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Cleaning Water Without the Grid
MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, but he describes one of the most important aspects of his job as ... “detective work.” That’s what he, MIT PhD candidate Natasha Wright, and their fellow researchers did for two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-water-without-gridFinding Wonderland
that defy expectations, both her own and those of others. Her decision to attend MIT at all surprised ... Engineering (MechE). “I thought everyone at MIT would be about science all the time. Instead I found strong ... throughout the world. Opening new possibilities is something MIT does well, said Moudio. She nearly passed up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-wonderlandBasic training
A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ... build the makerspace itself this summer. MakerLodge_01_1024.jpg MIT has over 40 design/build/project ... to 10 of MIT’s makerspaces; pairing with a maker community; and up to $100 in “makerbucks,” a stipend ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basic-trainingBatch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach
water is energy-intensive. A team of MIT researchers has responded by creating new designs for reverse ... could substantially reduce the energy use of future desalination systems. The team is co-led by two MIT ... mechanical engineers, PhD candidate Emily Tow and postdoc David Warsinger, and also includes MIT PhD student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batch-desalination-configuration-bests-standard-reverse-osmosis-approachProfessors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
MIT professors Ahmed Ghoniem and Katherine “Kate” Kellogg have been selected as the most recent ... Committed to Caring seeks to recognize and celebrate MIT faculty members who go above and beyond to make an ... Graduate students nominate faculty who have made a difference in their lives during their time at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringGraphene holds up under high pressure
But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... possibilities for energy-efficient desalination at high salinities.” Karnik’s co-authors are lead author and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureUsing mechanical forces to improve wound healing
’80s, Orgill earned his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and ... medical exposure. As a mechanical engineering student at MIT, it was only natural that Orgill gravitated ... received his master's and PhD from MIT in the early '80s before earning an MD from Harvard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanical-forces-improve-wound-healingCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
Voigt, a professor in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, made those comments at the first of ... Sept. 14th and Sept. 28th at the Samberg Center. The annual workshop brings members of the MIT community ... collaboration is a hallmark of MIT’s research culture. J-WAFS seeks to leverage that collaboration by being ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsGiving early-career women in mechanical engineering the tools to succeed in academia
MIT’s campus. They all come from different backgrounds — one person studies human-robot interaction at ... Mechanical Engineering Workshop hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program, which is ... a researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who also works for the MIT IMPACT Program. IMPACT helps ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-early-career-women-mechanical-engineering-tools-succeed-academiaTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ... other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... is such a ubiquitous chemical that “every lab at MIT has some,” he says, so finding markets for it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resourcePhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and ... education in Canada, and worked in Houston as an engineering consultant before being drawn to MIT to pursue ... engineering and a BS in electrical engineering from MIT. From 2015 to 17, Godart also held a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsNew capsule can orally deliver drugs that usually have to be injected
to those injections, MIT engineers, working with scientists from Novo Nordisk, have designed a new ... others in the future,” says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-capsule-can-orally-deliver-drugs-usually-have-be-injectedMaking data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... researchers at IDSS, MIT, and beyond who apply advanced statistical tools to Covid-19 data in order to help ... Isolat research produced a number of tangible impacts, informing not only MIT’s reopening and testing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plansCancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
A study from MIT now shows that tumor cells become much softer as they undergo this process. The findings ... Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and an author of the study. MIT graduate ... author. Other MIT authors include Peter So, a professor of mechanical engineering and biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cancer-cells-soften-they-metastasize-study-suggestsThe tenured engineers of 2021
The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to eight members of its ... Kulik, Elsa Olivetti, Alberto Rodriguez, James Swan. Photo Courtesy of MIT News. This year’s newly ... Computer Science and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, focuses his research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tenured-engineers-2021An all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
stick with their treatment regimen. A team of MIT researchers has now come up with a new approach to ... the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... same needle. This could eventually make the process of managing diabetes even more streamlined. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentProfessor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94
Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... a teaching fellow until that time. That same year, Griffith came to MIT and worked as a research assistant ... until 1954, when he became an instructor. In 1956, Griffith earned his ScD from MIT, where he then ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94“In everything I do, I’m a creator”
her interests now: “That definitely paved the way.” Untitled design (34).jpg An MIT senior ... by MechE- Gazdus, who created prints of these paintings of MIT campus scenes. “I’ll always be writing ... MIT by project classes such as 2.00B (Toy Design) and 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing). “It was so ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-everything-i-do-i%E2%80%99m-creator%E2%80%9DSoft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body
Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at MIT have ... 1024NoPainFibers-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have designed a soft hydrogel optical fiber (shown illuminated) that stimulates ... University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who carried out part of the work as a postdoc at MIT. “Our fibers can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-optical-fibers-block-pain-while-moving-and-stretching-bodyIngestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ... Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... tract. Traverso is one of the senior authors of the study, along with Robert Langer, an MIT Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-electronic-device-detects-breathing-depression-patients