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Just what the doctor ordered
Department of Mechanical Engineering, program manager at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, and ... engineering undergraduate, and a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ... Device Design). The class brings clinicians from Boston-area hospitals and MIT students together to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/just-what-doctor-orderedResearchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans
challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... research was supported in part by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Biomedical Line Program for the United States ... Medicine Research Program. Wednesday, December 18, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-produce-first-laser-ultrasound-images-humansTonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive
tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... industry, taking a research position at Evergreen Solar, a solar-cell company spun out of MIT. But ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tonio-buonassisi-seeks-make-solar-cells-competitivePowered by the sun
On a recent April afternoon, MIT sophomore Francis Wang drove out of the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 ... late nights in the student shop. Flux-on-road-in-Georgia 1024.jpg In January, Flux and the MIT Solar ... Electric Vehicle Team went on a road-testing trip in Georgia. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunFaculty Research: Professor Tonio Buonassisi
Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... Chandler, MIT News Office Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are ... limitations. Now, a new system developed by researchers at five institutions, including MIT, could eliminate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-tonio-buonassisiDroplets get a charge out of jumping
In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that ... atmosphere, they say. The finding is reported in a paper in the journal Nature Communications written by MIT ... postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, mechanical engineering professor Evelyn Wang, and two others. Miljkovic says this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-get-charge-out-jumpingStudent Awards
Undergraduate Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in ... Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Jacqueline Sly, Grace Young AMP Inc. Award (Outstanding Performance ... Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering) Edward Burnell, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awards-0System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat
a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a way to generate ... a paper by MIT graduate student Lin Zhao, MIT Professor Evelyn Wang, MIT Professor Gang Chen, and 10 ... others at MIT and IIT Bombay. The key to the new system is the use of optically transparent aerogel, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-can-sterilize-medical-tools-using-solar-heatMechE 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-lifeNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... a drug in just hours. In a paper appearing today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers used ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentInternational development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
in mechanical engineering and co-director of MIT's D-Lab, which she founded, says the question ... problems themselves.” Monday, February 10, 2014 Bernadette Esposito | MIT Industrial Liaison Program ... learned from the fall semester to address the needs of the community. In the spring, back at MIT, they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/international-development-through-dialogue-design-and-disseminationTwo-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 ...
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