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Tackling social issues through engineering and theater
eye-opening experience. “It was then that I learned to really appreciate art, but also how unique these spaces ... engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been exposed to ... all performing arts students, [but] it was really nice how well we got along, despite how different we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-social-issues-through-engineering-and-theaterSusan Su
co-workers was an eye-opening experience. “It was then that I learned to really appreciate art, but also how ... despite how different we were.” Su returned to MIT with a new appreciation for theater, not only as an art ... exposed to theater before. Though she mostly helped out in café operations, just being around her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/susan-su2.009 gets “Wild!”
water skiers use hand signals to communicate with drivers but this requires taking one hand off the bar, ... for wave, nami uses nozzles to directly target the places the team identified as the dirtiest parts of ... a great word to describe of the energy of the capacity crowd gathered for the course’s annual product ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-gets-%E2%80%9Cwild%E2%80%9DPutting projects at the forefront
seminars and projects in NEET provide a solution. “I’m looking forward to exploring how computer science ... Rose Wang loves to work on projects — especially ones that exceed the bounds of her declared ... involves making an aerodynamic drone. “We’ll see how that goes,” she says. So when Wang spotted a campus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/putting-projects-forefrontAdvanced silicon solar cells
needed to get there and to help make it happen. “Our job is to figure out how to reach a minimum of 10 TW ... be hard,” says Buonassisi. So what needs to change? Using models that combine technological and ... dropped back down with re-exposure to light. So how do those defects interfere with conversion efficiency, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsMeet the Oystamaran
When Michelle Kornberg was about to graduate from MIT, she wanted to use her knowledge of ... our responsibility to use our skills and opportunities to work on problems that really matter,” says ... useful to you as an oyster farmer if I strapped on some kind of sensor?’” Ward says. “They try to fit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-oystamaran-0Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
Environmental Engineering, says the group’s technique may be used to fabricate magnetically controlled ... “For example, we could put a structure around a blood vessel to control the pumping of blood, or use ... to use. People can design their own structures and domain patterns, validate them with the model, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchYunyi Zhu
and relay patterns to the item via the team’s graphic design software, or use the team’s API to ... transmit UV and RGB rays. Photo-Chromeleon used a projector to help activate the color-changing properties ... researchers displayed a heart gradually coming together on the back of a tablet to show how a user was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/yunyi-zhuStudent teams design in the face of danger
created to meet that need, and a business plan for how to launch their new device into the market. While ... Sentry uses hydraulic jacks under a steel-plate speed bump to lower the bump down to level with the road ... student teams developed to address that challenge were demonstrated to a cheering, stomping capacity crowd ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-teams-design-face-dangerMIT engineers print synthetic “metamaterials” that are both strong and stretchy
printing or nanofabricating microscopic lattices using conventional polymers similar to plexiglass and ... will be useful in designing tear-proof textiles and fabrics. “We also want to try this approach on more ... properties. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers MIT engineers have now found a way to fabricate a metamaterial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-print-synthetic-%E2%80%9Cmetamaterials%E2%80%9D-are-both-strong-and-stretchyArtificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
diagnostic tool could diminish the spread of the pandemic if everyone uses it before going to a classroom, ... randomly selected from the collection to balance the dataset. They used 4,000 of these samples to train the ... symptoms of the disease. They are thus less likely to seek out testing for the virus, and could unknowingly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-model-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections-through-cellphoneEngineers turn the body’s goo into new glue
which would then solidify into a sticky gel. The material might be used to coat medical implants, for ... observed how the resulting mixture solidified and stuck to surfaces over time. “It’s like a two-part epoxy. ... the substance is simultaneously glueing itself to the surface,” Degen says. “Depending on how much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-body%E2%80%99s-goo-new-glueSolving the puzzle of ice age climates
want to see is how they all fit together.” Researchers have always suspected that the answer must lie ... covered much more of the Southern Ocean’s surface. Ferrari and colleagues decided to explore how that ... Shock to the system This question demanded the use of the field’s accumulated knowledge of ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-puzzle-ice-age-climatesThe Nature of Sand
flow could impact how we interact with everything from sand and soil to pills and industrial materials. ... Professor Ken Kamrin’s model of granular material flow could impact how we interact with everything from ... sand and soil to pills and industrial materials. Mechanics Innovation Environment Impact Home Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nature-sandPat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams
shop owner how to use it. The Socratic method McAtamney’s teaching approach leads students to the ... enthuses, “As a freshman I had no idea how to do anything in the shop, and Pat took me under his wing and ... taught me how to turn a wheel hub on the lathe during IAP. He gave me confidence that I could hold my own ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pat-mcatamney-empowering-student-led-engineering-teams"Biomedical lab in a box" empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries
knowing how to calculate the theoretically perfect ‘x’ and being capable of implementing a real-world ... example, he recalls seeing a donated screen for viewing x-rays – the lightbox kind used to backlight film ... especially on their own.” Hanumara concurs. “[Pennes] designed the core board that we’re using to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/biomedical-lab-box-empowers-engineers-low-and-middle-income-countriesIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
The researchers tried to duplicate the observed evaporation rate with the same setup but using ... Lab to study the use of this phenomenon to improve the efficiency of solar-powered desalination ... potentially also be leveraged in evaporative cooling processes, using the phase change to provide a highly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatTackling poverty, one person at a time
fabrication, she was unsure of how to use many of the machines and felt extremely self-conscious. She noted ... fall, she also took 21M.601 (Drawing for Designer)s, where she learned how to draw the human figure. For ... received an opportunity so few who completely deserve it will ever get, and so I will use it to the best of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-timeStretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
quantify where and by how much a fiber has been stretched. Photo courtesy of researchers Using light to ... which researchers deliver short pulses of light to targeted tissues using needle-like fibers, through ... LEDs, to create stretchable electronics. The researchers only thought to explore hydrogel’s use in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchy-optical-fibers-implanting-bodyEvelyn Wang: A new energy source at MIT
supports early-stage R&D on energy generation, storage, and use. Returning to MIT, she began her work ... work, but how can we leverage our unique strengths to create something bigger than the sum of its parts? ... MIT’s first vice president for energy and climate is working to accelerate research and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-new-energy-source-mit