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Startups take root in senior capstone class
market analysis and alpha-prototype production. MIT-2.009-Event-PRESS.jpg Mechanical engineering students ... They utilized entrepreneurship resources at MIT like the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, the ... Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship “delta v” accelerator, the MIT $100k Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startups-take-root-senior-capstone-classEngineering fantasy into reality
MIT-Erik-Ballesteros-01-press_1024.jpg Erik Ballesteros is currently at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to refine the design of ... is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... Before coming to MIT, he interned on multiple projects at JSC, working in the training facility to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-fantasy-realityLooking to space to cure osteoarthritis
teaching a basic course on semiconductor physics and circuits in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering ... London, founder of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Grodzinsky won a sabbatical ... I teach my course at MIT related to biomechanics,” Grodzinsky says, “I ask about ACL injuries, and just as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/looking-space-cure-osteoarthritisErik Ballesteros
MIT-Erik-Ballesteros-01-press_1024.jpg Erik Ballesteros is currently at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to refine the design of ... is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... Before coming to MIT, he interned on multiple projects at JSC, working in the training facility to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/erik-ballesterosStudy finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch
Lite-Brite pattern. But MIT engineers have found that the picture has many more shades. ... MIT-Genetic-Dimmer-01A-press_1024.jpg Traditionally, scientists have thought that epigenetic memory locks genes either “on” or “off” ... — either fully activated or fully repressed. But MIT engineers have found that a cell’s memory is set not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-dimmer-dial-onoff-switchSlowing the Spread
stop the spread of the virus. An air of uncertainty descended on MIT’s campus in early March. Whispers ... Within days, the Infinite Corridor’s usual stream of activity and noise was silenced. While MIT’s dorms ... Evelyn Wang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spreadDesigning for a more equitable world
This October marks 15 years since Amy Smith, a celebrated inventor and educator, founded MIT ... challenges. MIT-D-Lab-Amy-Smith-1024.jpg D-Lab classes, research groups, and programs are connected to ... School of Engineering to discuss her love of teaching MIT students about international development work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-more-equitable-world3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science
several books, as well as in classes and workshops at MIT and around the country, and an online class on ... MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ... engineers, Frankel is also a consultant to the MIT News Office. She spoke with MIT News about some of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-felice-frankel-improving-visual-side-scienceVibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
sometimes jiggling the key a bit will help. Now, new research from MIT suggests that coronaviruses, ... cell wall so it can hijack the cell’s reproductive mechanisms. MIT-COVID-Spikes-02-PRESS.jpg New ... research at MIT shows that vibrations of the protein spikes on coronaviruses, including the one that causes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vibrations-coronavirus-proteins-may-play-role-infectionSoft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought
separates and gets runny over time. MIT-MaterialMemory-01-press_1024.jpg Using a rheometer, MIT researchers ... researchers Credits: Now, an MIT engineer has devised a simple way to measure the degree of residual stress in ... a postdoc in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), presents a new protocol ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thoughtA new way to irrigate crops year-round
lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ... farmers. “We didn’t create this fancy technology at MIT and then think about where it was applicable,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ... windows and lasts up to a decade longer. MIT-Thermal-Control-1024.jpg The visual and thermal properties of ... performance and is promising enough to start commercializing,” says Strobach, who is a PhD Candidate in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsWith a zap of light, system switches objects’ colors and patterns
light. MIT researchers have developed a way to rapidly update imagery on object surfaces. The system, ... through prototypes without getting bogged down with painting or printing. MIT ... have been possible before,” says Michael Wessley, the study’s lead author and a postdoc in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/zap-light-system-switches-objects%E2%80%99-colors-and-patternsA New Era in 3D Printing
hundred years later, a new type of printing was invented in the labs of MIT. Emanuel Sachs, professor of ... layer by layer. Feature Images_01 1024.jpg Each component of this three-piece assembly of MIT’s Building ... Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Ideation Laboratory. “It gives you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingChecking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
development and distribution of new technologies. MIT-SpectroGen-01-press_1024.jpg The circle with the chip ... Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ... engineering at MIT. “Then you can use SpectroGen to generate the rest. And this could improve productivity, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/checking-quality-materials-just-got-easier-new-ai-toolStartup’s tablets deliver cancer drugs more evenly over time
quantities. MIT-Enzian-01-press_1024.jpg Aron Blaesi PhD ’14 holds two gastroretentive fibrous dosage forms, ... Blaesi came to MIT, he knew he wanted his mechanical engineering PhD work to form the basis of a company. ... Early on, as part of the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing, he worked on manufacturing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-tablets-deliver-cancer-drugs-more-evenly-over-timeMIT and SUSTech announce Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech
MIT and the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China, have ... announced the launch of the Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech. ... The two centers, which will be located at MIT and SUSTech, aim to foster research collaborations and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-and-sustech-announce-centers-mechanical-engineering-research-and-education-mit-andDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
MIT_Lithium-Metal-Batteries1024.jpg X-ray tomography images taken at Brookhaven National Lab show cracking of a particle in one ... of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found a novel electrolyte that overcomes these problems and ... sacrificing the cycle life. The research is reported today in the journal Nature Energy in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteriesMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
road with. MIT-Heng-Yang-1024.jpg Safety concerns have clouded the future of fully autonomous vehicles. ... To accelerate their progress, MIT graduate student Heng “Hank” Yang and colleagues have developed ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionQ&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
This is the second article in a four-part interview series highlighting the work of the 27 MIT ... dioxide emissions by midcentury is complex and demands new ideas and novel approaches. The first-ever MIT ... climate solutions. In the following conversations prepared for MIT News, faculty from three of the teams ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gas