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Three from MIT awarded 2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. In her graduate studies, Luu researched methods to improve ... Yoel Fink's research laboratory, creating digital sensor fibers that have been woven into ... intelligent garments that can assist in diagnosing illnesses, and in Professor Joseph Paradiso's research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-awarded-2022-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansHow to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater
As carbon dioxide continues to build up in the Earth’s atmosphere, research teams around the world ... enter this area. Now, a team of researchers at MIT says they may have found the key to a truly efficient ... ships and offshore platforms. Courtesy of the Researchers. This removal of carbon dioxide and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-pull-carbon-dioxide-out-seawater-0Bubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs
10 to 25 percent. But new research reveals a decades-long misunderstanding about the extent of that ... graduate student Simon Rufer, professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, research scientist Ben ... formation and evolution with electrical measurements of the electrode’s performance, the researchers were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-findings-could-unlock-better-electrode-and-electrolyzer-designsTackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time
alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... Research Center (GEAR) and lead author of the study. Co-authored by Bryony Dupont, visiting scholar at ... undergraduate researchers Micah Borrero, Helena De Figueiredo Valente, and Brooke Bao. The MCSC’s Geospatial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-energy-revolution-one-sector-time2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles
When Michael Benjamin, principal research scientist in the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, ... student test kits in 2.S01 were designed and built by Supun Randeni, a research scientist in mechanical ... Randeni and Sacarny run the hands-on lab instruction. The goal is to expand education and research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2s01-special-subject-invites-first-year-students-get-their-feet-wet-working-underwaterEldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall
Photo: Courtesy of the researchers. With their design, the researchers hope to prevent falls, which today ... assist a user. The researchers are also working on streamlining the device to make it slimmer and more ... impact. The researchers believe that E-BAR is the first robot able to catch a falling person without ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-and-stand-and-catches-them-if-they-fallAudrey Chen
interning at NASA. She asked her mentor and became a drone air traffic control researcher at NASA at 15. “I ... Admissions), working as a researcher sampling deep-sea sediment, or notably, running the ... researched as land autonomy is. There’s immense potential for marine autonomy to benefit the world. You think ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/audrey-chenDeep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell
The approach could apply to more complex tissues and organs, helping researchers to identify early ... Cell boundaries show how individual cells fold, divide, and rearrange. Courtesy of the researchers The ... interactions give rise to global tissues and organisms.” The researchers hope to apply the model to predict the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-model-predicts-how-fruit-flies-form-cell-cellThe Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown
planet.” Indeed, it is only in the past few decades that researchers have really been able to inspect, ... to look into the oceans. His OAWRS technique allowed researchers to take images of areas about 100 ... foundation for the use of acoustics as a means for gathering ocean data. Researchers at MIT have also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-and-potential-oceans-unknownInventing soft things to solve hard problems
to become one of the most prolific engineering researchers at MIT. When people ask him what his lab ... underwater without losing their grip. The research showed that the sticky substances in barnacles are bathed ... added chitosan, a sugar derived from shellfish skeletons. The researchers froze the mixture into sheets ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventing-soft-things-solve-hard-problemsPushing the limits of athletic performance
Some of the research projects stem from the needs of industry partners, while others are inspired by ... work done in the lab to athletics. Many MechE faculty are conducting cutting-edge research at the ... Engineering and Emmy Awards rarely go hand-in-hand — unless you’re Principal Research Scientist Brian Anthony, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-limits-athletic-performance“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid
clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ... the glowing metal back into electricity when it’s needed. The researchers estimate that such a system ... system stems from a project in which the researchers looked for ways to increase the efficiency of a form ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Csun-box%E2%80%9D-would-store-renewable-energy-gridSchool of Engineering second quarter 2019 awards
was named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society on May 2. Elazer R. Edelman, of the Institute for ... the Outstanding Researcher Award from Intel Corporation on April 1. Song Han, of the Department of ... of Mechanical Engineering, awarded the Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-second-quarter-2019-awardsDaniel Hastings and Maria Yang appointed associate deans of engineering
the director of SMART, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He was appointed head ... Hastings is a recognized leader whose research spans laser material interactions, fusion plasma physics, ... to aeronautics and astronautics research, Hastings has received numerous honors including: the Losey ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/daniel-hastings-and-maria-yang-appointed-associate-deans-engineeringNASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training
completion, missions may involve performing research aboard the International Space Station, launching from ... astronomer at a naval research lab in Washington and to research supernovae at NASA's Goddard Space ... researcher. He most recently worked as a medical physicist in the Radiation Oncology Department at the Brigham ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nasa-selects-three-mit-alumni-astronaut-trainingManipulating the future
of his own research at the Toyota Research Institute and MIT’s Robot Locomotion Group, and it became ... in robotics is precisely what drew graduate student Anubhav Guha to the course. His research focuses ... directly related to his research. “I kind of wanted to explore the field a bit and get a feel for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manipulating-futureMIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders
engineering, where they work on Navy-related research ranging from autonomous vehicles to applied ocean ... doing research that is valuable to our nation’s security, and the high esteem the Navy places on MIT ... which continues to support the Navy and MIT’s naval programs through its research. The 2N program was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-programs-empower-next-generation-naval-leadersAlumni Spotlight: Meg O’Neill (SB ’93, SM ’94)
O’Neill first started with ExxonMobil at its Upstream Research Company, the oil industry was just starting ... cutting edge applied research. Moving into the production environment put all that engineering in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-meg-o%E2%80%99neill-sb-%E2%80%9993-sm-%E2%80%9994Talking Shop with Professor David Gossard
computer science and its intersection with mechanical engineering. His research activities included solid ... and principal research scientist Simona Socrates taught 2.01x). His fundamental dynamics course, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-david-gossard