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Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor

wearable biosensors,” says Yanfei Xu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Our polymer ... coverings trap the heat that the devices produce. Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a polymer ... 10 times as much heat as most commercially used polymers. MIT-Polymer-Conductor.JPG Engineers at MIT ...

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A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

N. Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This is an ... Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine ... Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with ...

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MIT engineers develop a soft, printable, metal-free electrode

inflammation that in turn can degrade an implant’s performance. Now, MIT engineers have developed a metal-free, ... biological tissue. MIT_Hydro-Electrode-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers developed a metal-free, Jell-O-like ... other organs in the body,” adds Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and ...

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MIT engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water

co-authors are lead author Krithika Ramchander and Luda Wang of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... fabricating, and distributing xylem filters,” says Rohit Karnik, professor of mechanical engineering and ... engineers, including researchers in the MIT D-Lab, worked in mountain and urban regions, facilitated by local ...

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MIT engineers grow “high-rise” 3D chips

functions than today’s electronics. MIT-Direct-Stack-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a method to ... communication between functional semiconducting layers. Now, MIT engineers have found a way around this hurdle, ... engineering at MIT. “This could lead to orders-of-magnitude improvements in computing power for applications ...

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Engineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures

scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... Center and the Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT, and SUSTech. Wednesday, ... in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape ...

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Engineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces

Gregory Dreifus, Christoph Meier, and Lei Liu, as well as Sun Jae Professor in Mechanical Engineering ... Neville Hogan and associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart. Riding collagen’s wave The ... printed from solid, relatively inflexible material. MIT-Printed-Meshes-02-1024.jpg 3-D meshes are designed ...

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Engineers 3-D print a “living tattoo”

Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, ... MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing technique that uses a new kind of ink made from ... three-dimensional, interactive structures and devices. MIT-3D 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a 3-D printing ...

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Engineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors

assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ... Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ... or dyes. MIT-Structural-Color-02-1024.jpg Seen from above, transparent droplets in a Petri dish, ...

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School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

best-paper award. Ashwin Gopinath  joins the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an assistant professor ... professor at the University of Minnesota’s aerospace engineering and mechanics department. Linares received ... Traverso will join the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an assistant professor in July. He received ...

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Kamrin, Ken Visiting Professor

3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering

are the co-directors of MIT's Center for Computational Science and Engineering. An academic unit ... graduate study in computational science and engineering (CSE) at MIT has, for the past decade, been offered ... research and education at MIT. Q: What is computational science and engineering? Marzouk: Computational ...

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2025 Faculty Search Candidates

Mechanics Miguel Ángel Moreno-Mateos Institution Webpage Visit Schedule Seminar “Chalk Talk” ... Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Website February 10- 11 Advances in Soft-Fracture Mechanics: Multiphysics, ... Sideways Cracks, and Configurational Mechanics February 10, 4:00-5:00 PM in 3-370 Live stream/recording ...

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3 Questions: Inverting the problem of design

The process of computational design in mechanical engineering often begins with a problem or ... The Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) Lab at MIT instead explores the bounds of what ... trace curves. Q: How is your team considering approaching mechanical engineering questions from the ...

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Engineering Joy

engineering students are educated — at MIT, and around the world.  A victor is crowned in the 1983 2.70 final ... a revolution in engineering education, and it quickly helped solidify the Department of Mechanical ... Fort Flowers (1941) Professor in Mechanical Engineering. “I can’t think of a single person to have ...

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MechE announces three new appointments

Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ... Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became a professor here in 2001. He has ... Mechanical Engineering, and Professor John Leonard has been appointed associate head for research, both ...

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Baran Mensah: Savoring college life in a new country

years, he has dug deeply into many aspects of college life, choosing a major in mechanical engineering ... graduation, Mensah intends to attend graduate school and continue his studies in mechanical engineering. He ... of mechanical engineering? A: My specific focus is robotics. As long as I can work on a piece of ...

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Engineering and matters of the heart

Before she had even earned her bachelor’s degree, MIT professor and biomedical engineer Ellen ... Engineering and Science (IMES) and Department of Mechanical Engineering. “For me, early experience in the ... Meanwhile, in a dual faculty appointment in mechanical and medical engineering, Roche won the Thomas McMahon ...

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MechE students win 2017 Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes honoring promising collegiate inventors around the country.

devices. 
 Wright, a grad student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who also works with the MIT ... foot. Olesnavage, a grad student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who also works with the MIT ... Yu, undergraduates in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering and computer science, are ...

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Engineering Medical Devices

Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with clinicians from Boston-area hospitals to design cheaper, ... https://youtu.be/s83WpLs0DiQ Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with clinicians from Boston-area hospitals to design ... cheaper, safer, and more efficient medical devices. Mechanical engineering students from MIT work with ...

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