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School of Engineering first quarter 2023 awards
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of ... scientists working in our academic departments, labs, and centers. Anuradha Agarwal of the MIT Microphotonics Center ... among faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering recognized for their scholarship, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-first-quarter-2023-awardsArtificial intelligence meets “blisk” in new DARPA-funded collaboration
researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Lehigh ... Cordero, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and ... engineering at MIT; S. Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-meets-%E2%80%9Cblisk%E2%80%9D-new-darpa-funded-collaborationMarkus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award
MIT Professor Markus J. Buehler has been named the recipient of the 2025 Washington Award, one of ... well as Orville Wright, Henry Ford, Neil Armstrong, John Bardeen, and renowned MIT affiliates Vannevar ... inspire the next generation and serving as an instructor for MIT Professional Education summer courses. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/markus-buehler-receives-2025-washington-awardRainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds
smell in the air after a light rain? Now scientists at MIT believe they may have identified the ... Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “It’s a very common phenomenon, and it ... around MIT’s campus and along the Charles River. He also collected sandy soil from Nahant Beach in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-study-findsUntangling How Cables Coil
can significantly slow telecommunications around the world. Now engineers at MIT, along with computer ... theoretical analyses. In the lab, MIT engineers set up a desktop system to spool spaghetti-like cables onto ... used for simulating animated hair and, incorporating the parameters of the MIT experiment, found that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-how-cables-coilAlumni Spotlight: VADM (ret) Paul Sullivan (SM ’80)
things?’” As an undergraduate, Vice Admiral Sullivan was accepted to both MIT and the Naval Academy, and ... the average sophomore undergraduate at MIT knew more engineering calculus than I did, even as a math ... a surprise. “I got a call from the Admiral, and he said, ‘Do you still want to go to MIT and teach?’ And ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-vadm-ret-paul-sullivan-sm-%E2%80%9980Talking Shop: Kripa Varanasi
condense within these textures either – similarly with frost. When I came to MIT as an assistant professor ... MIT $100K Competition and the subsequent media frenzy over LiquiGlide – we realized that it’s a great ... MIT is a great place for innovation and commercialization. The entrepreneurial ecosystem here is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-kripa-varanasiBuilding nursery 2.0
monitor” — an innovative, sensor-implanted onesie being commercialized by a team of MIT alumni through ... their startup, Rest Devices. Dubbed the Mimo kimono, the baby monitor, based on the co-founders’ MIT ... a student who is currently on leave from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This month, Rest Devices ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20The physics of curly hair
researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ... Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ... Curie; and former MIT graduate student James Miller, who is now a research associate at Schlumberger-Doll ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairLifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood
engines. His work with Professor James Fay and Professor James Keck in the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory ... Heywood (left) in the Sloan Automotive Lab, with Professor James Keck (right). Photo courtesy of MIT ... Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodHybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half
a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... emissions for a given amount of power produced. The concept, proposed by MIT doctoral student Katherine Ong ... system proposed by MIT researchers. At the bottom, steam (pink arrows) passes through pulverized coal, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-system-could-cut-coal-plant-emissions-halfProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) program at MIT. John H. Lienhard V, the Abdul Latif ... the program has received and funded grant proposals from all five of MIT’s schools, provided 24 seed ... a multimillion dollar award for a project on food safety and supply chains, led by MIT Sloan School of Management ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-make-inroads-global-food-and-water-challengesNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... which is the basis for a startup company called Infinite Cooling that last month won MIT’s $100K ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsMagnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with ... Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... Nature. His co-authors include Yoonho Kim, Hyunwoo Yuk, and Ruike Zhao of MIT, and Shawn Chester of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchRobotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “If we could design a device to reverse blood ... hope.” Zhao and his team, including lead author Yoonho Kim, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-thread-designed-slip-through-brain%E2%80%99s-blood-vesselsHow strong is your knot?
what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now. MIT ... whether a knot is strong or not,” says Jörn Dunkel, associate professor of mathematics at MIT. “With this ... adds Mathias Kolle, the Rockwell International Career Development Associate Professor at MIT. “And now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsArtificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
changes wrought by the virus. MIT researchers have now found that people who are asymptomatic may differ ... a factory, or a restaurant,” says co-author Brian Subirana, a research scientist in MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. ... Subirana’s co-authors are Jordi Laguarta and Ferran Hueto, of MIT’s Auto-ID Laboratory. New AI model ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-intelligence-model-detects-asymptomatic-covid-19-infections-through-cellphoneCustom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ... replica of a patient’s heart. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT. The procedure involves first converting medical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/custom-3d-printed-heart-replicas-look-and-pump-just-real-thingNew purification method could make protein drugs cheaper
which help them to form protein crystals. Courtesy of the Researchers, colorized by MIT News. In an ... effort to help reduce those costs, MIT engineers have devised a new way to perform this kind of ... formation at low concentrations,” says Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and the ...
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