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Surface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize
MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... ’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ... and lifetime.” MIT-WaterPrize22-02-press.jpg Michael Gangemi, left, and Yajing Zhao of Mesophase. In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-coating-designed-improve-power-plant-efficiency-wins-2022-water-innovation-prizeHow AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies
Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles ... into the particles. MIT-AI-Nanoparticles-01-press_1024.jpg Machine learning tools help to accelerate ... type or help incorporate different materials. Credit: courtesy of the researchers; MIT News. “What we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-ai-could-speed-development-rna-vaccines-and-other-rna-therapiesArtificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
MIT-ArtificialTendons-01-press_1024.jpg Researchers have developed artificial tendons for muscle-powered robots. They attached the rubber ... unit.” Credit: Courtesy of the researchers; edited by MIT News But for the most part, these designs are ... limited in the amount of motion and power they can produce. Now, MIT engineers are aiming to give bio-bots ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-tendons-give-muscle-powered-robots-boostNews & Awards- Fall 2021
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering the number one undergraduate program in mechanical ... University Rankings honored MIT with a number 1 ranking in the subject area of Mechanical, Aeronautical and ... Communications. RS4957_MIT-TOUCHY-GLOVE-1024.jpg Touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other tactile ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-fall-2021Startups take root in senior capstone class
market analysis and alpha-prototype production. MIT-2.009-Event-PRESS.jpg Mechanical engineering students ... They utilized entrepreneurship resources at MIT like the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, the ... Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship “delta v” accelerator, the MIT $100k Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startups-take-root-senior-capstone-classEngineering fantasy into reality
MIT-Erik-Ballesteros-01-press_1024.jpg Erik Ballesteros is currently at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to refine the design of ... is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... Before coming to MIT, he interned on multiple projects at JSC, working in the training facility to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fantasy-realityLooking to space to cure osteoarthritis
teaching a basic course on semiconductor physics and circuits in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering ... London, founder of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Grodzinsky won a sabbatical ... I teach my course at MIT related to biomechanics,” Grodzinsky says, “I ask about ACL injuries, and just as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/looking-space-cure-osteoarthritisErik Ballesteros
MIT-Erik-Ballesteros-01-press_1024.jpg Erik Ballesteros is currently at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to refine the design of ... is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... Before coming to MIT, he interned on multiple projects at JSC, working in the training facility to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/erik-ballesterosStudy finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch
Lite-Brite pattern. But MIT engineers have found that the picture has many more shades. ... MIT-Genetic-Dimmer-01A-press_1024.jpg Traditionally, scientists have thought that epigenetic memory locks genes either “on” or “off” ... — either fully activated or fully repressed. But MIT engineers have found that a cell’s memory is set not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-dimmer-dial-onoff-switchSlowing the Spread
stop the spread of the virus. An air of uncertainty descended on MIT’s campus in early March. Whispers ... Within days, the Infinite Corridor’s usual stream of activity and noise was silenced. While MIT’s dorms ... Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spreadDesigning for a more equitable world
This October marks 15 years since Amy Smith, a celebrated inventor and educator, founded MIT ... challenges. MIT-D-Lab-Amy-Smith-1024.jpg D-Lab classes, research groups, and programs are connected to ... School of Engineering to discuss her love of teaching MIT students about international development work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-more-equitable-world3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
several books, as well as in classes and workshops at MIT and around the country, and an online class on ... MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ... engineers, Frankel is also a consultant to the MIT News Office. She spoke with MIT News about some of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceVibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
sometimes jiggling the key a bit will help. Now, new research from MIT suggests that coronaviruses, ... cell wall so it can hijack the cell’s reproductive mechanisms. MIT-COVID-Spikes-02-PRESS.jpg New ... research at MIT shows that vibrations of the protein spikes on coronaviruses, including the one that causes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vibrations-coronavirus-proteins-may-play-role-infectionSoft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought
separates and gets runny over time. MIT-MaterialMemory-01-press_1024.jpg Using a rheometer, MIT researchers ... researchers Credits: Now, an MIT engineer has devised a simple way to measure the degree of residual stress in ... a postdoc in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), presents a new protocol ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thoughtA new way to irrigate crops year-round
lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ... farmers. “We didn’t create this fancy technology at MIT and then think about where it was applicable,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ... windows and lasts up to a decade longer. MIT-Thermal-Control-1024.jpg The visual and thermal properties of ... performance and is promising enough to start commercializing,” says Strobach, who is a PhD Candidate in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsWith a zap of light, system switches objects’ colors and patterns
light. MIT researchers have developed a way to rapidly update imagery on object surfaces. The system, ... through prototypes without getting bogged down with painting or printing. MIT ... have been possible before,” says Michael Wessley, the study’s lead author and a postdoc in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/zap-light-system-switches-objects%E2%80%99-colors-and-patternsA New Era in 3D Printing
hundred years later, a new type of printing was invented in the labs of MIT. Emanuel Sachs, professor of ... layer by layer. Feature Images_01 1024.jpg Each component of this three-piece assembly of MIT’s Building ... Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Ideation Laboratory. “It gives you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingChecking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
development and distribution of new technologies. MIT-SpectroGen-01-press_1024.jpg The circle with the chip ... Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ... engineering at MIT. “Then you can use SpectroGen to generate the rest. And this could improve productivity, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/checking-quality-materials-just-got-easier-new-ai-toolStartup’s tablets deliver cancer drugs more evenly over time
quantities. MIT-Enzian-01-press_1024.jpg Aron Blaesi PhD ’14 holds two gastroretentive fibrous dosage forms, ... Blaesi came to MIT, he knew he wanted his mechanical engineering PhD work to form the basis of a company. ... Early on, as part of the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing, he worked on manufacturing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-tablets-deliver-cancer-drugs-more-evenly-over-time