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Microchip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth

Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member ... A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells ... environmental conditions. MIT-Cell-Mass-Sensor.jpg A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the ...

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Joseph Ntaimo

converted to a sonic output. Today, as a graduate student in mechanical engineering (MechE), Ntaimo ... pushed me to become a better engineer,” says Ntaimo. In addition to that work, he designs digital ... time.   At MIT, Joseph Ntaimo took music classes, played in the MIT Symphony Orchestra, and became ...

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Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies

mechanical engineering; and Chao Liu, a postdoc in the Senseable City Lab at MIT.  The research was supported ... robots traversing uneven terrain,” says co-author Daniela Rus, MIT professor of electrical engineering ... Neural Jacobian Fields, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, can learn to control any robot from ...

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J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT

supply chains affect food safety, with a team of faculty spanning the MIT schools Engineering and Science ... of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Benedetto Marelli of CEE also launched a new ... mechanical engineering Alex Slocum to a challenge presented by its research affiliate company, Xylem: how to ...

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2.009 gets “Wild!”

Presentations. The popular Mechanical Engineering course, known on campus as “two-double-oh-nine,” is designed to ... December 13, 2023 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering Education Entrepreneurship Horizontal Six teams of ... theme for this year’s 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) senior capstone course, and it’s also ...

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Mo Mirvakili

engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... directly with Langer on a totally different problem in biomedical engineering. In Langer's famously ...

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Alumni Profile: RJ Scaringe SM ’07, PhD ‘09

sustainability.   Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... a journey that has its roots in MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab, where Scaringe conducted his master’s and ... compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low emissions. “RJ was a low key but ...

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Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots

manipulation tasks we could do with robots,” says Alan (Jialiang) Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, who was not involved with this ... perform. MIT-Svelte-Finger-02-PRESS.jpg A breakdown of the components that make up the finger-like touch ...

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2.009 makes its “Move!” onstage

course co-instructors Ellen Roche, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and Josh ... presentations of 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). MIT-2009-Final Presentations-01-press_0 2.jpg ... mechanical engineering students and staff, the Mocha Moves dance troupe, and the a capella group Resonance. ...

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RJ Scaringe

promoting sustainability.   Mary Beth Gallagher Department of Mechanical Engineering Tuesday, April 28, 2020 ... the culmination of a journey that has its roots in MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab, where Scaringe ... limit of homogeneous charge compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low ...

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Startup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats

’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and germs were top-of-mind for everyone. In 2020, Li connected with ... seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. ... MIT-Cleana-01-press_0.jpg MIT has purchased several of Cleana’s self-raising sensations for use on campus. Image: Courtesy ...

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In the World: Remote Mexican Village Uses Solar Power to Purify Water

engineering at MIT, says the case study in La Mancalona demonstrates that with careful design and proper ... System developed at MIT proves practical for remote communities. Deep in the jungles of the ... subsistence farmers, have operated and maintained a solar-powered water purification system engineered by ...

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Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves

Culture Education International Maker Horizontal Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working ... the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ... that have a lasting impact,” explains Maria Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty ...

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Stripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids

co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... emerge from chiral forces and building blocks. But that assumption may need some retuning. MIT engineers ... which an object cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. 1024_Twisted-Liquid-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT ...

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Microscopy technique makes finer images of deeper tissue, more quickly

Mriganka Sur, the Newton Professor of Neuroscience at MIT; and Peter So, an MIT professor of mechanical ... requires scanning individual pixels one at a time. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has now ... neurons within the brain, the researchers say. MIT-Fast-Brain-Imaging-01-1024.jpg This image shows ...

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Needles that hit the right mark

mechanical engineering and biological engineering. So and MIT research scientist Jeon Woong Kang designed and ... which the needles are inserted too far or placed in the wrong tissue. A team of researchers from MIT and ... MIT-Epidural-placement_1024.jpg Currently, anesthesiologists must guide a four- to six-inch needle through multiple layers of ...

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Technique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold

a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ... an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ... scattering, but it also reduces imaging resolution. MIT-Subcutaneous-Superresolution-1024.jpg MIT researchers ...

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Rainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds

Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “It’s a very common phenomenon, and it ... an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University, says that scientists have long ... Office yellow crb@mit.edu Horizontal MIT researchers believe they may have identified the mechanism that ...

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Connecting through conversation

MIT, the mechanical engineering major worked on making those opportunities more available to ... diplomacy, Woodard, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago, envisioned a future in engineering at MIT ... a foundation in STEM. By the time he was in the seventh grade, he knew he wanted to attend MIT for engineering ...

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Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?

Beckwith is lead author and a PhD student in mechanical engineering. Coauthors are Beckwith’s co-advisors ... sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystems technology Laboratories, and Jeffrey Borenstein, ...

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