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Mapping the effects of crystal defects
MIT has been able to learn important details about how those interactions work, which could inform ... unsolved. Now, the MIT team has found a new mathematical approach to analyzing such systems, using a new ... included Zhiwei Ding, Jiawei Zhou, and Professor Hong Liu at MIT, and Qingping Meng and Yimei Zhu at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-effects-crystal-defectsJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentResearchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-%E2%80%9Ciron-out%E2%80%9D-graphene%E2%80%99s-wrinklesWearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
tables or chairs, or determine whether a chair is already occupied. Researchers from MIT’s Computer ... engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ... a postdoc at MIT when the work was done and is now an assistant professor of electrical and computer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wearable-system-helps-visually-impaired-users-navigateTurning emissions into fuel
MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ... chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. The new membrane-based system was developed by MIT ... PhD 1024.jpg XiaoYu Wu pictured with the reactor his team used for the research. MIT researchers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuelStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ... prototypes. The 2.009 final presentation has become a seminal event each year at MIT. For the past 22 years, ... FireSense. The yellow team simulated a search and rescue team’s efforts on MIT’s campus, providing a live ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersStudents demonstrate "calculated imagination" in robot competition
competition has become a seminal event in MIT’s academic calendar. Spearheaded by Professor Emeritus Woodie ... members of the MIT community cheered as the 32 students were whittled down to the final two: Erika Mynio ... omnidirectional wheels to navigate the gameboard’s tight spaces. As a member of MIT’s Combat Robotics Club, Massie ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-demonstrate-calculated-imagination-robot-competitionDepartment of Mechanical Engineering announces new leadership team
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor, who began her role as head of MIT’s Department of ... discoveries.” Lermusiaux joined MIT as associate professor in 2007 after serving as a research associate at ... since 2014. He has served on many MechE and institute committees and is also active in MIT-Woods Hole ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-announces-new-leadership-teamHow to get conductive gels to stick when wet
moisture from the body. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a way of getting conductive polymer gels ... in a paper by MIT doctoral student Hyunwoo Yuk, former visiting scholar Akihisa Inoue, postdoc ... are limited to specific materials. Instead, the MIT team focused on making the fewest changes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-conductive-gels-stick-when-wetRacing into the future of autonomous driving
students. Zhang and her teammates from MIT Driverless — working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center ... Delft; then, programmers at MIT wrote algorithms that would replace its human driver. Together, the two ... benefits of driverless cars, as well as offering teams like MIT Driverless an opportunity to tackle the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/racing-future-autonomous-drivingEnergy storage from a chemistry perspective
storage from a chemistry perspective. Co-founders Ian Hunter of MIT's Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ... MIT home at one point or another. “The ideas that we work on in the lab, you’ll see turned into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-chemistry-perspectiveA new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water
Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ... technologies that can scale.” The research team included others at MIT, Stockholm University in Sweden, SLAC ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-inexpensive-catalyst-speeds-production-oxygen-waterBuilding a better indoor herb garden
Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ... was on the MIT Motorsports team and MIT Electric Vehicle Team. He learned how to use the CNC machines ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-better-indoor-herb-gardenUnlocking new science with devices that control electric power
Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... coauthored with MIT research affiliate Ehsan Haghighat, Seron’s equipment provided constant power to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-new-science-devices-control-electric-powerMicroscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections
images fuzzy. In an open access paper in Scientific Reports, a collaboration of MIT engineers and ... Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and MIT’s departments of Biology ... of mechanical engineering and biological engineering at MIT. Newer single-line and the mosTF systems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscope-system-sharpens-scientists%E2%80%99-view-neural-circuit-connectionsCreating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way
verifying Lyapunov conditions didn’t scale well to complex machines. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ... formal guarantees that are crucial for safety-critical systems,” says Lujie Yang, MIT electrical ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, vice president of robotics research at TRI, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-and-verifying-stable-ai-controlled-systems-rigorous-and-flexible-wayKnitted microtissue can accelerate healing
MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Mechanical Engineering Group. "That's why if you stretch your ... from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the laboratory's Defense Fabric Discovery Center ... collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/knitted-microtissue-can-accelerate-healingExploring new frontiers in mineral extraction
mechanical engineering at MIT, and his team in the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab), are at the ... resources,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, in a video discussing his ... capabilities for assessing the scale of impact. Today, his MIT Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab) is at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-new-frontiers-mineral-extractionFor developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)
paper, and make sketches, and write down key calculations in order to be creative,” says MIT professor of ... problems across different domains,” says Trumper. “MIT students tend to have seen lots of math and lots of ... Trumper has been teaching 2.737 (Mechatronics) since he joined the MIT faculty in the early 1990s. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-designers-there%E2%80%99s-magic-2737-mechatronicsHow engineering students are seeking to solve major food and water security problems
exchanged between producer and seller? Seven MIT graduate students studying food and water security issues ... presented their research and preliminary findings on issues such as these during the MIT Water and Food ... Security Student Symposium held on Nov. 21. Hosted by the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-engineering-students-are-seeking-solve-major-food-and-water-security-problems