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Where the wind blows
simply because the technology is mature," says Paul Sclavounos, an MIT professor of mechanical ... engineering and naval architecture. "There is no technological risk." Globally, 2 percent of ... a major contributor to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, says research engineer Stephen Connors, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-wind-blowsNew Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy
co-authors include Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological ... Engineering at MIT, as well as research scientists Andrea Pavesi and Giulia Adriani, postdoc Majid Ebrahimi ... directly from a patient, says Chwee Teck Lim, a professor of biomedical engineering at the National ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microfluidic-device-offers-means-studying-electric-field-cancer-therapyOptimizing parking in the busiest places
to Sang when he enrolled at MIT as a PhD student in mechanical engineering, and bought his first car. ... scores of parking data available, there was no data-analytics engine to monitor parking “inventory” on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/optimizing-parking-busiest-placesRobo-picker grasps and packs
stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... an impact,” says Alberto Rodriguez, the Walter Henry Gale Career Development Professor in Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robo-picker-grasps-and-packsMIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the robot demonstrates something that’s ... a solitary, slow-moving, yet surprisingly agile game of Jenga. The robot, developed by MIT engineers, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-combines-vision-and-touch-learn-game-jengaNew parameters in graduate mentoring
‘the best ability is availability’,” says Professor Cullen Buie of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, “and I’m constantly trying to figure out how to be more available for the people I mentor.” ... Sikes: Teaching beyond the lab Professor Hadley D. Sikes of the Department of Chemical Engineering is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoringMonthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Entrepreneurship International Horizontal MIT engineers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monthly-birth-control-pill-could-replace-daily-dosesModel could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As the country battles a winter wave of new infections, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-could-help-determine-quarantine-measures-needed-reduce-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadBig data dreams for tiny technologies
nanoformulation,” says Giovanni Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering, and senior corresponding author of the study. Their findings point to a strategy for that solves ... professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. “We can account for things like drug absorption, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/big-data-dreams-tiny-technologiesGiving robots better moves
Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who Odhner says encouraged ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-better-movesSetting a new standard for hormone health
MIT studying mechanical engineering and design. Mathur, who began waking up in the middle of the night ... Wong was studying electrical engineering at Hong Kong University, and Suzuki was an undergraduate at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/setting-new-standard-hormone-healthA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ... allowing new materials and compounds to be “reverse-engineered” simply by inputting a set of desired ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracyThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
material,” says Carlos Díaz-Marin, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the Device ... MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial ... these decisions and come up with contact-rich plans,” says H.J. Terry Suh, an electrical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesTiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
engineers have identified a new optical signature in a widely used class of magnetic beads, which could be ... Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab; and Assistant Professor Loza Tadesse of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. Oil and water Looking for diseased cells and pathogens in fluid samples is an exercise in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogensA pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy
expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... every evaluation,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist at MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. “We think this technology could potentially be used to remotely evaluate any condition that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsyRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
mechanical engineering at MIT. “A robot wouldn’t have to ask a human so many questions about what they need. ... of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) through the Center for Complex Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansBasketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Data return Across the sports world, data analysts have grown in number and ... engineers, sports scientists, directors of research, and other technical positions by title, but also staff members ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesMeet the MITAA President: Stephen P. DeFalco ’83, SM ’88
future generations. DeFalco, whose one-year term begins July 1, earned his mechanical engineering degree ... master’s in computer engineering from Syracuse University. Then he returned to MIT to get a master’s degree ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-mitaa-president-stephen-p-defalco-%E2%80%9983-sm-%E2%80%9988Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ... simple, and cheap modality,” says study co-author Loza Tadesse, assistant professor of mechanical ... 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-tool