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Model quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread

MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ... studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... 15, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education International Horizontal ...

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Advocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill

Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The absence of the OTA compromises the ability of Congress to govern. ... In late March, 29 MIT graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates traveled to Washington to ... works at the intersection of research and public policy. This is the 13th consecutive year MIT students ...

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A robot that finds lost items

Mechanical Engineering. The research will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference ... figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ...

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Achieving advisory equilibrium

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT. His work has focused on dynamic systems ... Cappellaro is a professor of nuclear science and engineering. She leads the Quantum Engineering Group at the ... Center for Ultracold Atoms at MIT and is a member of the Research Lab for Electronics. Her research aims ...

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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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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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Robo-picker grasps and packs

stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ... an impact,” says Alberto Rodriguez, the Walter Henry Gale Career Development Professor in Mechanical ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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