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Researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
the Italian energy company Eni S.p.A. through the MIT Energy Initiative. Thursday, April 13, 2017 ... have been prevented. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent ... journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-cloggingRohit Karnik named director of J-WAFS
Rohit Karnik, the Tata Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named ... MIT who are dedicated to the mission of securing water and food systems. That mission is more ... engineering at MIT, before being promoted to associate professor in 2012. His research group focuses on the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rohit-karnik-named-director-j-wafsA new way to make steel could reduce America’s reliance on imports
defense systems, and our energy systems,” Meroueh says. “Steel is the most foundational material to our ... lab of Gang Chen, MIT’s Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. She studied thermal ... system powered by natural gas and electricity. The process, which can also run on hydrogen, uses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-steel-could-reduce-america%E2%80%99s-reliance-importsOur History, at Hart
– mechanics, design and manufacturing, control, instrumentation and robotics, energy, ocean engineering ... MechE displays in MIT Hart Nautical Gallery given a full refresh Situated near the midpoint of the ... first-floor hallway of building 5 is MIT Museum’s Francis Russell Hart Nautical Gallery, one of the oldest ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-history-hartDeploying non-contact vitals sensing kiosks across campus
undergraduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT, Koeppen developed an interest in using mechanical ... thermometer, go directly to a secure area in MIT Medical. Zhang created the software and imaging system that ... 11, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deploying-non-contact-vitals-sensing-kiosks-across-campusMIT students' works redefine human-AI collaboration
Credits: Be the Beat “Be the Beat,” by Ethan Chang, an MIT mechanical engineering and design student, and ... Zhixing Chen, an MIT mechanical engineering and music student, is an AI-powered boombox that suggests ... style. That’s the idea behind “Be the Beat,” one of several projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-works-redefine-human-ai-collaborationLetting robots manipulate cables
Dong, and Neha Sunil; Alberto Rodriguez, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering; and Edward ... Robotic gripper with soft sensitive fingers developed at MIT CSAIL can handle cables with ... a group of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) pursued ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letting-robots-manipulate-cablesMIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to ... systems. All of this information is freely available at e-vent.mit.edu. “We are releasing design guidance ... MIT-Ventilator-Project-1024.jpg This shows the setup used for preliminary testing of an earlier version of the low-cost prototype ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-based-team-works-rapid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-ventilatorNew gels could help the medicine go down
Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-downA new way to make droplets bounce away
In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ... the amount of contact with the surface can be key to keeping systems functioning properly. ... MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayYunyi Zhu
MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, affiliate of CSAIL, and lead author on ... extra appendage for many of us. Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the ... MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the University of California at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/yunyi-zhuThe environmental toll of disposable masks
and access to decontamination systems. The MIT team decided to model the impacts of several different ... Program, the National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ... MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Adam Wentworth, a research engineer at Brigham and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/environmental-toll-disposable-masksCrystan McLymore
mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... and she chose to apply to MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), even though she says she ... Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems conference. When her name was called out as the presentation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystan-mclymorePalak Patel
Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... develop systems that could supply astronauts living on a future lunar base. Those astronauts will need ... test its system on the moon, using real regolith in low gravity conditions. The moon’s gravity could be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/palak-patelTop collegiate inventors awarded 2021 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
of the Lemelson-MIT Program and associate dean of innovation at the MIT School of Engineering. “This ... Foundation and administered by the School of Engineering, the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize recognizes and ... advancement and invention, the Lemelson-MIT Program announced seven winners of its annual 2021 Lemelson-MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/top-collegiate-inventors-awarded-2021-lemelson-mit-student-prizeJennifer Rumsey
How does a 106-year-old company built on diesel engines evolve to thrive in a decarbonized future? ... at Cummins, is leading the way to answer: "how a company built on diesel engines evolve to ... innovate to reduce the environmental impact of diesel engines,” Rumsey says. “Since 2010, we have improved ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jennifer-rumseyMIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech
biotech. Despite increasing representation at MIT, female science and engineering faculty found biotech ... Hockfield, and MIT Amgen Professor of Biology Emerita Nancy Hopkins. In addition to highlighting systemic ... and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-future-founders-initiative-announces-prize-competition-promote-female-entrepreneursTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ... (pink). Credit: Tatsuya Osaki/MIT “We found striking differences between the healthy cells and the ALS ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DMarcos Berríos
degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as ... applicants. This aims to boost the total number of MIT astronaut alumni to 44, of the 360 NASA selected by ... systems, training for spacewalks, developing complex robotics skills, safely operating a T-38 training jet, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/marcos-berr%C3%ADosMechE celebrates the life and legacy of A. Neil Pappalardo (1942-2026)
A long-time friend and supporter of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, A. Neil ... was long-time friend and supporter of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Courtesy of ... Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) grew from his belief that too many MIT courses during his years ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-celebrates-life-and-legacy-neil-pappalardo-1942-2026