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A Mechanical Engineering Rite of Passage at MIT
and toys catering to do-it-yourselfers are on the rise. It’s easy to appreciate how a love for making ... MIT was founded by scientist and educator William Barton Rogers, who had a different idea about how to ... educate and learn. He founded MIT to teach not only the ability to think critically but also how to apply ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineering-rite-passage-mitTechnique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
to produce electricity. They say that this property, known as polarizability, can be used to assess ... more subtle property. “Basically, people were using dielectrophoresis to separate bacteria that were as ... team aimed to see whether there was a correlation between a bacteria’s electrical ability and how it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-identifies-electricity-producing-bacteriaNavigating beneath the Arctic ice
water that used to be covered by a solid ice pack are now covered by thin layers only 3 feet deep. ... to understand is how does this new Arctic environment brought about by global climate change affect ... the use of underwater sound for communication, navigation, and sensing?” explains Schmidt. To answer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-beneath-arctic-ice-0Data-driven diabetes management
a new pen, they replace the plastic cap with a Gocap, which uses an optical measurement method to ... the fact that they may be storing insulin too hot, which could seriously affect how they use it and ... it.” A doctor can use the data to tweak insulin dosage. People with diabetes usually get check-ups once ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementMoving water and earth
downstream impact of restoring a river or removing a dam. But the models currently used to estimate sediment ... flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ... and if so, how the nebulous property could be mathematically represented. “The trick was to focus on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
studying how sun exposure impacts coral organisms. Image courtesy of the researchers Efforts to deploy ... Barbados — meaning, it was located in the shallowest spot — which is useful for studying how sun exposure ... was using techniques from probability to reason about navigating the notoriously complex tradeoff ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaMaking data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
size to meet tighter testing budgets. The tool also estimates how much testing should be conducted in ... Warehouses, manufacturing floors, offices, schools — organizations of all kinds have had to change ... their operations to adapt to life in a pandemic. By now, there is confidence in some ways to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plansA Makerspace for Students, by Students
students are encouraged to use the space to make personal creations, too — for example, a team of mentors ... extensively used MakerWorks to build “Sawblaze,” a bot that competed on the recent reboot of ABC’s ... important to give students a place to learn how to build well and develop better building practices,” says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/makerspace-students-studentsEdward Burnell
thinking about how improving lesson design can help students learn more effectively. He traveled to Ghana, ... guiding students as they built a battery to power an LED light, using basic materials such as copper wire, ... However, because conventional sip-and-puff joysticks are designed for hospital use, they tend to be large ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/edward-burnellGoing with the flow
and tenacity. A nyone who has steered a boat knows how much effort is needed to keep the boat on ... and uses their suction force to stay in one place without swimming, thereby expending little energy. ... To test their ability to identify eddies, the researchers again used the MIT Towing Tank. For these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flowMicrofluidics from LEGO bricks
a microfluidic system similarly to how you would build a LEGO castle — brick by brick,” says lead author Crystal ... might use LEGO bricks to make a kit of microfluidic tools.” Modular mechanics Hart, who is also director ... micromilling, a well-established technique commonly used to drill extremely fine, submillimeter features into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-lego-bricksThis flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes
the resonance frequency of which changes as it deforms. The team’s new design method can be used to ... technique may be used to design deployable structures, such as tents or coverings that automatically unfurl ... changes shape to swim as we put it in water,” says van Rees. “If you could use this as an actuator, like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changesMechE Summer X
July 5, 2:00-3:30pm Saturday, July 11, 2:00-3:30pm More Details Learn how to use Photoshop from ... how to play games (ex: chess, bridge) Musical instrument lessons Foreign language classes Any other ... society, Pi Tau Sigma. We encourage people to find a project that they can work on at home using only ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/meche-summer-xAdvancing technology for aquaculture
how we can utilize machine learning to make people’s lives easier. We are using AI to help biologists ... in learning more about how technology can be used to protect the environment and wildlife. Usua says ... sophomore Santiago Borrego are using microscopy images of shellfish seed from ARC to train machine learning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-technology-aquacultureUnderstanding and treating disease
can use it for clinical purposes.” Del Vecchio and her colleagues are hoping to change that. ... problem, Del Vecchio and her team are adding accelerators and brakes to the process. Using mathematical ... feedback controller — can be used to steer the concentration of transcription factors in the cell to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-and-treating-diseaseMIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries
To help mitigate climate change, companies are using bioreactors to grow algae and other ... pharmaceutical industry, cell culture is used to manufacture biologic drugs and other advanced treatments, ... detachment comes into the picture.” Photobioreactors are used to grow carbon-absorbing algae cells by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-solve-sticky-cell-problem-bioreactors-and-other-industries3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
exhaustive and profusely illustrated tutorial on how to create images of research that are informative, ... communicative piece of the work is not emphasized in their thinking. I don't even know how to teach that. ... scientists’ education — how to communicate to people outside their field — what to leave in, what to leave ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceGetting a grip on robotic grasp
fingers to grasp objects of various shapes and sizes. Wearing the robot, a user could use one hand to, for ... are used to grasp objects: bringing the fingers together, and twisting them inwards. A grasp of any ... two or three general patterns among all seven fingers. The researchers used this information to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspBubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam
they created high-speed video in order to study how bubbles react when they strike a surface. They ... understand how the liquid film separating it from the surface drains,” says Rapoport. “And we had to start at ... square one because there wasn’t even an established metric to measure how good a surface is at capturing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-capturing-surface-helps-get-rid-foam