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Breaking Through the Bacteria Barrier

needed,” says Cullen Buie, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ... engineering. Genetically engineering any organism requires first getting its cells to take in foreign DNA. To ... developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ...

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Flexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant

mechanical engineering at MIT. “After you open the engine roof, you have to be flexible enough to make sharp ... for a product at the back of a cluttered shelf, or snaking around a car’s engine parts to unscrew an ... oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ...

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Krithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ... Mechanical Engineering, who researches novel designs for drip irrigation emitters that operate at lower ... across its various funding mechanisms. From the development of a novel, environmentally sustainable, and ...

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Soft robots that grip with the right amount of force

and Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL. “Here we explore regulating ... scientist at Toyota Research Institute; Tao Pang, mechanical engineering PhD student at MIT and CSAIL ... position controller,” says Hyung Ju Suh, a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science at ...

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How to make hydrogels more injectable

a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... researchers have created a set of computational models to predict the material’s structure, mechanical ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ...

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Three MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023

University Research Initiative (MURI) awards for 2023. This year, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... modalities. Wednesday, May 17, 2023 Kimberly Tecce | Rachel Gordon | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... (MechE) professors George Barbasthasis and John Hart, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and ...

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Protecting machine learning datasets

to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... GAME – the Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers – and an active member of MIT’s Latin Graduate ... Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education Horizontal ...

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Two MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards

environmental research. “No Drop to Spare,” created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was ... users.”  Freidah has worked with Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... 2024 Katherine Ouellette | Anne Wilson | MIT Open Learning | Department of Mechanical Engineering ...

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Peeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales

Yaqoob, professor of mechanical engineering and biological engineering Peter So, and associate professor ... of mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle. MIT-Butterfly-Growth-1024.jpg Larger, overlapping scales in ... a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ...

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MIT Faculty Collaborate to Address Environmental Challenges

a groundwater aquifer, that is overused to the point where it fails to benefit all parties. A group of engineers ... and Environmental Engineering, and Parag Pathak, an associate professor of economics, will examine the ... the environment? A group of engineers, led by Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. King Assistant Professor ...

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MIT PhD students shed light on important water and food research

issues they face,” says Aditya Ghodgaonkar, PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... climate change.” A PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zhang works in the Nano ... Paquette Katharina Fransen In Professor Bradley Olsen’s lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering ...

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Design prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... incorporated mechanical actuation into a soft robotic device, the device remained functional for much longer ...

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New test rapidly diagnoses Zika

MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ... Mechanical Engineering, and a co-senior author of the paper. The researchers worked with scientists around ... scientist Irene Bosch and Department of Mechanical Engineering postdoc Helena de Puig. No more false ...

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Overcoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft

a graduate student in mechanical engineering. “There was no choice.” “We had to drop everything to rebuild ... Maker Horizontal The MIT team, which includes a number of mechanical engineering students, placed first ... investor, and engineer, detailed a high-speed frictionless train — the Hyperloop. When drag and atmosphere ...

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MechE Connects: Spring/Summer 2015 Issue

technology that’s been developed – some of it right here in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Through advanced programming, clever mechanics, and optimized dynamics, we are developing the robots we ...

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Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

a graduate student in mechanical engineering; and Laura Giarré, a professor of electrical engineering at the ... a couple of different tests with blind users,” says Robert Katzschmann, a graduate student in mechanical ... engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ...

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Scientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene

Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, associate professor of ... making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... explored for applications in electronics, Piran Kidambi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...

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Rapid rovers, speedy sands: fast-tracking terrain interaction modeling

rovers," notes Ken Kamrin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the ... Shashank Agarwal (also of Mechanical Engineering at MIT) in collaboration with Daniel Goldman, Dunn Family ... April 23, 2021 issue of the journal Science Advances, a team of engineers and physicists from the ...

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Meet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows

collaborate to spur technological innovation. Through its partnership with the School of Engineering ... advanced sensing and actuation mechanisms, scalable digital manufacturing, and emerging computational ... business, and technology. Michelle Vaccaro is a PhD candidate in social engineering systems whose research ...

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