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When to get your head out of the game

just after.” Getting knocked around — for science Harvatine, who studied mechanical engineering at MIT ... athletes. Now an MIT-invented tool is aiding in detecting and diagnosing concussions, in real-time. ... MIT-Jolt_1024.jpg Photo by Rob Chron In 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine estimated that each year ...

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The Birth of a Hands-On Education

2.007 was at the forefront of a revolution in engineering education, becoming one of the first hands-on ...

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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”

a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply ... project. In 2021, as Kachkine made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he ... Mechanical Engineering, and the MIT Libraries. Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal ...

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3-D Printing 101

Engineering at MIT, says early education on 3-D printing is the key to helping the technology expand as an ... As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with ... however, 3-D printing is a small-scale fabrication tool, used by engineers and designers to quickly print ...

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Clearing the air

contributed to the project are about to get closer to their goal. Li, then a recent mechanical engineering ... graduate, is one of seven MIT students who have interned with Plume Labs, a Paris-based startup that builds ... four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ...

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Students Unveil “Magical” Product Designs

Final presentations in mechanical engineering class show devices for climbers, patients, and ... others. In the 20 years that David Wallace has been teaching the mechanical engineering course “product ... engineering processes,” known by its course number 2.009, he has spiced up the class by donning costumes ...

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MIT events illuminate critical need for menstruation science

and mechanical engineering at MIT. The rally kicked off a series of events that attracted more than ... More than 70 MIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni gathered in MIT’s Killian Court recently to ... about gynecology disorders such as endometriosis and adenomyosis. An estimated 20-25 percent of MIT ...

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How AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies

mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of ... Tassel Career Development Professorship, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and ... Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles ...

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Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers  Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ... engineering at MIT. “Then you can use SpectroGen to generate the rest. And this could improve productivity, ... development and distribution of new technologies. MIT-SpectroGen-01-press_1024.jpg The circle with the chip ...

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Breaking through the mucus barrier

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... the National Institutes of Health and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors of the ... a hospital.  A new drug capsule developed at MIT may one day be able to replace those injections. The capsule ...

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A measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind

engineering) at MIT, co-founded Squirrel Devices to tackle this problem. Their first instrument aims to make ... lengths without seeing the measurements? MIT graduate students Pranay Jain and Anshul Singhal asked these ... because content becomes unavailable and the laboratory becomes inaccessible. squirrel-device-mit ...

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Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp

Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses ... required. Instead, the MIT team built a robotic finger with a rigid skeleton encased in a soft outer layer ... do,” says mechanical engineering graduate student Sandra Liu, co-lead author of a research paper on the ...

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Ta Corrales

she says. Back at MIT, Corrales switched her major to engineering. She was only a few classes shy of ... long housed the MIT Museum. The rooms look more like a handyperson’s workshop than a scientist’s lab. ... Costa Rica when she discovered this eclectic enclave within MIT, where 26 staff members support 15 ...

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Staff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service

On Thursday, June 5, 11 individuals and four teams were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the ... protecting and serving MIT. The medal recognizes an individual or group whose actions demonstrate the ... impact on the MIT community. The Gordon Y. Billard Award is given to staff or faculty members, or ...

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A 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence

production of specialized parts. Now Inkbit, a startup out of MIT, is working to bring all of the benefits of ... systems. The vision system comprehensively scans each layer of the object as it’s being printed to correct ... errors in real-time, while the machine-learning system uses that information to predict the warping ...

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3-D scanning, with your smartphone

Systems integrate the Viztu technology, Milnes returned to MIT to finish his PhD in mechanical ... engineering. He is now working with two other MIT alumni on another startup, OpenWater Power, developing ... and technological expertise.  But MIT spinout Viztu Technologies helped change that: Back in 2011, ...

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Alum Startup Gives Ski Style a Lift

as important as skiing,” McGee says. At MIT, McGee focused on mechanical engineering. His advisor, ... stressful as it seems on TV, but we treated it like an MIT final or midterm and studied up for any and every ... question they might ask.” McGee started his career as a product design engineer for Apple, where he learned ...

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Student Spotlight: Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang (Candidate SB ’14)

English. Now, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, she is preparing to graduate this winter ... 2.013: Engineering System Design, and Apple offered her a coveted internship – and eventually a full-time ... and begin a new job at Apple as an iPad product design engineer. The path she took from A to B wasn’t ...

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An assisted step forward: Max Burns talks about the process, and teamwork, of invention

The SuperUROP participant from Logan, Ohio just walked with his degree in Mechanical Engineering this ... Engineering Department for his SuperUROP project, an instrumented walking cane. For his coming stint in ... assistive technology research.  I joined the MIT Newman Laboratory for Human Rehabilitation, where I’ve been ...

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Catching (radio) waves

mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ... infrastructure,” Schoner says. “Instead of building the system, we design the engines that can power RFID features ... In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency ...

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