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Living sensors at your fingertips

Robert N. Noyce Career Development associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the group’s ... Engineers and biologists at MIT have teamed up to design a new “living material” — a tough, ... up in the presence of certain chemicals. MIT-living-hydro_1024.jpg Researchers have found that the ...

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Slowing the Spread

Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This ... environmental engineering with a joint appointment in mechanical engineering at MIT, is trying to understand the ... Class of 1960 Fellow and professor of mechanical engineering, and his team at MIT Project Manus were one ...

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MIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals

MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, ... MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “That’s what we’re doing at the nanoscale.” The ... mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle, and associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart. Out of ...

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Startup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts

John Hart, an associate professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the ... engineering Professor Christopher Schuh; and mechanical engineering Professor Ely Sachs, an early pioneer of ... printing prototypes and small batches of metal parts. MIT-Desktop-Metal-1024.jpg Desktop Metal co-founders ...

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News & Awards: Winter 2019

Research Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her leadership ... MIT-Graphene-Wafers-1024.jpg Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed ... Hatsopoulos, senior lecturer emeritus in mechanical engineering and MIT Corporation life member emeritus passed ...

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Featured video: Pulling drinking water out of thin air

Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International enwang@mit.edu Horizontal Powered only by solar energy, ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is in the very air we breathe. “Water vapor is all around us in the ... of conditions.  Submitted by: Mary Beth O'Leary / Department of Mechanical Engineering | Video ...

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For Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up

practical to use graphene,” says Itai Stein, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... paper originally grew out of an MIT class, 2.675 (Micro/Nano Engineering), taught by Rohit Karnik, ... associate professor of mechanical engineering. As part of their final project, Stein and Amadei teamed up to ...

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On a mission to measure

during mechanical engineering students’ junior year, arms students with the knowledge and skills needed ... Thursday, September 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ... How does cargo weight affect fuel economy in cars? What are the mechanical differences between ...

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Ancient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT

engineering and mechanical engineering major who graduated in May. She spoke above the “thwump, thwump” sound ... coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: ... smelting-courtyard-mit-1024.png MIT students and volunteers take turns working the bellows on a mud-and-straw furnace in the style ...

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Student Profile: Julia Sokol, PhD Candidate

supply. Julia Sokol, a PhD student in mechanical engineering, is hoping to improve sustainability and ... bachelor’s in mechanical engineering at Harvard University, Sokol spent some time in industry, first as ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education International Horizontal PhD Candidate Julia Sokol and ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao

a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, a master’s in materials engineering, a PhD in mechanical engineering ... external technologies. That has become my major research interest – using mechanical engineering to improve ... , and I did a post-doc in biomedical engineering. My education has inspired me to ask interdisciplinary ...

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Technique inspired by dolphin chirps could improve tests of soft materials

processes and materials,” says Bavand Keshavarz, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; Thibaut Divoux of ... MIT engineers have devised a technique that vastly improves on the speed and accuracy of measuring ...

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New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand

the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ... engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... MIT-Driving-Sand-1.JPG Engineers at MIT have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ...

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Our hairy insides

currents of the fluids they’re immersed in. MIT-Hair-Beds_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT can predict how beds of ... flow. Photo courtesy of the researchers Now engineers at MIT have found a way to predict how such tiny, ... the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate dean of the School of ...

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MIT undertakes Grand Challenge for innovation in global vaccine manufacturing

Christopher Love, an MIT associate professor of chemical engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for ... Engineering; and Kripa Varanasi, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Additional ... models around such products. global-vaccine-manufacturing-mit-00_0.jpeg Challenge accepted: MIT ...

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Double-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures

mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study. ... MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo ... medical devices. Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have ...

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Inventing future fabrics

is studying mechanical engineering with a minor in design, conceived a T-shirt that can change color. ... a rising MIT senior double majoring in materials science and engineering and physics; Melanie Wong of ... are the forward-looking concepts presented by a group of three students from MIT and three students ...

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The Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing

another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... a fundamental level by researchers at MIT. The underlying process is the same in all of these cases: Layers of ...

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Nano flashlight enables new applications of light

scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Singh’s coauthors on the second paper are Agarwal; ... Materials Research Laboratory, the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and MIT.nano. Tuesday, May ... minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip. Their approach to ...

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Using light to propel water

Communications, was developed by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, School of ... A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... developed by MIT engineers could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only ...

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