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Bianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries
in mechanical engineering, uses these data points to model conditions affecting acidity, a growing ... geophysical systems of land, air, and water. “My goal is to intelligently use available data and provide more ... impacting marine life such as scallops and oysters, which use carbonate from the water to build shells. As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bianca-champenois-sm-%E2%80%9922-helps-model-future-coastal-industriesEngineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures
Stern teamed up to see whether and how 3D-printable glass could be made into a structural masonry unit ... more understanding of what the material’s limits are, and how to scale,” Stern says. “We’re thinking of ... into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generations of buildings using the same ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-building-structuresThe physics of curly hair
University used mathematics to describe the shape of a ponytail. “We focused on how to describe the ... industry, but it also could be used by engineers to predict the curve that long steel pipes, tubing, and ... “Artists in the computer animation industry often become entangled in questions of how to groom a head of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairOrienteering for robots
Suppose you’re trying to navigate an unfamiliar section of a big city, and you’re using ... odd turns, and for a while you lose sight of your landmarks. When they reappear, in order to use them ... estimate is rough, the points on the sphere form loose clusters that can be difficult to distinguish. Using ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
expansion or shrinkage, rigidity, and how tightly bonded they are — lead to these different outcomes. Using ... properties of the individual layers, and how they are bonded to each other, determines the exact form of the ... small to very large,” he adds. Zhao’s own research has already explored the use of such patterning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingCreating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way
these edge cases helped machines learn how to handle challenging circumstances, which enabled them to ... verification formulation that enables the use of a scalable neural network verifier, α,β-CROWN, to provide ... a two-dimensional environment. Their algorithm successfully guided the drone to a stable hover position, using only ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-and-verifying-stable-ai-controlled-systems-rigorous-and-flexible-wayA 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
“I think it will be really fascinating to see how people are going to use it for final products.” ... errors in real-time, while the machine-learning system uses that information to predict the warping ... hardest materials to print today are also the most commonly used in current manufacturing processes. That ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printer-powered-machine-vision-and-artificial-intelligenceHave a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”
a hobby, using traditional hand-painting techniques. As he toured galleries, he came to realize that the ... original painting, using a 15th-century painting that he acquired when he first came to MIT. His new method ... involves first using traditional techniques to clean a painting and remove any past restoration efforts. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/have-damaged-painting-restore-it-just-hours-ai-generated-%E2%80%9Cmask%E2%80%9DClass Close-Up: 2.729 Design for Scale
already have analytic engineering skills how to design for manufacturability, come up with assembly ... developing world. For Suji Balfe, a junior studying mechanical engineering, figuring out how to increase ... were tasked with finding ways to make each product easier to manufacture and use. But as far as the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2729-design-scaleMicrobes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech
for Energy and Microsystems Innovation (LEMI). "We're working on a way to use microbial fuel ... food-processing facility could use [microbial fuel cells] to treat wastewater from food processing before ... so to understand the flow of reactants and electrons, and how the geometry of the system affects ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microbes-chow-down-latest-fuel-cell-techRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
take a huge amount of computational effort and time. Using that information to then decide how to best ... noise, to help robots focus on the features in a scene that are most relevant for assisting humans. Using ... Their approach, which they aptly dub “Relevance,” enables a robot to use cues in a scene, such as audio ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansGoing local in the "Coral Triangle"
years. She’ll ask how he decides if a coral reef is healthy enough to support daily visits from boatloads ... reefs suffered during the period from the 1950s to the 1990s, when fishermen commonly exploded cyanide ... bombs in the water to kill and harvest all the fish in an area at once. Still in recovery, these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-local-coral-triangleAlbatross robot takes flight
graduate thesis. “In particular, it’s very important to understand the Southern Ocean and how it is ... interacting with climate change. But it’s very hard to get there. We can now use the energy from the ... predict how such a design would travel. According to their calculations, the wind-powered vehicle would ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightSenior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing
quad rotor’s electronics system. Senatus used a 3-D printer to produce parts based on her designs, and ... shy person, her time as a GEL 1 student taught her how to assert herself and work well in group ... hopes she can use her experiences to encourage students to consider a wider variety of professions. “I ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/senior-larissa-senatus-learns-about-world-doingComputing for ocean environments
morphing fish fins for use in underwater robotics. As such, there is a greater need to understand how these ... oceans, and how both organisms and man-made vehicles can move within them, from the micro-scale to the ... a fluid flow. As a result, they are able to better understand how fin shape deformations can harm or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/computing-ocean-environmentsStudents present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact
and Mechanical Engineering, Hajal is using microfluidics to learn more about how cancer metastasizes ... utilizing mathematical models to predict how a tumor might react to treatment plans. Using a reduced-order ... of brain cancer. Cynthia Hajal is using microfluidic chips to grow blood vessels that mimic the human ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-mechanical-engineering-projects-have-global-impactCells get ready for their close-up
researchers also hope to use the system to learn more about how cancer cells grow and respond to different ... a distinctive index of refraction, and this property can be used, along with cells’ volume, to calculate their ... refraction, so the information generated by this approach can also be used to identify some of these internal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cells-get-ready-their-closeSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
formulations that are too viscous to be injected using conventional medical syringes. The technology, which is ... formulations and are harvested from living cells. They are used to treat a wide range of diseases and ... syringes are also too expensive to be used widely. To develop their technology, the MIT researchers began ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsRichard Li
“This is meaningful to me and how I spent my time the past four years at MIT, and we now have the best ... which has purchased several of the self-raising sensations for use on campus. “Everyone who’s had to use ... public toilets weren’t in use — touring bathrooms around Boston and disassembling hundreds of seats to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/richard-liTechnique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials
to characterized using the new OWCh technique during the entire gelation process. Courtesy of the ... researchers Scientists use various instruments to stretch, squeeze, and twist soft materials to precisely ... soft materials’ properties. The technique can be used to test the properties of drying cement, clotting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-inspired-dolphin-chirps-could-improve-tests-soft-materials