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Oobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
Kamrin and Baumgarten say the new model can be used to explore how various ultrafine-particle solutions ... researchers accurately simulated how oobleck turns from a liquid to a solid and back again, under various ... useful in predicting how oobleck and other solutions of ultrafine particles might behave for military and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictableFeatured video: Building a roller coaster
hopefully choose to join. So, how do you get the attention of first-year MIT students? At East Campus, you ... students who use them to customize their rooms. Video by: Melanie Gonick/MIT News | 3 min 21 sec Sunday, ... halls host activities to encourage new students to visit, get to know the vibe of the community, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-building-roller-coasterSolving a Rubik's Cube in record time
state. The team then used existing software written to instruct the robot on exactly how to move the ... Biomimetic Robotics Lab. Custom-built electronics and controls are then used to control each of those motors. ... use those webcams to identify the different colors on the face of the cube,” says Katz. Di Carlo wrote ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-rubiks-cube-record-timeHeather Beem
and using magnets and wires taken from scraps to harvest energy from the motion. Within a few days, ... any problem,” Beem says. “It was just a matter of having the framework, knowing how to prototype, and ... Learning). To this day, the course teaches MIT students how to develop education-based solutions for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beemInternational development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
development. That January, they traveled to Haiti, where, alongside Peace Corps volunteers, they used skills ... universities around the world, is establishing a global network of local innovators using technology to address ... looking at how to collect it from a large group of farmers, how to process it, how to develop the supply ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/international-development-through-dialogue-design-and-disseminationJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
role of thermodynamics, and how all energy is connected to heat transfer.” At the PSFC, Barber works ... largest known to exist, and represents a major engineering challenge. Tokamaks have typically used low ... people, pitching ideas, and figuring out how to implement new clean energy projects.” He’s already ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environment“Each of us holds a piece of the solution”
of its greatest opportunities. “It calls on us to rethink how we power our world, how we build, how ... we live — and how we work together,” Wang said. “And there is no better place than MIT to lead this ... energy and climate. For example, the MIT Office of Sustainability showcased efforts to use the MIT campus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ceach-us-holds-piece-solution%E2%80%9DHeather Beem
and using magnets and wires taken from scraps to harvest energy from the motion. Within a few days, ... Beem says. “It was just a matter of having the framework, knowing how to prototype, and getting your ... Learning). To this day, the course teaches MIT students how to develop education-based solutions for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beem-0Giving robots a faster grasp
quickly figure out how to push against, slide along, or otherwise use features in their environments to ... up the planning process for robotic grippers to manipulate objects using the surrounding environment. ... sorting, and even intricate tool use. “This is a way to extend the dexterity of even simple robotic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-faster-graspAmrita Saigal '10
(R&D) to perfect its technology. “I knew I wanted to use cotton but how can you use cotton and actually ... are made of plastic. To make this point, I decided to wear a plastic garbage bag to show how babies ... materials used and how they are manufactured—during an internship as a manufacturing engineer for Always at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amrita-saigal-10Amrita Saigal
research and development (R&D) to perfect its technology. “I knew I wanted to use cotton but how can ... are made of plastic. To make this point, I decided to wear a plastic garbage bag to show how babies ... materials used and how they are manufactured—during an internship as a manufacturing engineer for Always at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amrita-saigalWhat happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation
as an individual scale begins to develop this ridged pattern. The researchers used advanced imaging ... time how a scale’s initially smooth surface begins to wrinkle to form microscopic, parallel ... this context, the organism uses buckling to initiate the growth of these intricate, functional ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-happens-during-first-moments-butterfly-scale-formationA flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
The challenge that SPROUT addresses is how to get under collapsed structures using a low-cost, ... of trying to control an expanding wiggly sprinkler toy. Pinpointing how to apply air pressure within ... new ways to apply robot technologies to the domain, such as using data captured by the robot to build ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-robot-can-help-emergency-responders-search-through-rubbleJana Saadi
know how to best leverage them. To help provide clarity, Saadi is evaluating how engineers use ... design process. She hopes to use her research to provide guidance on how generative design tools can ... engineers juggle multiple goals at once. They must make products easy to use and aesthetically pleasing for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jana-saadiFinding Joy in Making, and the Making of #HellaJuneteenth
holidays for their economic benefit. How about we use our resources during Juneteenth to pour back into our ... decisions quickly and use the feedback from each of those shots to inform how to push the composition. But ... how can I make something useful for someone else. For us, the moment when we decided that we needed to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-joy-making-and-making-hellajuneteenthJulien Barber
role of thermodynamics, and how all energy is connected to heat transfer.” At the PSFC, Barber works ... largest known to exist, and represents a major engineering challenge. Tokamaks have typically used low ... people, pitching ideas, and figuring out how to implement new clean energy projects.” He’s already ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/julien-barberGetting more heat out of sunlight
do — enough to be used for home heating or for industrial processes that require heat of more than ... of silica (which is also used to make glass). The material lets sunlight pass through easily but ... properties. The key to making it work was in the precise ratios of the different materials used to create the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightDiscovering nature’s properties through nonlinear solid mechanics
Group often uses to simulate tissue. COURTESY OF THE COHEN MECHANICS GROUP Another subject the group ... studies is how organisms grow. Rather than using the typical approach of reverse engineering a biological ... can be used in the design of objects from non-biological materials. Cohen emphasized how curiosity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/discovering-nature%E2%80%99s-properties-through-nonlinear-solid-mechanicsKrithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
accessible water filter for rural communities in India, to a qualitative analysis of how to best strengthen ... designed to improve efficiency and reduce energy use, these research areas apply knowledge to the ... focus of Ramchander’s research is to develop a low-cost, point-of-use water filter using sapwood xylem ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/krithika-ramchander-and-andrea-beck-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsSaving the radome
1966, it was used initially to pioneer weather radar research. As the years passed and technology ... student-led MIT Radio Society, who had found creative new uses for the radome, sprang into action to save it ... new uses for it, like bouncing radio signals off the moon to communicate over further distances. Photo ...
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