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Could carbon monoxide foam help fight inflammation?

Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Wednesday, June 29, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News ... Deaconess; and Hannah Boyce, a research engineer at Brigham and Women’s. Delivery by foam Since the late ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-carbon-monoxide-foam-help-fight-inflammation

Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing

2020, team members, led by mechanical engineering professor Ellen Roche, developed a “biorobotic hybrid ... hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/custom-3d-printed-heart-replicas-look-and-pump-just-real-thing

LEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow

  Thursday, March 27, 2025 Maeve Rich | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal The LEGO Group COO ... of building and mechanics while playing with the familiar plastic bricks. In just a few hours, a heap ... engineering, and sales and operations planning. “The way we can inspire the builders of tomorrow is basically, ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lego-group-coo-discusses-production-network-enables-builders-tomorrow

A technique for more effective multipurpose robots

on PoCo.       Wang’s coauthors include Jialiang Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate student; ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of CSAIL. The research will be ... Wang, an electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) graduate student and lead author of a paper ...

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Electrifying boilers to decarbonize industry

ultimately completed a dual master’s degree by adding mechanical engineering to his studies. “I was ... change.” Stark stayed at MIT to earn his PhD in mechanical engineering, studying thermochemical biofuels. ... colleague Ashwin Salvi. The team officially founded AtmosZero in 2022. “The compressor is the engine of the ...

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How MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer

Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and a member of MIT’s governance team on manufacturing ... fit-out.” Culpepper met with Tasker Smith, technical instructor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... MIT-Medical-Trailer-1024.jpg A team of engineers, architects, medical workers, and facilities experts has built a 60-foot ...

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A simpler method for learning to control a robot

in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Marco Pavone, associate professor of ... such a system is simple enough, engineers can derive a controller by hand.  Modeling a system by hand ...

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Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies

mechanical engineering; and Chao Liu, a postdoc in the Senseable City Lab at MIT.  The research was supported ... intriguing part isn’t the mechanical design or embedded sensors — in fact, the hand contains none. Instead, ... engineering and computer science, CSAIL affiliate, and lead researcher on the work. “Today, many robotics ...

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Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT

the MIT campus on Sept. 29. Wright earned a BS in mechanical engineering and spent two and a half ... research. After earning his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, Wright entered into graduate ... years pursuing graduate studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secretary-energy-chris-wright-%E2%80%9985-visits-mit

Cells get ready for their close-up

professor of mechanical engineering and biological engineering who is senior author of the new paper. “We ... engineering and bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology, says the new system is “a very ...

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MIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award

a senior at MIT studying mechanical engineering, was named as the 2018 winner. “Even after 12 years, I am ... in Ghana. He uses his engineering skills to help others as well, working to develop prosthetic ... electrical engineering; Noam Watt, of Lexington, Massachusetts, who is currently finishing his senior year at ...

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Advocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill

Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The absence of the OTA compromises the ability of Congress to govern. ... Biological Engineering, who was motivated to participate by the NSF funding that enabled her to train in ... Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day 2019. ...

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Tissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s

Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ... Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... project several years ago, along with researchers at MGH who had engineered neurons to produce large ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tissue-model-reveals-role-blood-brain-barrier-alzheimer%E2%80%99s

Alumni Profile: RJ Scaringe SM ’07, PhD ‘09

sustainability.   Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low emissions. “RJ was a low key but ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-rj-scaringe-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9809

RJ Scaringe

promoting sustainability.   Mary Beth Gallagher Department of Mechanical Engineering Tuesday, April 28, 2020 ... limit of homogeneous charge compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low ...

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Controlling bubble formation on electrodes

mechanical engineering at MIT, says that “what’s really exciting is that as the technology of water splitting ... continues to develop, the field’s focus is expanding beyond designing catalyst materials to engineering mass ... MIT engineers, including Professor Evelyn Wang, Associate Professor Betar Gallant, and grad student ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-bubble-formation-electrodes

Supporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout with extra-strength glass

Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... drawn to the MIT LGO program because it covered three main areas: engineering and technology ... Engineering while participating in an immersive, six-month research fellowship at partner organizations, ...

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Mark Kurz

Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... drawn to the MIT LGO program because it covered three main areas: engineering and technology ... Engineering while participating in an immersive, six-month research fellowship at partner organizations, ...

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Unlocking new science with devices that control electric power

engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... directly with Langer on a totally different problem in biomedical engineering. In Langer's famously ...

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Two from MIT named 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars

a BS in mechanical engineering and a minor in biology. At Cambridge, she will pursue an MPhil in ... engineering, researching medical devices used in pre-hospital trauma systems in low- and middle-income ... an MPhil in engineering at Cambridge University in the U.K. ...

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