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How to make oxygen on the moon
Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-oxygen-moonPalak Patel
Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/palak-patelLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
Engineering; MIT Kavli Institute; the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology; the MIT Computer Science and ... the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will ... microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT's departments of Aeronautics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityAlumni Spotlight: LiquiGlide
originate? I’m motivated by different applications for reducing adhesion. My master’s research thesis with ... industries, from unclogging processing lines to cooling power plants to de-icing planes. We’re also looking at ... other industries as well. As I mentioned, every product requires a certain set of materials. We always ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-liquiglideFaculty Promotions
informed engineering choices and used in an ensemble manner, offers key advantages over widely used ... fractional factorial design approaches, enabling engineers to effectively utilize engineering knowledge to ... International Design Center at MIT and at the new Singapore University of Technology and Design. Nicolas ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotions-0New pill can deliver insulin
2 diabetes An MIT-led research team has developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses of ... says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and a visiting scientist in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-pill-can-deliver-insulinRobotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials
developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Robotic probe measures electrical property known as ... gain,” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering and senior author of a paper on the ... materials discovery. This work is supported, in part, by First Solar, Eni through the MIT Energy Initiative, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-probe-quickly-measures-key-properties-new-materialsA robot that finds lost items
figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... a few years. Having robots that are able to search for things under a pile is a growing need in industry ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsA quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat
a material’s thermal conductivity cannot be changed without re-manufacturing it. But MIT engineers have now ... its plastic-like properties. In experiments, MIT engineers demonstrate a fiber, made from a common ... research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Now that we’ve seen this thermal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-stretch-switches-polymer%E2%80%99s-capacity-transport-heatNew sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath
Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Tadesse’s group builds diagnostic devices that can be used ... Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Bhatia’s group focuses in part on developing nanoparticle sensors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-sensor-sniffs-out-pneumonia-patient%E2%80%99s-breathThere’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus
Professor of Engineering at MIT, and also a composer of experimental music. “This is the beginning of ... SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT ... work with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and PhD student Yiwen Hu, Buehler discovered that the proteins ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/there%E2%80%99s-symphony-antibody-protein-body-makes-neutralize-coronavirusJennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”
at MIT; Jennifer Lewis PhD ’91, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at ... Assistant Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Jared ... that they can do it, too.” Lewis, who arrived at MIT as a materials science and engineering graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jennifer-lewis-scd-%E2%80%9991-%E2%80%9Ccan-we-make-tissues-are-made-you-you%E2%80%9DRobo-picker grasps and packs
stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ... system consists of a standard industrial robotic arm that the researchers outfitted with a custom gripper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robo-picker-grasps-and-packsFolkers Rojas (SB ‘09, SM ‘11, PhD ‘14)
the 22 MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering wellbore cross-section. You also have to be able to ... from unintentionally spilling into the ocean, a purposefully engineered blockage. But the mechanics behind each of them ... says. “This problem had breadth; it had depth; it was a great engineering challenge. You’re looking at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/folkers-rojas-sb-%E2%80%9809-sm-%E2%80%9811-phd-%E2%80%9814Finding Joy in Making, and the Making of #HellaJuneteenth
suburb of Maywood, Illinois, Harris majored at MIT in mechanical engineering and architecture and minored ... thinker and former MIT faculty member John Maeda ’89, SM ’89. On the eve of Juneteenth, Harris went on ... did that happen? Harris: I learned photography using a digital camera mostly at MIT [taking classes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-joy-making-and-making-hellajuneteenthThe race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships
A graduate of MIT’s naval architecture and marine engineering program, Goddard took the Alpino’s trip to ... engineering duty officer for the Navy. It was then he was given the opportunity to enroll in MIT’s naval ... architecture and marine engineering program (then known as Course 13A). “When I showed up at MIT in June of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/race-build-navy%E2%80%99s-next-fleet-ships-0Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
Culture Education International Maker Horizontal Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working ... met Amy Smith, founding director of MIT D-Lab, who introduced her to D-Lab’s method of manufacturing ... the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstovesFeatured video: Pulling drinking water out of thin air
Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International enwang@mit.edu Horizontal Powered only by solar energy, ... ever. The key, according to Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor and department head for MIT ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is in the very air we breathe. “Water vapor is all around us in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-pulling-drinking-water-out-thin-airCan your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?
study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ... accelerometer data,” says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Sensable City Laboratory and co-author of a new paper ... published in Communications Engineering. The authors are Thomas J. Matarazzo, an assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-your-phone-tell-if-bridge-good-shapeNew model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s ... they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-identifies-drugs-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-taken-together