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Lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... Qu and Fei Deng of Harvard University, and Zhao Qin, who is a research scientist in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberBreakthrough in boiling
associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, has made a significant breakthrough in ... describes its work in the March 11 issue of Applied Physics Letters. Baglietto, who arrived at MIT in 2011, ... surrogate fuel assemblies and transparent walls, MIT researchers were able to observe the fine details in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breakthrough-boilingA 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
production of specialized parts. Now Inkbit, a startup out of MIT, is working to bring all of the benefits of ... commercialize their idea of joining machine vision with 3-D printing. At MIT, Matusik’s research group used ... a strategic partner of Inkbit, is in the process of acquiring one of the first printers. The MIT Startup ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printer-powered-machine-vision-and-artificial-intelligenceStudents present product prototypes inspired by kindness
of class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). For many MIT seniors, their entire undergraduate ... a sold-out crowd in Kresge Auditorium. Faculty, students, alumni, and staff from across the MIT community ... teaching assistants, and the team in MIT’s Pappalardo Lab to re-imagine the course in light of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-present-product-prototypes-inspired-kindnessNavigating beneath the Arctic ice
global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below the ice cover. A team of MIT engineers ... Sensing Systems (LAMSS) including Daniel Goodwin and Bradli Howard, graduate students in the MIT ... ICEX will serve to help the Navy in that mission.” ICEXCollageStory.jpg A team of MIT engineers working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-beneath-arctic-ice-0A robot that finds lost items
figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... Signal Kinetics group in the MIT Media Lab. Co-authors include research assistant Tara Boroushaki, the ... October 5, 2021 Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Horizontal A robotic arm, developed by Associate Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsDragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
out other activities that are assumed to be less mentally taxing. The new study, by researchers at MIT ... be influenced by lack of sleep,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department ... a grant from the MIT-Brazil MISTI program, and the team began to explore whether more subtle stimuli, such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dragging-your-feet-lack-sleep-affects-your-walk-new-study-findsA creative desire, and the grit to get it done
When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... academics. She jokingly says she chose MIT because it had the “best pool in the Northeast,” and speaks very ... water during practice.” She has applied to graduate school at MIT and has worked on projects through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creative-desire-and-grit-get-it-doneAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... the MIT researchers designed a simple model that performs a similar type of smoothing, enabling it to ... in part, by Amazon, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and the Ocado Group. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesFaculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock
Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office Their effect on the surface of ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ... Recherche Scientifique and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France, and the MIT France Program. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-thomas-peacockFaculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux
Chandler, MIT News Office Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer Sometimes the fastest pathway ... changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and Assimilation Systems ... and Wayne Leslie. The work was funded by the Office of Naval Research and by the MIT Sea Grant College. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-pierre-lermusiauxAlumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)
degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... of our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-danielle-zurovcik-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9811Undergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage
Graduating Senior Lays Groundwork for Locating Fresh Water Sources Photo credit: MIT News ... Oceanographic Institution (Charette is a currently funded MIT Sea Grant investigator), Olesnavage selected sites ... collaboration between MIT and The Cyprus Institute: young, promising scientists performing cutting-edge research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undergraduate-spotlight-katy-olesnavageA new way to make microstructured surfaces
Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the ... doctoral student from the University of Michigan; and Sameh Tawfick, a former postdoc at MIT who is now at ... Tuesday, July 29, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfacesSquishy robots
applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ... robotics.” Monday, July 14, 2014 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent red Collaboration PEKO@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsA microchip for metastasis
Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisEngineering students demonstrate product prototypes
yoga or sell some veggies, organize your workshop or calm an elderly relative, MIT’s mechanical ... engineering students may be able to help you do it better. Before a raucous crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium ... MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-students-demonstrate-product-prototypesCocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs
An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... nature to the kitchen.” MIT scientists design two culinary novelties, inspired by nature. The first is ... Wednesday, November 6, 2013 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office yellow Collaboration Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cocktail-novelties-inspired-nature%E2%80%99s-designsDanielle Zurovcik
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/danielle-zurovcikDavid Hu
Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ... students in an active, goal-oriented exercise between segments. (To see an MIT BLOSSOMS video in action, ...
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