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A leg up for STEM majors

engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... faster, where you want to act on a dataset in a few days, rather than weeks or months.” Engineering ... me,” she says. Initially, she headed toward environmental engineering, “but then I realized that pretty ...

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‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness

bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. The paper’s co-authors are Hyunglae ... Mechanical Engineering, developed the Anklebot as an experimental and rehabilitation tool. Much like ...

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Coatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces

Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant ... Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Sahab Babaee is the lead author of the paper, along with Simo Pajovic, an ...

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Hacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni

MBA ’13, and mechanical engineering alumnus Kevin Rustagi ’11. Having last year expanded nationwide, ... Amarasiriwardena says. But when he started studying chemistry and biological engineering at MIT, and was biking ... With Rustagi, a friend and mechanical engineering student, Amarasiriwardena began selling the shirts ...

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A new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome

However, MIT biological and mechanical engineers have now designed a specialized device in which they can ... community that could be used for this extreme case,” says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering ... Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. “We showed that you can grow ...

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Students strive for “Balance!” in a lively product showcase

2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). With “Balance!” as its theme, the vibrant show attracted hundreds ... design, build, and draft a business plan for a product, in a process meant to emulate what engineers ... they embarked on a product engineering process journey,” said 2.009 lecturer Josh Wiesman. Trying to ...

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New model of the GI tract could speed drug development

MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... a drug in just hours. In a paper appearing today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers used ...

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New model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance

a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... A model developed by MIT engineers predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Pictured ... model is reported in a study appearing this month in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. The study ...

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Remembering ‘Papa Flash’

physicists new ways to analyze the dynamics of fluids, air and engines and aided in World War II aerial ... Kim Vandiver, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, ... the tips of a rapidly whirring propeller, jumpstarting his future in ocean engineering at MIT. ...

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A Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee

going after this disruptive opportunity,” says Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... goal. In a paper published in IEEE’s Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, the ... replicate the adjusted torque profile, using simple mechanical elements. Currently, the group has engineered ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson

engineering. Over the course of six decades, Wilson’s career has been peppered with many achievements, ... including inventing the progressive fee-plus-rebate policy in 1973 and designing jet engines. But wherever ... collaboration with the journal Engineering, for the best design in human-powered land transport. To my amazement ...

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New model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together

predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... Biomedical Engineering. Drug transport Previous studies have identified several transporters in the GI tract ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s ...

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Creating “big, beautiful things”

engineering, has collaborated on a dizzying array of projects ranging from app-building, to assistant ... perspective.” Robotic spectaculars Parrish also loves building physical objects, and his mechanical engineering ... engineering you get an invaluable understanding of how the physical world works,” he says. “I also believe ...

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3 Questions: How to control biofilms in space

sick. MIT News asked professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi and doctoral student Samantha ... collaboration with Luis Zea at UC Boulder, we are looking at biofilm growth on engineered substrates in the ... versus gravity on Earth, we’re also looking at how they grow on different engineered substrates. And ...

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A simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders

Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... today in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Diagnosing dysmotility Contractions of the gastrointestinal ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ...

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MIT Faculty Collaborate to Address Environmental Challenges

a groundwater aquifer, that is overused to the point where it fails to benefit all parties. A group of engineers ... and Environmental Engineering, and Parag Pathak, an associate professor of economics, will examine the ... the environment? A group of engineers, led by Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. King Assistant Professor ...

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