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Engineers design sutures that can deliver drugs or sense inflammation
mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of ... Trust, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the National Research Foundation of Korea, and ... Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-sutures-can-deliver-drugs-or-sense-inflammationMIT engineers find a way to protect microbes from extreme conditions
applications, or agricultural uses,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... Institute for Space Health, Space Center Houston, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and by 711 ... is now an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, is the lead author of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-find-way-protect-microbes-extreme-conditionsEngineers design artificial synapse for “brain-on-a-chip” hardware
departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and a principal investigator in ... engineers at MIT have designed an artificial synapse in such a way that they can precisely control the ... through which ions can travel — a bit like Pachinko, a mechanical arcade game that funnels small steel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-artificial-synapse-%E2%80%9Cbrain-chip%E2%80%9D-hardwareMIT engineers build smart power outlet
scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the smart power outlet is able to connect to ... and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at ... detectors, according to a team of MIT engineers, is that they often err on the side of being overly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-build-smart-power-outletCollaborating for irrigation access solutions: Where policy and engineering meet
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and one in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning ... Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, are using an ... was unaware of the other’s efforts, J-WAFS was able to engineer a research exchange in order to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaborating-irrigation-access-solutions-where-policy-and-engineering-meetEngineering fantasy into reality
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/news-media/engineering-fantasy-realityMIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Imagine creating thousands of these inexpensive RFID tag ... of Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT. The researchers presented their ... Auto-ID Lab at MIT has long been at the forefront of developing RFID technology. Now engineers in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-configure-rfid-tags-work-sensorsTechnology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves
Rufer, and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. A recent study found that if farmers ... every leaf, combined with our expertise in interfacial science and fluid mechanics, is giving us ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technology-developed-mit-engineers-makes-pesticides-stick-plant-leavesTurning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels
MIT to study mechanical engineering as a graduate student in 2004, when he worked in the Sloan ... approach to processing methane by repurposing automotive engines to serve as modular, cost-effective ... engines and eliminating the need to invest in infrastructure like pipelines, the company says it’s making ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-automotive-engines-modular-chemical-plants-make-green-fuelsMIT engineers design a soft, implantable ventilator
Ellen Roche, associate professor of mechanical engineering and a member of the Institute for Medical ... which stimulates the diaphragm to contract. A new proof-of-concept design by MIT engineers aims to one ... Engineering and Science at MIT. “The biomechanics of this design are closer to normal breathing, versus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-soft-implantable-ventilatorMIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection
mechanical engineering and SWE member. A new outreach venture the group has tackled this semester has ... Society of Women Engineers (SWE), one of the largest student organizations on campus with over 400 ... engineering and MIT SWE co-president. “It just shows the impact that this organization has had and how much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-society-women-engineers%E2%80%99-journey-virtual-connectionEngineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves
says study author Themis Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and an ... predict. Now, MIT engineers have found a new way to model how waves break. The team used machine learning ... predict wave behavior. Engineers typically rely on such equations to help them design resilient offshore ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-use-artificial-intelligence-capture-complexity-breaking-wavesEngineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, Stanford professor of materials ... science and engineering Reinhold Dauskardt, recent MIT research assistant Zhe Liu, Stanford doctoral ... groups have the simultaneous expertise in engineering and computation to drive such advances.” Sargent ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-enlist-ai-help-scale-advanced-solar-cell-manufacturingSchool of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards for winter 2025
assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), received a 2024 National Science ... Engineering periodically highlights the honors, prizes, and medals won by community members working in ... the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Professor in Naval Engineering and Utilization and an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-faculty-and-staff-receive-awards-winter-2025MIT School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards in summer 2025
Each year, faculty and researchers across the MIT School of Engineering are recognized with ... of the MIT School of Engineering faculty received awards in summer 2025. Credit: Emily Dahl Iwnetim ... Science and Engineering, was honored as one of MIT Technology Review ’s 2025 Innovators Under 35. He was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-school-engineering-faculty-and-staff-receive-awards-summer-2025Artificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce storm damage
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If waves are 6 meters high coming toward this reef ... coastlines with “architected” reefs — sustainable, offshore structures engineered to mimic the wave-buffering ... design centers on a cylindrical structure surrounded by four rudder-like slats. The engineers found that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-reef-designed-mit-engineers-could-protect-marine-life-reduce-storm-damageMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Institute, and Yunguang Zhu in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The work was supported by the MIT ... the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Capacitors are in principle very simple ... Damian Stefaniuk at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, James Weaver at the Wyss ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsMIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
demand,” says the study’s senior author, Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and civil and ... MIT-Ultrasound-sticker-1024.jpg MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The ... available only in hospitals and doctor’s offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-stickers-can-see-inside-bodyEngineers grow pancreatic “organoids” that mimic the real thing
Professor of Teaching Innovation and a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering. “The ... MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have ... Researchers “The issue of reproducibility is a major one,” says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-grow-pancreatic-%E2%80%9Corganoids%E2%80%9D-mimic-real-thingMIT engineers grow “perfect” atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We’ve unlocked a way to catch up to Moore’s Law using ... first find a way to engineer the materials on industry-standard silicon wafers while preserving their ... perfect crystalline form. And MIT engineers may now have a solution. The team has developed a method that ...
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