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Acoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells
MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using ... departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... Collaboration International Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor Scott Manalis, have devised a new, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/acoustic-waves-can-monitor-stiffness-living-cellsFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... ; and Jaya Narain, PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at the Fluid Interfaces Group in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsDroplets Made to Order
New method allows microdroplets of any shape to form on a surface. MIT researchers have developed ... engineering Evelyn Wang, former postdocs Rishi Raj and Ryan Enright, and graduate student Solomon Adera. Wang ... Unlike ordinary round droplets, these can be engineered to have a base that’s square, hexagonal, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-made-orderExpanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
Originally from Zimbabwe, Phuthi, who majored in physics and minored in mechanical engineering, was looking ... for a particular combination of purposes in his third experience with the MIT International Science ... countries,” he says of Sierra Leone, “and I wanted to be a part of that.” The mission of the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-education-africa-cambridge-and-back-againStudy shows forward osmosis desalination not energy efficient
Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ... In a recent study published in the Journal of Membrane Science, MIT professor John Lienhard and ... postdoc Ronan McGovern, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, reported that, contrary to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-forward-osmosis-desalination-not-energy-efficientFirst-year students take center stage on Killian Court
On a chilly Monday in May, MIT’s Killian Court was transformed into a festival of fun. Over 1,200 ... “PLAYsentations” — demonstrating the toys they created this semester in mechanical engineering class 2.00b (Toy ... iconic location so early in their time at MIT was a surreal experience. “It was such a symbolic setting. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-year-students-take-center-stage-killian-courtA brave new ocean world
research engineer at MIT, says to describe the ceiling-to-floor map of the world ocean and continents that ... covers the walls outside his office in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ... of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), a very widely used ocean modeling tool. Development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/brave-new-ocean-worldStick with me
and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ... stayed their entire time at MIT. “I feel truly lucky to have made such a terrific friend in Jerry,” says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meInnovations in water accessibility
her junior year, Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside a team of MIT D-Lab students to work on the Okoa ... thinking about water accessibility from an engineer’s perspective, and how the way people get water is so ... different in every part of the world,” says Klise, currently a senior studying mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovations-water-accessibilityCourse 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design
courses mechanical engineering students can opt to take at MIT, “this class integrates all the other ... other mechanical engineering courses that I have previously taken at MIT and showed me how to apply the ... Mechanical Design isn’t a typical course, even for mechanical engineering. One of the last undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-272-elements-mechanical-designPills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when ... on schedule, MIT engineers have designed a pill that can report when it has been swallowed. The new ... maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceHow to create selective holes in graphene
Kong, the ITT Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; MIT graduate students ... researchers at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in Saudi Arabia succeeded in creating subnanoscale ... pores, as a filter in desalination has been proposed and analyzed by other MIT researchers. The new work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-create-selective-holes-grapheneQuick Test for Ebola
’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the technical staff at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory. “We ... treatment and isolation. A new test from MIT researchers could change that: The device, a simple paper strip ... symptoms and it’s not clear what they have,” says Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, a visiting scientist in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-test-ebolaSynthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion
By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ... Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... National Institutes of Health, and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, August 25, 2020 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/synthetic-coating-gi-tract-could-deliver-drugs-or-aid-digestionIoannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor of polymer science and engineering recognized for inventing "artificial ... skin" Ioannis V. Yannas, professor of polymer science and engineering in the MIT Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, was recognized as one of the highest achievers in his field last week when the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ioannis-yannas-be-inducted-national-inventors-hall-fameJ-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
managed by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, is in its second year. Like direct ... Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. John H. Lienhard V, director of J-WAFS and the ... Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Professor, says that MIT faculty continue to devise ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsIngestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone
hunger, nausea, and feelings of fullness. MIT engineers have now shown that they can stimulate these ... Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who is now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-%E2%80%9Celectroceutical%E2%80%9D-capsule-stimulates-hunger-regulating-hormoneArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ... Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsA portable light system that can digitize everyday objects
MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, affiliate of CSAIL, and lead author on ... appendage for many of us. Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the display ... statistics, as well as new designs on things like a wall, mug, or shoe. Researchers from MIT’s Computer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/portable-light-system-can-digitize-everyday-objectsStudent Spotlight: Spencer Wilson (Candidate SB ’15)
students to start the famously hands-on Course 2 program in mechanical engineering at MIT with little ... a budding engineer’s goldmine. His house was in a constant state of flux and renovation, and his father had ... a scientific point of view…. A lot of people discredit learning those ideas formally, but MIT does a really ...
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