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J-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
decentralized biomass torrefaction, uses small-scale reactor units developed in Ghoniem’s lab to heat ... small-scale farmers to increase both their yield and their net income. Improving water safety in Nepal using ... 2,000 low-cost, easy to use, and highly accurate water-testing kits to Nepal. The wearable kits were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-2018-solutions-grants-commercialization-mit-food-and-water-technologiesStartup’s tablets deliver cancer drugs more evenly over time
upcoming human trials, Enzian plans to use its tablets to deliver a drug for prostate cancer that Blaesi ... blood, skin, and breast cancers. “This could really be used to improve treatment for a variety of ... delivers drugs into the gastric fluid and the blood steadily over time. The company’s tablets use tiny ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-tablets-deliver-cancer-drugs-more-evenly-over-timeSarah Tress
competition. Because this was her first experience with fabrication, she was unsure of how to use many of the ... Designer)s, where she learned how to draw the human figure. For her, art and engineering aren’t separate. “I ... will ever get, and so I will use it to the best of my ability to create opportunities for others.” As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sarah-tressSynthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly’s stretch and strength
process could be significantly scaled up, materials made from nanofibrous hydrogels could be used to make ... starts with electrospinning, a fiber production technique that uses electric charges to draw ultrathin ... threads out of polymer solutions. The team used high-voltage charges to spin nanofibers from a polymer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-gelatin-material-mimics-lobster-underbelly%E2%80%99s-stretch-and-strengthFour from MIT are named 2018 IEEE Fellows
use of tactile displays beyond systems for the visually impaired, such as Braille, to more general ... his "contributions to the development of technical-computing languages," namely the Julia ... that is essential to system improvements. He has published more than 50 technical journal and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-are-named-2018-ieee-fellowsCaroline Sorensen
MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... to make fusion plants functional and economical.” Researchers must be able to predict how the molten ... fusion, and there is this vibe of positivity and hopefulness that what we’re doing is really going to make ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensenAccelerating particle size distribution estimation
are typically used: a sample is either imaged and individual particles are counted, or researchers use ... a scattered light to estimate the particle size distribution (PSD). The former is time intensive and leads to ... developed a physics and machine learning-based scattered light approach that has been shown to improve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-particle-size-distribution-estimationImmune action at a distance
colleagues came to us with this very interesting problem, so we thought, how can we address this from our own ... can eliminate that concern.” “As engineers, we needed to solve the problem of how to tune a polymer ... the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that is commonly used topically to treat basal cell carcinoma. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/immune-action-distanceEngineering Better Sleep During Menopause
amounts of skin sweat, a marker of nervous system arousal. Terra uses this data to forecast an impending ... Radovitzky. The strong MIT presence isn’t an accident. “The biggest thing that MIT teaches you is how to go ... waking in a sweat due to hot flashes. A new MIT startup is working to change that last one. Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-better-sleep-during-menopauseLoewen Cavill
nervous system arousal. Terra uses this data to forecast an impending hot flash, queueing up the mattress ... “The biggest thing that MIT teaches you is how to go from zero to one on your own, really fast. You ... waking in a sweat due to hot flashes. A new MIT startup is working to change that last one. Loewen Cavill ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/loewen-cavillStudents build assistive technologies at MIT’s annual ATHack
the league, of course. Kicking performance is directly related to how fast players’ chairs can spin. ... At the hackathon, the students devised a solution to use ultracapacitors that could release energy ... with undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students from multiple disciplines to build prototypes of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-build-assistive-technologies-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-athackCourse 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design
other mechanical engineering courses that I have previously taken at MIT and showed me how to apply the ... works again and again. To help teach the students how important it is to make machines that last, ... courses mechanical engineering students can opt to take at MIT, “this class integrates all the other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-272-elements-mechanical-designMIT scientists build a system that can generate AI models for biology research
want to use machine learning or biology,” says Jacqueline Valeri, a fifth-year PhD student of ... how much data is required to appropriately train the chosen model. "Our tool explores models that ... generate awareness related to AutoML techniques, as a seriously useful pathway that could merge rigorous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-scientists-build-system-can-generate-ai-models-biology-researchFaculty Promotions
conversion and to make solar energy cost-competitive with fossil fuels. He spearheads the use of “defect ... breakthrough idea of using Doppler velocity and image sonar sensors to locate the vehicle relative to the ship, ... propeller region, have recently been imaged using his technology. While continuing to push the frontiers of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotions-0Robots shoot for the moon in MIT’s annual 2.007 competition
board. “It was the first time I learned how to design, build, machine, and work with different actuation ... credits his success, and all the know-how he’s gained throughout the semester, to all the experts behind ... collected and returned to Earth more than 48 pounds of lunar material, including 50 moon rocks that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robots-shoot-moon-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-2007-competitionMaker Break: A celebration of making at MIT
students on how to safely use equipment found in makerspaces and introduce them to maker communities on ... Magna International, to learn about their inner workings and how they are put together. The makers ... a remote control (RC) car in 90 minutes using a range of novel parts — from a radio and receiver to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maker-break-celebration-making-mitCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
that uses specialized droplets — called Janus emulsions — to test for bacterial contamination in ... “In order to do the kind and scale of work that we do, international collaboration is ... essential. However, this can be difficult to fund,” Chris Voigt said. “J-WAFS is providing the support that we need ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsTapping the MIT talent pool for the future of fusion
MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... to predict how the molten salt in such an immersion blanket would move when subjected to high ... going to make a difference," she says. Photo courtesy of Caroline Sorensen “There are a lot of cool ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tapping-mit-talent-pool-future-fusionPrivacy Statement
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT is committed to protecting the individual privacy ... of applicants, students, faculty, and staff by restricting the use of all collected information as ... applications may be used by MIT officials only for appropriate administrative and research purposes. We use web ...
https://meche.mit.edu/privacyNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
the design of a liquid battery, using a passive, gravity-fed arrangement similar to an old-fashioned ... Pump-free design for flow battery could offer advantages in cost and simplicity. A new approach to ... hourglass, could offer great advantages due to the system’s low cost and the simplicity of its design and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-down