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MechE Alumna Catches Rare Glimpse of Marine Life
renowned MIT engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton, the namesake of MIT’s Edgerton Center. A visionary in ... engineering major, Young fell in love with water at an early age. But Mission 31 gave her an ... deeper,” says Young. “It was my home for 15 days, and now I am dedicated to using my skills and engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-alumna-catches-rare-glimpse-marine-lifeTwo-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ... mechanical engineering at MIT. More than motion Previously, Kim and Ramos built the two-legged robot HERMES ... Rescuing victims from a burning building, a chemical spill, or any disaster that is inaccessible ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingRunning on Waste Heat
of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, used nanotechnology to ... change, thanks to thermoelectric innovators such as MIT’s Gang Chen. Thermoelectric materials convert ... generated 200 watts from a larger TEG as part of $1.5 million program supported by the U.S. Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/running-waste-heatHealing with hydrogels
in rehabilitation. Shortly after being accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program ... to develop a bioadhesive tape for repairing damaged tissue. In November, mechanical engineering PhD ... promote healing and minimize complications after surgery. 1024_Hyunwoo Yuk_04.jpg Mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/healing-hydrogelsAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
Lab, the MIT-Amazon Science Hub, and the MIT-Google Program for Computing Innovation. Saturday, June 7, ... target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm that could ... MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsSolar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ... source. The system, which builds on a design initially developed three years ago at MIT by members of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-extracts-drinkable-water-%E2%80%9Cdry%E2%80%9D-airHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou, professors Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Fang, Evelyn Wang, and Sang-Gook ... device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor ... of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and 11 others. Silicon, which forms the basis of most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightArtificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
changes wrought by the virus. MIT researchers have now found that people who are asymptomatic may differ ... recently in the IEEE Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, the team reports on an AI model that ... a factory, or a restaurant,” says co-author Brian Subirana, a research scientist in MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-model-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections-through-cellphoneLeveraging computational tools to enhance product design
had joined a friend in a class offered through MIT D-Lab, a project-based program aimed at helping ... behind product design. Now, she’s pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, researching how ... advised by Maria Yang, a professor in mechanical engineering at MIT and the MIT D-Lab faculty academic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leveraging-computational-tools-enhance-product-designA legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young
Hampton Young Fellowship administered by MIT's Office for Graduate Education (OGE) is therefore to ... An anonymous donor established the fellowship in 1965 for the benefit of MIT graduate students, approximately ... selection committee comprised of former Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship recipients and MIT alumni, who meet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/legacy-curiosity-name-hugh-hampton-youngBuilding the tools of the next manufacturing revolution
and when he started in the master’s degree program in mechanical engineering at MIT, he thought he ... nanoscale to the scale of the global economy. Hart, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... engineering as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. He spent summers interning for General Motors, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-tools-next-manufacturing-revolutionStick with me
and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... Fund, a grant program supporting ideas to make MIT a more welcoming, inclusive, and healthy place. They ... has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ... Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamDavid Hesslink: Taking his passion to the major leagues
life,” says the mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing ... to join him on another project as part of a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program ... in the lab and the MLB, he was achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/david-hesslink-taking-his-passion-major-leaguesFor cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better
professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ... researchers at MIT and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have outlined a pathway to slashing ... detailed in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by MIT postdoc Zhe Liu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-betterNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. Now engineers at ... MIT have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. The framework ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishRefrigerator magnets
according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ... so you can essentially use a magnet as a refrigerator,” says Bolin Liao, a graduate student in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnets