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Novel 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 ...

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Need 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, ...

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AI 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 ...

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“Robot, make me a chair”

Gupta, an MIT architecture graduate student; Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... an effort to make design faster and more accessible for non-experts, researchers from MIT and ... toward enabling that future,” says lead author Alex Kyaw, a graduate student in the MIT departments of ...

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A 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 ...

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Oobleck’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 ...

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Alumni 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 ...

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Danielle 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 ...

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A new way to make steel could reduce America’s reliance on imports

lab of Gang Chen, MIT’s Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. She studied thermal ... entrepreneurship when she explored commercializing some of that research. Meroueh received a grant from the MIT ... experience taught Meroueh a lot about startups, but she ultimately decided to stay at MIT to pursue her PhD ...

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Alumni 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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“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles

associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ... MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered ... nimbly “feels” its way through its surroundings in a way that engineers describe as “blind locomotion,” ...

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Competing Mechanisms Influence Tumor Cell Migration

Singapore Research Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and Mechanical Engineering ... December 5, 2011 sadlers gray rdkamm@mit.edu ...

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Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer

Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ... began far from muddy trails and snow-capped mountains. Safely within the halls of MIT, Christian was ...

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Yo-yos offer a first foray into manufacturing at scale

Each semester, the machine shop in MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity churns out ... complete with rotating lightsabers. These yo-yos are the creation of mechanical engineering students in ... While a yo-yo might seem like an unusual choice for an engineering class, according to John Hart, ...

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Alumni Spotlight: LiquiGlide

physical chemistry and fluid mechanics to recognize which chemical properties the solid and liquid need to ...

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