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Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... Beckwith is lead author and a PhD student in mechanical engineering. Coauthors are Beckwith’s co-advisors ... Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystems technology Laboratories, and Jeffrey Borenstein, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-lab-grown-plant-tissue-ease-environmental-toll-logging-and-agricultureStudent-led conference charts the future of micro- and nanoscale research, reinforces scientific community
a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems group, led by Dean of Engineering and ... a letter to attendees, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) graduate ... a breadth of research and engineering in materials, structures, devices, circuits, and systems. Tuesday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-led-conference-charts-future-micro-and-nanoscale-research-reinforces-scientificInspired to Heal the Human Heart
Development Professor and an associate professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and in ... Lab DESIGN INSPIRATION OFTEN STRIKES ELLEN ROCHE IN HER MIT LAB. But it can also emerge while she’s ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Roche takes such ideas back to her lab, where she and her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspired-heal-human-heartProfessor Harry Asada Awarded a $2 Million Grant to Develop Robotic Educational Tool, “Teach-Bot”
manufacturing workers on robotics. Founded by professor of mechanical engineering and Ford Professor of ... Engineering Harry Asada, Teach-Bot is a table top robot outfitted with actuators, sensors, and embedded ... systems. Connected to the MITx online learning system, Teach-Bot can teach manufacturing workers about ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-harry-asada-awarded-2-million-grant-develop-robotic-educational-tool-%E2%80%9Cteach-botTissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... MIT-Blood-Brain-Barrier-1024.jpg The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the ... Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tissue-model-reveals-role-blood-brain-barrier-alzheimer%E2%80%99sToward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... on Human Factors in Computing Systems in April. Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL ... mind, MIT researchers developed “ FlexBoard,” a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toward-more-flexible-and-rapid-prototyping-electronic-devicesWrinkle Predictions
Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... have not been able to come up with a way to predict how such patterns arise in curved systems, such as ... microlenses. MIT-Patterning-Fingerprints460x305.jpg MIT researchers have developed a mathematical equation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsWith “MIT Fundamentos Electrónicos,” MechE Grad Student Brings Electronics Workshops to Students in Mexico
Working with MIT’s Global Teaching Labs (GTL), MechE Graduate Student Savannah Gordon SB ’24, ... (IAP) are both prime time for MIT students to engage in learning and research outside of the regular ... pursuits. Savannah Gordon SB ’24, now a graduate student in mechanical engineering, spent IAP 2025 in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmit-fundamentos-electr%C3%B3nicos%E2%80%9D-meche-grad-student-brings-electronics-workshops-studentsLEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow
Speaking at MIT, the LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen discussed the company’s manufacturing ... stranger to many members of the MIT community. Faculty, staff, and students, alike, have developed a love ... and ingenuity, and it has inspired MIT faculty to bring LEGOs into the classroom, including 2.S00 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lego-group-coo-discusses-production-network-enables-builders-tomorrowMIT affiliates named 2024 AAAS Fellows
PhD in biochemical engineering at MIT in 1987 and was a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of ... additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields. Six current MIT affiliates and ... 27 additional MIT alumni have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-named-2024-aaas-fellows-0Making RNA vaccines easier to swallow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... needles. Now, a team of MIT researchers has developed a way to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be ... pigs. Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Long-term delivery The new contraceptive pill is based on star-shaped drug delivery systems that the MIT ... Entrepreneurship International Horizontal MIT engineers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesMechE Connects: Spring/Summer 2015 Issue
technology that’s been developed – some of it right here in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio is developing algorithms for on-board vehicle safety systems that take ... people's lives healthier, safer, and more comfortable. http://mecheconnects.mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-connects-springsummer-2015-issueMitigating the Impact of a Blowout Preventer Failure
feed of an occluding medium into an uncontrolled well. Energy Science and Engineering Ocean Science and ... Engineering Energy Environment Impact Home Research Home Graduate Post-Doc Prospective Student Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitigating-impact-blowout-preventer-failureJim Christian
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ... trails and snow-capped mountains. Safely within the halls of MIT, Christian was charged with designing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-christianA safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors
area. MIT engineers have now devised a way to make this kind of deployment safer, by encasing bacterial ... spreading modified genes to other organisms. MIT-Bacteria-Containment-1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised ... electrical engineering and computer science and of biological engineering, and Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/safer-way-deploy-bacteria-environmental-sensorsUS Manufacturing: A Modern-Day Renaissance
heart. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing has been a part of our DNA since the ... creation of our first lab in 1874 with the donation of a steam engine—all the way to 1977, when MechE ... Today, MIT continues to lead in manufacturing, spearheading in-depth research and analysis on the subject ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/us-manufacturing-modern-day-renaissanceFlora Klise
her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... thinking about water accessibility from an engineer’s perspective, and how the way people get water is so ... different in every part of the world,” says Klise, currently a senior studying mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/flora-kliseWhitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health
a master’s degree at MIT in 1961, she was the sole woman in the school’s mechanical engineering department. ... has announced that Brit Jepson d’Arbeloff SM '61 — a pioneering engineer, advocate for women in ... Page, Whitehead Institute director and MIT professor of biology, who leads the sex differences ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whitehead-institute-receives-10-million-study-sex-chromosomes%E2%80%99-impact-women%E2%80%99s-healthFirst-ever MIT Maker Faire attracts nearly 3,000 attendees to campus
and host this coming together of creators, technologists, scientists, engineers, and artists. “At MIT ... MechE/Engineering Systems Division graduate student Jessica Artiles of the faire’s success, “is that little extra ... Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue Culture Education Maker mculpepp@MIT.EDU Known for its ...
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