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New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
plastics. Now, an MIT team has engineered a composite made mostly from cellulose nanocrystals mixed with ... they never had before,” says A. John Hart, professor of mechanical engineering. “If we can replace some ... Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Thursday, February 10, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-plant-derived-composite-tough-bone-and-hard-aluminumHow much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?
is more material-intensive than producing traditional combustion engines, and the demand for battery ... materials is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ... Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Currently, most lithium is extracted from hard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteriesMIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants
is also principal research scientist in mechanical engineering and the Institute for Medical ... Engineering and Science. “These projects are just a few examples of the ways MIT researchers are exploring how ... are gaze and motion tracking. However, according to associate professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-third-annual-seed-grantsSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
position controller,” says Hyung Ju Suh, a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science at ... Tedrake, the Toyota Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, ... and Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL. “Here we explore regulating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceInspired to Heal the Human Heart
Development Professor and an associate professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and in ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Roche takes such ideas back to her lab, where she and her ... may include mechanical engineers, bioengineers, material scientists, pharmacists, surgeons, and other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspired-heal-human-heartNew African and African diaspora studies major takes off at MIT
mechanical engineering and is now a fellow at the Science Technology Policy Institute in Washington. She ... desire to create a social impact through engineering, led her to forge a new path at MIT. ... see if there were ways to do good with engineering,” Godfreey-Igwe reflects. “I found that maybe my ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-african-and-african-diaspora-studies-major-takes-mitMIT Scientists Twist Apart More Than 1,000 Oreos in Search for Perfect Method
Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s mechanical engineering department. She led a group of researchers on ... in MIT’s department of mechanical engineering and co-author of the study. Another was to attach both ... said, was a fun, easy way to make her regular physics and engineering work more accessible to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-scientists-twist-apart-more-1000-oreos-search-perfect-methodThree MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023
University Research Initiative (MURI) awards for 2023. This year, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... (MechE) professors George Barbasthasis and John Hart, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and ... Engineering Associate Professor Rob Macfarlane are principal investigators on projects selected for MURI ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-led-projects-awarded-muri-funding-2023Morris Chang ’52, SM ’53 describes the secrets of semiconductor success
includes a healthy supply of talent, in the form of engineers and other technical employees willing to work ... in 1931, left the country in the late 1940s, and earned his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from ... MIT. He later received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Chang entered the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morris-chang-%E2%80%9952-sm-%E2%80%9953-describes-secrets-semiconductor-successClosing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
technique could help scientists and engineers create more accurate and efficient optical devices for ... engineering graduate student who is co-lead author of an open-access paper describing the work. “We have taken ... of Hong Kong; and her advisor, Peter T. So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesProtecting machine learning datasets
to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... ’22, then a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a former SpaceX engineer. The trio ... GAME – the Graduate Association of Mechanical Engineers – and an active member of MIT’s Latin Graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-machine-learning-datasetsTwo MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards
environmental research. “No Drop to Spare,” created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was ... Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center working in Kenya, Morocco, and Jordan to deploy affordable, user-driven ... users.” Freidah has worked with Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-films-nominated-new-england-emmy-awardsCreating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way
Neural networks have made a seismic impact on how engineers design controllers for robots, ... engineering and computer science (EECS) PhD student and CSAIL affiliate who is a co-lead author of a new paper ... the key bottleneck,” says Sicun Gao, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-and-verifying-stable-ai-controlled-systems-rigorous-and-flexible-wayCrack densification in drying colloidal suspensions
Hyman, Jr. Career Development Professor of mechanical engineering, rationalizes the spectacular crack ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crack-densification-drying-colloidal-suspensionsAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
engineers have designed a new type of gastric balloon that can be inflated and deflated as needed. In an ... deflated in between meals,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... limitation.” The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Karl van Tassel Career ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weightOn a quest for a better football helmet
Next time you’re watching football you might be looking at an important feat of engineering from ... an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... “I’m currently the only engineer at LIGHT, so I wear a lot of different hats,” Brush says. A safer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-better-football-helmetCreeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale
even art conservation, where salt damage is a major threat to heritage materials. In civil engineering ... when salt begins to creep, engineers can better design protective coatings or drainage systems to ... professor in Cornell University); Jeff Punch and Vanessa Egan from the School of Engineering at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creeping-crystals-observing-salt-creep-single-crystal-scaleImaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ... author along with mechanical engineering professor Peter So and principal research scientist Brian ... a 0.7-milimeter-thick slice of mouse brain tissue. In fact, says co-lead author and mechanical engineering postdoc W. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-tech-promises-deepest-looks-yet-living-brain-tissue-single-cell-resolutionDigital Instruments for Musical Togetherness
Engineering graduate student Joseph Ntaimo ’23 builds instruments that “empower people to jam with ... measured, and is converted to a sonic output. Today, as a graduate student in mechanical engineering ... degree. “He’s really pushed me to become a better engineer,” says Ntaimo. In addition to that work, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/digital-instruments-musical-togethernessFive with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025
Nicole Pham Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her ... Engineering; and a recipient of the ACM Computing Prize. Additional MIT alumni who were elected to the NAM for ... 2025 are: Christopher S. Chen SM ’93, PhD ’97, an alumnus of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2025