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Glassy carbon, now with less heat
Last winter, MIT researchers discovered that a phenol-formaldehyde polymer transformed into ... adding a small fraction of carbon nanotubes to this material. Glassy carbon 1024.jpg Research by MIT ... Alexander J. Constable (2015), postdoc Luiz Acauan, and the senior author, professor of aeronautics and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatProtecting maternal health in Rwanda
MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ... PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... by Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, a professor at Harvard Medical School, was awarded the $500,000 first-place ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-maternal-health-rwandaNeed a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ... decide exactly what to explore in their experiments. What if artificial intelligence could help? MIT ... says Buehler. “At MIT, we do that by having a bunch of people with different backgrounds working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiIce Bucket Challenge: The MechE Way
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J-d-kSOahiI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Professor Chen was nominated for the ... accepted the challenge and was joined by MechE faculty members Professor Gareth McKinley, Associate ... Professor Tonio Buonassisi, Associate Professor Maria Yang, and Assistant Professor Amos Winter. Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-bucket-challenge-meche-wayEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... says Wilson, now professor emeritus, is to make it a fee rather than a carbon tax. The difference, he ... assignment he loved, but had to leave after contracting a severe case of malaria. In 1966, he came to MIT at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesNew theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet
researchers at MIT have found a way to track the thickness of a droplet’s rim as it splashes up from a variety ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... Transmission Laboratory at MIT, says the group’s results can be used to model the physics of sprays, such as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-describes-intricacies-splashing-droplet“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ... MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Culture Education Horizontal The newest version of the Cheetah 3 robot, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-cheetah-3-robot-can-climb-stairs-littered-obstaclesOceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals
oceanographers at MIT has journeyed to Norway — one of the last remaining regions of the world where cod still ... professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, and Olav Rune Godø of ... OAWRS system, an imaging technique developed at MIT by Makris and co-author Purnima Ratilal, which emits ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oceanographers-produce-first-ever-images-entire-cod-shoals-0Alumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
provides an easy and adjustable interaction for the mason. “This project was MIT from the very beginning. ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and one of the 2.009 lab instructors assigned to the Rhino team. “It ... professor of mechanical engineering, a massive team of faculty, staff, alumni, and Boston area design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-team-tops-collegiate-inventors-competitionAn immersive experience in industry
and aerospace engineering. katie-hahm-nithin-reddy_1024.jpg MIT PhD candidates Katie Hahm (left) and ... within their own academic experience at MIT. Projects are designed to be short term, lasting three to six ... and an academic supervisor from MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty. They also produce a report of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/immersive-experience-industryOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
Friday, October 4, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Education Horizontal Associate Professor Ken Kamrin ... — a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... store, buy cornstarch, then turn on your faucet,” says Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictableEngineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants
Saturday, March 28, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor Xuanhe Zhao has 3-D-printed ... inflammation and the buildup of scar tissue. MIT engineers are working on developing soft, flexible neural ... a professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering, the research team has now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-soft-rubbery-brain-implantsA flexible way to grab items with feeling
Professor Edward Adelson and his Perceptual Science Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... Conference on Soft Robotics. Courtesy of MIT CSAIL The fin ray has become a popular item in soft robotics ... professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University who was not invovled with the research, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-way-grab-items-feelingStudy Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
Vladimir Bulović, the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technology and MIT’s associate dean for ... MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to ... work on other technologies. An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesMicrobes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech
batteries LEMI, in collaboration with Professor Martin Bazant in MIT's Department of Chemical ... wastewater, and potentially sell some back to grid," says Cullen Buie, who heads up MIT's Laboratory ... MIT in 2010. "The lab encompasses all the things that interest me, including alternative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microbes-chow-down-latest-fuel-cell-techMaking waves
ocean dynamics. Pierre Lermusiaux Photo: M. Scott Brauer Lermusiaux leads MIT’s Multidisciplinary ... Lermusiaux, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You have fronts and eddies, ... a nuclear engineer, his mother a geography professor, and his sister an architect. The family often went ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-wavesA new way to make steel could reduce America’s reliance on imports
lab of Gang Chen, MIT’s Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering. She studied thermal ... in metallurgy and hydrogen production in the lab of Douglas Hart, MIT professor of mechanical ... entrepreneurship when she explored commercializing some of that research. Meroueh received a grant from the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-steel-could-reduce-america%E2%80%99s-reliance-importsA New Mechanism for Catalyzing the Splitting of Water
MIT Assistant Professor Alexie M. Kolpak show through theoretically based models and simulations ... researchers at MIT, the Skoltech Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin show in a new ... contains precious metals. Through collaboration with MIT theorists, the team unraveled how the reaction ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-mechanism-catalyzing-splitting-waterInternet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other
open learning and the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... lost in the supply chain. So, Sarma, along with research scientist David Brock of MIT and Kevin Ashton, ...
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