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The breadth of MechE

and combining elements of engineering design and mathematical optimization, her work has been used to ... 2024-04-04 at 10.50.26 AM.png An instrumented balance board is used to gamify the recovery process for lower ... martial arts, or BMX, and studies of the physical performance of professional athletes to determine how ...

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Protecting machine learning datasets

mathematical models could be used to embed logic into robotics,” says Aceituno. This passion brought Aceituno ... Facebook AI Research group. He developed a machine-learning pipeline that aimed to teach robots how to move ... a developer toolthat helps machine learning teams manage and control the data that will be used to train their ...

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A simple formula could guide the design of faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries

different battery materials and used that data to develop a new model of how the reaction is controlled. ... predicted by the traditional Butler-Volmer model. The researchers used the data to come up with an ... Shao-Horn says. Shao-Horn’s lab and their collaborators have been using automated experiments to make and ...

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Double-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures

New adhesive that binds wet surfaces within seconds could be used to heal wounds or implant ... medical devices. Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have ... The double-sided tape can also be used to attach implantable medical devices to tissues, including the ...

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Class Close-Up: 2.981 New England Coastal Ecology

how coastal cities like Boston can cope with worsening floods due to sea level rise. “We live in ... and salt marshes,” says Simpson, a coastal ecologist who studies how plants and algae respond to human ... get to interact with the communities they’ve learned about. Using fundamental techniques in ecology, ...

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Lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber

researchers wondered how resilient the lobster’s membrane would be to such small scrapes and cuts. They used ... as industrial rubber composites, such as those used to make car tires, garden hoses, and conveyor ... carried out simulations  to see how a lobster membrane would react to a simple cut if its chitin fibers ...

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Beyond low-hanging fruit

source of how to store the energy,” Slocum  says. Instead of using gravity, Slocum’s method — a new spin ... CSPonD, endeavors to store solar power using heated molten salt while eliminating excess parts that can ... efficient and cost-effective version of that used during the 1970s energy crisis, uses mirrors to reflect ...

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Full Steam Ahead

in 1934. MechE had long sent students to use this lab, and Physics was increasingly moving toward the ... “Being good at solving a problem that lots of other people know how to solve is great, but it doesn’t ... social and economic impact,” says Lienhard. “We ask, ‘How are we going to make the world a better ...

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Illuminating a complex disease

better drug targets and help doctors decide how to best treat individual patients. Griffith and ... Translational Medicine, could help scientists develop a patient stratification system similar to that used for ... along, to be a complement to the much more clinical and visual approach we currently use,” says Robert ...

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Outside-the-Box Thinker

Senior Nathan Spielberg uses 3-D printing to build everything from nanoscale chips to houses. When ... controlling a large robotic arm — out of that from a boom truck, used to fixed power lines — that would be ... it was really interesting to learn about how they were trying to solve this problem from a biological ...

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A lasting — and valuable — legacy

understand the basic principles of electrochemistry, you can start to intuit how systems will behave. Once ... Key to a step-change in energy, and therefore driving range, is to use a lithium metal anode in place ... read textbooks of all kinds from cover to cover, taught himself numerous technical fields including ...

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Bold research visions recognized and rewarded

Research. Her idea proposes using the humble yeast cell to act as a multifunctional, even programmable, ... on-demand yeast products that can be used to clean up waste sites — from sources such as mining, ... tuning all aspects of the reaction microenvironment. If we can learn how to design a stable and robust ...

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Engineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces

meshes, that better match to a person’s body. As a demonstration, the team printed a flexible mesh for use ... and devices tend to be very bulky,” Pattinson says. “We were trying to think of how we can make ... without it, to understand how the mesh affected the ankle’s stiffness in different directions. In general, ...

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Refrigerator magnets

Review Letters.   “People now have a new theoretical playground to study how magnons move under ... applications such as thermoelectric generators, which can be used to convert heat directly into electricity, or ... one end of a magnet to the other. Motivating new experiments Liao used the properties of a common ...

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Student Spotlight: Peter Godart '15, SM '19, PhD Candidate

Using aluminum debris to power desalination after natural disasters There are about a dozen ... of natural disasters. RS3585_Godart, Peter 2019_1024.jpg These aluminum pellets can be used to ... also managed a project that looked into using aluminum fuel to power a lander that could someday be ...

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MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants

using XR technology for training could expand to other sports.   Jeehwan Kim: Next-generation ... It can be integrated into see-through displays and could be used to develop compact AR glasses. The ... MIT.nano has announced its next round of seed grants to support hardware and software research ...

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MIT-Takeda Program heads into fourth year with crop of 10 new projects

we run any trial, we need to figure out how we can actually measure the disease in the population ... develops and commercializes new drugs, as well as how academic research can translate to very real problems ... what we can all do using AI and ML more broadly. I think that's a super-exciting place for us to ...

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Spray tuning

the way such fluids flow.  In the early 2000s, scientists derived a simple equation to describe how ... mismatch. “What we wanted to add to the literature was how viscoelasticity can change this parameter n, ... used a strobe light technique, originally developed by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton, to create ...

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Interactive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions

breaks, similar to how people use retainers.” The team’s initial findings indicate that MouthIO is ... assistants, Bluetooth earpieces, or asking Siri to make a phone call in your car. You might not imagine using ... bite, with the data charted to show how often users did each. Wessely and his colleagues’ customizable ...

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MechE Hart Gallery

Welcome to the MechE Hart Gallery Online Content This page is home to content that offers more ... information related to displays in our gallery space in MIT Building 5 on the first floor. Binder jet printing ... If you haven't yet visited our exhibits, we invite you to stop in soon! The Gallery is typically ...

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