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Jahnavi Kalpathy
In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ... where my degree was taking me, or why I’d been admitted to MIT in the first place.” Jahnavi was struck ... MIT. “I thought taking a break proved I was a failure,” Jahnavi says. “But it turned out to be the best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jahnavi-kalpathyGoing for the gold
MIT-Shred-Optics-01-1024.jpg Ted Ligety wearing the helmet and goggle collection that Shred will be debuting at the Olympics. ... MIT students and faculty helped enhance the lens technology used in the lenses of these goggles. ... and Carlo Salmini MBA ’11, a material engineer and MIT Sloan School of Management alum. “Of all the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-goldEngineers develop surgical “duct tape” as an alternative to sutures
in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Surgeons could use it as they use duct tape in the ... journal Science Translational Medicine. Other co-authors include MIT postdoc and lead author Jingjing Wu; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-surgical-%E2%80%9Cduct-tape%E2%80%9D-alternative-suturesStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
Associate Professor at MIT. “Even if we get rid of all our power plants, we need some solutions to deal with ... In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2Caroline Sorensen
says Dennis Whyte, the director of PSFC and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at MIT. “We ... MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... advance a novel project within the domain of applied science: the commercialization of fusion energy. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensenData-driven diabetes management
nonadherent spend about $2,700 more in medical costs per year than those who are adherent. Now MIT spinout ... year. MIT_CommonSensing_1024.jpg Common Sensing co-founders James White (left) and Richard Whalley. ... insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementVeteran engineer studies career pathways of today’s graduates
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with uncertainy. MIT-james-magarian_1024.jpg Jim Magarian is a third-year graduate student and an ... engineering leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/veteran-engineer-studies-career-pathways-today%E2%80%99s-graduatesThis salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ... Research Lab at MIT. “But now we are exploring widely different problems like how to make air conditioning ... appearing today in Advanced Materials. The study’s MIT co-authors are Gustav Graeber, Leon Gaugler, Yang ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/salty-gel-could-harvest-water-desert-airTo excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
generating new content that resembles everything they’ve seen before. But as MIT engineers say in a new ... a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT. “The objective of these models is to mimic a dataset. But as ... they will have to first refocus those models beyond “statistical similarity.” MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excel-engineering-design-generative-ai-must-learn-innovate-study-findsBenchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials
being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... MIT-MetaImpact-01-press_0.jpg: By firing microparticles at supersonic speeds, MIT engineers can test the resilience of various ... its aftermath, with nanosecond precision. meta-impact.gif MIT engineers have captured video of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/benchtop-test-quickly-identifies-extremely-impact-resistant-materialsWhen muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “Maybe if we stimulate the ... can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vincent Butty of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-muscles-work-out-they-help-neurons-grow-new-study-showsNew filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste
environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste. MIT engineers ... waste that plants generate. MIT-Sustain-Aluminum-02-press.jpg A schematic representation of the role of ... Lienhard, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and director of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-filter-captures-and-recycles-aluminum-manufacturing-wasteHow to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion
make the other part worse. Now, using nanoscale filtering membranes, researchers at MIT have added ... percent, they say. The new findings are reported today in the journal ACS Energy Letters, in a paper by MIT ... doctoral students Simon Rufer, Tal Joseph, and Zara Aamer, and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-solve-bottleneck-co2-capture-and-conversionWatering the world
MIT-Drop-Irrigation.JPG Engineers at MIT have found a way to cut the cost of solar-powered drip systems by half, by ... environments where they cost farmers more than $3,000 per acre to install. Now engineers at MIT have found ... led by Amos Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, plans to further modify the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watering-worldArtificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... biomedical applications. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg The tiny coils in the fiber developed by MIT ... reported today in the journal Science. The new fibers were developed by MIT postdoc Mehmet Kanik and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-%E2%80%9Cmuscles%E2%80%9D-achieve-powerful-pulling-forceAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
An autonomous robotic system invented by researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic ... coral reef most exposed to air. MIT-Robotic-Sampling-1024.jpg Even in unexplored waters, an ... MIT-developed robotic system can efficiently sniff out valuable, hard-to-find spots to collect samples from. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
is authored by Fay and Anette “Peko” Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Running, ... a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... how certain shoe properties will affect a runner’s performance. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performancePing pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ... MIT engineers are getting in on the robotic ping pong game with a powerful, lightweight design ... its end effector will meet an object, in real-time,” says MIT graduate student David Nguyen. Nguyen is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ping-pong-bot-returns-shots-high-speed-precisionEldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall
urgent societal issue. To help address the eldercare challenge, a team of MIT engineers is looking to ... them by rapidly inflating side airbags if they begin to fall. MIT-ElderCare-Robot-01-press_1024.jpg Six ... of multiple possible assistance scenarios with a prototype of a new robot being developed at MIT. Top ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-and-stand-and-catches-them-if-they-fallStudy shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable
systems.” The study’s MIT co-authors are Brooke Bao, Enoch Ellis, and professor of mechanical engineering ... fuels, making hydrogen less of a “green” fuel over its entire life cycle. A new process developed by MIT ... MIT_Hydrogen-FOOTPRINT-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg MIT engineers have developed a new aluminum-based process to produce hydrogen gas, that they are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-making-hydrogen-soda-cans-and-seawater-scalable-and-sustainable