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Alumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
rural and suburban areas. Professor Lienhard had himself just begun a major research project ... research and development performed at MIT and Gradiant. CGE is less expensive and less complex than ... disposal and sourcing issues.” Gradiant, which employs more than 30 researchers and operators – most of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12MIT undertakes Grand Challenge for innovation in global vaccine manufacturing
innovative research project for global health to create a next-generation manufacturing platform to produce ... Integrative Cancer Research, and lead investigator for the MIT team. "ULTRA should ultimately empower ... Daniel G. Bracewell from UCL and Kansas University professor David B. Volkin and research scientist ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-undertakes-grand-challenge-innovation-global-vaccine-manufacturingEngineers design “tree-on-a-chip”
leaves. To make the chip, the researchers sandwiched together two plastic slides, through which they ... way, you could absolutely stick a sugar cube on it and let it go,” Hosoi says. This research was ... supported, in part, by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency. Sunday, March 19, 2017 Jennifer Chu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-%E2%80%9Ctree-chip%E2%80%9DCombined energy and water system could provide for millions
efficiently using clean-energy resources, a team of researchers from MIT and the University of Hawaii has ... engineering project. The researchers, who have shared their findings in a paper published in Sustainable ... ocean, which reduces reverse osmosis outflow system costs. As part of their research, Slocum’s team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/combined-energy-and-water-system-could-provide-millionsGoing with the flow
could behave differently depending on how they were prepared. While much research had been done on how ... surprisingly difficult. For Kamrin, inspiration came in an unlikely place: a research study about emulsion flow ... in grains. This research has led to a new family of scaling laws that can predict large-scale driving ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flow-0Tackling Greenhouse Gases
risen 0.9° C since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Researchers agree that the rise in ... Researchers across MIT are working on a myriad of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across ... his team in the Photovoltaic Research Lab hope to harness the power of the sun while Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-greenhouse-gasesJ-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
essential support that entrepreneurially-minded members of the Institute’s research community need to ... the environmental impact of runoff. An interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers has received a J-WAFS ... research led by Kripa Varanasi to make pesticides stickier, producing less runoff. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-grants-advance-sustainable-agricultureGetting more heat out of sunlight
and difficult process involving several researchers for about four years. But the result is an aerogel ... especially in comparison with vacuum-based systems. The research team included research scientist Bikram ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso
Boston Dynamics, we worked with researchers at BWH including Dr. Peter Chai and Dr. Ed Boyer to outfit ... equipment usage. Vitals robot 1024.jpg Researchers hope to reduce the risk to healthcare workers posed by ... Covid-19 by using robots like Spot to take patients’ vital signs. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-giovanni-traversoControlling bubble formation on electrodes
and quantified how bubbles form on these porous electrodes. The researchers have found that there are ... of overpotential. Image Courtesy of the Researchers The transition is quite abrupt, Zhang says, so ... The work was supported by Toyota Central R&D Labs, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-bubble-formation-electrodesMIT Scientists Twist Apart More Than 1,000 Oreos in Search for Perfect Method
Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s mechanical engineering department. She led a group of researchers on ... the researchers discovered that the fickle filling stuck to just one wafer about 80% of the time. ... snack foods, such as macarons, ice cream sandwiches and Nutter Butter cookies. The Oreo research, she ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-scientists-twist-apart-more-1000-oreos-search-perfect-methodA cool new way to study gravity
Pulsone/MechE Shin, who is also a MathWorks Fellow, researches quantum and precision metrology platforms that ... been classical tools for gravity research since [Henry] Cavendish’s famous experiment in 1798. They’ve ... canceled.” This approach reduced noise by a factor of a thousand, which allowed the researchers to detect ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cool-new-way-study-gravityNew AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches
part of a sketch should it extrude? To bridge this gap, the researchers developed a system to translate ... familiar patterns,” says Mehdi Ataei, who was not involved in the study, and is a senior research scientist ... at Autodesk Research, which develops new design software tools. “This is an early foundation, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ai-agent-learns-use-cad-create-3d-objects-sketchesGiving robots a sense of touch
Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... dexterity. The researchers presented their work in two papers at the International Conference on Robotics and ... area. The MIT researchers adopted the same approach. Wenzhen Yuan, a graduate student in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchLeveraging computational tools to enhance product design
behind product design. Now, she’s pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, researching how ... part of her research, she has even found herself collaborating with D-Lab again. Saadi is currently ... design process. She hopes to use her research to provide guidance on how generative design tools can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leveraging-computational-tools-enhance-product-designProcessing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
research. But “MIT gives students big latitude for exploration, and I took courses outside my department,” ... International Development Initiative and the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center to conduct more research ... Bates’ research — develop the small-scale, practical device for biomass thermochemical conversion in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsRobotics in the 21st Century
operator feels the balance of the robot. Professor Kim and his research group are working now on how to ... and human-robot interactions are still really challenging research questions,” says Professor John ... Professor John Leonard was one of the first researchers to work on the problem of simultaneous localization ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotics-21st-centuryOptimizing carbon nanotube electrodes
porous materials, the researchers have found they can quantify the morphology of a CNT sample, without ... destroying it in the process. In a series of tests, the researchers confirmed that their adapted model can ... their model, the MIT researchers inferred the CNT interspacing in their samples. Since the forest ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/optimizing-carbon-nanotube-electrodesEngineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor
to the research with Xu, along with Jiawei Zhou, Bai Song, Elizabeth Lee, and Samuel Huberman; Zhang ... polymeric snarls and knots. And yet, researchers have attempted to turn these natural thermal insulators ... widespread overheating problem, and provide better thermal management.” This research was supported, in part, ...
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