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T.K. Pillan
wellness. T.K. Pillan ’90, a mechanical engineering major while at MIT, now runs the largest ... a degree in mechanical engineering, he decided to start a business that helped to tackle health and ... the Slice of MIT blog. Communications Department Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Alumni Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/tk-pillanIn the World: Remote Mexican Village Uses Solar Power to Purify Water
engineering at MIT, says the case study in La Mancalona demonstrates that with careful design and proper ... System developed at MIT proves practical for remote communities. Deep in the jungles of the ... subsistence farmers, have operated and maintained a solar-powered water purification system engineered by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/world-remote-mexican-village-uses-solar-power-purify-waterDriving a human-machine collaboration
Guardian, is being refined at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where MIT Professor John Leonard is ... helping steer the group’s work, while on leave from MIT. At the MIT Mobility Forum on Friday, Leonard and ... MIT-Human-Centered-Drive-01-press_0.jpg At the MIT Mobility Forum, John Leonard, left, and Avinash Balachandran suggested that instead of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-human-machine-collaborationA new strategy for choosing cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... become resistant. In a new approach to devising more personalized treatments, researchers at MIT and ... cells, based on how it affects their growth rates. MIT-Cancer-Cell-Mass.jpg Researchers have developed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-strategy-choosing-cancer-drugsInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
Infinite Cooling, an energy startup founded at MIT, pitched its business plan to a panel of energy ... wins-DOE-CleanTech-UP-MIT-1024.jpg Left to right: Infinite Cooling researchers graduate student Karim Khalil, associate professor of ... mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and graduate student Maher Damak. Photo: Alexi Taylor Ko Infinite ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competitionTechnique could boost resolution of tissue imaging as much as tenfold
a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT and first author of the paper. In 2007, researchers first ... an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the ... scattering, but it also reduces imaging resolution. MIT-Subcutaneous-Superresolution-1024.jpg MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-could-boost-resolution-tissue-imaging-much-tenfoldSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ... in MIT’s mechanical engineering department who is the first author on the paper, designed a system ... MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsA measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind
engineering) at MIT, co-founded Squirrel Devices to tackle this problem. Their first instrument aims to make ... lengths without seeing the measurements? MIT graduate students Pranay Jain and Anshul Singhal asked these ... because content becomes unavailable and the laboratory becomes inaccessible. squirrel-device-mit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measurable-improvement-stem-access-blindWorking out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle
of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But one with these four important properties has not been designed ... as in engineering applications such as soft robots,” Zhao says. Other MIT authors on the paper ... their own creations. They’re strong, soft, full of water, and resistant to fatigue. A new study by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/working-out-makes-hydrogels-perform-more-muscleA new way to make droplets bounce away
In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ... MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ... researchers at MIT demonstrates a new approach to minimizing the contact between droplets and surfaces. While ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayRobotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses ... required. Instead, the MIT team built a robotic finger with a rigid skeleton encased in a soft outer layer ... do,” says mechanical engineering graduate student Sandra Liu, co-lead author of a research paper on the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspA light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide, study finds
Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the ... A good rain can have a cleansing effect on the land. But an MIT study published today in Nature ... bacteria remained alive for more than an hour afterward. MIT-Rain-Bacteria_1024.jpg A raindrop, splashing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/light-rain-can-spread-soil-bacteria-far-and-wide-study-findsStaff members honored with 2025 Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service
On Thursday, June 5, 11 individuals and four teams were awarded MIT Excellence Awards — the ... protecting and serving MIT. The medal recognizes an individual or group whose actions demonstrate the ... impact on the MIT community. The Gordon Y. Billard Award is given to staff or faculty members, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/staff-members-honored-2025-excellence-awards-collier-medal-and-staff-award-distinctionUntangling the Mechanics of Knots
intuition and tradition. MIT-Untangling-Knot1024.jpg Now researchers at MIT and Pierre et Marie Curie ... Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering ... Foundation. Monday, September 7, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Horizontal A new model developed by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-mechanics-knotsAlum Startup Gives Ski Style a Lift
as important as skiing,” McGee says. At MIT, McGee focused on mechanical engineering. His advisor, ... stressful as it seems on TV, but we treated it like an MIT final or midterm and studied up for any and every ... question they might ask.” McGee started his career as a product design engineer for Apple, where he learned ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-startup-gives-ski-style-liftAn assisted step forward: Max Burns talks about the process, and teamwork, of invention
The SuperUROP participant from Logan, Ohio just walked with his degree in Mechanical Engineering this ... Engineering Department for his SuperUROP project, an instrumented walking cane. For his coming stint in ... assistive technology research. I joined the MIT Newman Laboratory for Human Rehabilitation, where I’ve been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/assisted-step-forward-max-burns-talks-about-process-and-teamwork-inventionWith a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Then, we’ve shown that there are ways you can even get around ... and financial markets. MIT-Quantum-Clock-01-press_0.jpg Clocks, lasers, and other oscillators could be ... time, according to a new MIT study. Image: MIT News; iStock A clock’s stability depends on the noise in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-%E2%80%9Csqueeze%E2%80%9D-clocks-could-keep-even-more-precise-time-mit-researchers-proposeInspiring Hands-On Learning
accommodate the educational needs brought by new technologies and scientific advances, MIT packed up its ... this photo is a reminder of what MIT stands for – the soul and DNA of MIT, mind and hand, this is ... engineering. Kim, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Mechanical Engineering, is not an aeronautical engineer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspiring-hands-learningJoseph Ntaimo
converted to a sonic output. Today, as a graduate student in mechanical engineering (MechE), Ntaimo ... pushed me to become a better engineer,” says Ntaimo. In addition to that work, he designs digital ... time. At MIT, Joseph Ntaimo took music classes, played in the MIT Symphony Orchestra, and became ...
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