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New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester
“As much as I work to support the students, they teach me how to best work with them.” From the start ... their areas of expertise encompass a wide range of matters important to MIT students, from condensed ... matter physics to the quality of Fruit Loops. Next House Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Empar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-heads-house-join-undergraduate-and-graduate-communities-start-fall-semesterTurning history of science into a comic adventure
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IMES, and the MIT Libraries. “We wanted to use visual art ... in ideas about science and how we communicate them using media like videos, books, and comics. “ We ... The Covid-19 pandemic taught us how complex the science and management of infectious disease can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-history-science-comic-adventure2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles
arrived at MIT 25 years ago, only professors and postdoctoral students were allowed to touch the ... department’s underwater vehicles. The vehicles were expensive, he explains, and required extensive training to ... operate. “People were scared to death about losing or damaging them, [and] there was no education ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2s01-special-subject-invites-first-year-students-get-their-feet-wet-working-underwaterCould carbon monoxide foam help fight inflammation?
Medicine paper, could also be used to deliver other therapeutic gases, the researchers say. “The ability to ... this offers an exciting new way to think about how we can help patients,” says Giovanni Traverso, the ... an inhaled gas,” he says. “However, it’s been a challenge to use it in the clinic, for a number of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-carbon-monoxide-foam-help-fight-inflammationCourse 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems
use operational amplifiers for electronic processing and an audio amplifier to learn about how ... how to do power conversions, use microcontrollers, and interface Arduino with mechanical systems. “I ... concepts presented during the week’s lecture; for example, students build a digital scale to learn how to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-2678-electronics-mechanical-systemsEngineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
used to analyze how potential cancer drugs affect tumors and their microenvironment. “The discoveries ... developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous pancreatic ... which is currently one of the most difficult types of cancer to treat. Using a specialized gel that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingStudent Spotlight: David Larson ’16, SM ’18, PhD Candidate
Laboratory for Ship and Platform Flows, he works on modeling ship-wave interactions to understand how ships ... to create a framework that gets more accurate predictions for how ships behave in severe storms and ... to get those predictions fast enough to use in iterative design.” Current models have come a long way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-david-larson-%E2%80%9916-sm-%E2%80%9918-phd-candidateAdvocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
exposes participants to the process of U.S. federal policymaking and the many avenues researchers can use ... This spring, 26 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional ... staffers to advocate for increased science funding for fiscal year 2025. These conversations were impactful ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillVibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
including the one that causes Covid-19, may use a similar method to trick cells into letting the viruses ... inside. The findings could be useful for determining how dangerous different strains or mutations of ... coronaviruses may be, and might point to a new approach for developing treatments. Studies of how spike ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vibrations-coronavirus-proteins-may-play-role-infectionLiving sensors at your fingertips
should use, the distance between channels, how to pattern the channels, and how much bacteria to use ... living material design may be adapted to sense other chemicals and contaminants, for uses ranging from ... extremely difficult to replicate in synthetic materials. “The challenge to making living materials is how to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/living-sensors-your-fingertipsNavigating blindfolded
know where you are to build the map, but you need the map to know where you are. To illustrate how ... Leonard likens it to mowing the lawn blindfolded. “If you just use dead reckoning, you’re going to get ... more slowly, but not eliminate it entirely. So how can an AUV use poor data from relatively inexpensive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-blindfolded3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... predictably morph in response to temperature can be useful for a number of applications, from soft actuators ... “We ultimately want to use body temperature as a trigger,” Fang says. “If we can design these polymers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesNew laser setup probes metamaterial structures with ultrafast pulses
can play with any combination of microstructures to see how certain materials can transform, for ... microscale, and to know how they will respond, without contacting and physically damaging the structures in ... engineers can then use the resulting vibrations to calculate various dynamic properties of the material, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-laser-setup-probes-metamaterial-structures-ultrafast-pulsesHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
a deep pool, to track how the fluid evolves, above and below the water line, frame by millisecond frame. ... Their work could help to predict how spashing droplets, such as from rainstorms and irrigation systems, ... pool, to track how the fluid evolves, frame by millisecond frame. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolPowering Desalination with the Sun
finding that many of them weren’t using these filters. She became skeptical of how useful it would be to ... graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... providing little motivation to use these filters. In reviewing the list of questions she had prepared for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sunYo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale
objects I use in my daily life to think about how it was produced,” says Enns. By the end of the semester, ... processes used for everyday products ranging from toys to cars to smartphones. For their main project, each ... students get a hands-on experience building a single product. In 2.008, students learn how to design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/yo-yos-offer-first-foray-manufacturing-scaleHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
be delivered through the skin without the use of needles. “We want to explore how needle-free ... over, using high-speed cameras to capture each watery impact. The team’s videos are reminiscent of the ... human skin is also a viscoelastic material, they say the model may be tuned to predict how fluids could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-dropletMeasuring Students' Passion
their projects really stick with us as instructors because you get to see firsthand, how students use ... Whether it’s analyzing heart rate and reaction time or determining how many rubber bands are needed to ... remaining undergraduate courses. “Knowing how to conduct science helps you read science better – you can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-students-passionMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants
thrilled to award seven grants this year in support of research that will shape how people interact with ... NCSOFT seed grant recipients will use software and hardware from MIT.nano’s Immersion Lab to pursue ... Balakrishnan, Fredo Durand, and William T. Freeman, uses person-specific face image generation models to handle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-2020-seed-grantsA 3D printable tissue adhesive
work, the researchers demonstrate how 3D printing can be used to create patches with tissue-specific ... design and manufacturing. “We demonstrate how 3D printing can be used to create patches with programmable ... MIT researchers introduce a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive that can be used to ...
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