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Delivering life-saving oxygen
Professor Daniela Rus’s group in MIT CSAIL. They used a design developed in the mechanical engineering class ... a team of researchers at MIT’s Electrochemical Energy Lab (EEL) started to devise a plan to develop an ... energy carriers,” explains Yang Shao-Horn, professor of mechanical engineering and EEL’s director. “We ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/delivering-life-saving-oxygenEmpowering Futures
through the digital practices of today, Regan was there to offer students support and guidance. Professor ... told MIT News. As an academic administrator, Regan served as a guiding force for countless graduate ... Shangzhi Wu SM ’81, MBA ’84, PhD ’85 reminisced about his journey to MIT over 45 years ago, recollecting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/empowering-futuresStartups take root in senior capstone class
market analysis and alpha-prototype production. MIT-2.009-Event-PRESS.jpg Mechanical engineering students ... pursuits,” says David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and long-time instructor of 2.009. While ... Professor Ellen Roche, is how to work on teams. “These projects provide students with an opportunity to work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startups-take-root-senior-capstone-classA Letter from Department Head Gang Chen
exciting research is not done in a vacuum. Thanks to the newly minted MIT 3-Sigma Sports (formerly the ... Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head This article originally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-gang-chenComputing for ocean environments
blooms, coral bleaching, and rising temperatures,” says Wim van Rees, ABS Career Development Professor ... the structure,” adds van Rees. swim_carlingfish_front 1080.jpg Assistant Professor Wim van Rees and ... fish-like deformable fins could improve propulsion in underwater devices. Credit: MIT van Rees Lab Through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/computing-ocean-environmentsHelping underrepresented doctoral students of color thrive in the broader MIT community
The MIT University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) was founded in 2015 with an Alfred P. ... Mechanical Engineering, and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science/Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... of MIT News. UCEM engages candidates through the entire process of “thinking about a PhD, getting in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-underrepresented-doctoral-students-color-thrive-broader-mit-communityDesigning cleaner vehicles
MIT, even though he had little prior experience in curriculum development. He joined Professor Sangbae ... Adi Mehrotra knew that his time at MIT wasn’t up yet when he finished his undergraduate degree in ... arenas: designing clean energy vehicles and enhancing mechanical engineering education at MIT. For the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesHow much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?
materials is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ... Professor Yang Shao-Horn spends time with Ask MIT Climate answering the question: How much CO2 is emitted by ... You can submit your own question to Ask MIT Climate here. Original Article from Ask MIT Climate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteriesMIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
MIT Sea Grant director Michael Triantafyllou and professor of mechanical engineering Themistoklis ... Agriculture Organization. Two MIT students recently traveled to Trondheim, Norway to explore the cutting-edge ... intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-sea-grant-students-explore-intersection-technology-and-offshore-aquaculture-norway-0The proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturing
MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing, announced today by President Sally A. Kornbluth, is the ... latest installment in a grand tradition: Since its founding, MIT has worked overtime to expand U.S. ... manufacturing, creating jobs and economic growth. Indeed, one of the strongest through lines in MIT history is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/proud-history-and-promising-future-mit%E2%80%99s-work-manufacturingSanjay Sarma to step down as vice president for open learning
Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been responsible for MIT Open Learning, ... Professor Admir Masic, Sarma scaled the MIT Refugee Action Hub, which now serves refugees on four ... News Office Horizontal After nine years leading MIT’s work on digital learning, Professor Sanjay Sarma ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sanjay-sarma-step-down-vice-president-open-learningAdhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater
other marine animals, researchers from MIT and other institutions have designed a mechanical adhesive ... weeks. MIT_Underwater-Adhesives-01-press_0_1024x683.jpg MIT engineers have devised a novel adhesive ... underpinnings of how to engineer a synthetic adhesive system,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-inspired-hitchhiking-sucker-fish-sticks-soft-surfaces-underwaterPalladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel
Persad, a former MIT research scientist in mechanical engineering who is now an assistant professor at the ... around 800 kelvins, they can break down. Now, MIT engineers have developed a new palladium membrane that ... separating out hydrogen, rather than degrading as a surface film would. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/palladium-filters-could-enable-cheaper-more-efficient-generation-hydrogen-fuelStudy finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch
Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical and biological engineering at MIT. “The consequence is that ... Lite-Brite pattern. But MIT engineers have found that the picture has many more shades. ... MIT-Genetic-Dimmer-01A-press_1024.jpg Traditionally, scientists have thought that epigenetic memory locks genes either “on” or “off” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-finds-cell-memory-can-be-more-dimmer-dial-onoff-switchStudy provides suggestions for keeping classroom air fresh
Technology Program at MIT and a fellow at MIT’s Tata Center; and Glicksman, the senior author and a professor ... according to a new study from researchers at MIT. MIT-Covid-Classroom-01-1024.jpg Regular ventilation may ... not be enough to prevent the spread of Covid-19; MIT team looks at classroom configurations and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-provides-suggestions-keeping-classroom-air-freshMaking self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception
road with. MIT-Heng-Yang-1024.jpg Safety concerns have clouded the future of fully autonomous vehicles. ... To accelerate their progress, MIT graduate student Heng “Hank” Yang and colleagues have developed ... on to pursue a master’s in mechanical engineering at MIT, where he worked on improving an ultrasound ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-self-driving-cars-safer-through-keener-robot-perceptionGiving robots a sense of touch
Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... sensors on the grippers of robotic arms, two MIT teams have given robots greater sensitivity and ... enable a robot to manipulate smaller objects than was previously possible. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-sense-touchMirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
Kolle, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But when Cecile made the first surfaces we ... 23, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT engineers including Associate Professor Mathias ... background. Now, engineers at MIT have developed a small, mirrored chip that helps to produce dark-field ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mirrored-chip-could-enable-handheld-dark-field-microscopesA new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome
Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. “We showed that you can grow ... Griffith and David Trumper, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering, are the senior authors of the ... However, MIT biological and mechanical engineers have now designed a specialized device in which they can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tool-modeling-human-gut-microbiomeAUVs: From Idea to Implementation
director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program, the Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering and ... Stojanovic, a visiting scientist at MIT Sea Grant and associate professor at Northeastern University. What’s ... Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ...
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