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Pitching transformative design
class 22.033 (Nuclear Science and Engineering Design), “We’re pretty nervous,” said Jared Wilson, a senior ... a commercially viable way through the application of nuclear science and engineering. Guided by class instructor ... Zachary Hartwig, the John C. Hardwick Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, three teams ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pitching-transformative-designA new way to detect leaks in pipes
mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. “We’ve proved that the concept works.” ... pipes, and should be effective in gas, water, and oil pipes. MIT mechanical engineering professor Kamal ... altogether. Now researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-detect-leaks-pipesAlumni Spotlight: Professor Woodie Flowers (SM ‘68, MEng ‘71, PhD ‘73)
Flowers breathed new life into the MIT way of teaching engineering by doing, a reinvigoration at the right ... engineering is all about having fun. But it wasn’t always that way. As a high school student from a poor ... convictions led him to become a major force in the transformation of mechanical engineering education. Having ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-woodie-flowers-sm-%E2%80%9868-meng-%E2%80%9871-phd-%E2%80%9873Guided discovery in teaching structural mechanics
Over the course of their education at MIT, mechanical engineering undergraduate students have many ... MIT AeroAstro, where some of these same discoveries are used in class 16.001 (Unified Engineering ... mechanics. Class 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I) provides mechanical engineering students the foundation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guided-discovery-teaching-structural-mechanicsNoninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue
Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering; and other MIT colleagues. The research appears today ... the resolution of captured images. Now, MIT researchers have developed a new technique that more than ... well-suited for demanding imaging applications like cancer research, tissue engineering, drug discovery, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-method-can-penetrate-deeper-living-tissueWeighing particles at the attogram scale
MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ... demonstrate the device’s usefulness in analyzing engineered nanoparticles, the MIT team weighed nanoparticles ... function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scaleCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ... A study from MIT now shows that tumor cells become much softer as they undergo this process. The findings ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... companies to further develop them. The research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Giovanni Traverso are working on an app that identifies and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentAging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, will explore whether Alzheimer’s pathology is driven by ... expertise to join the field, MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) this month awarded five seed grants after ... a competition among labs across the Institute. Founded in 2015 by nine MIT faculty members, the ABI promotes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aging-brain-initiative-awards-fund-five-new-ideas-study-fight-neurodegenerationLight-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post-trauma
Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT collaborators aims to restore ... engineering, but many previous studies have focused on creating replacement tissue in the lab, implanting it in ... the body, and then passively letting the patient’s system integrate the implant. These lab-engineered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-trauma-0Inside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor
Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, says one of the major ... place. Exerpted from a story by Jennifer Chu. To read the whole story, visit MIT’s New Office: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inside-innards-nuclear-reactorBuie, Kim receive DARPA Young Faculty Award
autonomous control algorithms. Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Mechanical engineering green Culture crb@mit.edu ... Assistant Professors Cullen Buie and Sangbae Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/buie-kim-receive-darpa-young-faculty-awardThe Wonders of Thin Structures
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and ... Civil & Environmental Engineering, describes the research activity in his Elasticity, Geometry, ... & Statistics Laboratory at MIT. Reis' work focuses on the mechanics of large deformations of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wonders-thin-structures3D-printed revolving devices can sense how they are moving
are rotating. MIT engineers have now developed a way to easily integrate sensors into these types of ... associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical ... Engineering, and a member of CSAIL; as well as others at MIT and collaborators from Accenture Labs. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-revolving-devices-can-sense-how-they-are-movingThe best semiconductor of them all?
a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... computers. Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions has carried ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allFaculty Research: Professor Rohit Karnik
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “You could potentially buy a $5 or $10 kit and get the cells sorted without ... Photo Credits: MIT News Office by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Cell rolling is a common mechanism ... slowing down to help in the healing of inflamed areas. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-rohit-karnikMorphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... 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-lightCleaning Water Without the Grid
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, but he describes one of the most important aspects of his job as ... MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly ... “detective work.” That’s what he, MIT PhD candidate Natasha Wright, and their fellow researchers did for two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-water-without-gridFeatured video: Building a roller coaster
Every year during residence exploration week at MIT, or REX week, our undergraduate residence ... hopefully choose to join. So, how do you get the attention of first-year MIT students? At East Campus, you ... students who use them to customize their rooms. Video by: Melanie Gonick/MIT News | 3 min 21 sec Sunday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-building-roller-coaster