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Untangling the Mechanics of Knots
problem by only considering one strand of the braid. “Then we write an energy for the system that ... intuition and tradition. MIT-Untangling-Knot1024.jpg Now researchers at MIT and Pierre et Marie Curie ... Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-mechanics-knotsBringing meaningful technologies to market
MIT-Student-Chun-01-1024.jpg After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management ... The same year, Chun took STS.081J (Innovation Systems for Science, Technology, Energy, Manufacturing, ... The MIT senior and Rhodes Scholar co-founded Need-A-Knee, LLC his sophomore year, after working on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-meaningful-technologies-marketStudents strive for “Balance!” in a lively product showcase
colorful celebration of student product designs, as part of the final presentations for MIT’s popular class ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-strive-%E2%80%9Cbalance%E2%80%9D-lively-product-showcaseRohit Karnik seeks sustainable solutions through nanotechnology
civilization?’” says Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo by ... energy conversion and biosensing in nanoscale systems. Karnik joined the professor’s lab as a graduate ... challenges. MIT-Karnik-Rohit-1_1024.jpg “I try to guide my research by... asking myself the question, ‘What ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rohit-karnik-seeks-sustainable-solutions-through-nanotechnologyMIT PhD students shed light on important water and food research
wildfires. Every year, MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) offers fellowships ... water and food systems, compounding climate change impacts from heat waves, drought, floods, and ... to outstanding MIT graduate students who are working on innovative ways to secure water and food ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-phd-students-shed-light-important-water-and-food-researchMIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel gives major gift to solve urgent challenges in world food and water security
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 ... pressing problems faced by cities. The lab will also complement research thrusts within the MIT Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-alumnus-mohammed-abdul-latif-jameel-gives-major-gift-solve-urgent-challenges-worldInflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “There’s huge potential to make ... commercial neuroprosthetics — highly articulated bionic limbs, engineered to sense a user’s residual muscle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlNeed a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ... MIT researchers wanted to design a system that enabled AI models to perform a more sophisticated, ... decide exactly what to explore in their experiments. What if artificial intelligence could help? MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiMeet the MIT bilinguals: Claudia Chen '20 combines creative, humanistic, and technical fields
Claudia Chen ’20 was building automata at MIT long before she even submitted her application for ... admission. As a rising senior in high school, she participated in MIT’s Women’s Technology Program (WTP) and ... to pursue. But inspired by WTP and her hands-on lab experience, Chen applied to MIT, planning on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-mit-bilinguals-claudia-chen-20-combines-creative-humanistic-and-technical-fieldsThirteen from MIT awarded 2022 Fulbright Fellowships
engineering courses to over 400 students in Jordan, Chile, and South Africa through MIT’s Global Teaching ... energy-efficient Atlas building at TU Eindhoven. Stamler’s research at MIT has focused on sustainability in the ... abroad. Thirteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have been awarded Fulbright fellowships ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/thirteen-mit-awarded-2022-fulbright-fellowshipsMIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease
Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering ... modulating the body’s own systems through electrical stimulation,” Traverso says. At MIT, Langer will help to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-led-team-receives-funding-pursue-new-treatments-metabolic-diseaseMIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea ... MIT Sea Grant director Michael Triantafyllou and professor of mechanical engineering Themistoklis ... Agriculture Organization. Two MIT students recently traveled to Trondheim, Norway to explore the cutting-edge ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-sea-grant-students-explore-intersection-technology-and-offshore-aquaculture-norway-0Drive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... systems The MIT team came up with the idea of replacing manual inspections with a set of cameras and ... are, how high they are, or when they were last replaced. And the prevailing system for answering those ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsEight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2018
Eight MIT faculty members are among 213 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the ... technology policy, energy and global security, social policy and American institutions, the humanities and ... culture, and education. Those elected from MIT this year are: Alexei Borodin, professor of mathematics; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eight-mit-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences-2018Pitching transformative design
long-term energy for a mining operation deep in the solar system. “We see a hard engineering problem that ... class 22.033 (Nuclear Science and Engineering Design), “We’re pretty nervous,” said Jared Wilson, a senior ... a commercially viable way through the application of nuclear science and engineering. Guided by class instructor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pitching-transformative-designMIT announces 2022 Bose grants for ambitious ideas
MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support ... bold research projects across diverse areas of study including biology, engineering, and the ... Engineering and Computer Science Sangeeta Bhatia; Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering Gang ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2022-bose-grants-ambitious-ideasStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ... Recover and reuse. Despite having two degrees in mechanical engineering, a passion for ... fixing leaks. An MIT Tata Center fellow and Deshpande Center grantee, Swaminathan is developing a modular ...
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