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Ancient African smelting technique sparks anew at MIT
coming from a much rarer sight on MIT’s campus — or, in fact, anywhere outside West Africa: ... smelting-courtyard-mit-1024.png MIT students and volunteers take turns working the bellows on a mud-and-straw furnace in the style ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering Admir Masic, focused on Roman concrete, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ancient-african-smelting-technique-sparks-anew-mitTwo from MIT named 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholars
University in the U.K. MIT senior Markey Freudenburg-Puricelli and recent alumna Abigail (“Abbie”) Schipper ... field of their choice at Cambridge University in the U.K. A longtime leader of MIT EMS, senior Abigail ... environmental policy. Arriving at MIT, Freudenburg-Puricelli joined the Terrascope first-year learning ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-named-2025-gates-cambridge-scholarsSaving the radome
Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, ... a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus ... MIT began a major renovation and capital improvement project for the building. That's when the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radomeSmart manufacturing program boosts productivity in factories
methods, materials, and machines. brian-anthony-mit_1024.jpg Professor Brian Anthony leads the discussion ... Sharing of knowledge in a collaborative, hands-on environment is a hallmark of MIT ... Arconic — and won glowing reviews from them for content and delivery. The MIT Smart Manufacturing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-manufacturing-program-boosts-productivity-factoriesTurning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels
continued working with MIT’s research community, sponsoring projects with Professor Emeritus John Heywood ... emitted, seeing it as a sunk cost and an environmental liability. The MIT spinout Emvolon is taking a new ... like landfills and oil wells.” MIT_EmVolon-02-Press.jpg Emvolon co-founders Emmanuel Kasseris SM ’07, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-automotive-engines-modular-chemical-plants-make-green-fuelsReliable energy for all
studying … because by then you’d usually have electricity.” MIT-Student-Nyovanie-1024.jpg “The best thing ... about being at MIT is that people are working on all these cool, different things that they’re ... knew he wanted to study engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reliable-energy-allAn easier way to remove medical devices
Traverso, the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... By taking advantage of a phenomenon that leads to fractures in metal, MIT researchers have ... Traverso is the senior author of the study, which appears in Advanced Materials. Vivian Feig, an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/easier-way-remove-medical-devicesUnleashing the potential of the mind
click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. MIT-Pison-Technologies-1024.jpg The MIT ... Ang on a mission that would change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical ... him back to MIT through the Advanced Study Program. Ang enrolled in classes at MIT’s Sloan School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-potential-mindJahnavi Kalpathy
In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ... where my degree was taking me, or why I’d been admitted to MIT in the first place.” Jahnavi was struck ... MIT. “I thought taking a break proved I was a failure,” Jahnavi says. “But it turned out to be the best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jahnavi-kalpathyGoing for the gold
MIT-Shred-Optics-01-1024.jpg Ted Ligety wearing the helmet and goggle collection that Shred will be debuting at the Olympics. ... MIT students and faculty helped enhance the lens technology used in the lenses of these goggles. ... and Carlo Salmini MBA ’11, a material engineer and MIT Sloan School of Management alum. “Of all the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-goldEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... journal Science Translational Medicine. Other co-authors include MIT postdoc and lead author Jingjing Wu; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
Associate Professor at MIT. “Even if we get rid of all our power plants, we need some solutions to deal with ... In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2Caroline Sorensen
says Dennis Whyte, the director of PSFC and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at MIT. “We ... MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... advance a novel project within the domain of applied science: the commercialization of fusion energy. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensenData-driven diabetes management
nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ... year. MIT_CommonSensing_1024.jpg Common Sensing co-founders James White (left) and Richard Whalley. ... insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementVeteran engineer studies career pathways of today’s graduates
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with uncertainy. MIT-james-magarian_1024.jpg Jim Magarian is a third-year graduate student and an ... engineering leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/veteran-engineer-studies-career-pathways-today%E2%80%99s-graduatesThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... Research Lab at MIT. “But now we are exploring widely different problems like how to make air conditioning ... appearing today in Advanced Materials. The study’s MIT co-authors are Gustav Graeber, Leon Gaugler, Yang ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airTo excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
generating new content that resembles everything they’ve seen before. But as MIT engineers say in a new ... a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT. “The objective of these models is to mimic a dataset. But as ... they will have to first refocus those models beyond “statistical similarity.” MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excel-engineering-design-generative-ai-must-learn-innovate-study-findsBenchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials
being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... MIT-MetaImpact-01-press_0.jpg: By firing microparticles at supersonic speeds, MIT engineers can test the resilience of various ... its aftermath, with nanosecond precision. meta-impact.gif MIT engineers have captured video of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/benchtop-test-quickly-identifies-extremely-impact-resistant-materialsWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsNew filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste
environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste. MIT engineers ... waste that plants generate. MIT-Sustain-Aluminum-02-press.jpg A schematic representation of the role of ... Lienhard, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and director of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-filter-captures-and-recycles-aluminum-manufacturing-waste