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2023-24 Takeda Fellows: Advancing research at the intersection of AI and health
The School of Engineering has selected 13 new Takeda Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year. With ... fourth year, the MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda, ... Engineering and Computer Science. Gierlach’s work combines innovative biotechnology with machine learning to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2023-24-takeda-fellows-advancing-research-intersection-ai-and-healthThe challenges and triumphs of the graduate experience
Gallant ’08, SM ’10, PhD ’13, associate professor of mechanical engineering. “It’s by definition ... a transitory time, which can feel unsettling.” The mechanical engineering faculty and staff at MIT aim to help ... support of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Graduate Office to help them tackle challenges. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/challenges-and-triumphs-graduate-experienceInside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor
Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... rudders, or any obvious mechanism on its surface to power the robot through an underwater environment. ... meters. The team is also working on an “eyeball” mechanism that would let the camera pan and tilt in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inside-innards-nuclear-reactorMinimally invasive 3D-printable bioadhesive cardiac pacing lead may reduce complications, improve safety for cardiac patients
Yuk. Wednesday, June 19, 2024 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue Horizontal ... happen.” The team, comprising researchers affiliated with the lab of Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering, has introduced a 3D-printable bioadhesive pacing lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/minimally-invasive-3d-printable-bioadhesive-cardiac-pacing-lead-may-reduce-complicationsNew general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales
Xuanhe Zhao, the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and civil and ... environmental engineering at MIT. “This discovery has significant implications for the design of new materials, ... networks, no existing physical model effectively linked strand mechanics and connectivity to predict bulk ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-general-law-governs-fracture-energy-networks-across-materials-and-length-scalesBreaking through the mucus barrier
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... the National Institutes of Health and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors of the ... a mechanism that can tunnel through mucus, just as tunnel boring machines drill into soil and rock. “I thought ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-mucus-barrierEleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships
a senior majoring in literature and mechanical engineering with a concentration in Russian language. As ... creative writing and will graduate this month with an MS in mechanical and ocean engineering. Her thesis ... physics research with the Checkelsky group, where he focused on engineering materials with flat bands that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eleven-mit-awarded-2024-fulbright-fellowshipsTwelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships
Tony Terrasa Bottom Row: Miki Hansen, Laura Huang. Jenny Chan is a senior studying mechanical engineering. Growing up ... majoring in mechanical engineering. As the winner of the Delft University of Technology’s Industrial Design ... from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Laura Huang is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/twelve-mit-awarded-2021-fulbright-fellowshipsFrom nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate
Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who is also ... Mechanical Engineering. “It’s about getting people — our graduates who are budding enthusiasts of ... in mechanical engineering at MIT. To keep new ideas flowing from the classroom to the factory floor, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanoscale-global-scale-advancing-mit%E2%80%99s-special-initiatives-manufacturing-health-andJ-WAFS announces seven new seed grants
including the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical ... led by Daniel Frey, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and D-Lab faculty director, ... along with Leon Glicksman, professor of architecture and mechanical engineering, is a storage technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-seven-new-seed-grantsNew Device Could Make Large Biological Circuits Practical
professor of mechanical engineering Domitilla Del Vecchio and professor of biological engineering Ron Weiss. ... authors include recent master’s students Phillip Rivera in mechanical engineering and Allen Lin in ... lead author of the paper is Deepak Mishra, an MIT graduate student in biological engineering. Other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-device-could-make-large-biological-circuits-practicalMIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease
and health care providers,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-led-team-receives-funding-pursue-new-treatments-metabolic-disease“Mens et manus” in Guatemala
Amy Smith (center), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and founder of the MIT D-Lab, and ... Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with UVG and the Guatemalan Export Association (AGEXPORT). Launched ... growers and mechanical engineers at UVG developed a prototype for a low-tech cart for collecting snow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmens-et-manus%E2%80%9D-guatemalaA droplet walks into an electric field …
student in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Physics. “With our equation, one can predict ... Beroz’ co-authors are A. John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and John Bush, ... strike. This revelation led engineers to design thicker coverings around power lines to limit lightning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplet-walks-electric-field-%E2%80%A6Ingestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone
Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who is now ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-%E2%80%9Celectroceutical%E2%80%9D-capsule-stimulates-hunger-regulating-hormoneBreaking Through the Bacteria Barrier
needed,” says Cullen Buie, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ... engineering. Genetically engineering any organism requires first getting its cells to take in foreign DNA. To ... developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breaking-through-bacteria-barrierFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
mechanical engineering at MIT. “After you open the engine roof, you have to be flexible enough to make sharp ... for a product at the back of a cluttered shelf, or snaking around a car’s engine parts to unscrew an ... oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ... study of cell mechanics, with a focus on the behavior of cancer cells and the processes that drive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisKrithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ... Mechanical Engineering, who researches novel designs for drip irrigation emitters that operate at lower ... across its various funding mechanisms. From the development of a novel, environmentally sustainable, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/krithika-ramchander-and-andrea-beck-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutions