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Sun-powered desalination for villages in India
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, appears in the journal Desalination. Winter explains that ... environmental engineering at the University of California at Berkeley who was not involved in this work, says, ... and extremely important problems of development engineering. … Solar-ED isn’t a new technology, but it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaFaculty Spotlight
Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became ... Precision Engineering, and the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology. Why is ... the engineering and science that enable these new technologies. How important is it to understand the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlightHow to create selective holes in graphene
led by graduate student Sean O’Hern and associate professor of mechanical engineering Rohit Karnik, is ... student David Cohen-Tanugi of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. But producing such ... materials engineering at the University of Kentucky who was not involved in this work, says, “Previous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneWeighing particles at the attogram scale
biological and mechanical engineering, to weigh larger particles, such as cells. This system, known as ... MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... small viruses, extracellular vesicles, and most of the engineered nanoparticles that are being used for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleQuick Test for Ebola
Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ... Engineering and Science (IMES), are the senior authors of a paper describing the new device in the journal Lab ... University of Toronto Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, says he is impressed with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebolaGiving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
mechanical engineering, and graduate student Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, has developed a model that predicts the ... Engineers use the environment to give simple robotic grippers more dexterity. Most robots on ... robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
causing a crash.” Saturday, June 9, 2018 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... and associate professor at the University of Michigan. “From an engineering perspective, the focus ... University of Michigan’s Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, where he continued his work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-build-uncrashable-carMIT.nano awards inaugural NCSOFT seed grants for gaming technologies
Micha Feigin-Almon, research scientist in mechanical engineering, seek to compare the movements of ... dynamic props that evolve as they progress through the game? Department of Electrical Engineering and ... resolution Professor Juejun Hu from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering seeks to develop ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-awards-inaugural-ncsoft-seed-grants-gaming-technologiesNew capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are ... to those injections, MIT engineers, working with scientists from Novo Nordisk, have designed a new ... to do, says David Putnam, a professor of biomedical engineering and chemical and biomolecular ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-capsule-can-orally-deliver-drugs-usually-have-be-injectedMIT graduate students lead conference on microsystems and nanotechnology
proceedings; Morteza Sarmadi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) is managing outreach; Jay ... by a different PhD student: Navid Abedzadeh of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer ... Jatin Patil of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is managing the website and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-students-lead-conference-microsystems-and-nanotechnologyFocusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges
student in mechanical engineering; and Harvey Michaels, a professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management. ... engineering and MIT EnergyHack’s communications director. A total of 260 students comprising 64 teams ... Department of Chemical Engineering. Team Joules in Lockdown came in third, winning $1,000 for their solution ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/focusing-innovative-solutions-world%E2%80%99s-energy-challengesHow much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Currently, most lithium is extracted from hard ... is more material-intensive than producing traditional combustion engines, and the demand for battery ... materials is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteriesCreating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way
Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, vice president of robotics research at TRI, ... Neural networks have made a seismic impact on how engineers design controllers for robots, ... engineering and computer science (EECS) PhD student and CSAIL affiliate who is a co-lead author of a new paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-and-verifying-stable-ai-controlled-systems-rigorous-and-flexible-wayOn a quest for a better football helmet
an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ... “I’m currently the only engineer at LIGHT, so I wear a lot of different hats,” Brush says. A safer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-better-football-helmetFive with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025
2025 are: Christopher S. Chen SM ’93, PhD ’97, an alumnus of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Nicole Pham Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her ... Engineering; and a recipient of the ACM Computing Prize. Additional MIT alumni who were elected to the NAM for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2025Kodiak Brush
an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ... “I’m currently the only engineer at LIGHT, so I wear a lot of different hats,” Brush says. A safer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/kodiak-brushTalking Shop: Professor Steven Dubowsky
Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and serves as director of ... Alissa Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering orange International dubowsky@mit.edu ... clean water systems for challenging field environments. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-steven-dubowskyBuilding nursery 2.0
the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, the trio (now including Madden) ... seeing where the trends were, where we had errors, and refining it from there.” Darling — a mechanical ... engineering graduate who splits the company’s “tinkering” duties with Lipoma — says this form of rapid, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20Mobius App Released to Empower MIT Maker Community
entrepreneurial projects. Rebecca Li, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, notes that students often have ... alumnus, professor of mechanical engineering, and the recently appointed MIT “Maker Czar.” He acknowledges ... prototyping equipment, or instrumentation. These tools are essential for engineering and for obtaining and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobius-app-released-empower-mit-maker-communityTwo-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
mechanical engineering at MIT. More than motion Previously, Kim and Ramos built the two-legged robot HERMES ... a heavy obstacle or break through a locked door. Engineers are making strides on the design of four-legged ... engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumping