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Protecting maternal health in Rwanda
PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ... a new MIT student from Rwanda and would later join Fletcher’s team at MIT. With Fletcher’s mentorship, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-maternal-health-rwandaRobo-picker grasps and packs
stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ... Mathworks, and Amazon. Sunday, February 18, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robo-picker-grasps-and-packsModel could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ... ’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As the country battles a winter wave of new infections, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadUnderstanding and treating disease
Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. “Rather than ... conducting represents just one example of how mechanical engineering researchers across a diverse range of ... of prosthetic feet or building cheaper wheelchairs, mechanical engineers are finding ways to improve ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-and-treating-diseaseAlumni Spotlight: Helen Greiner (SB ’89, SM ’90)
in the movie, R2-D2, stole Greiner’s heart and inspired her to apply to MIT to learn how to build ... Rodney Brooks, former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ... conjunction with US News & World Report and Innovator for the Next Century by MIT Technology Review. She ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-helen-greiner-sb-%E2%80%9989-sm-%E2%80%9990Building a better indoor herb garden
Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-better-indoor-herb-gardenStudent Spotlight: John Lewandowski (PhD Candidate)
says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design a device that was very sensitive but also very costly, or ... engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and studied biology as an ... effects.” It was Lewandowski’s engineering frame of mind brought to bear on his biological knowledge that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-john-lewandowski-phd-candidateSoft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devices
Researchers from the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT; the National ... engineering at NUI Galway and former researcher in the Roche and Duffy labs at MIT and NUI Galway, says “We ... Engineering, and W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering Ellen Roche, the senior ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robotics-breakthrough-manages-immune-response-implanted-devicesMeet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows
Accenture Fellows advance technology at the crossroads of business and society The MIT and ... collaborate to spur technological innovation. Through its partnership with the School of Engineering ... business, and technology. Michelle Vaccaro is a PhD candidate in social engineering systems whose research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-2023-24-accenture-fellowsIngestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, ... Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Zhao and senior collaborator Giovanni ... Traverso, a visiting scientist who will join the MIT faculty in 2019, along with lead authors Xinyue Liu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-expanding-pill-monitors-stomach-monthA 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
production of specialized parts. Now Inkbit, a startup out of MIT, is working to bring all of the benefits of ... Wojciech Matusik, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Javier Ramos BS ... printing, and the following year the four engineers received support from the Deshpande Center to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printer-powered-machine-vision-and-artificial-intelligenceModel quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ... studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... engineering, Dandekar has spent the past few months developing the model as part of the final project in class ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-quantifies-impact-quarantine-measures-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadNovel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surface
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “There’s a lot of controversy, and there’s no easy way ... Karnik and his colleagues — Jongho Lee, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Tahar ... Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM. Sunday, March 16, 2014 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/novel-membrane-reveals-water-molecules-will-bounce-liquid-surfaceNeed a water filter? Peel a tree branch
fact, an MIT team has discovered that this low-tech filtration system can produce up to four liters of ... blocking most types of bacteria. Co-author Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... at MIT, says sapwood is a promising, low-cost, and efficient material for water filtration, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-water-filter-peel-tree-branchAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ... Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesA cool new way to study gravity
Shin, a PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). “The key to answering ... 08_1024x768.jpg Dongchel Shin, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a new paper that ... Department of Mechanical Engineering include Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cool-new-way-study-gravityOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... engineering at MIT. “But it turns out the rules that govern how this material flows are very nuanced.” Kamrin, ... into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictableAlumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)
degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... of our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-danielle-zurovcik-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9811Danielle Zurovcik
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/danielle-zurovcikAlumni Spotlight: Thomas Ober, SM ‘10, PhD ‘13
a computational fluid dynamics engineer at Haas Formula 1 during his job search, it quickly rose to the top of his ... in North Carolina. As a computational fluid dynamics engineer on a racing team, Ober combines his ... experience here. I work in a fairly small group of eight or 10 engineers. We are all working on our own small ...
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