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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 ... Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Sahab Babaee is the lead author of the paper, along with Simo Pajovic, an ... research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesMechE announces three new appointments
Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ... head for Ocean Science and Engineering in MechE, as co-director of the Ford-MIT Alliance, and as head ... Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became a professor here in 2001. He has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-announces-three-new-appointmentsMicroscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly
requires scanning individual pixels one at a time. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has now ... neurons within the brain, the researchers say. MIT-Fast-Brain-Imaging-01-1024.jpg This image shows ... Murat Yildirim, an MIT research scientist and one of the authors of the new study. MIT graduate student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscopy-technique-makes-finer-images-deeper-tissue-more-quicklyIndustrial Design
at MIT relevant to industrial design that do not necessarily include engineering content. 2.007 ... Systems Engineering 6.902 Engineering Innovation and Design (GEL) MAS.865 How to Make (Almost) Anything ... to be mass-produced with mechanical engineering disciplinary background. The discipline involves many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/industrial-designTwo MIT PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for their research on water
MIT, advised by Professor Amos Winter. His research is focused on water treatment systems for the ... renewable electrodialysis desalination system. The technology is energy-efficient, conserves water, and is ... her whole lab. Before coming to MIT, Ball obtained a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-their-research-waterTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso
engineering at MIT, he serves as a physician at BWH. In July, you published findings on a reusable face mask ... by MIT News and Wing Ngan. Our team is still developing the whole range of camera systems to ... As both a biomedical engineer and physician, Giovanni Traverso is uniquely positioned to tackle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-giovanni-traversoA new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome
However, MIT biological and mechanical engineers have now designed a specialized device in which they can ... Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. “We showed that you can grow ... new-micro-model-1024.jpg MIT biological and mechanical engineers have designed a specialized device in which they can grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tool-modeling-human-gut-microbiomeNavy officer deepens her engineering and leadership skills at MIT
mechanical engineering at MIT. “My mom was laying down the foundation for me, showing me what it truly meant ... a process of self-discovery at MIT. Allison realized that she had grown passionate about engineering during ... officer in July 2020 and applied to the graduate program in naval construction and engineering at MIT in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navy-officer-deepens-her-engineering-and-leadership-skills-mitStudy finds potential in brackish groundwater desalination
systems,” she says. The team found that groundwaters dominated by sodium require much more energy to ... be done to translate that low need for energy into practical desalination systems that actually have ... much less energy to desalinate than seawater. The amount of brackish groundwater in the United States ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-potential-brackish-groundwater-desalinationAlumni Spotlight: John Wall (SB, SM ’75, ScD ’78) and Jennifer Rumsey (SM ’98)
engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, Leroy returned to his job at Chevron Research in San Francisco,” ... someone coming into this role of CTO who is so experienced with engines and exhaust aftertreatment systems ... then Vice President of Advanced Heavy Duty Engine Development at engine design and manufacturing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-john-wall-sb-sm-%E2%80%9975-scd-%E2%80%9978-and-jennifer-rumsey-sm-%E2%80%9998News & Awards: Winter 2019
Research Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her leadership ... MIT-Graphene-Wafers-1024.jpg Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed ... Manufacturing Lead at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, has been named to Manufacturing Engineering Magazine ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-winter-2019MIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection
engineering and MIT SWE co-president. “It just shows the impact that this organization has had and how much ... Celebration. Photo courtesy of the MIT Society of Women Engineers. MIT SWE is comprised of five departments that ... diversity in engineering, and to determine and advocate for the needs of women engineers at MIT and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-society-women-engineers%E2%80%99-journey-virtual-connectionMIT engineers introduce the Oreometer
stressed. MIT engineers have now subjected the sandwich cookie to rigorous materials tests to get to the ... before putting the second wafer on top,” says Crystal Owens, an MIT mechanical engineering PhD candidate ... which turns out to be really hard,” says Max Fan, an undergraduate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-introduce-oreometerTeaching With Digital Technology Award winners recognized for their innovations
engineering professor Jacob White, recognized for his Feedback System Design (6.302) course, exemplified this ... instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT. The goal is ... to recognize instructors for their innovations and to give the MIT community the opportunity to learn ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-digital-technology-award-winners-recognized-their-innovations‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. The paper’s co-authors are Hyunglae ... other, and the rest of the body falls in line, supported by a system of muscle, tendon, and bones. Upon ... bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffnessBiomechanics and Biomedical Devices
subjects with a strong mechanical engineering disciplinary background. Major areas covered in this ... complementary to both the biomedical engineering minor and the minor program in toxicology and environmental ... REST subjects: 2.772/ 20.110; REST subjects with no engineering: 5.07 / 7.05, 5.12 Suggested ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/biomechanics-and-biomedical-devicesSun-powered desalination for villages in India
energy, Wright and Winter concluded, an economically viable and culturally acceptable system could supply ... fresh water for about half the energy required by a reverse-osmosis system. That means the solar panels ... grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Now an analysis by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaSaving seaweed with machine learning
Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... Xia_1024.jpg Charlene Xia, pictured at the MIT Sailing Pavilion, tests her microbiome monitoring system in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-seaweed-machine-learningKripa Varanasi named faculty director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
Kripa Varanasi, professor of mechanical engineering, was named faculty director of the MIT ... Mechanical Engineering The MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation is an interdepartmental center ... professor of mechanical engineering, has been appointed faculty director of the MIT Deshpande Center for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-named-faculty-director-deshpande-center-technological-innovationResearch update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces
Researchers at MIT have followed up on their discovery that droplets of water acquire an electric ... found that by applying an electric field to the system, the droplets “jump” more rapidly away from the ... reported in the journal ACS Nano by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-update-electric-fields-can-push-droplets-surfaces