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MIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition
innovations that have come out of his lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Lienhard Research ... In early January 2018, MIT professor John Lienhard opened an unexpected email. A panel of water ... dedicated to the distribution of practical knowledge for water system operators, wastewater engineers, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-growing-global-leadership-water-achieves-industry-recognitionBuie, Kim receive DARPA Young Faculty Award
autonomous control algorithms. Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Mechanical engineering green Culture crb@mit.edu ... Assistant Professors Cullen Buie and Sangbae Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/buie-kim-receive-darpa-young-faculty-awardGiving robots a sense of touch
area. The MIT researchers adopted the same approach. Wenzhen Yuan, a graduate student in mechanical ... a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Chenzhuo Zhu, an undergraduate ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and is now a postdoc at the University of California at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchThomas Ober
aerodynamics department. So when he came across a job opening for a computational fluid dynamics engineer at ... department. So when he came across a job opening for a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula ... dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his physical knowledge with computer software to analyze ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/thomas-ober3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... to a certain temperature “sweet spot.” MIT-Shape-Memory_1024.jpg A shape-memory Eiffel tower was 3-D ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesNew 3D printing method enables complex designs and creates less waste
Professor A. John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Waste removal Conventional vat ... waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ... mechanical properties necessary for durable products,” says professor of mechanical engineering John Hart. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-wasteDrive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... MIT-Smarter-Streetlights_1024.jpg “The way we measure street lighting is still very primitive,” says Sumeet Kumar PhD ’14. Kumar and ... generate its street views. Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT There must be a better way, a team of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time. But researchers at MIT and the ... MIT-Unruh-Effect-01-press_0.jpeg According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, Millenium Falcon pilots would more likely see ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... MIT researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system ... MIT-Pushing-Dynamics_1024.jpg A key to compiling the novel Omnipush dataset was building modular objects (pictured) that enabled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationT.K. Pillan
wellness. T.K. Pillan ’90, a mechanical engineering major while at MIT, now runs the largest ... a degree in mechanical engineering, he decided to start a business that helped to tackle health and ... the Slice of MIT blog. Communications Department Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Alumni Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/tk-pillanTurning history of science into a comic adventure
departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering. “During crises like the ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IMES, and the MIT Libraries. “We wanted to use visual art ... that goal in mind, one MIT team recently transformed themselves into time-traveling comic book ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-history-science-comic-adventureSoft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought
researchers Credits: Now, an MIT engineer has devised a simple way to measure the degree of residual stress in ... part, by MIT’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence and an MIT Mathworks Fellowship. ... to do with the goop’s “mechanical memory.” Soft gels and lotions are made by mixing ingredients until ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thoughtTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
States. In an advance that could help scientists develop and test new drugs, MIT engineers have designed ... MIT-ALS-Model_1024.jpg MIT engineers created this model of the neuromuscular junction using motor neurons derived from ... Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
anxiety associated with needles, some patients stop adhering to these treatments. MIT spinout Portal ... patient adherence. MIT-Portal-Instruments-1024.jpg Based on research by Ian Hunter, the George N. ... Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT, Portal Instruments developed a jet-injection device that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealMechE Connects: Spring/Summer 2015 Issue
technology that’s been developed – some of it right here in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Through advanced programming, clever mechanics, and optimized dynamics, we are developing the robots we ... people's lives healthier, safer, and more comfortable. http://mecheconnects.mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-connects-springsummer-2015-issueWhitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health
a master’s degree at MIT in 1961, she was the sole woman in the school’s mechanical engineering department. ... own experience. She was the first woman to earn a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford ... has announced that Brit Jepson d’Arbeloff SM '61 — a pioneering engineer, advocate for women in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whitehead-institute-receives-10-million-study-sex-chromosomes%E2%80%99-impact-women%E2%80%99s-healthRapid rovers, speedy sands: fast-tracking terrain interaction modeling
rovers," notes Ken Kamrin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the ... Shashank Agarwal (also of Mechanical Engineering at MIT) in collaboration with Daniel Goldman, Dunn Family ... arbitrarily shaped objects moving through granular media. 264105_web1024.jpg Engineers and physicists from MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rapid-rovers-speedy-sands-fast-tracking-terrain-interaction-modelingThe best semiconductor of them all?
a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... computers. Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions has carried ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allCounting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads
can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ... Engineering, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the senior author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/counting-cells-may-shed-light-how-cancer-spreadsLet it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
water-resistant,” says Varanasi, who is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. “If you’re standing out in ... Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate provost at MIT. Credit for ... researchers can find safe substitutes. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a promising solution: a coating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproof