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Using light to propel water
A new system developed by engineers at MIT could make it possible to control the way water moves ... developed by MIT engineers could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only ... Communications, was developed by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-light-propel-waterFast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
rather stiff. MIT-Cell-Moves 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical ... microscopes and optical tweezers, which make direct, invasive contact with the cells. Now MIT engineers have ... Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This technique really opens a door so that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-noninvasive-technique-probing-cells-may-reveal-diseaseRapid rovers, speedy sands: fast-tracking terrain interaction modeling
arbitrarily shaped objects moving through granular media. 264105_web1024.jpg Engineers and physicists from MIT ... rovers," notes Ken Kamrin, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and the ... Shashank Agarwal (also of Mechanical Engineering at MIT) in collaboration with Daniel Goldman, Dunn Family ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rapid-rovers-speedy-sands-fast-tracking-terrain-interaction-modelingNew plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Thursday, February 10, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new ... they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminumGiving robots a sense of touch
electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and is now a postdoc at the University of California at ... Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... sensors on the grippers of robotic arms, two MIT teams have given robots greater sensitivity and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchGuardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
engineering at MIT, and the two robot enthusiasts became lifelong friends. “When Charles came to MIT, he ... to one day apply to MIT and do my engineering undergrad or go to the Sloan School of Management. I’ll ... MIT-Guardian-Ag-01-press_1024x768.jpg Guardian Ag is offering an alternative in the form of a large, purpose-built drone that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsAn Eye for Design
freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which people formulate ideas ... products’ success. MIT-maria-yang 1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark “People’s strategies are so fascinating,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designStudy finds cells take out the trash before they divide
senior author of the paper, which appears today in eLife. MIT biological engineering undergraduates Kevin ... MIT researchers have discovered that before cells start to divide, they do a little cleanup, ... functional contents,” says Teemu Miettinen, an MIT research scientist and the lead author of the new study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cells-take-out-trash-they-divideAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
weeks. MIT_Underwater-Adhesives-01-press_0_1024x683.jpg MIT engineers have devised a novel adhesive ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member of ... research was funded, in part, by the Gates Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterBio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ... of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior ... Nature Biomedical Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Hyunwoo Yuk and postdoc Jingjing Wu are the lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quicklyMechE student named a Rhodes Scholar
engineering senior Matthew Chun and biology and literature double major Mary Clare Beytagh were selected this ... MIT bring to 51 the total number of MIT winners honored since the scholarship was first awarded to ... Americans in 1904. The MIT students were supported by MIT’s Office of Distinguished Fellowships and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-student-named-rhodes-scholarThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely measure and map such ... MIT-Touchy-Glove-02-PRESS.jpg An MIT team of engineers has designed a new touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other ... tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuliDrug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... National Science Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugsAlumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alum Prakash ... when he received a fellowship from the Legatum Center at MIT to develop a technology-based business in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-123Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ... engineers, Frankel is also a consultant to the MIT News Office. She spoke with MIT News about some of the ... scientist at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a new book that describes ways for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceWilhem Hector
Inspired by MIT’s hands-on approach to learning, Junior MechE student Wilhem Hector spent the ... experience motivated him to work on a project to foster hands-on education for aspiring young engineers back ... “Project Manus,” after MIT’s motto: Mens et Manus, Latin for mind and hand. “For the past 17 months, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/wilhem-hectorOutside-the-Box Thinker
a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... it himself, of course. At age 13, Nathan Spielberg — now an MIT senior — began building his first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerPaper-folding art inspires better bandages
kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Adhesion from an art form In August 2016, Ruike and her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesPeeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ... of mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle. MIT-Butterfly-Growth-1024.jpg Larger, overlapping scales in ... scales,” says lead author Anthony McDougal, a research assistant in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scalesMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ... road with. MIT-Heng-Yang-1024.jpg Safety concerns have clouded the future of fully autonomous vehicles. ... To accelerate their progress, MIT graduate student Heng “Hank” Yang and colleagues have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perception