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An assisted step forward: Max Burns talks about the process, and teamwork, of invention
assistive technology research. I joined the MIT Newman Laboratory for Human Rehabilitation, where I’ve been ... advised by graduate student Kaymie Shiozawa and Professor Neville Hogan. I was excited to work with the ... technology, correct–it’s another outgrowth of your primary research interest. Yes! I helped restart the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/assisted-step-forward-max-burns-talks-about-process-and-teamwork-inventionA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
Collaboration SLLOYD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Professor Seth Lloyd has developed a way to help solve the problems of ... the same even when something is bent and stretched every which way. MIT-Quantum-Big-Data.JPG This ... computers to streamline these problems has been developed by researchers at MIT, the University of Waterloo, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataCharles Stuard Woodard
Last year, during a reception on campus, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard was introduced to ... Claire Conceison, the Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture and professor of theater arts. The two ... countries, discussing Institute policies as a member of the eight-student advisory cabinet convened by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charles-stuard-woodardBringing it all back home
manufacturing policy and MIT’s inaugural John M. Deutch Institute Professor, was in attendance on Thursday. As ... International Professor of Political Science and director of MIT’s Center for International Studies. “He put in ... speaking at MIT on Thursday, contending that if U.S. states pursue broad, long-term measures to improve the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-it-all-back-homeEducating future naval leaders
Commander Douglas Jonart Eng ’14, SM ’14, PhD ’16, associate professor of the practice at MIT and Course 2N ... Since 1901, MIT has offered a graduate program unlike any other at the Institute. The Naval ... both from MIT’s perspective and the Navy’s perspective. We have access to the greatest engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/educating-future-naval-leadersNick Schwartz
Schwartz’s confidence to pursue his goals comes from the encouragement of MIT professors and staff, starting ... better,” says MIT senior Nick Schwartz. Image: Ian MacLellan “I came up with [the idea] my sophomore year ... makes a lot of people smile,” he says proudly of his annual tradition, which is funded by the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzJessica Xu
including pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. In her time at MIT, she has expanded her horizon ... tunnels beneath MIT’s campus through the Borderline Tunnel Project. Later on, she collaborated with UA ... between things and trying to draw inspiration from just about anywhere,” Xu says. Upon coming to MIT, Xu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jessica-xuEngineers devise a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots
Robotics, in a paper by MIT research assistant Alfonso Parra Rubio, professors Michael Triantafyllou and ... MIT’s RoboTuna, for example, was composed of about 3,000 different parts and took about two years to ... design and build. Now, researchers at MIT and their colleagues — including one from the original RoboTuna ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-devise-modular-system-produce-efficient-scalable-aquabotsLessons from the Clean Air Car Race 50 Years Later
Agency by the end of the year. In the midst of this progress, a team of MIT students and faculty, with ... could make the 3,600 miles from MIT to Caltech in fast, rally-style race, while meeting new stringent ... race, participants of the Clean Air Car Race gathered on MIT’s Killian Court for a photo-op. Credit: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lessons-clean-air-car-race-50-years-laterPutting projects at the forefront
all in. She is among MIT’s 45 second-year students engaged in a pilot educational initiative that has ... the potential to re-engineer engineering education. MIT-NEET-1024.jpg Second-year student Albert Go ... Mitchell Guillaume, Michael Everett, and Yu Liang (Gloria) Fang. Photo: Lillie Paquette/MIT School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/putting-projects-forefrontSimple, solar-powered water desalination
Labban, and John Lienhard, who is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water at MIT. The research was ... A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ... efficient, low-cost water source. MIT-Portable-Desalination-1024.jpg Tests on an MIT building rooftop showed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationOur gut-brain connection
engineering and mechanical engineering, and Rudolf Jaenisch, an MIT professor of biology and a member of MIT ... different from humans’. To help researchers better understand the gut-brain axis, MIT researchers have ... MIT-GutBrain-Axis-1024.jpg MIT researchers have developed an “organs-on-a-chip” system that replicates interactions between ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/our-gut-brain-connectionAlbatross robot takes flight
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ... in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who led the design of the robot as part of his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightSuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress
If one overarching message emerged from the 2018 SuperUROP Showcase, it was this: MIT ... SuperUROP-2018-poster-screens-MIT-1024.jpg About 130 undergraduates discussed the progress of their yearlong research projects at during the ... billion technology company that was born at MIT. Leighton’s talk, “The Akamai Story: From Theory to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/superurop-showcasing-students-research-work-progressExtending the life of low-cost, compact, lightweight batteries
in the journal Science by former MIT graduate student Brandon J. Hopkins ’18, W.M. Keck Professor of ... their metal electrodes. Now, MIT researchers have found a way to substantially reduce that corrosion, ... expensive and more compact and lightweight, but they can lose 80 percent of their charge a month. The MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/extending-life-low-cost-compact-lightweight-batteriesPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
Matheson | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal A team of researchers including Professor ... problematic for long-term monitoring. MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DBatteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
joined 2.013/2.014 (Engineering System Design/Development) taught by MIT professor of mechanical ... MIT’s atmosphere of innovation, where many of his professors readily offered technical and ... The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batteries-%E2%80%9Cdrink%E2%80%9D-seawater-could-power-long-range-underwater-vehicles-0Turning heat into electricity
15, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal In a new study, Professor Gang Chen finds that ... might one day become a reality. MIT-dirac-heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers, looking for ways to turn heat ... Daniloff/MIT Thermoelectric devices are made from materials that can convert a temperature difference into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricitySolar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... expense. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt ... accumulation,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationThis ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
Health. Thursday, February 8, 2024 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Professor Xuanhe Zhao and his team ... MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs ... can stiffen over time,” says the senior author of the paper, Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-sticker-senses-changing-stiffness-deep-internal-organs