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Big data dreams for tiny technologies
small-molecule partners will form nanoparticles among the millions of possible pairings. MIT researchers have ... Engineering, and senior corresponding author of the study. Their findings point to a strategy for that solves ... Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is also a senior author ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesStudents strive for “Balance!” in a lively product showcase
colorful celebration of student product designs, as part of the final presentations for MIT’s popular class ... 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). With “Balance!” as its theme, the vibrant show attracted hundreds ... design, build, and draft a business plan for a product, in a process meant to emulate what engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-strive-%E2%80%9Cbalance%E2%80%9D-lively-product-showcaseNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisMaking data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and IDSS affiliate who co-developed the tool. ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plans2.007 Forever!
designed by undergraduates in MIT’s mechanical engineering course, 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). Each ... final competition for MIT’s mechanical engineering course, 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). | The ... On Tuesday evening, fans of all ages came to MIT’s Johnson Athletics Center to cheer on their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-foreverSelf-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy
MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from ... workings of a ship’s engine. There, it could automatically gather data on the machine’s power consumption ... easy to install,” says Steve Leeb, the Emanuel E. Landsman Professor of Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/self-powered-sensor-automatically-harvests-magnetic-energyEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... original fields of study. A mechanical engineer who was born and educated in England, he first came to the ... assignment he loved, but had to leave after contracting a severe case of malaria. In 1966, he came to MIT at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesOceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals
oceanographers at MIT has journeyed to Norway — one of the last remaining regions of the world where cod still ... professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, and Olav Rune Godø of ... OAWRS system, an imaging technique developed at MIT by Makris and co-author Purnima Ratilal, which emits ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oceanographers-produce-first-ever-images-entire-cod-shoals-0Drive-By Heat Mapping
roads around the world. Now MIT spinout Essess is bringing similar “drive-by” innovations to energy ... co-founder Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical Engineering ... Kinetic Super Resolution — co-invented with Sarma and MIT postdoc Jonathan Jesneck — that computationally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-heat-mappingRacing into the future of autonomous driving
students. Zhang and her teammates from MIT Driverless — working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center ... white, the automobile named DUT18 wasn’t an ordinary race car. First, it was built by engineers at TU ... Delft; then, programmers at MIT wrote algorithms that would replace its human driver. Together, the two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/racing-future-autonomous-drivingUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... some have been taught incorrectly to generations of engineering students, a new analysis shows. The ... engines, Lienhard says. In fact, though, most engineers working on such systems understand the existence of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesCreating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way
Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, vice president of robotics research at TRI, ... Neural networks have made a seismic impact on how engineers design controllers for robots, ... verifying Lyapunov conditions didn’t scale well to complex machines. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-and-verifying-stable-ai-controlled-systems-rigorous-and-flexible-wayEvelyn Wang joins leadership team in MechE
Engineering Education Horizontal Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and director of MIT’s Device ... Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and the director of MIT’s Device Research ... Laboratory, has been named associate department head for operations in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-joins-leadership-team-mecheTapping the hidden value of farm waste, while reducing harmful burn off
MIT, and Kevin Kung, a PhD student in biological engineering and fellow in the MIT Tata Center for ... the poverty line? Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tapping-hidden-value-farm-waste-while-reducing-harmful-burnCovid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output
natural experiment. The findings are reported today in the journal Joule, in a paper by MIT professor of ... mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, research scientist Ian Marius Peters, and three others in Singapore ... Government. Wednesday, July 22, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Horizontal As the air cleared after ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/covid-19-shutdown-led-increased-solar-power-outputAlumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems
engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company ... and Pete Wurman (SB ‘87) by Alissa Mallinson Courtesy of Kiva Systems When a handful of MIT ... undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity. Together with technical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kiva-systemsMick Mountz
When a handful of MIT graduates get together to solve a problem, amazing things can happen – in ... were roommates as MechE undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) ... software application. Soon thereafter, VP of hardware Matthew Verminski (SM ‘98), VP of product and program ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mick-mountzArtificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... Naval Research, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and the MIT Sea Grant program ... object’s path, its size, and even its shape. Michael Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-whisker-reveals-source-harbor-seal%E2%80%99s-uncanny-prey-sensing-ability-0Faculty Promotions
authority in the field of precision engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and ... education and mentoring of students. His courses at MIT challenge students in the rigorous design of machine ... elements based on engineering principles and truly embody the Institute’s mens et manus motto. He has ...
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