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How cell mechanics influences everything
— its size, shape, squishiness, or stiffness — have anything to do with how tall a tree grows? In search ... his students are developing tools to carefully poke and prod cells, and observe how their physical ... different materials, especially biological materials, and how to understand them simply as physical objects, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cell-mechanics-influences-everythingHow MIT LGO alumni are powering Amazon’s global operations
centers to using AI to determine how much inventory we should buy and where we should place it to ... my day-to-day role. We’re constantly thinking about how to infuse technology and innovate at scale to ... efficacy relies on how great our leaders are, and a big part of my role is to develop, coach, and build ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-lgo-alumni-are-powering-amazon%E2%80%99s-global-operationsHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
technique to experimentally create their own shells, using a liquid polymer solution that they drizzled over ... research should also have uses far beyond the chocolate shop: By knowing just a few key variables, ... capsules to large airplane and rocket bodies. The team’s results are reported today in the journal Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
determined how both chemistry — the preening oil that birds use — and the microstructure of feathers, with ... going to stay wetted, irreversibly, unless you steam clean them or something.” The team’s research used ... “The authors used a novel quantitative approach to address the issue of feather wetting. As a result, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
this boundary layer determine how well the fluid can transfer heat, which is key to many cooling ... to plot data with these equations. That way, students could see how well the equations did or didn’t ... use to predict heat transfer from flat plates.” Monday, April 27, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesFaculty Spotlight
even faster and more agile in terms of how to service that increased customer base. Innovation in ... the engineering and science that enable these new technologies. How important is it to understand the ... the nano scale. I cannot emphasize how important that is. With macro scale objects, if I want to move ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlightHow MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
a decision early on that we had to think differently about how we did things,” Schuetz says. Over two months, ... results via the app. “One of the biggest challenges in this whole effort was figuring out how to get all ... engineers to optimize the trailer’s HVAC system. “We ran all sorts of calculations on how much air had to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-built-its-own-covid-19-testing-trailerHow light can vaporize water without the need for heat
a lab device designed to measure the “photomolecular effect,” using laser beams. Photo: Bryce Vickmark ... hard to explain how this kind of flat temperature profile comes about without invoking some other ... behind. Evaporation is all around us, and humans have been observing it and making use of it for as long ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-need-heatUsing AI to Explore Oceans
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: Using AI to Explore Oceans https://youtu.be/bAXveeBTZ3A ... developing artificial intelligence for use on autonomous marine vehicles. Their software is put to the ... 2.680: Unmanned Marine Vehicle Autonomy, Sensing and Communications aim to deepen our understanding by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-ai-explore-oceansUsing light to propel water
over a surface, using only light. This advance may open the door to technologies such as microfluidic ... developed by MIT engineers could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only ... are — the harder they are to separate. Sometimes electrostatic methods are used, but these are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-light-propel-waterNew electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases
Medicine, MechE researchers introduce e-GLUE, a novel hydrogel interface that uses electroadhesion to both ... used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases and biosensing. Photo: Courtesy of the ... mucosal sealing and sustained localized therapeutic delivery, it may be used to stop GI bleeding by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electroadhesive-hydrogel-may-be-used-deliver-sustained-drug-administration-giMIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use
employing multiple methods, from redesigning ship hulls, propellers, and engines to using novel fuels and ... director of MIT Sea Grant. Vortex generators have long been used in aircraft-wing design to maintain lift ... researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-demonstrate-ship-hull-modifications-cut-fuel-use-0In the World: Remote Mexican Village Uses Solar Power to Purify Water
training, non-expert communities can independently operate high-tech systems. “We’re using MIT intellect to ... produce technology systems that are of the highest quality, and we can train people to use them, and ... water using the power of the sun. For nearly two years now, members of the community, most of whom are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/world-remote-mexican-village-uses-solar-power-purify-waterTeam uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications
a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used ... 3D printing of a metallic powder strengthened with ceramic nanowires, could be used to improve many ... The resulting powder is then used to create parts via laser powder bed fusion, a form of 3D printing. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-uses-3d-printing-strengthen-key-material-aerospace-energy-generation-applicationsUsing sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
students designed a probe with sensors to measure the structure of snow. The device could be used to ... teams can use to identify weak layers. This information is vital for avalanche prevention. It quickly ... Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-sensors-and-social-networks-make-slopes-saferRetired mechanical engineer puts hundreds of parts to use in kinetic sculptures
I tend to save a lot of stuff in my basement, and invariably I end up using it. Of course, if you threw ... human brain cortex during neurosurgery. “It also created a desire to do things that are completely my ... own, that I didn’t have to answer economically for. And when I was thinking about retirement, I decided ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/retired-mechanical-engineer-puts-hundreds-parts-use-kinetic-sculptures3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers
of study at the Institute,” the survey said. So how does that compare to where students are now and ... they were interested in using, whether there were barriers to using existing maker spaces on campus, ... and a range of other interest-based questions. “We really wanted to know where the needs are, and how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-martin-culpepper-making-future-makersHow MIT’s rocket, electric car, and solar vehicle teams have adjusted to the pandemic
have a more accurate understanding based on how the situation progresses on whether we're going to ... and how we've been able to go through quarantine and be productive. [The team has] been super ... effort into trying to build a car and how much it means for people and the great friendships that are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit%E2%80%99s-rocket-electric-car-and-solar-vehicle-teams-have-adjusted-pandemicTeaching robots how to move objects
machine-learning algorithms and software to improve how robots interact with the world. MCube’s multidisciplinary ... Improving how robots interact with the world and reason to find the best possible outcome was crucial to the ... machine learning algorithms and software to improve how robots interact with the world. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsHow to Succeed at MIT
Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: Embracing Opportunity: How to Succeed at MIT Teaser Text: ... the support of friends, family, and the MIT community to become one of the most successful students in ... her class. She recently accepted an offer from Apple to work as an iPad product design engineer. ...
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