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Peeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
Yaqoob, professor of mechanical engineering and biological engineering Peter So, and associate professor ... of mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle. MIT-Butterfly-Growth-1024.jpg Larger, overlapping scales in ... a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scalesMIT Faculty Collaborate to Address Environmental Challenges
a groundwater aquifer, that is overused to the point where it fails to benefit all parties. A group of engineers ... and Environmental Engineering, and Parag Pathak, an associate professor of economics, will examine the ... the environment? A group of engineers, led by Antoine Allanore, the Thomas B. King Assistant Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-collaborate-address-environmental-challengesMIT PhD students shed light on important water and food research
issues they face,” says Aditya Ghodgaonkar, PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... climate change.” A PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zhang works in the Nano ... Paquette Katharina Fransen In Professor Bradley Olsen’s lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-phd-students-shed-light-important-water-and-food-researchDesign prevents buildup of scar tissue around medical implants
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. ... interfere with many other types of implantable medical devices. However, a team of MIT engineers and ... incorporated mechanical actuation into a soft robotic device, the device remained functional for much longer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implantsNew test rapidly diagnoses Zika
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Image courtesy of the researchers This test could offer an ... Mechanical Engineering, and a co-senior author of the paper. The researchers worked with scientists around ... scientist Irene Bosch and Department of Mechanical Engineering postdoc Helena de Puig. No more false ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-test-rapidly-diagnoses-zikaOvercoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft
a graduate student in mechanical engineering. “There was no choice.” “We had to drop everything to rebuild ... Maker Horizontal The MIT team, which includes a number of mechanical engineering students, placed first ... investor, and engineer, detailed a high-speed frictionless train — the Hyperloop. When drag and atmosphere ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-obstacles-electric-hovercraftWhitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health
own experience. She was the first woman to earn a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford ... a master’s degree at MIT in 1961, she was the sole woman in the school’s mechanical engineering department. ... 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-healthMechE 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-connects-springsummer-2015-issueWearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
a graduate student in mechanical engineering; and Laura Giarré, a professor of electrical engineering at the ... a couple of different tests with blind users,” says Robert Katzschmann, a graduate student in mechanical ... engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wearable-system-helps-visually-impaired-users-navigateScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, associate professor of ... making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... explored for applications in electronics, Piran Kidambi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneRapid 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 ... April 23, 2021 issue of the journal Science Advances, a team of engineers and physicists from the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rapid-rovers-speedy-sands-fast-tracking-terrain-interaction-modelingMeet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows
collaborate to spur technological innovation. Through its partnership with the School of Engineering ... advanced sensing and actuation mechanisms, scalable digital manufacturing, and emerging computational ... business, and technology. Michelle Vaccaro is a PhD candidate in social engineering systems whose research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-2023-24-accenture-fellowsFaculty and staff reflect on international collaboration, shared learning as MIT-SUSTech research agreement concludes
for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and at the Southern University of Science and ... Micro and Nano Engineering Laboratories and former head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... engineering education. With the five-year program reaching its conclusion this past August, faculty and staff ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-and-staff-reflect-international-collaboration-shared-learning-mit-sustechMicroscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections
of mechanical engineering and biological engineering at MIT. Newer single-line and the mosTF systems ... images fuzzy. In an open access paper in Scientific Reports, a collaboration of MIT engineers and ... that have been engineered to fluoresce when stimulated. The new system proved in the team’s tests to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscope-system-sharpens-scientists%E2%80%99-view-neural-circuit-connectionsFaith Brooks
could you get a better education in ocean engineering than MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ... preventing and mitigating harmful algal blooms. Her work focuses on the biannual mechanical breaching of ... projects and lectures on a variety of topics related to oceanography, engineering, and marine robotics. “My ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/faith-brooksErik Ballesteros
is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... a master’s program in mechanical engineering. In interviewing with potential advisors, he immediately hit it ... an astronaut inspects or makes repairs. Ballesteros is collaborating with engineers at the NASA Jet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/erik-ballesterosA glimpse inside Intel
building silicon at scale.” The event was sponsored by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ... Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the MIT Computer Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glimpse-inside-intelA Letter from Department Head Gang Chen
is being conducted across a myriad of sports here in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. This ... Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head This article originally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-gang-chenAccessible, open-source tools for measuring zeta potential
systems—poses significant challenges for scientists and engineers. Traditionally, zeta potential, an indirect ... traditional methods. This project is the result of a cross-departmental collaboration between the Mechanical ... and Chemical engineering departments at MIT, and is supported by a Multi University Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accessible-open-source-tools-measuring-zeta-potential