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Revolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence
Jeopardy! seemed unfair to people,” says Jeehwan Kim, the Class ‘47 Career Development Professor and ... a faculty member of the MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. “At ... make decisions based on the highest probability of success. Kim and the much of the faculty at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolutionizing-everyday-products-artificial-intelligenceSchool of Engineering third and fourth quarter 2020 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... School of Engineering highlight awards won by faculty including Assistant Professor Ellen Roche, ... Professor Yang Shao-Horn, Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso, and Professor Domitilla del Vecchio. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-third-and-fourth-quarter-2020-awardsRainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds
Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “It’s a very common phenomenon, and it ... smell in the air after a light rain? Now scientists at MIT believe they may have identified the ... around MIT’s campus and along the Charles River. He also collected sandy soil from Nahant Beach in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-study-findsBuilding nursery 2.0
MIT professors and guest entrepreneurs. The two co-founders teamed up and created a business plan for ... monitor” — an innovative, sensor-implanted onesie being commercialized by a team of MIT alumni through ... their startup, Rest Devices. Dubbed the Mimo kimono, the baby monitor, based on the co-founders’ MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20The physics of curly hair
Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ... researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ... Curie; and former MIT graduate student James Miller, who is now a research associate at Schlumberger-Doll ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsCustom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
| MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Ellen Roche and her team have developed a procedure ... hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/custom-3d-printed-heart-replicas-look-and-pump-just-real-thingNew purification method could make protein drugs cheaper
formation at low concentrations,” says Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and the ... 27, 2023 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A team of engineers led by Professor ... which help them to form protein crystals. Courtesy of the Researchers, colorized by MIT News. In an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-purification-method-could-make-protein-drugs-cheaperInvisible tagging system enhances 3D object tracking
affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and ... could lead you to dangerous links and viruses. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and ... counterparts,” says MIT CSAIL and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD candidate Mustafa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/invisible-tagging-system-enhances-3d-object-trackingNew electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses
MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic ... easier to integrate,” Xinyuan Zhang, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ... films. Their results are reported today in a paper appearing in the journal Nature. The study’s MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-electronic-%E2%80%9Cskin%E2%80%9D-could-enable-lightweight-night-vision-glassesA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Iowa have ... cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy. Image: iStock; MIT News When the researchers ... patients mitigate the risk of damaging adjacent tissue,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapyCollaborating for irrigation access solutions: Where policy and engineering meet
energy-efficient systems like drip irrigation — can help. Two research teams at MIT have been invested in this ... support the other. At MIT, J-WAFS is a strong proponent of convergence research practices to help drive ... specific complex problems that involve deep integration across disciplines. J-WAFS funds MIT research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaborating-irrigation-access-solutions-where-policy-and-engineering-meetPioneering the future of materials extraction
facing Brendan Smith PhD ’18, co-founder and CEO of SiTration, a startup formed out of MIT’s Department ... based on work done at MIT to develop a novel type of membrane made from silicon, which is durable enough ... materials are critical,” says Professor Jeffrey Grossman, co-founder and chief scientist of SiTration and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-future-materials-extractionMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor ... institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... than gold, the MIT team’s work is the first clear demonstration that the technique can work with gold ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightCleaning Water Without the Grid
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, but he describes one of the most important aspects of his job as ... MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly ... “detective work.” That’s what he, MIT PhD candidate Natasha Wright, and their fellow researchers did for two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-water-without-gridFinding Wonderland
that defy expectations, both her own and those of others. Her decision to attend MIT at all surprised ... Engineering (MechE). “I thought everyone at MIT would be about science all the time. Instead I found strong ... throughout the world. Opening new possibilities is something MIT does well, said Moudio. She nearly passed up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-wonderlandBatch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach
Latif Jameel Professor of Water at MIT. The study was published in the journal Water Research and ... water is energy-intensive. A team of MIT researchers has responded by creating new designs for reverse ... could substantially reduce the energy use of future desalination systems. The team is co-led by two MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batch-desalination-configuration-bests-standard-reverse-osmosis-approachPhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and ... education in Canada, and worked in Houston as an engineering consultant before being drawn to MIT to pursue ... his interest in mechanical design and hardware. As a PhD student in Professor Amos Winter’s lab, he is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... stick with their treatment regimen. A team of MIT researchers has now come up with a new approach to ... same needle. This could eventually make the process of managing diabetes even more streamlined. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentHow engineering students are seeking to solve major food and water security problems
exchanged between producer and seller? Seven MIT graduate students studying food and water security issues ... presented their research and preliminary findings on issues such as these during the MIT Water and Food ... Security Student Symposium held on Nov. 21. Hosted by the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-engineering-students-are-seeking-solve-major-food-and-water-security-problems