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Basketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Data return Across the sports world, data analysts have grown in number and ... according to a new study by MIT researchers, there’s one member who consistently boosts their team’s ... performance: the data analyst. An MIT basketball player dribbles during a game. Credit: MIT DAPER The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and ... MIT’s Nicholas Fang; former postdoc Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
fronts,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist ... Tassel (1925) Career Development Professorship, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the ... from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently set out to answer that question. In a study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowExploring growth within a confined space
a research team led by Tal Cohen, MIT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of ... confinement. Photo: moonimage/Flickr Now, MIT and Yale University researchers have developed a theoretical framework ... mechanical engineering, grew cholera bacteria inside a soft gel, observing the architecture of the expanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-growth-within-confined-spaceStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
lasso of truth. Batman has his suit. On Monday evening, teams of mechanical engineering students ... 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), have spent the semester developing and designing a product ... presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersUntangling How Cables Coil
can significantly slow telecommunications around the world. Now engineers at MIT, along with computer ... theoretical analyses. In the lab, MIT engineers set up a desktop system to spool spaghetti-like cables onto ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “We have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-how-cables-coil2.75: Precision Machine Design
part of a mechanical engineer’s education? Isn’t the science enough? “At MIT, we teach really great ... Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue Collaboration Education Maker slocum@mit ... students through this process since 2004, when he founded the class on the famous MIT credo “mens et ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/275-precision-machine-designVine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake around ... says Kentaro Barhydt, a PhD candidate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This kind of ... Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Allison Okamura, the Richard W. Weiland Professor of Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vine-inspired-robotic-gripper-gently-lifts-heavy-and-fragile-objectsMicrofluidics and nanofluidics research address global challenges
Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, addresses real-world ... July 22, 2014 John Freidah | Mechanical engineering green International karnik@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-and-nanofluidics-research-address-global-challengesUnder the sea
the sea. Yet when ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of ... oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major, will take charge of marine ... remaining a full-time MIT student. “Hopefully we’ll resurface before final exams,” she says with a smile. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesBatch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach
mechanical engineers, PhD candidate Emily Tow and postdoc David Warsinger, and also includes MIT PhD student ... water is energy-intensive. A team of MIT researchers has responded by creating new designs for reverse ... could substantially reduce the energy use of future desalination systems. The team is co-led by two MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batch-desalination-configuration-bests-standard-reverse-osmosis-approachIngestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ... tract. Traverso is one of the senior authors of the study, along with Robert Langer, an MIT Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-electronic-device-detects-breathing-depression-patientsResearch update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces
Researchers at MIT have followed up on their discovery that droplets of water acquire an electric ... reported in the journal ACS Nano by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical ... engineering Evelyn Wang, graduate student Daniel Preston, and former postdoc Ryan Enright. The finding could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-update-electric-fields-can-push-droplets-surfacesAlumni Spotlight: Professor David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ’06)
Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ... David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology at Georgia Institute of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-david-hu-sb-%E2%80%9901-phd-%E2%80%9906Illuminating a complex disease
Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ... infertility, but very little is known about how it arises. In 2009, biological engineer Linda Griffith launched ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illuminating-complex-diseaseWearable system helps visually impaired users navigate
engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ... tables or chairs, or determine whether a chair is already occupied. Researchers from MIT’s Computer ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; his fellow first author Hsueh-Cheng Wang, who was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wearable-system-helps-visually-impaired-users-navigateMicroscope system sharpens scientists’ view of neural circuit connections
images fuzzy. In an open access paper in Scientific Reports, a collaboration of MIT engineers and ... of mechanical engineering and biological engineering at MIT. Newer single-line and the mosTF systems ... that have been engineered to fluoresce when stimulated. The new system proved in the team’s tests to be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microscope-system-sharpens-scientists%E2%80%99-view-neural-circuit-connectionsNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... such detections possible in real time, according to a team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital ... Engineering. With this method, that’s essentially what you get: In a process the team calls “inertio-elastic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsSeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... — a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteria