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A new way to detect leaks in pipes

mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. “We’ve proved that the concept works.” ... pipes, and should be effective in gas, water, and oil pipes. MIT mechanical engineering professor Kamal ... pipes. Co-author Rached Ben-Mansour, a professor of mechanical engineering at KFUPM, says that current ...

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Faculty Spotlight: C. Forbes Dewey Jr.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering C. Forbes Dewey Jr. first came to MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1968 as an associate professor, bringing with him a BS in mechanical ... engineering from Yale University, an MS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, and a PhD in ...

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Acoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells

departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using ... mechanical properties. Cell division The MIT team showed that they could use this technique to measure ...

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Droplets Made to Order

Jonathan Boreyko, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech who was ... New method allows microdroplets of any shape to form on a surface. MIT researchers have developed ... applications. The work is described in the journal Nature Communications by associate professor of mechanical ...

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New sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Tadesse’s group builds diagnostic devices that can be used ... Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to ... Tadesse and Aditya Garg stand next to the Raman microscope. Credit: Tony Pulsone, MIT Mechanical ...

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Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time

alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ... ZhiYi Liang, PhD student on the renewable hydrogen team at the  MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and ...

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IdeaStream 2020 goes virtual

impact on the environment or society. Svetlana Boriskina of the Department of Mechanical Engineering said ... Department of Mechanical Engineering built on a statistic — only about 2 percent of applied pesticides adhere ... MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation hosted IdeaStream, an annual showcase of ...

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Supporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work

innovation. Established in MIT’s School of Engineering and now in its third year, the MIT and Accenture ... Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering. A common theme in her work is the ... The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected three new ...

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Soft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body

Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at MIT have ... 1024NoPainFibers-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have designed a soft hydrogel optical fiber (shown illuminated) that stimulates ... Sahasrabudhe, a graduate student in chemistry; Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and civil and ...

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Student-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes

legendary at MIT. Clare Zhang, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, built that winning robot. While ... Mechanical Engineering, who originated MIT’s robotics competition (then called 2.70) and ran it for many ... Simulated ski run challenges mechanical engineering students to produce a wide array of robots. ...

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Advancing industry convergence through technology and innovation

nexus of industry and technology,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and ... of Engineering, as well as from the four other MIT schools and the MIT Schwartzman College of ... a master’s student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, exploring how robot-aided therapy could ...

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CSAIL, MechE marine experts win international self-driving boat competition

Mechanical Engineering. “Each day saw huge hurdles, from equipment and software failures, to working outside ... researchers from MIT and Olin College as one of 15 teams competing in the Maritime RobotX Challenge, which ... searching underwater for acoustic sources. MIT-Olin outperformed other universities from Australia, Japan, ...

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Meet Our Faculty

at MIT Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale Printing with Light Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature The ... Wonders of Thin Structures Visual Thinking for Engineers Bacteria: The Good and the Bad Hope Regenerated ...

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A legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young

platform.  Emily Hanhauser  Emily is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering (MechE). Her research centers ... Hampton Young Fellowship administered by MIT's Office for Graduate Education (OGE) is therefore to ... An anonymous donor established the fellowship in 1965 for the benefit of MIT graduate students, approximately ...

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Megan Smith

Megan Smith received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in ... (CTO) of the United States of America.   A past member of the MIT Corporation, Smith has had a prolific ... and successful career as an engineer; leader; and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) ...

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Inside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor

Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, says one of the major ... rudders, or any obvious mechanism on its surface to power the robot through an underwater environment. ...

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Student Spotlight: Spencer Wilson (Candidate SB ’15)

students to start the famously hands-on Course 2 program in mechanical engineering at MIT with little ... a developing community, and to be able to deal with that and fix it. That’s pure mechanical engineering ... a budding engineer’s goldmine. His house was in a constant state of flux and renovation, and his father had ...

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A quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat

research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Now that we’ve seen this thermal ... Fellowship, MathWorks MechE Graduate Fellowship, and the MIT-SUSTech Centers for Mechanical Engineering ... a material’s thermal conductivity cannot be changed without re-manufacturing it. But MIT engineers have now ...

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First-year students take center stage on Killian Court

“PLAYsentations” — demonstrating the toys they created this semester in mechanical engineering class 2.00b (Toy ... courtesy of the 2.00b Team. David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and instructor of 2.00b, saw ... On a chilly Monday in May, MIT’s Killian Court was transformed into a festival of fun. Over 1,200 ...

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