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Alexie Kolpak and Amos Winter honored with 2017 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Awards
Assistant Professors Alexie Kolpak and Amos Winter have both been awarded the 2017 NSF Faculty Early Career ... Rockwell International Career Development Assistant Professor and leads a group studying computational ... Career Development Professor and Director of the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab which focuses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alexie-kolpak-and-amos-winter-honored-2017-nsf-faculty-early-career-development-awardsEngineers repurpose 19th-century photography technique to make stretchy, color-changing films
Miller’s co-authors are MIT undergraduate Helen Liu, and Mathias Kolle, associate professor of mechanical ... repurposed by MIT engineers. By applying a 19th-century color photography technique to modern holographic ... materials, an MIT team has printed large-scale images onto elastic materials that when stretched can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-repurpose-19th-century-photography-technique-make-stretchy-color-changing-filmsRobotic “SuperLimbs” could help moonwalkers recover from falls
constrict their movements,” says Harry Asada, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We want to ... MIT engineers, the lunar bloopers also highlight an opportunity to innovate. “Astronauts are ... along with the controller and motors to power the limbs. MIT-SuperLimbs-01-press.jpg SuperLimbs, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-%E2%80%9Csuperlimbs%E2%80%9D-could-help-moonwalkers-recover-fallsUltrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses, study finds
invisible damage to the RNA inside,” says Tomasz Wierzbicki, professor of applied mechanics at MIT. “The ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A new study by researchers including Professor ... about its physical integrity. MIT-Virus-Vibrations-1024.jpg Ultrasound has potential to damage ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-has-potential-damage-coronaviruses-study-findsSweat-proof “smart skin” takes reliable vitals, even during workouts and spicy meals
Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We can provide wearable sensors that can do ... MIT engineers and researchers in South Korea have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” ... sensors. MIT-E-Skin-01-1024.jpg Engineers have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” — a conformable, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sweat-proof-%E2%80%9Csmart-skin%E2%80%9D-takes-reliable-vitals-even-during-workouts-and-spicy-mealsWhy boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces
Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi and grad student Victor Julio ... trivial phenomenon has been analyzed and understood for the first time by researchers at MIT — and may ... expected to move much more slowly. But, counterintuitively, the series of experiments at MIT has showed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-boiling-droplets-can-race-across-hot-oily-surfacesSix from MIT, including MechE's Thomas Peacock and Lydia Bourouiba, named American Physical Society Fellows for 2021
mathematician and associate professor the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, the Department of ... hydrodynamics.” Thomas Peacock is a professor in mechanical engineering. He joined the MIT faculty in 2000 and ... Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock and Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba are two of six MIT professors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-including-meches-thomas-peacock-and-lydia-bourouiba-named-american-physicalMaterials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium
20 held by MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory. About 200 people registered to attend the event in ... Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor in the Department of Materials Science and ... the need for interdisciplinary collaborations. For example, Caitlin Mueller, an associate professor in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials%E2%80%99-key-role-addressing-climate-change-focus-materials-day-symposiumMIT Robot Learns How to Play Jenga
hardware, Alberto Rodriguez, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and members of MIT's MCube ... Video Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: Using AI to Play Jenga Teaser Text: MIT's MCube lab ... https://youtu.be/o1j_amoldMs MIT's MCube lab, have developed a robot that is learning how to play the game Jenga®. Using ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-learns-how-play-jengaMIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education
professor in MIT Literature "Minor notes" addresses current gaps in K-12 literary arts education ... programs and professor in the Department of Architecture; and Caitlin Mueller, director of MIT Digital ... Initiative; and John Fernández, director of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-win-grants-develop-and-test-14-innovative-ideas-improve-educationMining the Deep Sea
Researchers including Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, are racing to understand the ... future, but at what cost? Researchers including Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at ... MIT, are racing to understand the environmental impact of deep-sea mining. Energy Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mining-deep-seaBio-Inspired Robotics
building biomimetic robots. MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore ... students study simple, everyday movements before building biomimetic robots. MIT Mechanical Engineering ... students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-roboticsSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ... day. In contrast to other solar-driven desalination designs, the MIT system requires no extra batteries ... MIT-SolarWater-01-Press_0.jpg Jon Bessette sits atop a trailer housing the electrodialysis desalination system at the Brackish ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesA Revolution in Higher Education
the Future of MIT Education with Professor Karen Willcox and Executive Vice President and Treasurer ... they could continue to take online courses, interacting with peers and professors at MIT. “The whole ... the past. MIT Sanjay_1024.jpg Photo illustration: Len Rubenstein “As the volume of knowledge has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolution-higher-educationCooling homes without warming the planet
works. Co-founder Mircea Dincă, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy in MIT’s Department of Chemistry, has ... the impact on the climate when compared to traditional ACs. MIT-Transaera-01_1024.jpg The startup ... ’07, who is also a lecturer at MIT D-Lab, and CTO Matt Dorson, a mechanical engineer who worked with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-homes-without-warming-planetFive with MIT ties elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2021
’99, Darrell Gaskin S Faculty honorees include Linda G. Griffith, a professor in the MIT departments of ... Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; and Feng Zhang, a professor in the MIT departments of ... academy recognizes Zhang, the Patricia and James Poitras ’63 Professor in Neuroscience at MIT, for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-ties-elected-national-academy-medicine-2021Asada, Daniel, Shah Named Fellows of IEEE
are three members of the MIT community: Harry Asada, Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department ... of Mechanical Engineering; Luca Daniel, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and ... Devavrat Shah, the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asada-daniel-shah-named-fellows-ieeeA simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders
can sense contractions of the GI tract. MIT researchers have now designed a new device that could ... communicate information. MIT-Quipu-Diagnostic-03.jpeg The quipu, an ancient Incan technology, is a set of ... MIT researchers and their collaborators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital showed that their simple ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-diagnostic-tool-gastrointestinal-disordersNew Microscope Creates Near-Real-Time Videos of Nanoscale Processes
molecules. MIT-Better-Micro-1-1024.jpg A new high-speed microscope produces images of chemical processes ... throughout an experiment. Photo by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT But scanning these images is a meticulous, ... capture active, changing environments. Now engineers at MIT have designed an atomic force microscope that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-microscope-creates-near-real-time-videos-nanoscale-processesMechE Milestones
’10, Partner at Khosla Ventures and Co-founder of Roominate, and Asegun Henry PhD ’09, MIT Professor of ... MIT celebrates the 150-year anniversary of its first lab opening and its designation as Course ... of the long desired Mechanical Engineering Laboratory.”- Professor Channing Whitaker, 1874 Report to ...
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