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GEARing technology for developing markets
GEAR Lab,” says Winter, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “One ... Several years ago, as a graduate student at MIT, Amos Winter spent a summer in Tanzania surveying ... resulted in the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), developed at the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gearing-technology-developing-marketsWhere to Grab Space Debris
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering. The researchers tested their algorithm using two small ... a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-grab-space-debrisSolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ... MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsOnce-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials
a variety of medications,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases ... medication from within the stomach. MIT-Schizophrenia-Trial-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg The ingestible capsule is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-week-pill-schizophrenia-shows-promise-clinical-trialsMonitoring muscles to improve athletic training
innovation, and entrepreneurship while pursuing his PhD in mechanical engineering, and Babini was on his way ... tailor workouts to their body’s needs. MIT-Humon-02-1024.jpg Humon’s first product, the Hex, straps onto ... working on a class project together at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Wiese was minoring in technology, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monitoring-muscles-improve-athletic-trainingNew gels could help the medicine go down
Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gels-could-help-medicine-go-downIntroducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance
Gallant, alliance director who is also the Kendall Rohsenow Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Five-year collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to accelerate the energy transition and ... scale new innovations. MIT and GE Vernova launched the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-mit-ge-vernova-climate-and-energy-allianceCookstoves and Connections in the Himalaya
Lisa Tang, a master’s student in mechanical engineering, and Connie Ly and Luke Chapman, two ... undergraduate sophomores in mechanical engineering. Working with partner universities in India and Nepal, we ... MIT D-Lab "In this time of isolation, this trip was a precious chance to connect with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cookstoves-and-connections-himalaya“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"
engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... much of his MIT career. The program offered master’s and doctoral degrees to engineering students ... of Ocean Engineering merged into the Department of Mechanical Engineering to become the Center for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-whosoever-commands-sea-commands-tradeJim Christian
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-christianHow to make oxygen on the moon
Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... the regolith itself. “It gets everywhere, wears out all sorts of mechanisms,” says Mr White. And the ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-oxygen-moonPalak Patel
Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... the regolith itself. “It gets everywhere, wears out all sorts of mechanisms,” says Mr White. And the ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/palak-patelProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsRandall Briggs
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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/randall-briggsDoug Field
in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... software platforms central to all Ford models. “So many things I was lucky to be exposed to at MIT,” Doug ... anyone can pull it off, it’s likely to be Field. Ever since his time in MIT’s Leaders for Global ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/doug-fieldJoe Brown
“My goal was to be the next Walt Disney,” Brown explains. “I majored in Course 2 [mechanical ... engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own theme park.” Brown’s passion for ... as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after graduation that dance became ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/joe-brownMechE Alumna Catches Rare Glimpse of Marine Life
renowned MIT engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton, the namesake of MIT’s Edgerton Center. A visionary in ... Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering orange Collaboration Culture Education ... engineering major, Young fell in love with water at an early age. But Mission 31 gave her an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-alumna-catches-rare-glimpse-marine-lifeCan your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?
civil and mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point; Daniel Kondor, ... in Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at ... study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-your-phone-tell-if-bridge-good-shapeNew model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s ... they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-identifies-drugs-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-taken-togetherA leg up for STEM majors
engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... mechanical engineering because I really enjoy the hands-on aspects of the field.” In parallel to her design ... going on.” With one year to go, Hovendon is contemplating graduate school in mechanical engineering ...
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