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Autonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
(HAUV), originally developed as part of MIT’s Sea Grant program. The technology has since been ... commercialized by spinoff Bluefin Robotics Corp., and the MIT engineers have continued to work to improve its ... the Office of Naval Research. Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office blue hover@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-minesSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... in a constantly changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and ... funded by the Office of Naval Research and by the MIT Sea Grant College Program. Glen Gawarkiewicz, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineSangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSWAbtQqhlo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Assistant Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sangbae-kim-inspired-natureEngineering Fluids at the Nanoscale
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Professor Rohit Karnik addresses real-world challenges with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fluids-nanoscaleHarvesting Fresh Water from Fog
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/h8vlzZ25vtg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT's School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fog-0Harnessing the Full Potential of the Sun
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P8-8FveMieM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-full-potential-sun-0The Wonders of Thin Structures
& Statistics Laboratory at MIT. Reis' work focuses on the mechanics of large deformations of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wonders-thin-structuresFaculty Research: Professor Neville Hogan
Anklebot Helps Determine Ankle Stiffness by David Chandler, MIT News Office For most healthy ... elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, developed the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-neville-hoganAlumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)
in the movie, R2-D2, stole Greiner’s heart and inspired her to apply to MIT to learn how to build ... Rodney Brooks, former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ... conjunction with US News & World Report and Innovator for the Next Century by MIT Technology Review. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-helen-greiner-sb-%E2%80%9989-sm-%E2%80%9990Hydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Foundation. Monday, November 9, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red zhaox@mit.edu Horizontal Xuanhe Zhao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
finale one of MIT’s most-anticipated annual events. Arguably exceeding expectations, this year’s finale ... Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who has been blind since age ... 2015 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red Education Maker DRWALLAC@MIT.EDU Horizontal The theme for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsLearning to Solve
experience. Taking a deep dive into a single problem, participants work under the supervision of an MIT ... say, ‘only at MIT,’ SuperUROP is exactly what we are talking about,” adds Waitz. In fact, nearly 90 ... percent of undergraduate students participate in research during their time at MIT, a hallmark of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-solveRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office sapsis@MIT.EDU Horizontal Themis Sapsis developed a new prediction tool that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
fixing leaks. An MIT Tata Center fellow and Deshpande Center grantee, Swaminathan is developing a modular ... engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ... could work, then conducted several experiments to prove its viability. “After coming to MIT, I’ve done ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-jaichander-swaminathan-sm-14Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Skoltech-MIT Center for Electrochemical Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutter3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... include former MIT postdoc Qi Ge, along with lead author Qiming Wang of the University of Southern ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedRe-engineering the sprinkler
A team of MIT engineers has described a novel way of controlling the flow of water in flexible ... a former postdoc at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design who is now a postdoc at the University of ... conserve resources.” Wang co-authored the paper with three researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/re-engineering-sprinklerMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
friction. A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could offer a new way of making movable parts with ... Physics Letters, co-authored by Daniel Preston, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall ... research team included MIT graduate students Ariel Anders and Yangying Zhu, Research Affiliate Banafsheh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-droplets3-D printing with cellulose
paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print with ... materials. “Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer in the world,” says MIT postdoc Sebastian ... extrude. Instead, the MIT team chose to work with cellulose acetate — a material that is easily made from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printing-celluloseScientists make microscopes from droplets
Researchers at MIT have now devised tiny “microlenses” from complex liquid droplets comparable in size to the ... Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... microlenses to do imaging in a way people have not done yet,” Kolle says. Kolle’s MIT co-authors are graduate ...
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