Search Results
Showing Results for: “youngest mit professor”
Solving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
MIT-Polymer-1.jpg A scanning transmission electron micrograph (STEM) of the polymer material shows its division into ... Photo by: Asli Ugur Now researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have explained how ... the difficulty in explaining how they work, says Asli Ugur, an MIT postdoc and lead author of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersFor Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up
professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “Our initial idea was to make nanoscrolls for molecular ... severely limit graphene’s practical uses. Seeking an alternative, a team from MIT and Harvard University is ... a fraction of the cost, the researchers say. MIT-Nanoscrolls-1024.jpg An electron microscopy image shows many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stronger-lighter-cheaper-materials-scrollTissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s
MIT-Blood-Brain-Barrier-1024.jpg The blood-brain barrier — the normally tight border that prevents harmful molecules in the ... Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tissue-model-reveals-role-blood-brain-barrier-alzheimer%E2%80%99sSyringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ... News correspondent Horizontal MIT researchers led by Professor Kripa Varanasi have developed a simple, ... MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsToward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... mind, MIT researchers developed “ FlexBoard,” a flexible breadboard that enables rapid prototyping of ... author Michael Wessely, a recent postdoc at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toward-more-flexible-and-rapid-prototyping-electronic-devicesTemperature difference propels droplets
described this week in the journal Physical Review Fluids, in a paper by MIT associate professor of ... mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new way of driving fluid droplets across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/temperature-difference-propels-dropletsControlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact
demonstrated before,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of ... pair of liquid and solid materials, but now MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the ... described this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/controlling-how-%E2%80%9Codd-couple%E2%80%9D-surfaces-and-liquids-interactEngineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic “skin”
include first author and former MIT postdoc Yeongin Kim, who is now an assistant professor at the ... Now MIT engineers have devised a new kind of wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without ... mechanically vibrate in response to an electrical impulse. MIT-Chip-Free-Sensor-1024.jpg The device senses and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-fabricate-chip-free-wireless-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9DDomitilla Del Vecchio Bridges Math, Engineering, and Biology
research since she came to MIT as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2010. Attracted by ... Mechanical engineering professor carries out pioneering work in the creation of biological ... home. MIT-DelVecchio-1024.jpg Photo: M. Scott Brauer “He had a lab at our place that was full of all ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/domitilla-del-vecchio-bridges-math-engineering-and-biologyA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
MIT-Dew-Omniphobicity-1024.jpg This photo shows water droplets placed on the nanostructured surface developed by MIT researchers. ... with a specially designed shape. Images by Kyle Wilke Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to ... a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesFlexible yet sturdy robot is designed to “grow” like a plant
oil cap. Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designed to extend a chain-like appendage flexible ... MIT-Robo-Plant-01-1024.jpg The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on ... inventory, among other tasks. “Think about changing the oil in your car,” says Harry Asada, professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-designed-%E2%80%9Cgrow%E2%80%9D-plantHow to make hydrogels more injectable
materials, which are made from microscale building blocks akin to squishy LEGOs, MIT and Harvard University ... a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableA Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee
awinter@mit.edu Vertical Assistant Professor Amos Winter has calculated the ideal torque for prosthetic knees and ... prosthetics, at a fraction of the cost. MIT-Prosthetic-Knee-4-1024.jpg A prototype of the prosthetic knee ... going after this disruptive opportunity,” says Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-high-performance-prosthetic-kneeResearchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
electronic devices. MIT-Graphene-Wafers-01-1024.jpg Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT have developed a technique to harvest 2-inch ... materials, according to Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-quickly-harvest-2-d-materials-bringing-them-closer-commercializationGetting more heat out of sunlight
Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit). MIT-Heat-Collection-01-1024.jpg The key to the process ... Engineering; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering; and five others. The key to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightJim Magarian
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce Vickmark “I landed in aerospace ... leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program, Magarian has taken a new path ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-magarianOrisa Coombs
senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John Freidah “At 15, the intense pain and sense of ... make a difference in the world led her to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t ... Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that improved the lives of others. Her work on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/orisa-coombsTraining STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/training-stem-teachers-uncover-students%E2%80%99-full-potentialHeather Beem
In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beemProsper Nyovanie
studying … because by then you’d usually have electricity.” “The best thing about being at MIT is that ... engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in mechanical engineering. He discovered ... energy studies. Now as a graduate student and fellow in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/prosper-nyovanie-1