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Manufacturing The advanced manufacturing concentration is for those interested in how advanced ... manufacturing and product realization work in the modern world. This includes how processes, automation, ... systems, and design all interact to create the responsive production systems that world-class companies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/manufacturingJ-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
productivity. When sensors provide accurate information to farmers right at the farm, they can more efficiently use ... given J-WAFS grants: a project led by John Hart that uses sensors to detect soil nutrient levels and ... evolved to ensure that new technologies and business models developed on campus can move beyond it to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-grants-advance-sustainable-agricultureMechE-ChemE Startup Named Gold Winner at 2014 MassChallenge
DropWise manufactures a “grafted” hydrophobic coating that, when applied to condenser surfaces in power ... which causes water droplets to quickly bead up and shed themselves from a surface, is one two-thousandth ... enough to survive years of steam exposure. In addition to inventing the coating, the team has also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-cheme-startup-named-gold-winner-2014-masschallengeBuilding and reconnecting MIT in Minecraft
desired, and it’s been really interesting to see how many MIT interests have come together,” Yu says. As ... people really have been trying to build the whole interiors. It really just shows to me how much these ... spaces meant to them and how MIT is basically like a second home.” The Minecraft platform launched in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-and-reconnecting-mit-minecraftMerging engineering and education
the researchers, but not to each other. Etienne and her team then analyzed how those students ... Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center, she travelled to Dominica, her mother’s original home, to see how ... (Electronics for Mechanical Systems), helping teach students how to build electronic systems. Additionally, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/merging-engineering-and-educationAutonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
Instead, the researchers came up with a more efficient approach, using optimization algorithms to program ... For years, the U.S. Navy has employed human divers, equipped with sonar cameras, to search for ... underwater mines attached to ship hulls. The Navy has also trained dolphins and sea lions to search for bombs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
batteries, which are used in everything from electric cars to portable electronics and have improved ... nonrechargeable, or “primary,” batteries. They say it could enable up to a 50 percent increase in useful lifetime, ... shipping process. Or, they might be used in remotely operated aerial or underwater vehicles that need to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesRe-engineering the sprinkler
applied. This device is noted for its similarities to human respiration, and has been used to model flow in ... showed that using a rubber tube to replace the diaphragm of the existing Starling resistor design can ... resistors to water flow. Using different tube lengths and thicknesses, they discovered that adjusting the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/re-engineering-sprinklerQuick Test for Ebola
a multiplexing approach, using multicolored nanoparticles, to simultaneously screen for multiple pathogens. “For ... color-coded so they can be used to distinguish among several diseases. To achieve that, the researchers used ... begin using the device in areas where the Ebola outbreak is still ongoing. In order to do that, they are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebolaHydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
essentially able to stretch significantly without retaining all the energy used to stretch it. A chemically ... a weight, Zhao and his colleagues explored its use in robotic joints, using small spheres of hydrogel to ... using conventional hinges, you can use this soft material with strong bonding to rigid materials, and it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterPaper-folding art inspires better bandages
“Adhesives like these bandages are very commonly used in our daily life, but when you try to attach them to ... — a measurement they used to calculate the material’s critical “energy-release rate,” a quantity to evaluate ... use the team’s findings as a design blueprint to identify the best pattern of cuts and the optimal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesAn origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries
The patch, which can be folded around surgical tools, may someday be used in robotic surgery to ... researchers are working with clinicians and surgeons to optimize the design for surgical use, and they ... Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “This could be used to repair a perforation from a coloscopy, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/origami-inspired-medical-patch-sealing-internal-injuriesCapturing the Sun in a box: Thermal battery inventor wins the 2021 Bell Labs Prize
fuels to produce energy, Asegun Henry wants to use carbon as the primary means of storing energy ... Collaboration Maker Horizontal Asegun Henry, winner of the 2021 Nokia Bell Labs Prize, wants to use carbon as ... The winner of the 2021 Nokia Bell Labs Prize is proposing a remarkable new use for carbon, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/capturing-sun-box-thermal-battery-inventor-wins-2021-bell-labs-prizeIn it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students
and by monitoring how much time a given class should require. “I try not to overload students with ... welcoming to individuals who are victimized. “He also defined for us sexual harassment and how to recognize ... completely transparent about how things are going, and to apologize when necessary. His goal is continuous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/it-together-faculty-mentors-and-graduate-studentsMIT’s solar car team wins 2022 American Solar Challenge for the second year in a row
about how this race was going to go because last year was quite difficult,” SEVT captain and MIT senior ... could adjust their own plans to get ahead. “They wouldn’t even tell me how much charge their battery ... course, they’re on MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team. The team relied on 100 percent solar energy to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-solar-car-team-wins-2022-american-solar-challenge-second-year-rowAlumni-founded robotic kitchen cooks up tasty meals
inexpensive, healthy food. We just wanted to figure out how to cook in a new way,” says Kale Rogers ’16, who ... Four hungry MIT student-athletes were on a mission to find a filling, inexpensive meal and ended ... up creating the first robotic kitchen. “It was a natural solution to the problem of creating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-founded-robotic-kitchen-cooks-tasty-mealsMIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications
found that by using a robot’s measurements to gauge patient performance, companies might only have to ... says they could use the robot measurements to guide early decisions on whether to further pursue or ... To determine whether a drug works, the FDA will often look to a study’s effect size. Using the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-may-accelerate-trials-stroke-medicationsNikayah Etienne
effort to see the overlap between engineering and education and how it can be improved in underresourced ... travelled to Dominica, her mother’s original home, to see how Hurricane Maria had impacted education there. ... students how to build electronic systems. Additionally, Etienne served as a STEM mentor for the Office of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nikayah-etienneOur History, at Hart
finance. “I was genuinely amazed to see how the work progressed each day as I walked by the Hart Gallery on ... “How did the department get to where we are today?” The Frontiers of MechE display focuses on emerging ... the ocean and, for more than a decade, has also been home to a sizable collection of stories, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-history-hartSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty
deep learning, materials for nuclear energy, and using machine learning to address challenges in ... applying these tools to study how neural computation is dynamically modulated across sleep, wake, ... physics, high-dimensional geometry, and statistics. To study these complex stochastic dynamics, he develops and uses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-4