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Let it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
Materials, in a paper by MIT professors Kripa Varanasi and Karen Gleason, former MIT postdoc Dan Soto, and ... Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate provost at MIT. Credit for ... researchers can find safe substitutes. Now, a team at MIT has come up with a promising solution: a coating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproofAcoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells
different types of cellular processes,” says Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT ... Collaboration International Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor Scott Manalis, have devised a new, ... MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/acoustic-waves-can-monitor-stiffness-living-cellsFrom 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars
chief technology officer of MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Dan Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and ... MIT D-Lab faculty research director; Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering; ... In early October, the MIT International Design Center and the MIT Edgerton Center hosted a panel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3d-printed-limbs-semi-autonomous-race-carsSmart laser cutter system detects different materials
Computer Science, Associate Professor Kaan Akşit of University College London, and MIT Professor Stefanie ... naked eye, scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) came up ... commonly found in workshops and reduce overall waste,” says Mustafa Doga Dogan, PhD candidate at MIT CSAIL. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-laser-cutter-system-detects-different-materialsNew model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ... absorbability of new drugs by adding excipients that enhance their interactions with transporters. Former MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-identifies-drugs-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-taken-togetherIoannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor of polymer science and engineering recognized for inventing "artificial ... skin" Ioannis V. Yannas, professor of polymer science and engineering in the MIT Department of ... the theory of viscoelasticity in polymers at MIT when he approached surgeon John F. Burke to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ioannis-yannas-be-inducted-national-inventors-hall-fameHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
feathers. The research was carried out by MIT professors Robert Cohen, Michael Rubner, and Gareth McKinley; ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ... “It’s an abrupt transition,” says Cohen, the Raymond A. and Helen E. St. Laurent Professor of Chemical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesWater, water everywhere … even in the air
including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... humidity of 100 percent, explains Wang, who is the Gail E. Kendall Professor at MIT. But such ... MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Sungwoo Yang at MIT; and professor of chemistry Omar Yaghi at Berkeley and at King Abdulaziz City for ... Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airBlending medicine and mechanical engineering
both industry and academia. As an assistant professor at MIT, she holds a joint appointment in the ... a Fulbright Scholar, Roche visited Harvard University, where she met David Mooney, a professor of ... joined an online Irish network to stay connected to her roots. “When I emailed an online group of MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blending-medicine-and-mechanical-engineeringExploring growth within a confined space
a research team led by Tal Cohen, MIT associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and of ... confinement. Photo: moonimage/Flickr Now, MIT and Yale University researchers have developed a theoretical framework ... Sharma, the M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. “One of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-growth-within-confined-spaceA. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care
An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... health-care robotics has been shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the ... MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology. Photo: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/michael-west-advancing-human-robot-interactions-health-careA community of making
Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM). A three-day academic conference at MIT in which professors ... Schor, second from left, teaches students on the use of equipment in the MIT MakerWorkshop. Photo by John ... Freidah When Culpepper was named MIT’s maker czar in 2015, he started out by mapping out MIT’s own maker ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-makingTata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio
The MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design recently announced eight new projects for the ... world. The center received close to 70 inspiring proposals that will put the MIT community’s wealth of ... Diabetes" — Richard Fletcher of MIT D-Lab "Assessing the Socioeconomic and Technical Requirements for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tata-center-adds-eight-new-projects-its-2018-2019-portfolioA community approach to improving the health of the planet
Earlier this month, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) hosted a Health of the ... the mechanical engineering community at MIT can do to solve some of the biggest challenges the planet ... research. Untitled design (77).png Left photo: Hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-approach-improving-health-planetMIT engineers configure RFID tags to work as sensors
Auto-ID Lab at MIT has long been at the forefront of developing RFID technology. Now engineers in this ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Imagine creating thousands of these inexpensive RFID tag ... a research scientist in the group, and Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-configure-rfid-tags-work-sensorsDroplets Made to Order
New method allows microdroplets of any shape to form on a surface. MIT researchers have developed ... applications. The work is described in the journal Nature Communications by associate professor of mechanical ... Jonathan Boreyko, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech who was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-made-orderRock music helps students and educators explore engineering
hands-on approach to teaching is thanks in large part to her MIT education, especially Professor Emeritus ... associate professor. The OK Go Sandbox is an online portal that uses the band’s videos as starting points to ... of Mechanical Engineering) while at MIT. “He had an amazing way of getting you to learn by doing. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rock-music-helps-students-and-educators-explore-engineeringLess-wasteful laser-cutting
Ticha Sethapakdi, who led the development of the system alongside MIT Professor Stefanie Mueller, ... at MIT CSAIL including Assistant Professor Stefanie Mueller have developed the new tool Fabricaide, ... in mind can even be fabricated. With this in mind, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and ...
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