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Guardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions
MIT-Guardian-Ag-01-press_1024x768.jpg Guardian Ag is offering an alternative in the form of a large, purpose-built drone that can ... Guardian Ag, founded by former MIT Electronics Research Society (MITERS) makers Adam Bercu and Charles Guan ... engineering at MIT, and the two robot enthusiasts became lifelong friends. “When Charles came to MIT, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guardian-ag%E2%80%99s-crop-spraying-drone-replacing-dangerous-pilot-missionsSolar panels get a face-lift with custom designs
2006. MIT-Sistine-Solar.jpg Founded at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sistine Solar creates custom ... But that adoption rate could still use a boost, according to MIT spinout Sistine Solar. “If you look ... mass adoption,” says co-founder Senthil Balasubramanian MBA ’13. Founded at the MIT Sloan School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-panels-get-face-lift-custom-designsGliding From Classroom to Market
MIT-Ello_1024.jpg Photo courtesy of ELLO In 2012, a team of students in MIT’s well-known product-design class, ... Glyde, is already being used by hundreds of people worldwide. And the MIT spinout selling the product, ... their people aren’t getting hurt.” Data-driven design From its early days at MIT, ELLO has followed what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gliding-classroom-marketSenior Larissa Senatus Learns About the World by Doing
time at MIT, where her curiosity about how things work and enthusiasm for hands-on discovery have ... continued to motivate her. MIT-Larissa-Senatus-1024.jpg Photo by Ian MacLellan Senatus grew up in ... started thinking about college, she began looking abroad for opportunities to study engineering. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/senior-larissa-senatus-learns-about-world-doingCreating “big, beautiful things”
a state-championship-winning robot. A1-MIT-Garrett-Parrish-1024.jpg “The whole goal of my life is to fix all the people ... power to influence that in a good way,” senior Garrett Parrish says. Photo: Ian MacLellan MIT was the ... a part of the MIT culture, and having the resources that are available here, are what really what opened ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-%E2%80%9Cbig-beautiful-things%E2%80%9DWhen to get your head out of the game
athletes. Now an MIT-invented tool is aiding in detecting and diagnosing concussions, in real-time. ... MIT-Jolt_1024.jpg Photo by Rob Chron In 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine estimated that each year ... head injuries as a national epidemic. Last October, MIT alumnus Ben Harvatine ’12 — who suffered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/when-get-your-head-out-gameMerging engineering and education
to earn a bachelor’s degree. MIT-Student-Etienne-1024.jpg Senior Nikayah Etienne is majoring in ... science, and encouraged her to consider engineering. That’s when Etienne started looking into MIT. After ... and Science (MITES) program at MIT, where she stayed in Simmons Hall and attended six weeks of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/merging-engineering-and-educationMaintaining the equipment that powers our world
estimate if and when components will fail. MIT-Tagup-01_1024.jpg Tagup's industrial equipment ... — who recently completed his PhD program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be ... bulb goes on Vega-Brown and Garrity crossed paths in a number of ways at MIT over the years. As ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maintaining-equipment-powers-our-worldCould we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?
adoption as a wearable textile. Now, MIT engineers have spun polyethylene into fibers and yarns designed to ... more quickly than common textiles such as cotton, nylon, and polyester. MIT-PE-Fabrics-1024.jpg MIT ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-we-recycle-plastic-bags-fabrics-futureMaking 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper
handles all prints, which can be expensive. Now MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to ... part. MIT-NVBot-1-1024.jpg MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to market the only ... years ago in a MIT fraternity house’s basement and commercially launched last April, the printer is now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-3-d-printing-simple-printing-paperApplying For Admission
score (Inst. code 3514), or to send your DET score, select Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ... submitting completed applications is December 15, 2025. Applicants to the MIT MechE graduate program should ... apply using the MechE online admissions site: https://apply.mit.edu/apply/ For any questions not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/prospective-students/graduate/applyDora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
MIT-Dora-Aldama_1024.jpg Photo by Bryce Vickmark “I was just so excited to be in this plane,” says Aldama, a graduate ... student in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program. “I was checking it out — what’s great, not ... engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dora-aldama-drawn-multidimensional-problemsHave a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”
a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT, presents a new method he’s developed to physically apply ... a digital restoration directly onto an original painting. MIT ... project. In 2021, as Kachkine made his way to MIT to start his PhD program in mechanical engineering, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/have-damaged-painting-restore-it-just-hours-ai-generated-%E2%80%9Cmask%E2%80%9DTackling poverty, one person at a time
When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the ... working to reduce poverty, one person at a time. MIT-Student-Tress-01-10243.jpg Image: Melanie Gonick ... Tress began her studies at MIT on a premed track. However, a MISTI internship at a hospital in a poor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-timeClearing the air
graduate, is one of seven MIT students who have interned with Plume Labs, a Paris-based startup that builds ... four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ... Technology Initiatives (MISTI), and three one-month interns from the MIT Alumni Association’s Student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/clearing-airStudent entrepreneurs think inside the box
a misdiagnosis. Challenged to reimagine the ambulance of the future, five MIT students — Paolo Adajar, ... patients who are in critical condition. incube-mit-1024.jpg The MIT team, which reimagined the ambulance of ... inside a glass cube housed on the MIT campus. Their effort was part of InCube, a global startup ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-entrepreneurs-think-inside-boxWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ... do something original. We came to MIT to make things. Our decision to follow through on that became ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchHacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni
heat-trapping sleeping bags, and performance dress shirts. MIT-Ministry-3(1).JPG The Apollo dress shirt, based ... co-found, with other MIT clothing tinkerers, Ministry of Supply, a Boston-based innovator of high-tech ... MIT in that regard. Instead of hacking code, we’re hacking fibers,” says Amarasiriwardena, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-apparel-becomes-lucrative-business-alumniAlumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
thermophotovoltaics since his time at MIT, and Antora’s ties to MIT are especially strong because its progress is the ... result of two MIT startups becoming one. Alumni join forces Bierman did his masters and doctoral work in ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuelsEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... 50 degrees Celsius (77 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit), the team reports. MIT ... -CapturingHumidity1024.jpg MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moisture