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This salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... the material could be fit onto air conditioning units as an energy-saving, dehumidifying element. ... material,” says Carlos Díaz-Marin, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the Device ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-air“MIT Illuminations,” a colorful installation and introduction to creative computation, is now open in Kendall Square
Recently, MIT Admissions and MIT Open Space Programming jointly launched a new lighting ... installation, “MIT Illuminations,” in partnership with SOSO, an MIT-alumni founded experiential design firm. The ... installation spans 120 linear feet, indirectly illuminating an acoustical fabric frieze within the new MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmit-illuminations%E2%80%9D-colorful-installation-and-introduction-creative-computation-now-openSix from MIT named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
magnitude of an MIT education from advocacy to design to medicine to engineering. They make us all proud ... of Engineering. Coombs aims to be a professor and contribute to research in the area of energy and ... graduated MIT as an art and design major with minors in computer science and biomedical engineering. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-named-2021-knight-hennessy-scholarsSixteen MIT grad students named Siebel Scholars for 2017
schools, are: Brian Axelrod, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Alex Burns, MIT ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Brendan McCook, MIT Sloan School of Management Kelly ... Sixteen MIT graduate students are among the 2017 cohort of Siebel Foundation Scholars hailing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sixteen-mit-grad-students-named-siebel-scholars-2017Three from MIT Named Inaugural Schwarzman Scholars
graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in civil engineering and a concentration in Mandarin. She currently ... plans a future career engineering solutions to the energy crisis and advocating for the environment. ... New award pays for one-year master's at Tsinghua University in China. Two MIT undergraduates ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-inaugural-schwarzman-scholarsMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ... imaging system to track liver fibrosis. To reach his engineering goal, Yang decided to take a class ... road with. MIT-Heng-Yang-1024.jpg Safety concerns have clouded the future of fully autonomous vehicles. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionMIT.nano courses bring hands-on experimentation to virtual participants
Jorg Scholvin, assistant director of user services for Fab.nano. That’s why users of the MIT ... was one of five courses highlighting the breadth of MIT.nano’s capabilities, initiated during MIT ... everyday life, and storytelling for science and engineering communication. A glimpse at the guts of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-courses-bring-hands-experimentation-virtual-participantsNew bioadhesive strategy can prevent fibrous encapsulation around device implants on peripheral nerves
Professor, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering at MIT. “We further demonstrated ... the network connecting the brain, spinal cord and central nervous system to the rest of the body, ... of neurological and systemic diseases. However, because the body perceives these implants as foreign ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-bioadhesive-strategy-can-prevent-fibrous-encapsulation-around-device-implantsPaper-folding art inspires better bandages
kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Adhesion from an art form In August 2016, Ruike and her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesQS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2021-22
this year, QS World University Rankings ranked MIT number one in mechanical engineering. ... MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the 10th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. MIT named the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2021-22Jana Saadi
process behind product design. Now, she’s pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, researching how ... advised by Maria Yang, a professor in mechanical engineering at MIT and the MIT D-Lab faculty academic ... mechanical engineering at MIT. Affordable cookstoves in low-income areas often release harmful emissions, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jana-saadiPing pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ... several high-speed cameras and a high-bandwidth predictive control system, the robot quickly estimates the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ping-pong-bot-returns-shots-high-speed-precisionPioneering Pedagogy
design process, transforming the design curriculum in mechanical engineering at MIT. He also wrote ... Professor of Biomedical Engineering and as director of MIT’s Eric P. and Evelyn E. Newman Laboratory for ... translation systems, the awardwinning MIT Braille Embosser and electronic travel aids for the blind resulted. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-pedagogyReducing inequality across the globe and on campus
of mechanical engineering senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John ... in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t want to limit myself to working on a single discipline. ... a mechanical engineering perspective,” she adds. Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-inequality-across-globe-and-campusMIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, ... MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “That’s what we’re doing at the nanoscale.” The ... which they highlight today in the journal Advanced Materials. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-3-d-print-colloidal-crystalsMIT students advance solutions for water and food with the help of J-WAFS
food systems. For example, on April 19, 2023, J-WAFS teamed up with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) ... Engineering and the MIT Sloan School of Management, is currently pursuing the commercialization of a water ... agriculture systems. J-WAFS assists in the connection of passionate MIT students with those who are actively ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-advance-solutions-water-and-food-help-j-wafsProfessor Emeritus Ronald Probstein, world-renowned expert in fluid mechanics, dies at 93
of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he would spend the remainder of his career. ... prestigious honors. In 1989, he was appointed as Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT. He was a fellow of the ... Ronald Probstein, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away at the age of 93 on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ronald-probstein-world-renowned-expert-fluid-mechanics-dies-93