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Sometimes the quickest path is not a straight line

what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... Lermusiaux, the Doherty Associate Professor in Ocean Utilization, developed a mathematical procedure that can ... in a constantly changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and ...

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Hydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water

Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Foundation. Monday, November 9, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red zhaox@mit.edu Horizontal Xuanhe Zhao ...

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Students Unveil “Magical” Product Designs

finale one of MIT’s most-anticipated annual events. Arguably exceeding expectations, this year’s finale ... Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who has been blind since age ... students surprised Wallace, a professor of mechanical engineering and MacVicar Faculty Fellow, with ...

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Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14

fixing leaks. An MIT Tata Center fellow and Deshpande Center grantee, Swaminathan is developing a modular ... engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ... see patterns. That’s the thing that interests me most.” As a PhD student under Professor Lienhard, ...

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Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter

Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Skoltech-MIT Center for Electrochemical Energy ...

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3-D-printed structures shrink when heated

expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... curious class of heat-shrinking materials. The team, led by Nicholas X. Fang, an associate professor of ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ...

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Re-engineering the sprinkler

A team of MIT engineers has described a novel way of controlling the flow of water in flexible ... a former postdoc at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design who is now a postdoc at the University of ... conserve resources.” Wang co-authored the paper with three researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...

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Julien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment

a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ...

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Researchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles

Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...

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3-D scanning, with your smartphone

and technological expertise.  But MIT spinout Viztu Technologies helped change that: Back in 2011, ... of his MIT dissertation. “Now it only takes a smartphone or digital camera a few minutes online to ... Systems integrate the Viztu technology, Milnes returned to MIT to finish his PhD in mechanical ...

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A closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy

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 ... the safety and efficacy of many drugs,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical ...

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Untangling How Cables Coil

associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “We have ... can significantly slow telecommunications around the world. Now engineers at MIT, along with computer ... theoretical analyses. In the lab, MIT engineers set up a desktop system to spool spaghetti-like cables onto ...

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Hybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half

a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... emissions for a given amount of power produced. The concept, proposed by MIT doctoral student Katherine Ong ... and Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor Ahmed Ghoniem, is described in their paper in the Journal of ...

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New system recovers fresh water from power plants

A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... which is the basis for a startup company called Infinite Cooling that last month won MIT’s $100K ...

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Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans

help a human is an even thornier exercise. Now, MIT roboticists have a way to cut through the data ... a novel Relevance framework developed at MIT, the robot identifies and prioritizes objects in the scene to ... make it much easier for a robot to interact with humans,” says Kamal Youcef-Toumi, professor of ...

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