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Tackling air pollution with autonomous drones
2017 in an effort to fundamentally reconceptualize the way that engineering is taught at MIT. It ... pollution monitoring system is the capstone project of recently graduated New Engineering Education ... entered NEET during their sophomore year at MIT. MIT NEET students.jpg Left to right: Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-air-pollution-autonomous-dronesStudy finds cells take out the trash before they divide
senior author of the paper, which appears today in eLife. MIT biological engineering undergraduates Kevin ... MIT researchers have discovered that before cells start to divide, they do a little cleanup, ... functional contents,” says Teemu Miettinen, an MIT research scientist and the lead author of the new study. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cells-take-out-trash-they-divideAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
weeks. MIT_Underwater-Adhesives-01-press_0_1024x683.jpg MIT engineers have devised a novel adhesive ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member of ... research was funded, in part, by the Gates Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterBio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ... of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior ... Nature Biomedical Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Hyunwoo Yuk and postdoc Jingjing Wu are the lead ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quicklyThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
to grasp a jar. And now engineers at MIT and elsewhere have a way to precisely measure and map such ... MIT-Touchy-Glove-02-PRESS.jpg An MIT team of engineers has designed a new touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other ... tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuliDrug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
injected. A team of MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... National Science Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drug-delivery-capsule-could-replace-injections-protein-drugs3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ... engineers, Frankel is also a consultant to the MIT News Office. She spoke with MIT News about some of the ... scientist at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a new book that describes ways for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceOutside-the-Box Thinker
a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... it himself, of course. At age 13, Nathan Spielberg — now an MIT senior — began building his first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerPaper-folding art inspires better bandages
kirigami. MIT-Kirigami-Film_1024.jpg Ruike Zhao, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says kirigami-patterned adhesives may enable a whole swath ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Adhesion from an art form In August 2016, Ruike and her ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/paper-folding-art-inspires-better-bandagesSpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
Looking to give robots a more nimble, human-like touch, MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that ... SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ... scratch for another chance at a prize. MIT_Reflex-Grip-02-PRESS.jpg The research team, from left to right: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesPeeking into a chrysalis, videos reveal growth of butterfly wing scales
a butterfly its color and shimmer, and help shield the insect from the elements. Now, MIT engineers have ... of mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle. MIT-Butterfly-Growth-1024.jpg Larger, overlapping scales in ... scales,” says lead author Anthony McDougal, a research assistant in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peeking-chrysalis-videos-reveal-growth-butterfly-wing-scales2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles
When Michael Benjamin, principal research scientist in the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering ... engineering and the primary lecturer and content creator of 2.S01, and Captain Michael Sacarny from MIT Sea ... , arrived at MIT 25 years ago, only professors and postdoctoral students were allowed to touch the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2s01-special-subject-invites-first-year-students-get-their-feet-wet-working-underwaterDouble-sided tape for tissues could replace surgical sutures
medical devices. Inspired by a sticky substance that spiders use to catch their prey, MIT engineers have ... mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study. ... MIT graduate student Xinyu Mao, MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering Ellen Roche, Mayo ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/double-sided-tape-tissues-could-replace-surgical-suturesCatching (radio) waves
mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ... In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency ... MIT’s Auto-ID Center, ThingMagic developed RFID readers for the supply chain that could read many tags, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catching-radio-wavesMIT-Delft University of Technology team places third in Formula Student Germany driverless competition
Concept, and third for Engineering Design and Presentation. FSG-MIT-Delft-Driverless-Car-1024.jpg The ... Students from the MIT Driverless team, together with students from Delft University of Technology ... The intercontinental MIT-TU Delft team placed first in Cost and Manufacturing, second for Business ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-delft-university-technology-team-places-third-formula-student-germany-driverlessCultivating confidence and craft across disciplines
Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Research Group ... disciplines. For MIT graduate students, the Committed to Caring program recognizes those who go above and ... for their exploration within mechanical engineering and beyond. One student reflected on the manner in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cultivating-confidence-and-craft-across-disciplinesHands-on education goes remote
in their decision to study mechanical engineering. The hands-on aspect of MIT MechE’s education ... By its very nature, mechanical engineering is a “hands-on” field. While students studying ... mechanical engineering receive a solid foundation in fundamentals, at some point nearly every Course 2, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hands-education-goes-remoteAlex Hattori
not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering ... professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s Maker Czar. Culpepper helped Hattori find the makerspaces and ... Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-hattoriCelebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019
Pulsone Keating received his master’s degree and PhD in mechanical engineering and was a member of the MIT ... tinkering with and building devices. This predilection for making led to not only his love of engineering ... Canada, Keating pursued his twin passions — earning a dual degree in mechanical and materials engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-curious-mind-steven-keating-1988-2019“Cold spray” 3D printing technique proves effective for on-site bridge repair
Massachusetts at Amherst in collaboration with researchers from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, in a press release. “They are ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UMass Amherst and former visiting professor in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ccold-spray%E2%80%9D-3d-printing-technique-proves-effective-site-bridge-repair