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Coloring outside the lines
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... engineered to generate colors without chemicals. | Right: Mathias Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “MIT struck me as exciting,” Kolle says. “MIT’s gung-ho attitude of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesPushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and first author of a paper describing ... Intelligence Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); Tomas ... Lozano-Perez, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence; Leslie P. Kaelbling, the Panasonic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushy-robots-learn-fundamentals-object-manipulationResearchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), a senior ... challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... pulse. The resulting mechanical vibrations generate sound waves that travel back up, where they can be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-produce-first-laser-ultrasound-images-humansMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
more toward mechanical engineering, as it intersects with so many other fields,” says Yang. Yang went ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ... to cell mechanics. “My curiosity drove me to study a lot of things. Over time, I started to drift ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionPhysicists 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 ... one were to observe the Unruh effect, “one would have observed a mechanism that is common to both ... stimulate the conventional, or resonant, effects, but we show that by engineering the trajectory of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowNew 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 ... mechanical properties necessary for durable products,” says professor of mechanical engineering John Hart. ... waste. MIT engineers have found a way to bypass this last finishing step, in a way that could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-method-enables-complex-designs-and-creates-less-wasteTesting new drugs with “ALS-on-a-chip”
Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/testing-new-drugs-%E2%80%9Cals-chip%E2%80%9DCounting cells may shed light on how cancer spreads
David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical ... can travel to other organs, seeding new tumors called metastases. MIT engineers have now developed ... 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-spreadsTurning history of science into a comic adventure
departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering. “During crises like the ... member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES); and an associate professor in the ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IMES, and the MIT Libraries. “We wanted to use visual art ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-history-science-comic-adventureMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants
with mechanical engineering Research Scientist Micha Feigin-Almon, aim to study and generate a modeling ... engineers, performing artists and data scientists will work to change the way humans think, study, interact, ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Associate Professor Mohammad Alizadeh proposes using artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-2020-seed-grantsDrug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... National Science Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s ... injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugsStudy finds cells take out the trash before they divide
and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the ... Scott Manalis, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering in the departments of Biological Engineering ... senior author of the paper, which appears today in eLife. MIT biological engineering undergraduates Kevin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cells-take-out-trash-they-divideSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ... Guo SM ’22, and professor of mechanical engineering Sangbae Kim, the director of the Biomimetic ... Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesMADMEC winners develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice
Department of Mechanical Engineering, stressed the parameters of the contest — working within a $1,000 ... mechanical engineering, echoed Tarkanian’s comments, emphasizing the space set aside for innovative thinking. ... a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and member of MITten, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/madmec-winners-develop-spray-coating-protect-power-lines-iceUsing “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases
mechanical engineering, and the senior author of the study. This approach, described today in the journal ... MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships ... engineers have devised a new approach to studying complex diseases such as ulcerative colitis, which causes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-%E2%80%9Corgans-chip%E2%80%9D-model-complicated-diseasesFour researchers with MIT ties earn 2023 Schmidt Science Fellowships
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research focuses on creating new materials for robots. By ... background is only in engineering, with very limited exposure to neuroscience. I'm very excited to be ... a graduate of the Department of Chemical Engineering, where he worked with Professor J. Christopher Love on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-mit-ties-earn-2023-schmidt-science-fellowshipsBenchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials
being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... microscopic metamaterials — materials that are intentionally printed, assembled, or otherwise engineered with ... the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers report on a new way to quickly test ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/benchtop-test-quickly-identifies-extremely-impact-resistant-materialsA New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
says Hart, the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. “To make it ... understanding of graphene growth in concert with the mechanics of the nickel film,” he says. “We’ve shown this ... mechanism can work. Now it’s a matter of improving the attributes needed to produce a high-performance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneMaking data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and IDSS affiliate who co-developed the tool. ... questions that emerged from this pandemic,” says Munther Dahleh, a professor of electrical engineering and ... theory, in fluid mechanics and fluid dynamics, because this problem is very broad. And it paid off.” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plansHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in this ... layer is bonded tightly to a layer of a photonic crystal, which is precisely engineered so that when it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-light