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Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
visually impaired, but it’s been difficult to come up with anything as reliable and easy to use as the ... white cane, the type of metal-tipped cane that visually impaired people frequently use to identify clear ... system could be used in conjunction with or as an alternative to a cane. In a paper they’re presenting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wearable-system-helps-visually-impaired-users-navigateDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
intermediate compounds is still costly because it’s in limited use), and the process to make it is simple. So, ... to the existing liquid electrolytes that are used.” They developed three different sulfonamide-based ... starting materials,” Johnson says. Right now, the precursor compound used to synthesize the electrolyte is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteriesMIT engineers build smart power outlet
comparing a captured signal to others that the researchers previously used to train the system. The more ... data the network is exposed to, the more accurately it can learn characteristic “fingerprints” used to ... MIT. Electrical fingerprints To reduce the risk of fire, modern homes may make use of an arc fault ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-build-smart-power-outletSee-through film rejects 70 percent of incoming solar heat
deadline for energy savings,” says Fang, referring to Hong Kong’s commitment to reduce its energy use by 40 ... realized that this limitation came down to the particle size: The particles used previously shrank to ... Nicholas Fang has developed a heat-rejecting material that could be used to coat windows and save on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/see-through-film-rejects-70-percent-incoming-solar-heatHybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances
Phan says. “Using a high-energy-density energy source like gasoline, and converting it to electric ... about 17 pounds and can generate up to 10 kilowatts of power. It uses gasoline to generate the power ... digital gearbox behaves like those systems but uses electricity to control everything. Gasoline runs to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-drones-carry-heavier-payloads-greater-distancesThree from MIT named Marine Microbiology Initiative investigators
— will enable researchers to explore how the trillions of microscopic organisms at the base of the ... in CEE, were among 16 awardees nationwide. MIT was the only institution to have more than one ... investigator named this year. The funding — up to $35 million over five years combined for all the recipients ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-marine-microbiology-initiative-investigatorsEntrepreneurship
II MAS.863J How To Make (Almost) Anything (GRAD) 2.96 Management in Engineering 6.933 ... Entrepreneurship The Entrepreneurship concentration has been designed to empower you with the ... knowledge, skills, resources, and connections you need to get your ideas off the ground, fully developed, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/entrepreneurshipRemoving carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust
2 into useful products such as value-added fuels or chemicals. To that end, attention has focused on ... to use expensive metal catalysts to elicit electrochemical activity has persisted. Given the lack of ... of the power plant. Gallant wondered whether her team could instead use electrochemical reactions to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/removing-carbon-dioxide-power-plant-exhaustNavy officer deepens her engineering and leadership skills at MIT
themselves first — in effect, they must learn how to manage themselves before attempting to manage others. It ... faced in their careers were also very helpful to Allison. “Hearing how the guest speakers overcame those ... Trained to be a leader even as a child, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Asia Allison is acquiring a new level ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navy-officer-deepens-her-engineering-and-leadership-skills-mitMechE Alumna Catches Rare Glimpse of Marine Life
deeper,” says Young. “It was my home for 15 days, and now I am dedicated to using my skills and engineering ... aboard Aquarius, a special underwater laboratory bolted to the seafloor 60 feet deep. An ocean ... to the nitrogen levels of deep-sea life and could spend entire days on the seafloor conducting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-alumna-catches-rare-glimpse-marine-lifeWith campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
outreach, as well as calling on MIT to use its campus operations and community as a test bed for change. ... lighting upgrades, and enhanced building systems controls to reduce energy use and associated emissions ... Incubator Fund — administered by MITOS — which has enabled more than a dozen MIT community members to use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/campus-test-bed-climate-action-starts-and-continues-mitAffordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings
promises to reduce heat loss by up to 65 percent, significantly reducing energy use and carbon emissions in ... a startup spun out of MIT, is poised to start manufacturing such windows. Building operations make up 36 ... percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, and today’s windows are a major contributor to energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/affordable-high-tech-windows-comfort-and-energy-savingsEngineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
designed to be easily sterilized and used many times. As the number of new Covid-19 cases in the United ... States continues to rise, there is still an urgent need for N95 masks for health care workers and others. ... The new mask is made of durable silicone rubber and can be manufactured using injection molding, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskCleaning Water Without the Grid
which farmers come to one of Jain Irrigation’s test farms in India and use the system in real time. ... years before coming up with a potential solution to issues of clean-water access in India. It paid off. ... The detective work began when Jain Irrigation pointed out that small-scale farmers in India who use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-water-without-gridLet it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
and they don’t degrade easily,” Varanasi says. The coatings currently used to make fabrics water ... ones most in use. What this MIT team did, Varanasi explains, is to combine two things: a shorter-chain ... Varanasi says, goes primarily to Soto, who is the paper’s lead author. Using the iCVD coating process, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproofFour from MIT named 2025 Goldwater Scholars
chair. “Receiving this award has been a tremendous opportunity to not only reflect on how much I have ... the Navajo Nation. “I’ve become significantly more cognizant of how I listen to people and stories, ... how to approach scientific investigation with curiosity and rigor,” says Tang. “I’d also like to thank ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-named-2025-goldwater-scholarsDesigning the Next-Generation Prosthesis
graduate student Katy Olesnavage helps redesign the Jaipur Foot, a prosthesis used throughout the ... helps redesign the Jaipur Foot, a prosthesis used throughout the developing world. Once manufactured, ... the goal is to drive down cost while increasing consistency and availability. Katy journeys to India ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-next-generation-prosthesisBio-Inspired Robotics
the natural world, then extract those useful principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to ... why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world, then extract those useful ... principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to solve such challenges as manipulation and locomotion ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-robotics2023-24 Takeda Fellows: Advancing research at the intersection of AI and health
supported by a Takeda Fellowship, will be one of the first to use cells from serous tubal intraepithelial ... Fellowship will enable Raghavan to push the boundaries of her research, making innovative use of low-data and ... monitoring for virtual clinical trials to ingestible devices for at-home, long-term diagnostics. Now in its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2023-24-takeda-fellows-advancing-research-intersection-ai-and-healthSearching for Global Water and Food Solutions
one-third of the world’s ice-free land is already being used for farming. Since converting more land to ... developed sensors that can detect chemical weapons. But these sensors can also be used to detect ripening or ... use. Because the lab is new, Lienhard says there’s an unknown element to what the work will look like. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/searching-global-water-and-food-solutions