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A. 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-planetDroplets 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/less-wasteful-laser-cuttingMIT 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-sensorsUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
minerals, to manufacture the batteries necessary to decarbonize the economy,” says Peacock, a professor of ... mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... demand due to energy storage,” says Richard Roth, director of MIT’s Materials Systems Laboratory. While ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningA data-driven response to a pandemic
elections — and has raised difficult questions about MIT’s capacity to reopen in the fall. To help ... policymakers at MIT and beyond make informed decisions, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) has ... Munther Dahleh, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). “Probability and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-response-pandemicStudy shows forward osmosis desalination not energy efficient
In a recent study published in the Journal of Membrane Science, MIT professor John Lienhard and ... Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-forward-osmosis-desalination-not-energy-efficientReducing the burden of tuberculosis treatment
Traverso, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at ... Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, are the senior authors of the ... developed by MIT researchers, including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso, would allow tuberculosis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-burden-tuberculosis-treatmentKrithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) has announced that two MIT PhD ... mention. RS781_Ramchander, Krithika-1024.jpg Krithika Ramchander, a PhD candidate in Professor Rohit ... candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/krithika-ramchander-and-andrea-beck-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsTalking Shop: Kripa Varanasi
condense within these textures either – similarly with frost. When I came to MIT as an assistant professor ... Talking Shop with Associate Professor Kripa Varanasi Thinking Outside the Box Leads to Surface ... Innovations By Alissa Mallinson Photo credit: Tony Pulsone Associate Professor Kripa Varanasi’s research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-kripa-varanasiHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency ... graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... professor Marin Soljačić, principal research scientist Ivan Celanović, and three others. A conventional ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-lightCooling when there’s too much heat
a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT ... safety and performance,” says Kripa Varanasi, the Doherty Associate Professor of Ocean Utilization in ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, Professor of Environmental Studies in MIT's Department of Civil and ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... promoted to tenured associate professor means he will continue to contribute highly original thinking and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesMaking data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
calculator at http://WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers including Professor Anette ... WhenToTest.org has been developed by MIT researchers with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), in ... Anette “Peko” Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and IDSS affiliate who co-developed the tool. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-data-informed-covid-19-testing-plansIngestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... Professor and member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Victor Finomore, director of ... a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-electronic-device-detects-breathing-depression-patients