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Ten from MIT awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
rights issues, which led him to environmental activism. He returned to the U.S. for college to learn how ... nonprofit that teaches high school students throughout the U.S. how to invent technologies that can make ... assays to understand how sensory experience shapes neuronal function. Nagy has also been developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ten-mit-awarded-2020-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansNo more blackouts?
units include capacitors of the appropriate size, the system is guaranteed to be stable, no matter how ... to? Can we design components in such a way that, no matter how people interconnect them, they will ... useful to prove that, for high-enough capacitance, a microgrid’s voltage will not go to critically low ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/no-more-blackoutsTeaching mechanical engineering in a pandemic
use and how to use it.” Students who are on campus and participating in the in-person components are ... we use in the course,” says Wight. “The objective is to get students as comfortable as possible ... are preparing students for how to work remotely, which is going to be a part of whatever career they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-mechanical-engineering-pandemicFlora Klise
figuring out how to get water to a house or rigging a device that makes pumping easier.” Up until that ... was to focus on desalinating brackish groundwater for agricultural use. As a relative novice to water ... them a cost-effective, sustainable desalination alternative. “The target application is to use this in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/flora-kliseRecord Temperatures
understand how to do it better, or control it and make it do different things, so that we could build ... exist that prevent engineers from going much further. Molten tin stores heat and can be used to generate ... motion, locomotives, and, ultimately, the conversion of heat to mechanical work. Steam engines, and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/record-temperatures-0Measuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility
expression, could be used to reveal new drug targets that would make cancer treatment more effective. ... Exploiting these targets could help knock out the defenses that cells use to overcome the original drug ... rate immediately prior to single-cell RNA-sequencing, we can now use a cell’s ‘fitness’ to classify it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibilityA more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
future work could explore how to use AI to learn that information, as well. This work was funded, in ... A strategy for cellular reprogramming involves using targeted genetic interventions to engineer ... active learning. Data samples are collected and used to learn a model of the system that incorporates the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-effective-experimental-design-engineering-cell-new-stateHot New Solar Cell
cells to break through a theoretically predicted ceiling on how much sunlight they can convert into ... known that there is an absolute theoretical limit, called the Shockley-Queisser Limit, to how efficient ... first to heat before generating electrical power. It is the latter method, using devices known as solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellCatching (radio) waves
protocols used — the rules that govern how data can be exchanged between readers and tags. This helped users ... Wegmans, and New Balance, which all used the technology to track inventory. Additionally, hospitals have ... used the systems to keep track of patients and surgery tools. This is ‘the Internet of things’ One of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catching-radio-wavesEngineers design color-changing compression bandage
Vukusic sought ways to translate the fruit’s photonic architecture into a useful synthetic material. ... a fiber to go from yellow to green, or blue, we can say, ‘This is how we have to lay out the fiber to give ... course, they could also be a scientific tool that could be used in a broader context, which we want to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-color-changing-compression-bandageSuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress
useful in helping him plan his research. “I’ve realized how difficult it is to develop a project,” ... School of Engineering/Quest scholar. Kimn is using neural modeling to address grammatical errors to aid ... meanwhile, has pursued her interest in “how we can take biological knowledge and, using computer science, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/superurop-showcasing-students-research-work-progressWhy have solar energy costs fallen?
how to continue reducing costs in the future. photovoltaic-solar-panels_0.jpg The awarded project, ... exceptionally rapid cost decline and how to bring cost down further, as well as the general insights on why ... the fundamental determinants of technological innovation and how to make it most beneficial to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-have-solar-energy-costs-fallenSystem provides cooling with no electricity
of Chile. Such a system could be used, for example, as a way to keep vegetables and fruit from ... simply the main process that most hot objects use to cool down. They emit midrange infrared radiation, ... which also used radiative cooling but employed a physical barrier, a narrow strip of metal, to shade the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityAlumni Spotlight: Associate Professor Hugh Herr (SM ’93)
to overcome them. His lab is working to understand the tricks the human body uses for moving ... is still largely mysterious, using energy in a very economical manner that is difficult to re-create ... static; we change in time, we swell, we shrink. So how you attach the machine world to that is a really ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-associate-professor-hugh-herr-sm-%E2%80%9993Hugh Herr
is still largely mysterious, using energy in a very economical manner that is difficult to re-create ... static; we change in time, we swell, we shrink. So how you attach the machine world to that is a really ... the interface is rarely flawless – and the devices often hinder the bodies they are supposed to help. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hugh-herrSoft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body
as an experimental tool that can be used by scientists to explore the causes and potential treatments ... pain. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers “Current devices used to study nerve disorders are made of ... brain The new study grew out of the team’s desire to expand the use of optogenetics beyond the brain. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-optical-fibers-block-pain-while-moving-and-stretching-bodyNew Microscope Creates Near-Real-Time Videos of Nanoscale Processes
microscope shows transparent tubes used to inject various liquids into the imaging environment. This liquid ... process. Researchers use one as an inlet and the other as an outlet to circulate and refresh the solutions ... time-consuming process. AFMs therefore have been used mostly to image static samples, as they are too slow to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-creates-near-real-time-videos-nanoscale-processesOn a quest for a better football helmet
concussion, but he notes how difficult it can be to accurately diagnose concussions during games. “We did ... that class are often tasked with taking apart other products to study how they’re made. For Apache, ... Brush started by disassembling competing helmets to try to understand how they work, where they’re ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-better-football-helmetEngineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies
bathymetry, which uses transducers to send acoustic signals into the ocean. If objects are in the signal’s ... defense. He uses monarch butterflies to explain. “They’re able to migrate long distances and find the exact ... forest that their ancestors were born into. How? One theory is that they’re able to sense the Earth’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-defense-help-butterfliesPhillip Daniel
add to the current picture, Daniel is on a team that focuses on sonar bathymetry, which uses ... which could serve as an alternative to GPS for commercial enterprises and national defense. He uses ... their ancestors were born into. How? One theory is that they’re able to sense the Earth’s magnetic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/phillip-daniel