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Going with the flow
devices driven by electricity. Led by Jeffrey Lang, a professor of electrical engineering, an MTL team ... engineering. “But while we get ideas from fish, we needn’t use exactly the same design that they do.” In fish, ... computation that vision requires, for example,” Triantafyllou says. The engineered version, he adds, should ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flowMagnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with ... Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... Environmental Engineering, says the group’s technique may be used to fabricate magnetically controlled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchNew microscope technique reveals details of droplet nucleation
engineering and department head Evelyn Wang; and nine others at MIT, the University of Illinois at ... a flat surface, such as on the condensers that cycle the steam in electric power plants back into water, ... physical processes, whether it’s natural or in engineered materials and systems. Because of that, I think ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-technique-reveals-details-droplet-nucleationNew electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... that produces an electric current in response to changes in temperature. The thinner the pyroelectric ... Engineering (DMSE). “For example, it could be directly worn on glasses.” The heat-sensing film could also have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9D-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glassesIntroducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance
electricity — with the world’s largest installed base of over 7,000 gas turbines, about 57,000 wind turbines, ... real people and industries use electrical power.” Fellow Julia Estrin echoed a similar sentiment: “I ... SM ’03, PhD ’19, senior engineering manager in the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center; Brent Brunell ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-mit-ge-vernova-climate-and-energy-allianceA safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors
electrical engineering and computer science and of biological engineering, and Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor ... In recent years, scientists have developed many strains of engineered bacteria that can be used as ... area. MIT engineers have now devised a way to make this kind of deployment safer, by encasing bacterial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/safer-way-deploy-bacteria-environmental-sensorsFour researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, advised by Anantha Chandrakasan, the ... the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, or computing, and places them in a postdoctoral ... Photo courtesy of MIT News. Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering. As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-earn-interdisciplinary-schmidt-science-fellowshipsProfessor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94
Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Army, Griffith earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from New York University in 1950 ... and his master’s in mechanical engineering in 1952 from the University of Michigan, where he worked as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94Kripa Varanasi named faculty director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
innovation and strategy officer, and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. ... Kripa Varanasi, professor of mechanical engineering, was named faculty director of the MIT ... a wide range of fields,” says Anantha P. Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering, chief ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-named-faculty-director-deshpande-center-technological-innovation“Nanofiber yarn” makes for stretchy, protective artificial tissue
The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, engineered by ... heal. Now MIT engineers have come up with a tissue engineering design that may enable flexible range of ... motion in injured tendons and muscles during healing. MIT-Nano-Yarn-1024.jpg MIT engineers have designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cnanofiber-yarn%E2%80%9D-makes-stretchy-protective-artificial-tissueFifteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2021-23
Economics Michael Birnbaum, Department of Biological Engineering Irmgard Bischofberger, Department of ... Mechanical Engineering Devin Bunten, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Esther Duflo, Department of ... Economics Jeffrey Grossman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Janelle Knox-Hayes, Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fifteen-mit-faculty-honored-%E2%80%9Ccommitted-caring%E2%80%9D-2021-23How slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
for generated electricity. These surfaces are based on principles initially developed to help foods, ... of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... the slurry material to improve its electrical conductivity, but the carbon also made the slurry much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideOnce abroad is not enough
and electrical engineering taught in Mandarin. My second study abroad took me to Astana, Kazakhstan, ... be graduating this spring with a BS in electrical engineering and computer science, is contemplating ... a mechanical engineering major, has integrated three study abroad experiences into his MIT education. “I first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-abroad-not-enoughInvisible tagging system enhances 3D object tracking
counterparts,” says MIT CSAIL and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD candidate Mustafa ... affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and ... Mechanical Engineering, are also authors. The researchers used fluorescent filaments provided by DIC Corp. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/invisible-tagging-system-enhances-3d-object-trackingMethod rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu in Finland, and who was not involved with this work. This ... you apply it, you can solve some pretty nontrivial problems,” says Alexandre Amice, an electrical ... engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper on this technique. Amice ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-rapidly-verifies-robot-will-avoid-collisionsAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The research was recently presented at the Learning ... Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech, who was ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), a principal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsManipulating the future
systems. Last fall, MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science launched a new ... Toyota Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and ... manipulation going forward, engineers today must learn to hover above the whole field, connecting an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manipulating-futureDiane Greene SM ’78 elected chair of the MIT Corporation
, Mechanical Engineering (serving as chair), Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and ... from 2016 to 2020. She has been a member of the visiting committees for Biological Engineering ... a speaker at several MIT seminars and conferences, including the School of Engineering Distinguished Lecture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/diane-greene-sm-%E2%80%9978-elected-chair-mit-corporationLegena Henry SM ’10
engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ... operated a portable generator, which in turn charged an electric vehicle. Henry estimates that if 75 ...
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