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Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... MIT-Solar-Desalinization-01-PRESS_0.jpg A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir. Credit: Jintong Gao and ... Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Device Research Laboratory. The team envisions a scaled-up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-waterFinger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
perform. MIT-Svelte-Finger-02-PRESS.jpg A breakdown of the components that make up the finger-like touch ... sensor. Image: Courtesy of the researchers MIT researchers have developed a camera-based touch sensor that ... manipulation tasks we could do with robots,” says Alan (Jialiang) Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finger-shaped-sensor-enables-more-dexterous-robotsMIT events illuminate critical need for menstruation science
and mechanical engineering at MIT. The rally kicked off a series of events that attracted more than ... from MIT’s Program in Women and Gender Studies. Event panelists in addition to Bobel, Cohn, Griffith, ... More than 70 MIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni gathered in MIT’s Killian Court recently to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-events-illuminate-critical-need-menstruation-scienceMission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
engineering at MIT and graduate student Brooks Reed and colleagues, which was just accepted into the ... If you take a stroll past the MIT Sailing Pavilion on Memorial Drive, you may see, among the usual ... article Monday, October 7, 2013 Genevieve Wanucha | Oceans at MIT blue hover@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-tulip-robotic-pursuit-charles-riverMegan Smith
Megan Smith received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in ... (CTO) of the United States of America. A past member of the MIT Corporation, Smith has had a prolific ... and successful career as an engineer; leader; and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/megan-smithStudent product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun
The theme for this year’s student projects in the mechanical engineering class called Product ... Engineering Processes was “rough, tough, and messy,” but the student teams’ product ideas were much more ... and music-filled set of final class presentations in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, were designed to assist ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-product-ideas-range-lifesaving-just-plain-funCultivators of Research
MIT, which is characterized by interdisciplinary work in design, including product design, engineering ... participating in their research journey from the beginning to end. For MIT graduate students, the Committed to ... Caring program recognizes those who go above and beyond. Maria Yang (left) and Kenneth Oye. Photos: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cultivators-researchMIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing
Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and recipient of a separate 2017 J-WAFS seed grant, is an expert ... of a new MIT spinout — Xibus Systems — that is aiming to make a splash in the food industry with ... the technology, based on MIT research, was supported by two commercialization grants through the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-seeks-transform-food-safety-testingStick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
or power lines. MIT-SelfPeel-Drop-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the ... a droplet. Image: Varanasi Group/MIT Now, MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the mechanics ... The new results are presented today in the journal Nature Physics, in a report by MIT associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-peel-or-bounce-controlling-freezing-droplet%E2%80%99s-fate3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design
— materials whose properties are primarily dictated by their internal microstructure, and not their chemical ... makeup — have been redefining the engineering materials space for the last decade. To date, however, most ... metamaterials have been lightweight options designed for stiffness and strength. New research from the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-metamaterials-stretch-and-fail-designStartup founded by MIT alumnus unveils electric vehicles for the future
the Los Angeles Auto Show. MIT-Rivian_1024.jpg One of the two models unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto ... release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps change the future Scaringe studied mechanical ... engineering for his master’s and PhD in the Sloan Automotive Laboratory, where he was a member of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-founded-mit-alumnus-unveils-electric-vehicles-futureLEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow
Speaking at MIT, the LEGO Group COO Carsten Rasmussen discussed the company’s manufacturing ... stranger to many members of the MIT community. Faculty, staff, and students, alike, have developed a love ... and ingenuity, and it has inspired MIT faculty to bring LEGOs into the classroom, including 2.S00 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lego-group-coo-discusses-production-network-enables-builders-tomorrowStudy: There’s real skill in fantasy sports
sports,” says Anette “Peko” Hosoi, associate dean of engineering at MIT. “We ask, does that skill have an ... of your league’s standings at the end of the season, a new MIT study suggests your performance ... fantasy football is inherently a contest that rewards skill. MIT-Fantasy-Sports-1024.jpg By analyzing the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-there%E2%80%99s-real-skill-fantasy-sportsPushing through sand
For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you ... mechanical engineering at MIT, says scientists have regarded granular RFT as “somewhat like magic,” unsure of ... generate useful equations for cohesive materials like muds. MIT-Sand-Intruder_1024.jpg The photograph ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-through-sandDe Florez Competition Winners Split $20K in Prize Money
engineering students have to offer, this year’s de Florez Competition pitted 25 applicants against each other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/de-florez-competition-winners-split-20k-prize-moneyStartup 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-seatsIngestible 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 ...
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