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On a mission to measure
George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics and the instructor in charge of 2.671 during the fall ... experiments to test that hypothesis,” explains Assistant Professor Mathias Kolle, who teaches the 2.671 ... projects as a lab professor. “But when it’s something they care about, they are motivated to find out the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-measureUnderstanding combustion
currently the most feasible way to produce electricity and power,” explains Sili Deng, assistant professor ... Professor. RS3581_Deng, Sili 1024.jpg Deng is working toward understanding the chemistry and flow that ... dynamics.” Along with her team at the Deng Energy and Nanotechnology Group at MIT, she hopes that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionNeed a water filter? Peel a tree branch
fact, an MIT team has discovered that this low-tech filtration system can produce up to four liters of ... blocking most types of bacteria. Co-author Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... at MIT, says sapwood is a promising, low-cost, and efficient material for water filtration, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-water-filter-peel-tree-branchA Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes
MIT’s Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc: punching through ... typically very slow, so a robot has difficulty reacting in time,” says Ramos, of MIT’s Department of ... Sangbae Kim, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Center Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bipedal-robot-human-reflexesLobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Qu and Fei Deng of Harvard University, and Zhao Qin, who is a research scientist in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberA creative desire, and the grit to get it done
When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... class — taught by Professor Daniel Frey — was aircraft, and the requirements of the final project were ... car. “The professor really just let us go crazy,” she says, adding that toward the end of the class, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creative-desire-and-grit-get-it-doneAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Researchers, including Professor Russ Tedrake, ... billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... Yang, an EECS graduate student; and senior author Russ Tedrake, the Toyota Professor of EECS, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesNew tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease
disease,” says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT ... hopes of discovering new treatments for these liver diseases, MIT engineers have designed a new type of ... , a professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering, and the senior author of both studies. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tissue-models-could-help-researchers-develop-drugs-liver-diseaseAlumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)
determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, Yoerger studied under Professor Tom ... with my life.” The guest was award-winning oceanographer Professor Robert Ballard, who would later ... research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-dr-dana-yoerger-sb-%E2%80%9977-sm-%E2%80%9979-phd-%E2%80%9983Competing Mechanisms Influence Tumor Cell Migration
Singapore Research Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and Mechanical Engineering ... student of Kamm’s, Melody Schwart (now a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) had ... December 5, 2011 sadlers gray rdkamm@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/competing-mechanisms-influence-tumor-cell-migrationSolving the puzzle of ice age climates
changes in the ocean, atmosphere, and ice cover,” says Raffaele Ferrari, the Breene M. Kerr Professor of ... Physical Oceanography in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, “and what we really ... place like no one has managed to do before,” says Daniel Sigman, a professor of geological and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-puzzle-ice-age-climatesWater world
significantly affect fluid motion. To fully understand how climate works, researchers at MIT say students must ... Green Professor of Oceanography, have worked to make rotating fluid dynamics more intuitive for ... University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, working with physics professor Amit Tandon, came up with an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-worldDana Yoerger
chemical flux, as well as determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, ... Yoerger studied under Professor Tom Sheridan, who was researching human-machine interactions. “One of ... oceanographer Professor Robert Ballard, who would later discover wreckage from the Titanic. “Sometimes I think ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dana-yoergerModel quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ... studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... a topical problem in typical MIT fashion,” adds Barbastathis. One of those students was Dandekar. “The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-quantifies-impact-quarantine-measures-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadA new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
specific task,” says Alberto Rodriguez, an MIT visiting scientist who is a former member of the MechE ... members of the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube) under Rodriguez’ direction. “In this work ... Bronars, who is now working with Pulkit Agrawal, assistant professor in the department of Electrical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-offers-robots-precise-pick-and-place-solutionsBose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
Since 2014, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has supported MIT faculty with innovative ... 2017 MIT Resource Development Horizontal Associate Department Head for Operations, Professor Evelyn ... six research teams composed of nine MIT faculty members will pursue projects ranging from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bose-grants-2017-reward-bold-and-unconventional-research-visions%C2%A0Underwater Robot for Port Security
contraband. Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MIT researchers ... Professor of Engineering Harry Asada. “If this is cheap enough — if I can get this out for $600, say — why ... routing of maritime traffic.” The MIT research was funded by the National Science Foundation. Friday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securitySun-powered desalination for villages in India
grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Now an analysis by MIT ... study, by MIT graduate student Natasha Wright and Amos Winter, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, appears in the journal Desalination. Winter explains that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaGetting a grip on robotic grasp
way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... — or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ... 2014 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office orange asada@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspBeyond low-hanging fruit
Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... (Precision Machine Design) class, sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, decided to give it a go. “So, ... nonproliferation.” History has a way of repeating itself, Slocum says: “Before you had MIT, you had people who wanted ...
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