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Tackling poverty, one person at a time
MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the Pappalardo Lab, for the past two years, where she has served as ... success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, but anyone.” Oxford and beyond When Tress ... When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-timeCoatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces
Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Sahab Babaee is the lead author of the paper, along with Simo Pajovic, an ... research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesLet your car tell you what it needs
Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT; and two others. A smartphone app combining ... the car’s left front tire needs air, its air filter should be replaced next week, and its engine needs ... accelerometers. MIT-Car-Diagnostics-1024.jpg A new smartphone app analyzes a car’s sounds and vibrations, as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needsHacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni
Amarasiriwardena says. But when he started studying chemistry and biological engineering at MIT, and was biking ... heat-trapping sleeping bags, and performance dress shirts. MIT-Ministry-3(1).JPG The Apollo dress shirt, based ... co-found, with other MIT clothing tinkerers, Ministry of Supply, a Boston-based innovator of high-tech ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-apparel-becomes-lucrative-business-alumniStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
anxiety associated with needles, some patients stop adhering to these treatments. MIT spinout Portal ... patient adherence. MIT-Portal-Instruments-1024.jpg Based on research by Ian Hunter, the George N. ... Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT, Portal Instruments developed a jet-injection device that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealA Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee
prosthetics, at a fraction of the cost. MIT-Prosthetic-Knee-4-1024.jpg A prototype of the prosthetic knee ... going after this disruptive opportunity,” says Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... at MIT. “If we can make a knee that delivers similar performance to a $50,000 knee for a few hundred ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-high-performance-prosthetic-kneeD-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries
MIT D-Lab students and instructors are improving the efficacy and economics of a brooder ... the MIT D-Lab class 2.652/EC.712 (Applications of Energy in Global Development), with mentors and ... CDAS-BC), and an intern. Photo courtesy of MIT D-Lab. Developed through participatory design with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/d-lab-grid-brooder-saves-chicks-and-money-using-locally-manufactured-thermal-batteriesTalking Shop: Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy
a senior research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can design smart ... powered by wind and the wind does not blow? What’s the best course of action if a bird hits a plane engine ... Annaswamy serves as the Director of MIT’s Active Adaptive Control Laboratory. A world leading expert in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-dr-anuradha-annaswamyCaroline Sorensen
MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) are plasma physicists and nuclear engineering researchers, ... says Dennis Whyte, the director of PSFC and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at MIT. “We ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensenResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ... Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship ... says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsNick Schwartz
and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t ... of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... 7. “The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can change people’s lives for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzA new way to irrigate crops year-round
lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ... co-founder who is no longer with the company), who were classmates in of hers in 2.760 (Global Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundSarah Tress
art.” Tress has been an undergraduate apprentice in MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the ... Tress says. “I want to show that the face of success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, ... studies. She has a firm foundation in engineering from her time at MIT and wants to spend the next few ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sarah-tressTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso
engineering at MIT, he serves as a physician at BWH. In July, you published findings on a reusable face mask ... As both a biomedical engineer and physician, Giovanni Traverso is uniquely positioned to tackle ... MGH, and MIT, and Adam Wentworth of BWH and MIT, who have been leading these studies, was could we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-giovanni-traversoLight-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post trauma
professor and d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT ... students in her lab (Photo: Tony Pulsone, MIT MechE) “We engineer optogenetic muscle grafts that contract ... tissue engineering, but many previous studies have focused on creating replacement tissue in the lab, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-traumaTackling the world’s challenges in the field
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) — MIT’s pioneering international ... education program — asked the 700-plus students who studied and worked abroad this summer to submit photos ... and short videos showcasing the ways in which MIT is making the world a better place through the MISTI ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-world%E2%80%99s-challenges-fieldDesigning cleaner vehicles
arenas: designing clean energy vehicles and enhancing mechanical engineering education at MIT. For the ... intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering. MIT-Aditya Mehrotra-01-press_0-1.jpg: MIT graduate ... and help them build. I knew of MIT as one of the best mechanical engineering departments in the world. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesTalking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson
engineering. Over the course of six decades, Wilson’s career has been peppered with many achievements, ... including inventing the progressive fee-plus-rebate policy in 1973 and designing jet engines. But wherever ... premiere authority on bicycle design and MIT Press’s best selling book, he was recently invited to work on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilsonTechnique quickly identifies extreme event statistics
research by MIT scientists may help engineers design more resilient offshore platforms. Courtesy of the ... researchers Now engineers at MIT have developed an algorithm that quickly pinpoints the types of extreme ... structure,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You can ...
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