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Morphable surfaces could cut air resistance
caused by air resistance in half. Now researchers at MIT are aiming to harness that same effect to reduce ... a surface whose smoothness can be altered, literally, on the fly — and that’s what the MIT team has ... developed. The new work is described in a paper in the journal Advanced Materials by MIT’s Pedro Reis and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morphable-surfaces-could-cut-air-resistanceWeighing particles at the attogram scale
function. The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of ... Integrative Cancer Research, is the paper’s senior author. Researchers from the labs of MIT professors and ... MIT engineers have devised a way to measure the mass of particles with a resolution better than an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/weighing-particles-attogram-scale‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness
bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ... Lee, Patrick Ho, and Hermano Krebs from MIT and Mohammad Rastgaar Aagaah from Michigan Technological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffnessNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisBasic training
— the MakerLodge is a place where you can find an MIT tenured professor hanging out with students, ... A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ... build the makerspace itself this summer. MakerLodge_01_1024.jpg MIT has over 40 design/build/project ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basic-trainingGraphene holds up under high pressure
associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... possibilities for energy-efficient desalination at high salinities.” Karnik’s co-authors are lead author and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureUsing mechanical forces to improve wound healing
Women’s Hospital’s Wound Care Center and as a professor at Harvard Medical School. “You want to have high ... ’80s, Orgill earned his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and ... medical exposure. As a mechanical engineering student at MIT, it was only natural that Orgill gravitated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-mechanical-forces-improve-wound-healingLiberty Ladd: Going above and beyond
particular — Ladd knew she wanted to study political science entering MIT. Also wanting a double major in ... participated in the Air Force ROTC throughout her time at MIT. Following graduation, Ladd will serve in the ... Hilton MIT News interviewed Ladd to learn more about her life as a student. Q: What are your communities ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/liberty-ladd-going-above-and-beyondCourse 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems
engineering fields. One of them is Professor Derek Rowell’s 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems, which ... a creeping idea for many, many years now,” says Professor Rowell. “It has broadened significantly and is ... don’t think you can teach electronics out of a book,” says Professor Rowell. “It’s important to burn ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-2678-electronics-mechanical-systemsCreating innovative health solutions for individuals and populations
Van Tassel Career Development Professor, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and ... engineering in the laboratory of Professor Robert Langer. Traverso’s research interests today include ... adherence. His academic home at MIT is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, but his work integrates ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-innovative-health-solutions-individuals-and-populationsA simpler method for learning to control a robot
mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Marco Pavone, associate professor of ... Researchers from MIT and Stanford University have devised a new machine-learning approach that ... 1024Azizan.jpg Researchers from MIT and Stanford University created a machine-learning method that can derive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simpler-method-learning-control-robotAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; and Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering, ... solve a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle. An interdisciplinary team from MIT has found that ... Emre Gençer, a research scientist with the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and a member of the team. “Our ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamTeam Led by MechE Engineers Places Second at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
KOMMIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), led by members of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team and professional ... Industries’ professional racing team), which posted a time of 10 minutes 17.813 seconds. MIT EVT recruited ... joined the challenge. MIT graduate student Mark Jeunnette, crew manager for the project, said, “We had ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-led-meche-engineers-places-second-pikes-peak-international-hill-climbScaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
met Amy Smith, founding director of MIT D-Lab, who introduced her to D-Lab’s method of manufacturing ... improve the drying process.” Gleason was one of several students who were connected to Ikalany through MIT ... D-Lab courses. While taking the cross-listed MIT D-Lab class 2.651/EC.711 (Introduction to Energy in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstovesFaculty highlight: A. John Hart
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering A. John Hart hopes progress in the science and ... microscope. Hart, who received his PhD at MIT in 2006, returned to MIT from the University of Michigan last ... July to join the MIT faculty. His Mechanosynthesis Group, which has straddled the two campuses during ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-john-hartSearching for Global Water and Food Solutions
International LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Professor John Lienhard leads a collaborative search for effective solutions to ... issues need complex solutions, and, for that, MIT has created the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food ... Security Lab. Started in the fall of 2014 under the direction of Professor John Lienhard, the lab will be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/searching-global-water-and-food-solutionsRunning on Waste Heat
— including Institute Professor Emeritus Mildred Dresselhaus at MIT — began using nanotechnology to ... change, thanks to thermoelectric innovators such as MIT’s Gang Chen. Thermoelectric materials convert ... temperature differences into electric voltage. About a decade ago, Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/running-waste-heatSelf-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Professor Steven Leeb and a team of researchers ... MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from ... easy to install,” says Steve Leeb, the Emanuel E. Landsman Professor of Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/self-powered-sensor-automatically-harvests-magnetic-energyIce melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
MIT technology and policy master's student Ilham Ali and Harvard University alumna Sahar Omer to ... partnered with MIT-Africa, an MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program, to ... "ZAHARA approached the MIT-Africa Program as a passionate and well-organized group," says MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-melts-us-sudan-relations-providing-new-opportunitiesMechanical engineering with a twist: Pursuing a passion for robotics with customized major
taking most of the classes offered. In Professor Sangbae Kim’s class, 2.74 (Bio-Inspired Robotics), she ... design and the software,” she says. In Professor Russ Tedrake’s classes (Robotic Manipulation and ... throughout campus, particularly as a member of Mirchi, MIT's nationally-ranked Bollywood fusion dance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mechanical-engineering-twist-pursuing-passion-robotics-customized-major