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Stick, 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 ...

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Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.

electric vehicle range, can therefore be slow and siloed from company to company. MIT engineers say that ... dataset that includes more than 8,000 car designs, MIT engineers simulated the aerodynamics for a given ... more than 8,000 car designs, MIT engineers simulate the aerodynamics for a given car shape, which they ...

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Guardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions

engineering at MIT, and the two robot enthusiasts became lifelong friends. “When Charles came to MIT, he ... to one day apply to MIT and do my engineering undergrad or go to the Sloan School of Management. I’ll ... MIT-Guardian-Ag-01-press_1024x768.jpg Guardian Ag is offering an alternative in the form of a large, purpose-built drone that can ...

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Jim Christian

Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ... trails and snow-capped mountains. Safely within the halls of MIT, Christian was charged with designing ...

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Road Safety Drives VP of GM

mechanical engineering, when his younger brother was struck by a distracted driver and suffered a severe neck ... motivated Anderson to go into the automotive industry.  “The ingredients were there from an early age,” he ... networks—and giving people their time back.”  Anderson credits MIT, where he focused on robotics while studying ...

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Sterling Anderson

mechanical engineering, when his younger brother was struck by a distracted driver and suffered a severe neck ... motivated Anderson to go into the automotive industry.  “The ingredients were there from an early age,” he ... networks—and giving people their time back.”  Anderson credits MIT, where he focused on robotics while studying ...

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Measuring Students' Passion

typically taken during mechanical engineering students’ Junior Year, arms students with the knowledge and ... audiences.  “Perhaps the most important skill to have as an engineer is the ability to communicate what you’ve ... whether they pursue careers in academia or industry. “When you’re conducting research, the point is you ...

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Gliding From Classroom to Market

aid of MIT classes such as Course 6.933 (The Founder’s Journey), Course ESD.051 (Engineering ... numerous mentors at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the Gordon Engineering Leadership ... MIT-Ello_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ELLO In 2012, a team of students in MIT’s well-known product-design class, ...

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Unleashing the potential of the mind

click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. MIT-Pison-Technologies-1024.jpg The MIT ... Ang on a mission that would change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical ... engineering degree, he returned to the Institute to immerse himself in its work around wearable technology, ...

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3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes

Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... to a certain temperature “sweet spot.” MIT-Shape-Memory_1024.jpg A shape-memory Eiffel tower was 3-D ...

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“Colloidal gels,” ubiquitous in everyday products, divulge their secrets

and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Our results enable researchers to determine why weak ... collaborated with the MIT team in the past. “Their physics is important in so many industries and technologies ... Researchers at MIT have developed a new method for determining the structure and behavior of ...

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Giving robots a faster grasp

combinations of these properties interact mechanically, based on fundamental laws of physics. Now MIT engineers ... MIT, says the speedier planning process will enable robots, particularly in industrial settings, to ... this preplanning process down to less than a second. MIT-Robot-Gripper_1024.jpg A new algorithm speeds ...

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Wind power — even without the wind

Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ... be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that ...

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Demo Day features hormone-tracking sensors, desalination systems, and other innovations

MIT student teams celebrate business milestones at the capstone event for the 2025 delta v summer ... accelerator. Kresge Auditorium came alive Friday as MIT entrepreneurs took center stage to share their progress ... Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. It also doubles as a celebration, with Trust Center Managing ...

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A Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes

industrial, and manufacturing engineering at Oregon State University, says the new balance interface is an ... MIT’s Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc: punching through ... typically very slow, so a robot has difficulty reacting in time,” says Ramos, of MIT’s Department of ...

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Designing for a more equitable world

School of Engineering to discuss her love of teaching MIT students about international development work, ... This October marks 15 years since Amy Smith, a celebrated inventor and educator, founded MIT ... challenges. MIT-D-Lab-Amy-Smith-1024.jpg D-Lab classes, research groups, and programs are connected to ...

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Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts

MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and ... the transportation industry,” says Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi, who led the work as a postdoc at MIT and ... John Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ...

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Clearing the air

contributed to the project are about to get closer to their goal. Li, then a recent mechanical engineering ... graduate, is one of seven MIT students who have interned with Plume Labs, a Paris-based startup that builds ... four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ...

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New 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts

MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ... minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes. MIT ...

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Stamp-sized graphene sheets riddled with holes could be boon for molecular separation

MIT engineers have found a way to directly “pinprick” microscopic holes into graphene as the ... Kidambi’s MIT co-authors are Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, ... molecules out of solutions vastly more efficient. MIT-Big-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed ...

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