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What drives ecosystems to instability?
a professor of physics at MIT. “We can trace out a boundary that predicts the loss of stability and the onset ... communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ... Science. Jiliang Hu, an MIT graduate student, is the lead author of the paper. Other authors include Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-drives-ecosystems-instability“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"
engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... Dhawan Willeman, an MIT graduate student studying maritime shipping and innovation. “A ship is so huge ... shipbuilding at MIT starting in 1971. With support from the American Bureau of Shipping, Willeman and Marcus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-whosoever-commands-sea-commands-trade“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”
MIT’s thriving maker culture is on display in ABC network’s “BattleBots” competition. A robot that ... arms to grab and hoist other machines: These are some of the robots developed by MIT-affiliated teams ... teams of MIT students, research staff, and alumni worked to design, construct, and test combat robots ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-okay-if-it-breaks-and-blows-up%E2%80%9DFrom entrepreneur to climate policy advocate
ultimately patenting the product and winning several competitions. MIT-Wahnschafft-Kiara-1024.jpg Applying my ... solutions.” Wahnschafft arrived at MIT with the desire to continue pursuing product engineering for social ... entrepreneurship. She experimented with mechanical engineering classes through MIT D-Lab, a program focused on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/entrepreneur-climate-policy-advocateA champion of renewable energy
MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries, ... real.” MIT-Guettler-Darya-01-PRESS-1024.jpg MIT senior Darya Guettler advocates for climate action and ... MIT’s campus. Credits: Adam Glanzman Guettler’s fascination with renewable energy began back in high ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/champion-renewable-energyStartup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. ... MIT-Cleana-01-press_0.jpg MIT has purchased several of Cleana’s self-raising sensations for use on campus. Image: Courtesy ... of Cleana; edited by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsAlumni-founded robotic kitchen cooks up tasty meals
Four hungry MIT student-athletes were on a mission to find a filling, inexpensive meal and ended ... spyce-restaurant-robotic-kitchen-mit-alumni-founders-daniel-bouloud-1024.jpg The Spyce team (left to right) includes Luke Schlueter ’16; Michael Farid ’14, SM ’16; Kale Rogers ... Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, took an Independent Activities Period course on startups, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-founded-robotic-kitchen-cooks-tasty-mealsSetting a new standard for hormone health
than something they are dreading or feel is a burden.” The startup, which was conceived during the MIT ... has ovaries, so it's something that is extremely underserved.” MIT-Aavia-02-1024.jpg Left to ... MEMSI, an intensive two-week bootcamp that challenges student participants from MIT and Hong Kong to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/setting-new-standard-hormone-healthGuardian 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-paperDora 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 ...
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