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Today's Annoyances, Tomorrow's Technology
engineering and civil and environmental engineering and recently named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant ... engineering problems. Pedro Miguel Reis 1024.jpg Photo: Len Rubenstein In the engineering world, material ... exploit apparent weaknesses in different realms. “In our lab we do science-enabled engineering coupled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/todays-annoyances-tomorrows-technologyStudent Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)
Under the Sea By Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman A house by ... ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living ... Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major who was recently awarded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-grace-young-sb-%E2%80%9814New method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... such follow-up experiments, to figure out “whether the effect can be exploited, in an engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsOrienteering for robots
student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ... Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ... his advisors, John Fisher, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT ... engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that ... Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsMethod may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ... blood could enable doctors to diagnose and track the progression of multiple myeloma. Now engineers at ... MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesA robot that senses hidden objects
been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, ... Kinetics Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her MIT co-authors include Adib, who is the director of the Signal ... Mechanical Engineering. Other co-authors include Junshan Leng, a research engineer at Harvard University, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-senses-hidden-objectsReducing the burden of tuberculosis treatment
Traverso, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at ... medical facilities. To help overcome that, a team of researchers led by MIT has devised a new way to ... Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, are the senior authors of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-burden-tuberculosis-treatmentTurning any room into an operating room
Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty research director of MIT’s D-Lab. Frey had been ... MIT.” Sunday, January 7, 2018 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, where she also received her bachelors, Miller connected with Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-any-room-operating-roomStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
emerge from chiral forces and building blocks. But that assumption may need some retuning. MIT engineers ... co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... which an object cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. 1024_Twisted-Liquid-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsMaking solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
year. From surgical robots to solar robots While majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, Hunter found ... with fellow MIT alumnus Max Justicz ’17. “We’re going from a very bespoke, hands on, manual ... plenty of excuses to build things. One such excuse was Course 2.009 (Produce Engineering Processes), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-solar-projects-cheaper-and-faster-portable-factoriesHow strong is your knot?
what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now. MIT ... mathematicians and engineers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how stable a knot is, based on ... whether a knot is strong or not,” says Jörn Dunkel, associate professor of mathematics at MIT. “With this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotNew purification method could make protein drugs cheaper
effort to help reduce those costs, MIT engineers have devised a new way to perform this kind of ... formation at low concentrations,” says Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and the ... 27, 2023 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A team of engineers led by Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-purification-method-could-make-protein-drugs-cheaperAlumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
On a Friday in mid-November, recent mechanical engineering alumna Elizabeth Bianchini ’18 found ... Inventors Competition last month for Rhino, a product first developed in 2.009 (Product Engineering ... class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). The team’s win at the CIC was the culmination of over ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-team-tops-collegiate-inventors-competitionUnlocking new science with devices that control electric power
engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... directly with Langer on a totally different problem in biomedical engineering. In Langer's famously ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-new-science-devices-control-electric-powerMechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US
designed for US and European markets. Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT), an MIT MechE ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering to create a wheelchair that fits the needs of people with ... drivetrain as needed, based on the environment. Some engineers may consider the restrictive parameters ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-spinoff-launches-all-terrain-wheelchair-usTalking Shop with Professor David Gossard
Department of Mechanical Engineering since he earned his PhD here in 1975, having previously earned his ... bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. He began his tenure in the ... computer science and its intersection with mechanical engineering. His research activities included solid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-david-gossardDavid Hu
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 ... This is a question that David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology ...
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