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How to make hydrogels more injectable

a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ... Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, are the senior authors of the study, which ...

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New African and African diaspora studies major takes off at MIT

mechanical engineering and is now a fellow at the Science Technology Policy Institute in Washington. She ... desire to create a social impact through engineering, led her to forge a new path at MIT.  ... see if there were ways to do good with engineering,” Godfreey-Igwe reflects. “I found that maybe my ...

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MIT Scientists Twist Apart More Than 1,000 Oreos in Search for Perfect Method

Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s mechanical engineering department. She led a group of researchers on ... in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering and co-author of the study.  Another was to attach both ... said, was a fun, easy way to make her regular physics and engineering work more accessible to the ...

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Closing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices

technique could help scientists and engineers create more accurate and efficient optical devices for ... engineering graduate student who is co-lead author of an open-access paper describing the work. “We have taken ... of Hong Kong; and her advisor, Peter T. So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ...

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Protecting machine learning datasets

to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... ’22, then a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former SpaceX engineer. The trio ... GAME – the Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers – and an active member of MIT’s Latin Graduate ...

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Two MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards

environmental research. “No Drop to Spare,” created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was ... Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center working in Kenya, Morocco, and Jordan to deploy affordable, user-driven ... users.”  Freidah has worked with Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering ...

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Crack densification in drying colloidal suspensions

Hyman, Jr. Career Development Professor of mechanical engineering, rationalizes the spectacular crack ...

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An inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight

engineers have designed a new type of gastric balloon that can be inflated and deflated as needed. In an ... deflated in between meals,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... limitation.” The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Karl van Tassel Career ...

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On a quest for a better football helmet

Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ... an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... “I’m currently the only engineer at LIGHT, so I wear a lot of different hats,” Brush says. A safer ...

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Lincoln Laboratory and National Strategic Research Institute launch student research program to tackle biothreats to national security

conducted a pilot of the program embedded within the MIT Engineering Systems Design and Development II ... engineering design and prototyping, challenges students to take what they learned in the classroom in their ... fluid mechanicals, controls, and solid mechanics." In total, 12 mechanical engineering students ...

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Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale

even art conservation, where salt damage is a major threat to heritage materials. In civil engineering ... when salt begins to creep, engineers can better design protective coatings or drainage systems to ... professor in Cornell University); Jeff Punch and Vanessa Egan from the School of Engineering at the ...

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Digital Instruments for Musical Togetherness

Engineering graduate student Joseph Ntaimo ’23 builds instruments that “empower people to jam with ... measured, and is converted to a sonic output. Today, as a graduate student in mechanical engineering ... degree. “He’s really pushed me to become a better engineer,” says Ntaimo. In addition to that work, he ...

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Kodiak Brush

Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ... an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... “I’m currently the only engineer at LIGHT, so I wear a lot of different hats,” Brush says. A safer ...

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Amber Velez

be different and better.  After assembling an engine by hand in an introductory mechanical ... engineering (MechE) course, she declared her first major and forged a career path. She explains, “I love ... engineering.” Her research focuses on clean energy and decarbonization.  Velez built her second major by hand, ...

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Ravi Patil ’93, SM ’95, IT Executive and Storyteller

alumna who is using her engineering skills to unravel the mystery of her husband’s puzzling disease, ... components and streamlined manufacturing processes for worldwide vehicle platforms. “As mechanical engineers ... mechanical engineering, and he stays actively connected to MIT through a variety of volunteer activities. ...

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Coloring outside the lines

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... envisions materials such as fabrics, fibers, and fluids that can be engineered to generate colors without ... engineered to generate colors without chemicals. | Right: Mathias Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical ...

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Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... “Bringing together our strengths across disciplines, including engineering, processing at scale, biological ...

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Outside-the-Box Thinker

an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... power lines, they’re usually swaying in the wind. There are a lot of inherent engineering and physics ...

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MIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel gives major gift to solve urgent challenges in world food and water security

of disciplines: urban planning and design, engineering and technology, climate and hydrology, and ... water supply, according to MIT professor of mechanical engineering John Lienhard, who will direct the ... science and engineering and then coordinate the efforts of MIT's faculty, labs, and centers to work ...

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An Eye for Design

freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... planners, designers, and engineers — improve their creative process by measuring the activities they engage ... She wound up majoring in mechanical engineering, and was instantly drawn to the design courses. Not ...

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