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Pushing through sand

mechanical engineering at MIT, says scientists have regarded granular RFT as “somewhat like magic,” unsure of ... they have identified a mechanical explanation for why the equation works so well for granular ... flows, to see whether the equation, and the mechanical relationships it defines, could also reproduce the ...

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How engineering students are seeking to solve major food and water security problems

villagers at a pilot site in Jharkhand, India. Simon, an MIT PhD candidate in mechanical engineering, is ... around the world. Kevin Patrick Simon, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering, lent the energy ... mechanical engineering, is taking a different approach to irrigation by making drip irrigation systems more ...

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School of Engineering second quarter 2019 awards

of Mechanical Engineering, awarded the Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research ... named U.S. Science Envoy on June 18, 2018. John Lienhard, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, ... recevied the Edward F. Obert Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on May 28. Nancy ...

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Revolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence

a faculty member of the MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. “At ... Department of Mechanical Engineering are creating new software that connects with hardware to create ... things are in need of repair. “We’re developing software for monitoring mechanical systems that’s ...

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Stretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body

Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... Liu and Hyunwoo Yuk, specializes in tuning the mechanical properties of hydrogels. The researchers ... mechanical properties of fibers are necessary and important next steps that will enable practical ...

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Not stuck on silicon

Kim, the Class of 1947 Career Development Assistant Professor in the departments of Mechanical ... science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared ... mechanical features. “We’ve had a strong belief in graphene, because it is a very robust, ultrathin, material ...

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Engineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor

wearable biosensors,” says Yanfei Xu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Our polymer ... Mechanical Engineering and the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. Stretching spaghetti If ... monomers are adsorbed and reacted, leveraging the unique self-templated growth mechanism of CVD ...

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Device that recycles vaporized water from power plants wins MIT $100K

Damak PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate and co-founder of Infinite Cooling, said in the ... requirements,” said co-founder and co-inventor Karim Khalil PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate. During ... professor of mechanical engineering and serial entrepreneur, told MIT News after the competition. Many ...

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Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch

Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... shape-shift or move about through a variety of mechanical means. For instance, hydrogel devices swell when ... of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, says the group’s design can enable a range of fast, ...

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Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... fibers that could be used as artificial muscles for robots, prosthetic limbs, or other mechanical and ... feedback mechanism could find applications in robotic systems where automated and precise control are ...

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Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels

survival rates could increase significantly,” says Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical ... Mechanical Engineering, describe their soft robotic design today in the journal Science Robotics. The paper’s ... small diameter, where commercial catheters can’t reach,” says Kyujin Cho, professor of mechanical ...

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Double-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures

mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study. ... MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo ... maintaining good adhesion and mechanical properties for several days without causing too much inflammatory ...

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How strong is your knot?

experienced the greatest stress or pressure. Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, was ... mechanics,” Dunkel says. “You don’t care about whether you have a stiff versus soft fiber — it’s the same knot ... mathematical modeling of knots that accounts for their mechanical properties, to be able to say why one knot is ...

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Sweat-proof “smart skin” takes reliable vitals, even during workouts and spicy meals

Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We can provide wearable sensors that can do ... researchers in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and the ... ultraviolet exposure, and mechanical strain. This sensor array is sandwiched between two thin protective ...

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This touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli

tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ... person wearing the sensors waved their hands as they walked across a room. “Pulse is a mechanical ... by the Joint Center for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech.. Wednesday, ...

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Dragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds

of Mechanical Engineering. “We also find that compensating for sleep could be an important strategy. ... mechanics of walking, in order to develop strategies and assistive robotics for patients who have suffered ... mechanics of walking and general motor control, mostly enlisting student volunteers in their experiments. ...

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The best semiconductor of them all?

a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... arsenide were initially predicted based on quantum mechanical density function calculations made by Chen’s ... boron nitride. “And now, we predicted the electron and hole quantum mechanical behavior, also from first ...

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