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Need a water filter? Peel a tree branch

blocking most types of bacteria. Co-author Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... of mechanical engineering at Ohio State University, says the design could be useful in parts of the ...

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International development through dialogue, design, and dissemination

in mechanical engineering and co-director of MIT's D-Lab, which she founded, says the question ... way to teach people about mechanical engineering.” One of his former students, Tish Scolnik '10 ...

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Catching (radio) waves

mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ... infrastructure,” Schoner says. “Instead of building the system, we design the engines that can power RFID features ...

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Power Efficiency in the Violin

a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team modeled the airflow through a simple round ...

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AUVs: From Idea to Implementation

director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program, the Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering and ... professor of mechanical and ocean engineering. “In the late 1980s, I suggested a revolutionary concept: an ...

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Where the wind blows

engineering and naval architecture. "There is no technological risk." Globally, 2 percent of ... a major contributor to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, says research engineer Stephen Connors, ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Associate Professor Hugh Herr (SM ’93)

degree in mechanical engineering in 1993. He also received a PhD in biophysics at Harvard, and worked at ... the next few years. Wednesday, June 10, 2015 Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering ...

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Microchip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth

Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member ...

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Optimizing parking in the busiest places

to Sang when he enrolled at MIT as a PhD student in mechanical engineering, and bought his first car. ... scores of parking data available, there was no data-analytics engine to monitor parking “inventory” on ...

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Stretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body

Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... within the human body,” says Fiorenzo Omenetto, a professor of biological engineering at Tufts ...

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Spray tuning

specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ...

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Data-driven diabetes management

insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ... on new injection methods in the lab of Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Ian Hunter, ...

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Solar panels get a face-lift with custom designs

to embed into existing solar panels? Recruiting MIT mechanical engineering student Jody Fu, Sistine ... Sistine recruited Anthony Occidentale, an MIT mechanical engineering student who has since helped further ...

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Finding leaks while they’re easy to fix

development and testing for nine years by professor of mechanical engineering Kamal Youcef-Toumi, graduate ... period of time,” says Mark Gallager, director of engineering and distribution at the Cambridge, ...

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Cell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs

Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...

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Robo-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 ...

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New system recovers fresh water from power plants

A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... by Maher Damak PhD ’18 and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Damak and ...

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“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles

nimbly “feels” its way through its surroundings in a way that engineers describe as “blind locomotion,” ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ...

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New approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets

mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Dan Soto, graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, and ... spraying fuel into engines or water into cooling towers, and printing with fine droplets of ink. The new ...

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Bursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air

assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... ocean,” says Andrea Prosperetti, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, who ...

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