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Focusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges
student in mechanical engineering; and Harvey Michaels, a professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management. ... engineering and MIT EnergyHack’s communications director. A total of 260 students comprising 64 teams ... Department of Chemical Engineering. Team Joules in Lockdown came in third, winning $1,000 for their solution ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/focusing-innovative-solutions-world%E2%80%99s-energy-challengesHow much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Currently, most lithium is extracted from hard ... is more material-intensive than producing traditional combustion engines, and the demand for battery ... materials is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteriesCreating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way
Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, vice president of robotics research at TRI, ... Neural networks have made a seismic impact on how engineers design controllers for robots, ... engineering and computer science (EECS) PhD student and CSAIL affiliate who is a co-lead author of a new paper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-and-verifying-stable-ai-controlled-systems-rigorous-and-flexible-wayDigital Instruments for Musical Togetherness
measured, and is converted to a sonic output. Today, as a graduate student in mechanical engineering ... Engineering graduate student Joseph Ntaimo ’23 builds instruments that “empower people to jam with ... degree. “He’s really pushed me to become a better engineer,” says Ntaimo. In addition to that work, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/digital-instruments-musical-togethernessTalking Shop: Professor Steven Dubowsky
Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and serves as director of ... Alissa Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering orange International dubowsky@mit.edu ... clean water systems for challenging field environments. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-steven-dubowskyGoing with the flow
Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor of Marine Technology and professor of mechanical and ocean ... engineering. “But while we get ideas from fish, we needn’t use exactly the same design that they do.” In fish, ... computation that vision requires, for example,” Triantafyllou says. The engineered version, he adds, should ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flowMobius App Released to Empower MIT Maker Community
entrepreneurial projects. Rebecca Li, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, notes that students often have ... alumnus, professor of mechanical engineering, and the recently appointed MIT “Maker Czar.” He acknowledges ... prototyping equipment, or instrumentation. These tools are essential for engineering and for obtaining and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobius-app-released-empower-mit-maker-communityTwo-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
mechanical engineering at MIT. More than motion Previously, Kim and Ramos built the two-legged robot HERMES ... a heavy obstacle or break through a locked door. Engineers are making strides on the design of four-legged ... engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingJoystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely
That’s our future dream,” says Xuanhe Zhao, a professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and ... MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat ... environmental engineering at MIT. Zhao and his team have published their findings today in Science Robotics. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/joystick-operated-robot-could-help-surgeons-treat-stroke-remotelyA bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... Council of Canada, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the ... them in humans. The research was funded by Novo Nordisk, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractPills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ... MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when ... on schedule, MIT engineers have designed a pill that can report when it has been swallowed. The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceHow some skills become second nature
a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can make that knowledge explicit, ... in Mechanical Engineering. Hidden gaze The concept of tacit knowledge is credited to the scientist ... MIT engineers wondered: Could an expert’s unconscious know-how be accessed, and even taught, to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-some-skills-become-second-natureCerebral Curiosity
a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and based at the MIT Media Lab, Keating says ... Sciences, and David Wallace, a professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems — Keating studies ... digital construction and biologically inspired design. He is pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cerebral-curiosityDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) is combining expertise in mechanical engineering ... and mechanical engineering in the Department of Architecture; Daniel Frey, a professor in the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenyaA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
MIT’s Karl van Tassel Career Development Professorship, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... chemotherapy they receive. To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with an ... 1024-Closed-Loop-Chemo-01-press_0.jpg To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with a way to continuously ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapyMaking agriculture more resilient to climate change
more than half of their crops. Kripa Varanasi, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, is working ... graduate student Maher Damak (left) and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa K. Varanasi, ... Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-agriculture-more-resilient-climate-changeAlumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems
engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company ... with embedded firmware and control systems. On the back end, software is engineered to distribute ... and traverse, but they have to do it on a very consistent, reliable basis. From a mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kiva-systemsAlumni Spotlight: Davide Marini, PhD ‘03
designed to make the life of scientists easier. MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has historically ... I saw Daniel Pregibon (who at the time was finishing his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering ... a very precious opportunity. I was working on the mechanical properties of a biomaterial, and eventually ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-davide-marini-phd-%E2%80%9803New surface treatment stops scale buildup
Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... when warm, moist air cools suddenly as it meets a cooler surface. For the most part, engineers have ... there’s mechanical damage, the lubricant can return to that surface,” Subramanyam says. “It can maintain ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildup