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Microfluidics 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-surfacesPreview tool helps makers visualize 3D-printed objects
Mueller, an associate professor of EECS and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and a member of CSAIL. The ... waste time, effort, and material. MIT researchers developed an easy-to-use tool that generates an ... envision how a fabricated object will look, researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed an easy-to-use ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/preview-tool-helps-makers-visualize-3d-printed-objectsAlumni 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-bacteriaTeaching robots how to move objects
engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ... undergraduate career. She studied mathematics and engineering physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsMembrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis
basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ... Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have found that a biological membrane ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/membrane-around-tumors-may-be-key-preventing-metastasisTurning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula
mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that can transform ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This could help us to make large, kirigami-like façades that ... structures in nature, architecture, and more. Scientists and engineers have also taken inspiration from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-circle-square-possible-kirigami-inspired-formulaHear from our Students
Burn Yo-Yo Champion Hacking for Lilly The Magic of Making Water is Life We Are MechE at MIT Designing ... Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing MIT Hyperloop A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students How to Succeed at MIT Living ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hear-our-studentsStudent Spotlight: Paul Lazarescu
A Modern-Day Inventor by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman As ... other. Lazarescu and current MechE undergraduate Rachel Dias Carlson had received funding from the MIT ... currently in orbit. Although he loves engineering, Lazarescu has also nurtured an interest in business ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-paul-lazarescuMagnetic mixer improves 3D bioprinting
Development Professor of Tissue Engineering and assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the study. “If we can print tissues that more closely mimic ... engineered tissues for applications in human health including disease modeling, drug screening, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-mixer-improves-3d-bioprintingTalking Shop: Kripa Varanasi
condense within these textures either – similarly with frost. When I came to MIT as an assistant professor ... MIT $100K Competition and the subsequent media frenzy over LiquiGlide – we realized that it’s a great ... MIT is a great place for innovation and commercialization. The entrepreneurial ecosystem here is ...
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