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Reducing 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-huA bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Council of Canada, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the ... clouds, researchers from MIT and Novo Nordisk have developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractDeep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell
splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a way to ... engineering at MIT. “By accurately modeling this early period, we can start to uncover how local cell ... Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; George Roy and Tomer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-model-predicts-how-fruit-flies-form-cell-cellA simpler method for learning to control a robot
in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Marco Pavone, associate professor of ... Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simpler-method-learning-control-robotHow to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed
the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... consequences. To help prevent such mistakes, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab developed ... at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab; and Shervin Ardeshir, a senior research scientist at Netflix. The paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-general-purpose-ai-model%E2%80%99s-reliability-it%E2%80%99s-deployedNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... which is the basis for a startup company called Infinite Cooling that last month won MIT’s $100K ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsNew 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste
Researchers from MIT and Delft University of Technology have now introduced a more efficient, less wasteful, ... Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at ... MIT and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Doğan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3d-printing-technique-creates-unique-objects-quickly-and-less-wasteChisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert ... genomic level to its role in the global biosphere. Langer, a biomedical engineer who focuses on ... engineering, where his discoveries led to the creation of new tissues such as artificial skin for burn victims. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/chisholm-langer-receive-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-honors-scientists-and-inventorsOcean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ... and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-ice