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An 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-2025Kodiak Brush
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/people/kodiak-brushAmber Velez
be different and better. After assembling an engine by hand in an introductory mechanical ... engineering (MechE) course, she declared her first major and forged a career path. She explains, “I love ... engineering.” Her research focuses on clean energy and decarbonization. Velez built her second major by hand, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amber-velezMorris Chang
includes a healthy supply of talent, in the form of engineers and other technical employees willing to work ... 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 semiconductor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/morris-changRavi Patil ’93, SM ’95, IT Executive and Storyteller
alumna who is using her engineering skills to unravel the mystery of her husband’s puzzling disease, ... components and streamlined manufacturing processes for worldwide vehicle platforms. “As mechanical engineers ... mechanical engineering, and he stays actively connected to MIT through a variety of volunteer activities. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ravi-patil-%E2%80%9993-sm-%E2%80%9995-it-executive-and-storytellerTaking a leap in bioinspired robotics
in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... University in the city, where he studied mechanical engineering. In his second year, as has been mandatory in ... mechanical engineering graduate program. There, he experienced his first taste of design freedom. “That was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-leap-bioinspired-roboticsGiving robots a sense of touch
engineering and first author on the paper from Adelson’s group, used confectionary molds to create 400 groups ... a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Chenzhuo Zhu, an undergraduate ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and is now a postdoc at the University of California at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchTackling air pollution with autonomous drones
pollution monitoring system is the capstone project of recently graduated New Engineering Education ... the other projects we were looking at,” says Trautman, who majored in electrical engineering and ... 2017 in an effort to fundamentally reconceptualize the way that engineering is taught at MIT. It ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-air-pollution-autonomous-dronesColoring outside the lines
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... envisions materials such as fabrics, fibers, and fluids that can be engineered to generate colors without ... engineered to generate colors without chemicals. | Right: Mathias Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesThirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships
Photos courtesy of Fulbright winners. Lainie Beauchemin ’22 earned a BS in biological engineering at MIT, ... engineering and computer science with a minor in mechanical engineering. Her Fulbright research fellowship ... plans to return to MIT to pursue a PhD in electrical engineering. Victor Damptey will graduate in June ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/thirteen-mit-win-2023-fulbright-fellowshipsOutside-the-Box Thinker
an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... power lines, they’re usually swaying in the wind. There are a lot of inherent engineering and physics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/outside-box-thinkerMIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel gives major gift to solve urgent challenges in world food and water security
of disciplines: urban planning and design, engineering and technology, climate and hydrology, and ... water supply, according to MIT professor of mechanical engineering John Lienhard, who will direct the ... science and engineering and then coordinate the efforts of MIT's faculty, labs, and centers to work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-alumnus-mohammed-abdul-latif-jameel-gives-major-gift-solve-urgent-challenges-worldAn Eye for Design
freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... planners, designers, and engineers — improve their creative process by measuring the activities they engage ... She wound up majoring in mechanical engineering, and was instantly drawn to the design courses. Not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designFast-tracking medical device development
engineer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and his colleagues are overcoming that limitation, ... co-directs with electrical engineering’s Charles Sodini and Joel Voldman, and which teams up researchers and ... role in MEDRC, Anthony is director of MIT’s Master of Manufacturing Engineering program, accelerating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fast-tracking-medical-device-developmentHow to float your coffee creamer
locations in a chip, at certain temperatures. With this new understanding, researchers could also engineer ... engineers can determine what is the initial critical temperature difference they need to maintain two drops ... able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
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