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Need a water filter? Peel a tree branch
the journal PLoS ONE, the researchers demonstrate that a small piece of sapwood can filter out more ... similar.” Seeing red To study sapwood’s water-filtering potential, the researchers collected branches of ... ranging from 70 to 500 nanometers in size. After all the liquid passed through, the researchers sliced the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-water-filter-peel-tree-branchA Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes
movements,” Kim says. “This research might provide us an opportunity to learn about how we balance during such ... which indicates its balance and stability. The researchers worked with HERMES, a 100-pound biped robot ... measured, the researchers calculated the robot’s center of pressure, or where it was shifting its weight. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bipedal-robot-human-reflexesFour from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships
research in the MIT Media Lab’s Viral Communications Group, where he worked to help build a voting and ... and conducting research with the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative to examine injustices in ... her freshman year, Scott traveled to Singapore to conduct materials research, fabricating thin-film ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-awarded-2018-schwarzman-scholarshipsUnderstanding the impact of climate change on the ocean
presented on their summer aboard the research vessel Nautilus Explorer. The counselor was studying Course ... researcher working alongside Thomas Consi, research education specialist. In addition to building a model ... bleaching,” Kornberg adds. Since researchers are unable to see algae leave the coral using the visual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-climate-change-oceanMichelle Kornberg
research vessel Nautilus Explorer. The counselor was studying Course 2-OE (Mechanical and Ocean ... working with the MIT Sea Grant College Program as an undergraduate researcher working alongside Thomas ... Consi, research education specialist. In addition to building a model tugboat through her work with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michelle-kornberg-0MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards 2020 seed grants
MIT.nano has announced its second annual seed grants to support hardware and software research ... thrilled to award seven grants this year in support of research that will shape how people interact with ... capture, photogrammetry, and visualization, the facility is available for use by researchers and educators ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mitnano-immersion-lab-gaming-program-awards-2020-seed-grantsDeveloping community around design
fellows are making good on that promise with research projects supporting a range of efforts, with many ... prioritize students whose education and research emphasize design with a focus on users who will benefit from ... available on the Morningside Academy for Design website. Some of the research projects the fellows are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-community-around-designPing pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ... ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers ... Precise play Building robots to play ping pong is a challenge that researchers have taken up since the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ping-pong-bot-returns-shots-high-speed-precisionMIT Faculty Collaborate to Address Environmental Challenges
chance of becoming real economic policies? These are some of the complex questions that researchers at ... collaborative partnership. In response to a call for research proposals, the ESI received 59 submissions. In ... March, the initiative awarded seed grants of up to $200,000 to nine research groups over the next two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-collaborate-address-environmental-challengesWith campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
pillars to address the global challenge of climate change through research, technology, education, and ... efforts, research and coursework supports new cohorts of sustainability thinkers and doers making an impact ... This unique research-staff partnership has enabled MIT to make significant progress in reducing its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/campus-test-bed-climate-action-starts-and-continues-mitAviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory
"We have found that today's university students are undertaking research and innovation that ... the lab and in his research work at MIT as part of the Lincoln Scholars program." Through the ... with the Laboratory through his thesis research and part-time work and will return to full-time ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aviation-weeks-2014-twenty20s-include-two-ties-mit-lincoln-laboratoryThe Power of Salt
according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ... general, the researchers found that the larger a system’s membrane, the more power can be produced — but ... a method in literature used for sizing heat exchangers, and we borrowed from that idea.” The researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-saltDepartment News
techniques to the RoboClam. To develop this low-energy anchoring system, the researchers built a mechanical ... and engineering.” Several MechE faculty gave tours of their labs and presentations about their recent research ... for Experimenting with Efficiency: Greening the grant process for research institutions, and Most Innovative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-0Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)
Sheridan, who was researching human-machine interactions. “One of Tom’s strengths was being able to see all ... major AUV research throughout the past few decades. He was part of the research team for the remotely ... research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT/WHOI ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-dr-dana-yoerger-sb-%E2%80%9977-sm-%E2%80%9979-phd-%E2%80%9983Refrigerator magnets
according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ... Because magnons behave much like electrons in this aspect, the researchers developed a theory of magnon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsGetting a charge out of water droplets
Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ... attractive to the droplets. Now the researchers have shown that the same process can be used to generate ... mechanical engineering at Boston University who was not involved in this research, says, “This work provides ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsMorphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... is the primary cause of drag for blunt objects. When the researchers saw the wrinkled outcomes of ... Many researchers have studied various kinds of wrinkled surfaces, with possible applications in areas ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceA new way to harness waste heat
researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy. Most such ... researchers at MIT and Stanford University have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat ... that can be delivered for a given weight — than thermoelectrics. It also will require further research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heat