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Keeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19
Engineering, and at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “However, we find that ... We know proper indoor ventilation is key to reducing the spread of Covid-19. Now, a study by MIT ... Society Interface, the MIT team reports that maintaining an indoor relative humidity between 40 and 60 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/keeping-indoor-humidity-levels-%E2%80%9Csweet-spot%E2%80%9D-may-reduce-spread-covid-19A New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
removing a piece of sticky tape from a block of graphite — a low-tech system that does not lend itself to ... difficulties in transferring the graphene from the foil to useful substrates. Now researchers at MIT and the ... led by A. John Hart of MIT. Lead authors of the paper are Dan McNerny, a former Michigan postdoc, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneNew method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... initial laboratory proof involved a small object, the effect presumably also applies to larger systems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsVisualizing MechE Research
Felice Frankel Photographer Felice Frankel captures the intricate beauty of MechE research. Health Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/visualizing-meche-researchReducing pesticide use while increasing effectiveness
AgZen, an MIT spinout founded in 2020 by Professor Kripa Varanasi and Vishnu Jayaprakash SM ’19, PhD ’22. ... management,” Varanasi says. Pepside.jpg Top Left: AgZen has developed a system for farming that can monitor ... covered by the spray. | Top Right: The new system can compute how much droplets will spread out or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-pesticide-use-while-increasing-effectivenessHermano Igo Krebs elected to Fellowship in IEEE
Fellowship. Having received his PhD in ocean engineering from MIT, Krebs pioneered the robotics rehab field at ... a Fellow of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The IEEE cited Krebs’ ... the Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation at MIT in collaboration with Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hermano-igo-krebs-elected-fellowship-ieeeMIT Water Summit Convenes Experts to Discuss Global Water Challenges
head of civil engineering; Earl Jones, chairman of the New England Water Innovation Network; MIT civil ... Mechanical Engineering red Collaboration Culture International LIENHARD@MIT.EDU As the world’s population ... More than 200 people attend second annual summit organized by the MIT Water Club. As the world’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-water-summit-convenes-experts-discuss-global-water-challengesNew design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Nicholas Kwok, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Mindy Blodgett | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Horizontal MIT ... a shunt, a sort of flexible tube, which is placed in the ventricular system of the brain, diverting the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-design-principle-could-prevent-catheter-failure-brain-shuntsOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ... and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-iceGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. Most robots on ... mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on ... and associate professor at the University of Michigan. “From an engineering perspective, the focus ... would be on helping the robot better navigate and understand its surroundings.” At MIT and Woods Hole, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-build-uncrashable-carMIT’s solar car team wins 2022 American Solar Challenge for the second year in a row
course, they’re on MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team. The team relied on 100 percent solar energy to ... for the second year in a row in the Single Occupant Vehicle category. Team with car.jpg The MIT Solar ... about how this race was going to go because last year was quite difficult,” SEVT captain and MIT senior ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-solar-car-team-wins-2022-american-solar-challenge-second-year-rowFaculty Research: Professor Neville Hogan
elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, developed the ... Anklebot Helps Determine Ankle Stiffness by David Chandler, MIT News Office For most healthy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-neville-hoganStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
emerge from chiral forces and building blocks. But that assumption may need some retuning. MIT engineers ... co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... mirror-image configurations, can emerge from nonchiral systems, suggesting new ways to engineer these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsUnderstanding and treating disease
Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. “Rather than ... a mechanical system, such as a car or a robotic manipulator, and you give it an arbitrary push, you should not ... expect that the system will end up exactly in the configuration you want,” says Del Vecchio. To fix this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-and-treating-diseaseA low-tech solution for high-impact health care
first-ever hackathon. Photo courtesy of the MIT Innovation Initiative. Most ailments are easily treatable if ... shortage of apps designed to address the current refugee crisis. Rather than impose an entirely new system ... or technology, a team of MIT undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students from multiple disciplines set ...
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