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Tackling 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-launchApplying For Admission
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 ... answered by the FAQs, please send inquiries to megradoffice@mit.edu. MechE faculty members, Area(s) and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/prospective-students/graduate/applyHacking 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-moistureDeveloping tech for, and with, people with disabilities
a wheelchair to avoid such situations. ATHack-2019-Ellen-MIT-1024.jpg ATHack participants Borja Apaolaza ... (center) and Naroa Coretti (right) consult with co-designer Ellen. Photo courtesy of the MIT Assistive ... pairs teams of students, most but not all of whom study at MIT, with people from the Boston and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-tech-and-people-disabilitiesHelping older adults stay safe and independent
is putting themselves at greater risk of falling.” MIT_Walk-Wise-01-PRESS_0.jpg WalkWise uses ... Chamberlain could have imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop ... engineering at MIT, Chamberlain was involved in a lot more than just his coursework. In one of his first weeks ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-older-adults-stay-safe-and-independentWaves in the Deep
wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ... and other nutrients around the globe in a matter of hours. MIT-Deep-Ocean-Waves-1024.jpg Usama Kadri, ... a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepCould lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... Velásquez-García, a principal scientist in MIT’s Microsystems technology Laboratories, and Jeffrey Borenstein, ... for a particular purpose. MIT-Cultured-Plants-Chart1024.jpg The technology, as demonstrated in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/could-lab-grown-plant-tissue-ease-environmental-toll-logging-and-agricultureMonitoring muscles to improve athletic training
tailor workouts to their body’s needs. MIT-Humon-02-1024.jpg Humon’s first product, the Hex, straps onto ... working on a class project together at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Wiese was minoring in technology, ... start a company, the founders received support from the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/monitoring-muscles-improve-athletic-trainingDesigning exploratory robots that collect data for marine scientists
chemical anomaly associated with the annual ice-cover retreat. MIT_VICTORIA-PRESTON_01-1024.jpg Victoria ... Preston, a PhD student in the MIT-WHOI joint program, is helping to design robots that can independently ... a joint program between MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her co-advisors, Anna Michel and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-exploratory-robots-collect-data-marine-scientistsStepping on stage with Beyoncé
working for—a celebration of everyone involved.” MIT-Joe-Brown-Beyonce-Coachella-2018_1024.jpg Joe Brown ... continued to build his skills as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after ... graduation that dance became a bigger part of Brown’s life. “I joined [MIT’s competitive hip hop team] ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stepping-stage-beyonc%C3%A9-0Scientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions
energy known as phonons. MIT-Quantum-1024.jpg MIT researchers detect a single quantum vibration within ... a diamond sample (shown here) at room temperature. Image: Sabine Galland Now scientists at MIT and the Swiss ... a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. “Our experiment, because it is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-observe-single-quantum-vibration-under-ordinary-conditionsTackling air pollution with autonomous drones
entered NEET during their sophomore year at MIT. MIT NEET students.jpg Left to right: Daniel ... autonomous robotics after entering NEET during their sophomore year at MIT. Photo courtesy of Lillie Paquette ... 2017 in an effort to fundamentally reconceptualize the way that engineering is taught at MIT. It ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-air-pollution-autonomous-dronesSchool of Engineering fourth quarter 2022 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... centers. mit-killian-autumn_0.jpg Photo: Lillie Paquette Paul Blainey of the Department of Biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-fourth-quarter-2022-awardsThe best semiconductor of them all?
a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... computers. Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions has carried ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allSolar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ... source. The system, which builds on a design initially developed three years ago at MIT by members of the ...
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