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New approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
land instead of bouncing off. MIT-Mesh-Droplets-1024.jpg Photos illustrate how the tiny droplets ... Varanasi Research Group Now, a team of MIT researchers has found a way to balance those properties and get ... findings are reported today in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-makes-sprayed-droplets-hit-and-stick-their-targetsFour MIT seniors win Marshall Scholarships
Technology and Civil and Environmental Engineering and co-chair of MIT’s Presidential Committee on ... Career Development Assistant Professor in Materials Engineering at MIT, developing methods for remote ... Four MIT seniors — Kate Koch, Colleen Loynachan, Kirin Sinha, and Grace Young — are among 34 new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-seniors-win-marshall-scholarshipsGraduate student Sami Khan receives research award
Sami Khan, a dual-degree graduate student in mechanical engineering and technology and policy, ... recently received a research award from the Hydro Research Foundation. Khan — who conducts research in MIT ... 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering green ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-student-sami-khan-receives-research-awardFour from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science
Emeritus and former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, was awarded the National Medal of Science. ... tomography represents one of the biggest engineering breakthroughs from MIT in the past few decades. The ... says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-national-medals-technology-scienceScientists Tune Polymer Material’s Transparency
through. Now MIT scientists have come up with a theory to predict exactly how much light is transmitted ... inflated like a balloon. MIT-Color-Composites-1024.jpg Three colors of PDMS — a widely used rubbery, ... shows the PDMS material before being inflated. The bottom row shows the PDMS inflated, revealing the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-tune-polymer-material%E2%80%99s-transparencyJ-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
ambitious goals of MIT’s Institute-wide effort to address global water and food systems challenges through ... systems research at MIT is substantial, and growing. By the close of this grant cycle, over 12 percent of ... Engineering, Chemistry, and Economics, as well as the Media Lab (School of Architecture and Planning), MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-seven-new-seed-grantsClass Close-Up: 2.729 Design for Scale
hospitals,” explains Toria Yan, a senior studying mechanical engineering at MIT. Class close up_Okea 1024.jpg ... That same year, students and instructors in the MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale collaborated ... Yang, class co-instructor and professor of mechanical engineering. “We are asking students to design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2729-design-scaleNew surface treatment stops scale buildup
Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... by the MIT Energy Initiative. Tuesday, January 21, 2014 David L. Chandler, MIT News Office ... at MIT has come up with a potential solution to this huge but little-recognized problem. A new kind ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildupResearchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
the interface between engineering and biological systems.” This research was supported, in part, by ... A team of MIT researchers has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open ... are published today in Science Advances. MIT-Sweat-Wearables-01-1024.jpg This breathable workout suit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-moisture-responsive-workout-suitMaking 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper
handles all prints, which can be expensive. Now MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to ... part. MIT-NVBot-1-1024.jpg MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to market the only ... years ago in a MIT fraternity house’s basement and commercially launched last April, the printer is now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-3-d-printing-simple-printing-paperSaving the radome
points," says Milo Hooper, a senior in mechanical engineering and president of the MIT Radio Society. ... Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, ... a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeUnderwater Robot for Port Security
contraband. Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MIT researchers ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... Professor of Engineering Harry Asada. “If this is cheap enough — if I can get this out for $600, say — why ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securityMicrochip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member ... a recent PhD graduate from MIT’s Computational and Systems Biology Program, and Selim Olcum, a research ... A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-enables-fast-precise-measurement-single-cell-growthSpray tuning
specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ... part, by the Dupont-MIT Alliance and Axalta Coating Systems. Wednesday, November 9, 2016 Jennifer Chu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/spray-tuningThree MIT alumni graduate from NASA astronaut training
class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I), which led him to study mechanical engineering at MIT. He ... engineering at MIT, she conducted original research at the intersection of synthetic biology, microfluidics, ... engineering-questioning, is because MIT set me up so well with a strong foundation of understanding engineering principles, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-trainingBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
ubiquitous, indoors and out. A new MIT study shows how bubbles contaminated with bacteria can act as tiny ... can emit hundreds of droplets. MIT-Bacteria-Bubbles-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found that ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airTalking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao
a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, a master’s in materials engineering, a PhD in mechanical engineering ... , and I did a post-doc in biomedical engineering. My education has inspired me to ask interdisciplinary ... external technologies. That has become my major research interest – using mechanical engineering to improve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-xuanhe-zhaoThe poster session goes virtual
creation of energy. Power plants, steam engines, and concentrated photovoltaics rely on boiling for ... Opportunities Program (UROP) projects, and postdocs gather to share their mechanical engineering research with ... the wider MIT community. They practice their presenting skills, explaining their research projects as ...
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