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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ... A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)

Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Entrepreneurship Maker Horizontal ... in the movie, R2-D2, stole Greiner’s heart and inspired her to apply to MIT to learn how to build ... Rodney Brooks, former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ...

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Building a better indoor herb garden

day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at  the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...

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Weighing cancer cells to personalize drug choices

Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ... Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether ... drug treatments, says Scott Manalis, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of ...

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2023-24 Takeda Fellows: Advancing research at the intersection of AI and health

fourth year, the MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda, ... The School of Engineering has selected 13 new Takeda Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year. With ... Engineering and Computer Science. Gierlach’s work combines innovative biotechnology with machine learning to ...

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News & Research

Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...

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Novel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surface

associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “There’s a lot of controversy, and there’s no easy way ... Karnik and his colleagues — Jongho Lee, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Tahar ... Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM. Sunday, March 16, 2014 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office ...

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Need a water filter? Peel a tree branch

blocking most types of bacteria. Co-author Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... of mechanical engineering at Ohio State University, says the design could be useful in parts of the ... fact, an MIT team has discovered that this low-tech filtration system can produce up to four liters of ...

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Building the mountain bike of wheelchairs

living in rural areas where access to goods, services, and health care require long-distance travel. MIT ... Tanzania in summer 2005, shortly after graduating with an MS from MIT. He quickly realized that no existing ... studied the operating environments of developing countries, and then applied scientific and engineering ...

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Designing a revolution

Architecture and undergraduate students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Medina says the project ... who both graduated in the spring with bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering, worked on getting ... a political third way,” says Eden Medina, an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Society, Technology, and ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)

degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... timeframe, that comes to more than $4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive? ... of our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ...

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Danielle Zurovcik

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... $4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive?   “If you look at it from ... our protocol,” she explains.   When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ...

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Drive-By Heat Mapping

co-founder Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical Engineering ... roads around the world. Now MIT spinout Essess is bringing similar “drive-by” innovations to energy ... Kinetic Super Resolution — co-invented with Sarma and MIT postdoc Jonathan Jesneck — that computationally ...

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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ... the University of Notre Dame and an MIT graduate. When looking for collaborators, Hanson — a graduate ...

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Internet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other

Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... open learning and the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical ... lost in the supply chain. So, Sarma, along with research scientist David Brock of MIT and Kevin Ashton, ...

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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication

Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Machine ... twist, MIT researchers have discovered that two other inactive ingredients may actually boost medication ... increasingly helping to identify and design new drugs. In a recent discovery, MIT researchers used a deep ...

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With “Hello!” as its theme, 2.009 returns to the stage

for the final presentations of 2.009, MIT’s popular Product Engineering Processes course. After going ... David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and the event’s longtime master of ceremonies, who ... of what engineers in a product development firm might go through to design a new product. Students ...

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AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ...

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Interactive mouthpiece opens new opportunities for health data, assistive technology, and hands-free interactions

Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. ... box, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Aarhus University ... researchers have now engineered “MouthIO,” a dental brace that can be fabricated with sensors and feedback ...

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US Manufacturing: A Modern-Day Renaissance

heart. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing has been a part of our DNA since the ... creation of our first lab in 1874 with the donation of a steam engine—all the way to 1977, when MechE ... Today, MIT continues to lead in manufacturing, spearheading in-depth research and analysis on the subject ...

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