimental study of how gravity might affect large quantum objects, something hitherto only ... scientists precisely how much each mirror moved, to an accuracy of 1/10,000 the width of a proton. Sudhir and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateRooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience
research team shows how such devices could one day be called upon to either pump power into the grid, or ... grid edge. Surely we should be able to put them to good use.” While considering ways to deal with drops ... and how the same grid-edge devices could step in to stabilize the grid following an unforeseen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceMobius App Released to Empower MIT Maker Community
reason? Students face too many barriers when trying to use MIT’s expansive maker infrastructure. Students ... access to the workshops, which is not trivial when you consider how much other stuff they have to do ... skill set? How do you pay for things if you need to pay for them? All of these things stacked on top of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobius-app-released-empower-mit-maker-communityDesigning AR apps to close the skills gap
manufacturing process. The 2.670 course introduces learners to the fundamentals of machine tools use and ... serve as a platform to study how students learn. All interactions with the app incidentally become data ... on the user experience, informing how best to teach the material. “We need to optimize the user ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-ar-apps-close-skills-gapDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
“It is incredibly hard, figuring out how to do ‘startups’ within large organizations,” he concedes. If ... processes.” He studied systems engineering and the use of Monte Carlo simulations to model complex ... When Kamen spun off Segway to develop a new personal mobility device using the same technology, Field ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-innovation-silicon-valley-detroitFundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
what to sample for the most informative data, and how to optimally reach sampling locations. MIT ... locations to measure one variable, to gain information about the other. The team used their equations and ... where the most informative measurements can be made.” To determine how to safely and efficiently reach ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0When to get your head out of the game
Harvatine’s startup Jolt Athletics, the sensor is now being used nationwide by teams from grade-school to ... statistics for each athlete. “You can watch how an athlete is trending — day to day, week to week, month to ... charged with using a sensor to collect real-world data. And he had a revelation. “I grabbed a bunch of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-get-your-head-out-gameStudent Spotlight: Paul Lazarescu
respectively. The data from the sensors would then be used to calibrate a similar sensor on a satellite ... says. “For my birthday presents, I’d get remote-control cars and kits, and I once tried to make myself ... to achieving his childhood dream: He’s designed a hand exerciser for stroke rehabilitation, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-paul-lazarescuMoving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor
“Understanding how chemistry affects films and interfaces will empower us to co-design for stability and ... using perovskite materials for solar applications,” says Bulović. “We’re thrilled to help build on that ... efficiency. Their potential to generate significantly more power than conventional cells could make ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-perovskite-advancements-lab-manufacturing-floor