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Underwater 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-securityA. Michael West
Black Engineers chapter, and at MIT, he has served as treasurer for the Black Graduate Student ... An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... into it,” the mechanical engineering PhD candidate says, adding that growing up in suburban California, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michael-westThe 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/poster-session-goes-virtualMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... Engineering at MIT, is developing a microbial alternative to the Haber-Bosch process. Some farms have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeSolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ... MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsHow to prevent biofilms in space
that can clog hoses or filters in water processing systems, or potentially cause illness in people. In ... a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... Clogs in water recovery system hoses aboard the ISS have been so severe at times, the hoses had to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
demonstrated before,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of ... through the Center for Nanoscale systems, by the MIT and Masdar Institute Cooperative Program, and by the ... pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactAncient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: ... smelting-courtyard-mit-1024.png MIT students and volunteers take turns working the bellows on a mud-and-straw furnace in the style ... lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The first half of the class, taught by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ancient-african-smelting-technique-sparks-anew-mitDrug injection device wins MIT $100K Competition
Mechanical Engineering. “Over the course of six years of research and development at MIT, we’ve overcome ... as part of his ongoing PhD in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Finally, the audience ... The winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is helping advanced therapies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-injection-device-wins-mit-100k-competitionFive with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025
Nicole Pham Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her ... Engineering; and a recipient of the ACM Computing Prize. Additional MIT alumni who were elected to the NAM for ... Engineering and Computer Science Education Horizontal Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2025Harnessing the speed of light
group at MIT might have found a solution. “In my group we play tricks with optics,” says Fang, an ... associate professor of mechanical engineering. These tricks have led to findings that allow for generating ... would produce intense ultrasonic energy. With the ability to focus and target light onto the nanoscale, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-speed-lightCan your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?
study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ... accelerometer data,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Sensable City Laboratory and co-author of a new paper ... published in Communications Engineering. The authors are Thomas J. Matarazzo, an assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-your-phone-tell-if-bridge-good-shapeNew model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s ... they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-identifies-drugs-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-taken-togetherA new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech
Before coming to MIT, Benjamin Lienhard focused most of his energy exploring fragile quantum ... Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL). This led to the creation of a new interim MIT ... stabilize new technologies. Now that he’s a fifth-year graduate student in electrical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-prepare-graduate-students-lead-techProtecting machine learning datasets
to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... ’22, then a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former SpaceX engineer. The trio ... GAME – the Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers – and an active member of MIT’s Latin Graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-machine-learning-datasetsSMART researchers receive Intra-CREATE grant for personalized medicine and cell therapy
materials science and engineering, and associate provost at MIT. Understanding glaucoma progression for ... investigator at SMART CAMP and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and Aung Tin, executive director at ... investigators Nicholas Fang, also a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; Lisa Tucker-Kellogg, assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-researchers-receive-intra-create-grant-personalized-medicine-and-cell-therapyThirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships
Photos courtesy of Fulbright winners. Lainie Beauchemin ’22 earned a BS in biological engineering at MIT ... plans to return to MIT to pursue a PhD in electrical engineering. Victor Damptey will graduate in June ... At MIT, Ludington's research ranged from building flexible solar panel deployment systems to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/thirteen-mit-win-2023-fulbright-fellowshipsGuardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
engineering at MIT, and the two robot enthusiasts became lifelong friends. “When Charles came to MIT, he ... to one day apply to MIT and do my engineering undergrad or go to the Sloan School of Management. I’ll ... MIT-Guardian-Ag-01-press_1024x768.jpg Guardian Ag is offering an alternative in the form of a large, purpose-built drone that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsEnhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy
in the Technology and Policy Program (TPP), hosted by the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and ... Society (IDSS). His research with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the ... and the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, and a leader of the MIT Maritime Consortium. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/enhancing-maritime-cybersecurity-technology-and-policyDrug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... National Science Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugs