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Understanding 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-solutionsThirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships
University. At MIT, Will was an undergraduate researcher in Professor Polina Anikeeva's lab, where she ... Thirteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have been awarded Fulbright fellowships ... and will embark on projects overseas in the 2023-24 grant year. Four other MIT affiliates were offered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/thirteen-mit-win-2023-fulbright-fellowshipsTalking 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-varanasiStudents build assistive technologies at MIT’s annual ATHack
MIT students who were inspired by an assistive technologies class created by the late professor Seth ... MIT. It is a one-day event that brings people living with disabilities — called co-designers — together ... structural optimizations for power soccer league wheelchairs, and more. ATHack 2018 1024.JPG MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-build-assistive-technologies-mit%E2%80%99s-annual-athackMIT engineers print synthetic “metamaterials” that are both strong and stretchy
Associate Professor at MIT. “You could print a double-network metal or ceramic, and you could get a lot of ... properties. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers MIT engineers have now found a way to fabricate a metamaterial ... other forms has little to no stretch and shatters easily once cracked. MIT engineers have found a way to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-print-synthetic-%E2%80%9Cmetamaterials%E2%80%9D-are-both-strong-and-stretchyHow 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-patientsA new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech
Before coming to MIT, Benjamin Lienhard focused most of his energy exploring fragile quantum ... Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, to hear from students and bolster ... initiatives. Through GradSAGE, Lienhard is positioned to help other MIT students. On the GradSAGE Leadership ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-prepare-graduate-students-lead-techNoninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time
Tuesday, January 9, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Horizontal A study by Professor Peter So reveals a new ... making it difficult to study ongoing changes in gene expression. An alternative approach developed at MIT ... and a number of degenerative diseases,” says Peter So, a professor of biological and mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-technique-reveals-how-cells%E2%80%99-gene-expression-changes-over-timeMechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award
for MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), attended the black tie affair where he ... Wright and Professor Amos Winter as they travel to India gathering research on how to design a low-cost ... Interested in highlighting the important work done in Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-film-water-life-wins-new-england-emmy-awardBuilding a framework for remote making
MIT-sponsored purposes,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and director of Project ... Making is central to MIT’s identity. It is the embodiment of MIT’s motto, "mens et ... students was recently launched to enable safe making from home. Developed by MIT Project Manus and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-framework-remote-makingStudent-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes
legendary at MIT. Clare Zhang, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, built that winning robot. While ... associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Amos Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical ... professors. At the beginning of the one-semester class, each student is issued an identical kit of parts ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-built-robots-compete-slopesThe Wonders of Thin Structures
frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Pedro Reis, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and ... & Statistics Laboratory at MIT. Reis' work focuses on the mechanics of large deformations of ...
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