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How MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and a member of MIT’s governance team on manufacturing ... In mid-March, in response to the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic, MIT Medical quickly set up testing ... MIT-Medical-Trailer-1024.jpg A team of engineers, architects, medical workers, and facilities experts has built a 60-foot ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-mit-built-its-own-covid-19-testing-trailerNoninvasive imaging could replace finger pricks for people with diabetes
(LBRC) and an MIT professor of biological engineering and mechanical engineering; and Youngkyu Kim and ... A noninvasive method for measuring blood glucose levels, developed at MIT, could save diabetes ... patients from having to prick their fingers several times a day. The MIT team used Raman spectroscopy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-imaging-could-replace-finger-pricks-people-diabetesClass Close-Up: 2.S999
Solving for carbon neutrality at MIT While so many faculty and researchers at MIT are developing ... students’ hands. In class 2.S999, Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT, teams of students are tasked with ... developing a plan to achieve carbon neutrality on MIT’s campus by 2060. MIT-Sunset-Dominick-Reuter 1024.jpg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2s999Alumni Profile: Jacklyn (Holmes) Herbst ’10 MEngM ‘11, Isabella DiDio ‘16, and Ann McInroy ‘18
working for the same team. MIT-Alumni-1024.jpg From left to right: Ann McInroy ’18, Isabella Didio ’16, ... experiences studying mechanical engineering at MIT to help each other solve problems. “There’s a lot of ... brought me to Jackie’s office he told me that Jackie also went to MIT and made us do a fist bump with our ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-jacklyn-holmes-herbst-%E2%80%9910-mengm-%E2%80%9811-isabella-didio-%E2%80%9816-and-ann-mcinroy-%E2%80%9818Vapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
developed at MIT by the Varanasi Research Group is hoping to reduce both the water needs at these plants and ... prototype systems, first on MIT’s natural-gas-powered cogeneration plant and then on MIT’s nuclear research ... The technology was originally envisioned by professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-airDesigning for a more equitable world
This October marks 15 years since Amy Smith, a celebrated inventor and educator, founded MIT ... challenges. MIT-D-Lab-Amy-Smith-1024.jpg D-Lab classes, research groups, and programs are connected to ... School of Engineering to discuss her love of teaching MIT students about international development work, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-more-equitable-worldPushing material boundaries for better electronics
program at Hongik University, where he was lucky to met professors who had graduated from MIT and who ... your next big discovery. At least, that’s been the case for MIT’s Jeehwan Kim. A recently tenured ... faculty member in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Kim ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-material-boundaries-better-electronicsWant to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.
are Faez Ahmed, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with Angela Dai, associate ... electric vehicle range, can therefore be slow and siloed from company to company. MIT engineers say that ... at least in any sort of accessible, centralized form. MIT-car-aerodynamics-01-press_0.jpg In a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/want-design-car-future-here-are-8000-designs-get-you-startedTaking a leap in bioinspired robotics
in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... closing valves. MIT-SangbaeKim-A1-1024.jpg “Say there are toxic gases leaking in a building, and you need ... to fuse the two main projects in his lab: the MIT Cheetah, a four-legged, 70-pound robot that runs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-leap-bioinspired-roboticsHow cell mechanics influences everything
But really, not much is known about this process.” His work in cell mechanics led him to MIT, where he ... recently received tenure and is the Class of ’54 Career Development Associate Professor in the Department ... of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Mingo-Guo-01-press_1024.jpg Ming Guo’s research bridges multiple ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cell-mechanics-influences-everythingLow-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ... countries. Now MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor ... products. MIT-Prosthetic-Foot-04-1024.jpg The researchers working with collaborators at Jaipur Foot in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingStudy: There’s real skill in fantasy sports
of your league’s standings at the end of the season, a new MIT study suggests your performance ... fantasy football is inherently a contest that rewards skill. MIT-Fantasy-Sports-1024.jpg By analyzing the ... win/loss records of thousands of fantasy players over multiple seasons, MIT researchers have found that the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-there%E2%80%99s-real-skill-fantasy-sportsPushing through sand
For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you ... generate useful equations for cohesive materials like muds. MIT-Sand-Intruder_1024.jpg The photograph ... predicting granular versus fluid behavior is notoriously difficult. Ken Kamrin, associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-through-sand“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Csun-box%E2%80%9D-would-store-renewable-energy-gridDeep-learning technique reveals “invisible” objects in the dark
left to image,” says George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “When it comes to ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor George Barbastathis trained a computer to recognize ... impossible to decipher. But now, engineers at MIT have developed a technique that can reveal these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/deep-learning-technique-reveals-%E2%80%9Cinvisible%E2%80%9D-objects-darkA teacher’s education in Haiti
Eli, can you stay here and teach me?’” recalls Brooks. He decided to take a leave of absence from MIT ... experience teaching that ignited a spark in Brooks. MIT-Haitian-Orphanage-1024.jpg Mechanical engineering ... was the greatest decision I’ve made, maybe ever,” he recalls. Replicating MIT’s Toy Product Design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teacher%E2%80%99s-education-haitiStick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
or power lines. MIT-SelfPeel-Drop-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the ... a droplet. Image: Varanasi Group/MIT Now, MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the mechanics ... The new results are presented today in the journal Nature Physics, in a report by MIT associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-peel-or-bounce-controlling-freezing-droplet%E2%80%99s-fateTaking a break and making connections
In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ... the possibility of a fresh start. jahnavi-kalpathy-mit-00_460.jpg “I was going through a lot of ... calls from my family. I was unsure where my degree was taking me, or why I’d been admitted to MIT in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-break-and-making-connectionsIn the World: Remote Mexican Village Uses Solar Power to Purify Water
System developed at MIT proves practical for remote communities. Deep in the jungles of the ... researchers at MIT. The system consists of two solar panels that convert sunlight into electricity; these, in ... 1,000 liters of purified water a day for the 450 residents. The MIT team had previously demonstrated the ...
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