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Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram, a leader in ship design and hydrodynamics, dies at 83
Jerome Milgram ’61, PhD ’65, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at MIT, passed away at the ... Milgram received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1961, where he also served as captain of the sailing ... Milgram joined the faculty at MIT, where he would spend the remainder of his career. As the W.I. Koch ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-jerome-milgram-leader-ship-design-and-hydrodynamics-dies-83Saving the radome
points," says Milo Hooper, a senior in mechanical engineering and president of the MIT Radio Society. ... Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, ... a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeWhere to Grab Space Debris
a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ... Station (ISS). Image courtesy of NASA (edited by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT) Space trash “There are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-grab-space-debrisSolid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ... MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solid-liquid-or-gas-technique-quickly-identifies-physical-state-tissues-and-tumorsOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... cognitive functions. MIT researchers have now put forth a new hypothesis for how astrocytes might contribute ... MIT-AstroCyteMemory-01-press_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacityHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... such as vaccines through skin without using needles. MIT-Bubble-Jet-1024.jpg New study on water jets ... famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple, pioneered by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-dropletOnce-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials
a variety of medications,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases ... medication from within the stomach. MIT-Schizophrenia-Trial-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg The ingestible capsule is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/once-week-pill-schizophrenia-shows-promise-clinical-trialsThis flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes
lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ... and structures can achieve. MIT-Shape-Shifters-1024.jpg A lattice structure, originally printed flat, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changesHow to prevent biofilms in space
a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ... Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering and founder of a company called LiquiGlide, which makes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceOffice of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners
Mechanical Engineering installed an electrified, water-catching dome structure over the steam plumes of MIT ... Anderson in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and now overseen by MIT Research Scientist Jeremy ... This October, the MIT Office of Sustainability (MITOS) announced the winners of the 2018 Campus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/office-sustainability-names-2018-grant-winnersLifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram
unrelenting seeker of the most precise ocean science and engineering truths. He was a member of the MIT team ... undergraduate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, adding naval architecture ... dynamics, and numerical marine hydrodynamics in the MIT Department of Ocean Engineering, he has also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-emeritus-jerome-milgramWhat STEM Requires, Dance Provides
her experiences as an MIT student, Toussaint Beach saw the need to increase the representation of ... other young women of color in engineering and related fields. First, she wanted to understand what ... these. Dancing was something Toussaint Beach says she did as soon as she could walk, and at MIT, dance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-stem-requires-dance-providesTraining STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/training-stem-teachers-uncover-students%E2%80%99-full-potentialStudent group helps blind boater sail independently
for children with autism. Xi is a mechanical engineering student and member of MIT’s sailing team. ... Frederick | School of Engineering Collaboration Culture Maker Horizontal A group of MIT students, including ... This fall, a team of four students in MIT’s course 6.811 (Principles and Practices of Assistive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-group-helps-blind-boater-sail-independentlyHeather Beem
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beemHeather Beem
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve any problem,” ... have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ confidence ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beem-0A 3D printable tissue adhesive
MIT researchers introduce a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive that can be used to ... a graduate student who works in the lab of Mechanical Engineering Professor Xuanhe Zhao. “ Our research takes ... diverse applications.” MIT researchers have introduced a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printable-tissue-adhesiveDavid Hesslink
mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing baseball.” That started to ... achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball team. At a game against the United ... pitcher with the most wins in MIT history. “The best part of that day for me was emerging from the dugout ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-hesslinkCooling when there’s too much heat
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT ... his co-authors, recent MIT PhD recipient Hyuk-Min Kwon and former MIT postdoc J.C. Bird, was to find ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatSolving a Rubik's Cube in record time
Rubik’s Cube the fastest by hand. Engineers then started building robots programmed to solve the cube at ... engineering graduate student Ben Katz and third-year electrical engineering and computer science major Jared ... better with improved motors and controls.” The pair met through the MIT Electronics Research Society, ...
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