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Robot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... trick, Winter and his co-developer, Anette Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and applied ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsBroadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ... founding SCOPE investigators, along with others at MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the ... Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies, calls it, “dissolved information.” Microbes switch ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/broadening-scope-microbial-oceanographyAlumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... looking at smaller-scale desalination as a solution yet.” When he joined Professor John Lienhard’s lab as ... when he received a fellowship from the Legatum Center at MIT to develop a technology-based business in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12Method may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ... Wu and Suman Bose, both former students; Jeffrey Karp, an associate professor in the Harvard-MIT ... MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
Collaboration International Horizontal MIT engineers, including Associate Professor Rohit Karnik, have designed ... making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... explored for applications in electronics, Piran Kidambi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneA new way to mix oil and water
MIT, is now an assistant professor at the University of Illinois. Tuesday, November 7, 2017 David L. ... researchers at MIT might turn that expression on its head, providing a way to get the two substances to mix ... the proportion of surfactant. The findings, by MIT graduate student Ingrid Guha, former postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mix-oil-and-waterNew surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
away with them. Now, researchers at MIT have made significant progress in promoting droplet formation ... professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor of chemical engineering and Associate Provost ... developed at MIT by Gleason and is now widely used. The authors optimized the iCVD process by tuning the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencyThe (robotic) doctor will see you now
fronts,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist ... from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital recently set out to answer that question. In a study ... Peter Chai, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-doctor-will-see-you-nowA robot that senses hidden objects
been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, ... | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal MIT researchers including Associate Professor Alberto ... Kinetics Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her MIT co-authors include Adib, who is the director of the Signal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-senses-hidden-objectsCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
is reported in the journal Scientific Reports by MIT’s Xuanhe Zhao, the Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) ... d'Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and four other authors. The new, ... exciting and amazing to me,” says Dan Li, a professor of materials engineering at Monash University in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageStudent group helps blind boater sail independently
Dec. 12. Seth Teller, an MIT professor and assistive technology researcher, started the PPAT class in ... This fall, a team of four students in MIT’s course 6.811 (Principles and Practices of Assistive ... Technology, or PPAT) designed a device that will help Pauline Dowell, a legally blind MIT employee, sail more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-group-helps-blind-boater-sail-independentlyBridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Department ... cutting-edge MIT payloads: a depth-mapping camera and a mini-rover called “AstroAnt.” Also on that craft were ... 2-inch Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS) wafer (left) landed on the moon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bridging-earth-and-space-and-art-and-science-global-voicesSix MIT students named 2023 Schwarzman Scholars
Five MIT seniors — Sihao Huang, William Kuhl, Giramnah Peña-Alcántara, Sreya Vangara, and Kelly Wu ... understanding of China’s role in the world. 2023_Schwarzman Scholars_MIT.png Top row, left to right: Sihao ... nearly 3,000 applicants. Since the program’s inception in 2015, 29 MIT students and alumni have been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-students-named-2023-schwarzman-scholarsStartup founded by MIT alumnus unveils electric vehicles for the future
the Los Angeles Auto Show. MIT-Rivian_1024.jpg One of the two models unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto ... release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps change the future Scaringe studied mechanical ... for us.” Scaringe knew fulfilling his vision would be difficult, but he believes his time at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-founded-mit-alumnus-unveils-electric-vehicles-futureOvercoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft
Through dedication and a willingness to face challenges both expected and unforeseen, an MIT team ... 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. But that’s only part of the story. MIT ... efforts were thwarted by Tammany Hall politics and the Panic of 1873. It took the MIT team, dubbed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-obstacles-electric-hovercraftQS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2023-24
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the 12th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. ... MIT-QSoverall-01-press_0_1024.jpg MIT was also ranked the world’s top university in 11 of the subject areas ranked by QS, as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2023-24QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2021-22
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the 10th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. MIT named the ... and proportion of international students. MIT was also ranked the world’s top university in 12 of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2021-22QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2021
MIT has been honored with 12 No. 1 subject rankings in the QS World University Rankings for 2021. ... Campus_Aerial Dome MIT1024.jpg Aerial View of the MIT Campus. Photo Credit: Christopher Harting The Institute ... Engineering; Linguistics; Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy; and Statistics and Operational Research. MIT also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-no-1-12-subjects-2021How strong is your knot?
whether a knot is strong or not,” says Jörn Dunkel, associate professor of mathematics at MIT. “With this ... adds Mathias Kolle, the Rockwell International Career Development Associate Professor at MIT. “And now ... what exactly makes one knot more stable than another has not been well-understood, until now. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotMIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2023
MIT’s graduate program in engineering has again topped the list of U.S. News and World Report’s ... published these rankings. MIT-USNews-1024.jpg Photo credit: Emily Dahl The MIT Sloan School of Management ... Harvard University. Among individual engineering disciplines, MIT placed first in six areas: ...
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