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Bringing life to computer models of marine microbes
As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesNew tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease
hopes of discovering new treatments for these liver diseases, MIT engineers have designed a new type of ... disease,” says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT ... Engineering, are the lead authors of today’s Nature Communications paper on the new microphysiological system ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tissue-models-could-help-researchers-develop-drugs-liver-diseaseA recipe for health
expert in endometriosis, Linda Griffith, an MIT School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, ... an MIT School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, Biological Engineering, and Mechanical ... Engineering; MIT visiting scholar Padma Lakshmi; MIT Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart; dean of engineering Anantha ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-healthClimbing the ‘power ascension’ market
you care about several things, like any engineering system, you have pick and choose which ones win.” ... Since MIT spinout Atlas Devices’ flagship product, the Atlas Powered Rope Ascender (APA), first ... — which began as a prototype for MIT’s Soldier Design Competition in 2005 — has a handle with direction ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climbing-%E2%80%98power-ascension%E2%80%99-marketHow to Apply
Undergraduate Admission Please visit the Admissions Office home page to apply to MIT as an ... undergraduate. Since students select their majors during the spring term of their first year at MIT, all ... undergraduate applications are general. Information on choosing a major can be found at the First Year at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/how-applyUsing sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
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 ... began far from muddy trails and snow-capped mountains. Safely within the halls of MIT, Christian was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-sensors-and-social-networks-make-slopes-saferRobotics in the 21st Century
fears? Faculty in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering believe there is more to it than that. ... actuators, in collaboration with Professor Jeff Lang in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ... designing a system that incorporates a human operator in the loop. In a virtual reality-type scene, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotics-21st-centuryProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsGlassy carbon, now with less heat
support through MIT's Nano-Engineered Composite Aerospace Structures Consortium. Stein was supported ... Last winter, MIT researchers discovered that a phenol-formaldehyde polymer transformed into ... adding a small fraction of carbon nanotubes to this material. Glassy carbon 1024.jpg Research by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatBasketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
doctoral graduate of MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS). “Sports are a really nice, ... Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Data return Across the sports world, data analysts have grown in number and ... according to a new study by MIT researchers, there’s one member who consistently boosts their team’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesScientists make microscopes from droplets
Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We can create complex geometries that form lenses, ... Researchers at MIT have now devised tiny “microlenses” from complex liquid droplets comparable in size to the ... microlenses to do imaging in a way people have not done yet,” Kolle says. Kolle’s MIT co-authors are graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-make-microscopes-dropletsDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
processes.” He studied systems engineering and the use of Monte Carlo simulations to model complex ... tutelage of MIT Professor Alvin Drake in his legendary course 6.041/6.431 (Probabilistic Systems Analysis). ... software platforms central to all Ford models. “So many things I was lucky to be exposed to at MIT,” Doug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-innovation-silicon-valley-detroitThe physics of curly hair
Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ... researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ... industry, but it also could be used by engineers to predict the curve that long steel pipes, tubing, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairKeeping 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-graphene