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Just what the doctor ordered

Department of Mechanical Engineering, program manager at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, and ... this past semester. His team also included two mechanical engineering undergraduates, an electrical ... engineering undergraduate, and a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ...

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Scientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene

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 ... Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, associate professor of ...

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Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots

Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ... direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ...

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Sophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect

Sophia Chen, a fifth-year senior double majoring in mechanical engineering and art and design, ... learned about MIT D-Lab when she was a Florida middle schooler. She drove with her family from their home ... in Clearwater to Tampa to an MIT informational open house for prospective students. There, she heard ...

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A portable light system that can digitize everyday objects

MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, affiliate of CSAIL, and lead author on ... Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. ... appendage for many of us. Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the display ...

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Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans

Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and IDSS affiliate who co-developed the tool. ... WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ...

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Celebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019

Pulsone Keating received his master’s degree and PhD in mechanical engineering and was a member of the MIT ... Canada, Keating pursued his twin passions — earning a dual degree in mechanical and materials engineering ... enrolled as a graduate student studying mechanical engineering. He joined the Media Lab’s Mediated Matter ...

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Researchers hope to make needle pricks for diabetics a thing of the past

biological and mechanical engineering at MIT. “Today, diabetes is a global epidemic,” says So, who is one of ... such as skin, by shining near-infrared light on it. MIT scientists have now taken an important step ... the senior authors of the study and the director of MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center. “If there ...

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How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light

graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in this ... A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ...

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Basic training

campus,” says Culpepper, who is also a professor of mechanical engineering, and runs the MakerLodge program ... makerspace. Junior Ruben Peinado, a student volunteer and mechanical engineering major, is making the most of ... A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ...

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New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester

Henry Gale (1929) Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering. He arrived at MIT in 2014 ... A new group of MIT faculty, staff, and their families will live with, work with, and support ... undergraduate and graduate residential communities as part of MIT’s longstanding head-of-house tradition. 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 ... students surprised Wallace, a professor of mechanical engineering and MacVicar Faculty Fellow, with ...

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How to Succeed at MIT

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  Embracing Opportunity: How to Succeed at MIT Teaser Text:  ... Senior Taotao Zhang reflects upon her undergraduate journey at MIT as a transfer student. <iframe ... undergraduate journey at MIT as a transfer student. She talks about rising above her initial anxieties through ...

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MechE Faculty Contact Information

Abeyaratne, Rohan ROHAN@MIT.EDU Ahmed, Faez FAEZ@MIT.EDU Butler, Tyler tjbutler@mit.edu 617-258-5989 Akylas, ... Triantaphyllos R TRAKYLAS@MIT.EDU Canfield, Laura lkampas@mit.edu 617-452-4123 Anand, Lallit ANAND@MIT ... .EDU Eisenbach, Katherine keisenba@mit.edu 617-253-5328 Annaswamy, Anuradha AANNA@MIT.EDU Gaken, Joe ...

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Illuminating a complex disease

Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... mechanical engineering departments, and a senior author of the paper. “Endometriosis patients report symptoms ... Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ...

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New particle-sorting method breaks speed records

McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University who was not ... such detections possible in real time, according to a team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital ...

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Teaching robots how to move objects

Manipulation and Mechanisms Laboratory at MIT (known as MCube Lab) under Assistant Professor Alberto ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal PhD candidate Maria Bauza is developing ... engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ...

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David Hu

  This is a question that David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology ... Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ...

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Weighing particles at the attogram scale

MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... biological and mechanical engineering, to weigh larger particles, such as cells. This system, known as ... demonstrate the device’s usefulness in analyzing engineered nanoparticles, the MIT team weighed nanoparticles ...

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