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Lifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram
unrelenting seeker of the most precise ocean science and engineering truths. He was a member of the MIT team ... undergraduate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, adding naval architecture ... dynamics, and numerical marine hydrodynamics in the MIT Department of Ocean Engineering, he has also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-emeritus-jerome-milgramWind power — even without the wind
Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ... be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windStartup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. ... MIT-Cleana-01-press_0.jpg MIT has purchased several of Cleana’s self-raising sensations for use on campus. Image: Courtesy ... of Cleana; edited by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsA 3D printable tissue adhesive
MIT researchers introduce a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive that can be used to ... a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... diverse applications.” MIT researchers have introduced a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesiveIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ... MIT researchers have designed an ingestible sensor that can lodge in the stomach for a few weeks and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyMotion-Induced Quicksand
mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... replicating the Couette cell geometry. MIT-Quicksand.jpg Photo: Martin Van Hecke/Leiden Modeling spin and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandA new approach to ultrafast light pulses
relatively slow response time. Now, researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and ... applications for these materials. MIT-FastLight-Emit-1024.jpg In this image, light strikes a molecular lattice ... findings are described in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-ultrafast-light-pulsesTo make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze
into more specialized cells. Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says that ... like ideas, information, and even infection. Now researchers at MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital have ... would. MIT-Cell-Crowding-01-Press-1024.jpg the cell division marker Ki67 shows that the number of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/make-mini-organs-grow-faster-give-them-squeezeA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
the same even when something is bent and stretched every which way. MIT-Quantum-Big-Data.JPG This ... computers to streamline these problems has been developed by researchers at MIT, the University of Waterloo, ... Mechanical Engineering, explains that algebraic topology is key to the new method. This approach, he says, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataStepping on stage with Beyoncé
working for—a celebration of everyone involved.” MIT-Joe-Brown-Beyonce-Coachella-2018_1024.jpg Joe Brown ... in Course 2 [mechanical engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own ... continued to build his skills as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stepping-stage-beyonc%C3%A9-0The most interesting startup in America is in Massachusetts. You’ve probably never heard of it.
mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of the most interesting startup in America. It’s called ... Aerospace uses the machines to build fuel nozzles for its jet engines; rather than welding together 20 ... more easily graft onto, complex computer-cooling devices, and small missile engines. Until a couple of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/most-interesting-startup-america-massachusetts-you%E2%80%99ve-probably-never-heard-itMIT continues to advance toward greenhouse gas reduction goals
At MIT, making a better world often starts on campus. That’s why, as the Institute works to find ... solutions to complex global problems, MIT has taken important steps to grow and transform its physical ... like MIT grow, and simultaneously work to lessen its greenhouse gas emissions and contributions to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-continues-advance-toward-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goalsSaving the radome
points," says Milo Hooper, a senior in mechanical engineering and president of the MIT Radio Society. ... Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, ... a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeWhere to Grab Space Debris
a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ... Station (ISS). Image courtesy of NASA (edited by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT) Space trash “There are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-grab-space-debrisSolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ... MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... cognitive functions. MIT researchers have now put forth a new hypothesis for how astrocytes might contribute ... MIT-AstroCyteMemory-01-press_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacityHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... such as vaccines through skin without using needles. MIT-Bubble-Jet-1024.jpg New study on water jets ... famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple, pioneered by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-dropletOnce-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials
a variety of medications,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases ... medication from within the stomach. MIT-Schizophrenia-Trial-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg The ingestible capsule is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-week-pill-schizophrenia-shows-promise-clinical-trialsA flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... which is led by Nathaniel Hanson. The program is conducted out of the laboratory's Human ... tube to minimize friction while the robot grows and engineer the controls for steering. While ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-robot-can-help-emergency-responders-search-through-rubbleNew gels could help the medicine go down
Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ...
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