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Technique rapidly measures cells’ density, reflecting health and developmental state
researchers also showed that density changes could be used to make valuable predictions, including whether ... properties of cells, which can tell you how they’re going to respond,” says Scott Manalis, the David H. Koch ... that change can be used to calculate the cell’s mass. In 2011, the researchers adapted the technique to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-rapidly-measures-cells%E2%80%99-density-reflecting-health-and-developmental-stateInaugural MechE Rising Stars Workshop will introduce early-career women to the world of academia
a number of career-building activities and attend a variety of panels about how to succeed in academia. ... engineering have been chosen to participate in the workshop. “We are delighted to be hosting the first-ever ... development opportunities and more information about the avenues available to them in academia is instrumental ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inaugural-meche-rising-stars-workshop-will-introduce-early-career-women-world-academiaMitigating the Impact of a Blowout Preventer Failure
Text: PhD candidate Folkers Rojas researches how to mitigate the impact of a Blowout Preventer failure. ... Prospective Grad Home https://youtu.be/0mrhvJ7teVw PhD candidate Folkers E. Rojas researches how to mitigate ... 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-failureDesign’s new frontier
computing and machine learning techniques to reimagine how the products, systems, and infrastructures we use ... software reshaped how everything from consumer products to buildings and airplanes were designed. “CAD was ... mechanical engineers have expanded the computing tools they use to ideate, design, and prototype. More ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design%E2%80%99s-new-frontierMIT researchers collaborate with Lamborghini to develop an electric car of the future
the car to somehow be used as a battery system, the hope is that this ambitious, visually stunning ... enable the complete body of Lamborghini’s Terzo Millenio to be used as a battery system. ... it hard not to notice the Lamborghini parked there as if it were visiting from the future. The car’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-collaborate-lamborghini-develop-electric-car-futureBurning things to make things
use of metals like aluminum to power rockets. “We’re interested in utilizing aluminum as a fuel for ... for a variety of common activities including electricity generation, transportation, and domestic uses ... like heating and cooking — but it also yields a host of environmental consequences, contributing to air ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/burning-things-make-thingsIngestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
when people try to design these highly swellable gels, they usually use diffusion, letting water ... says the pill might also be used as a safer, more comfortable alternative to the gastric balloon diet, ... using an endoscope. “With our design, you wouldn’t need to go through a painful process to implant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-expanding-pill-monitors-stomach-monthProfessors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
relates how Kellogg did everything she could to help her get the resources and space to make a full ... honorees of the student-driven “ Committed to Caring ” (C2C) program. Started in the spring of 2014, ... Committed to Caring seeks to recognize and celebrate MIT faculty members who go above and beyond to make an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringThe race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships
a professor of naval construction and engineering. They worked together on figuring out how to incorporate ... officer. “We were the ones doing the calculations for how to raise sunken ships,” he says. “It was a very ... to Boston’s Fort Independence by the ITS Alpino, an Italian naval warship. USS Constitution and ITS ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/race-build-navy%E2%80%99s-next-fleet-ships-0Multimillion-dollar grant to MIT funds research into acute and chronic Lyme disease
Family’s health trauma translates into mission to solve a chronic health problem suffered by more ... tests for Lyme. Known in the medical community as “the great imitator,” Lyme disease can be challenging to diagnose as ... diagnosis and antibiotic therapy. According to estimates from the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, more than ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multimillion-dollar-grant-mit-funds-research-acute-and-chronic-lyme-diseaseA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
could eventually enable the use of machine learning to accurately identify materials based on a desired ... properties in order to suit a particular application or use case. To tackle this problem, researchers have ... properties and characteristics and then using an optimization algorithm to generate a predicted solution. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracyAccelerating the pace of engineering
are using the programs to advance discovery and innovation across disciplines. “PhD fellowships are an ... Aeronautics and Astronautics. He uses MATLAB and Simulink to build tools that make robots more accurate. ... student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He uses MATLAB to model fluids and materials. Nicolas ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-pace-engineeringNew model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
which of those transporters they use to exit the digestive tract. Identifying the transporters used by ... based on pig intestinal tissue grown in the laboratory, can be used to systematically expose tissue to ... different drug formulations and measure how well they are absorbed. To study the role of individual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-identifies-drugs-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-taken-togetherNew gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
widely used elastomer product: condoms. In addition to enhancing the comfort of existing latex condoms by ... hydrogel laminates, the researchers used their previously developed techniques to coat hydrogel onto ... a laminate’s rigidity, or use a thicker coating of hydrogel to incorporate more drug molecules or sensors. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsEngineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
approach could prove useful for delivering long-lasting contraceptives or other drugs that need to be given ... for contraception that are easy to administer, compatible with being used in the developing world, and ... has been previously used as an additive to injectable drugs. The team found that the solvent’s poor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-better-way-deliver-long-lasting-drugsAviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory
technology. "Mike Stern is helping to lead the Laboratory's efforts to use additive manufacturing, ... a Lincoln Scholar assigned to MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Rapid Prototyping Group, and Raichelle Aniceto, ... a miniature satellite for taking atmospheric measurements used in weather forecasting. Aviation Week, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aviation-weeks-2014-twenty20s-include-two-ties-mit-lincoln-laboratoryDesigning for a more equitable world
important because they’ve used a pit latrine and can appreciate how it could be improved. I emphasize ... MechE Senior Lecturer Amy Smith discusses how she teaches MIT students to tap into the heart of ... D-Lab, which works with people around the world to develop practical solutions to global poverty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-more-equitable-worldFirst-ever MIT Maker Faire attracts nearly 3,000 attendees to campus
that allows you to draw up from a flat surface and make mini sculptures; and BlocksCAD, an easy-to-use ... 3-D computer aided design (CAD) tool that children as young as 9 years old can use to design and print ... making and support for STEAM, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a fitting place to organize ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-ever-mit-maker-faire-attracts-nearly-3000-attendees-campusEngineering art
Photo: Maisie O'Brien “I thought it would be meaningful to build a piece that represents how ... depression before. After losing Katherine, I struggled with how to cope with my feelings, while also ... a cybersecurity company. She hopes to use the experience and skills she gained at MIT to help build communities ...
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