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Stretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT ... by the Office of Naval Research, the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, and the National ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsArtificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
object’s path, its size, and even its shape. Michael Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor in MIT ... is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... Naval Research, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and the MIT Sea Grant program. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-whisker-reveals-source-harbor-seal%E2%80%99s-uncanny-prey-sensing-ability-0Alumni Spotlight: John Wall (SB, SM ’75, ScD ’78) and Jennifer Rumsey (SM ’98)
to be up until his retirement from Cummins just this past October – the MIT educational counselor for ... engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, Leroy returned to his job at Chevron Research in San Francisco,” ... Professor John Heywood for his ScD – as a Cummins Fellow. It was the 1970s, and John Heywood was in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-john-wall-sb-sm-%E2%80%9975-scd-%E2%80%9978-and-jennifer-rumsey-sm-%E2%80%9998MechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US
designed for US and European markets. Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT), an MIT MechE ... Professor Amos Winter SM ’05 PhD ’11, recently launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the U.S. ... Culture Entrepreneurship International Maker awinter@mit.edu Horizontal Based on an original design for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-spinoff-launches-all-terrain-wheelchair-usDemystifying the Cretaceous hothouse
Ferreira, research scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, whose ... "creative," according to Dorian Abbot, assistant professor of geophysical sciences at the University of ... 2013 Genevieve Wanucha | Oceans at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demystifying-cretaceous-hothouseAt the forefront of building with biology
and PhD in mechanical engineering. Her postdoc at MIT was funded by a L'Oréal USA for Women in ... and Medicine. Today, Ritu Raman leads the Raman Lab and is an assistant professor in the Department of ... dynamically responsive to their environments. Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Daniel de Wolff | MIT Industrial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/forefront-building-biologyMechE History and Timeline
II and Civil Engineering became Course I. That same year Assistant Professor Channing Whitaker, MIT ... the Joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program (previously XIII-W) will continue. Heads of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/meche-history-and-timelineBefore the wreckage comes ashore
change over time. Oceanographers around the world, with MIT mechanical engineering associate professor ... collaborators at MIT's Experimental and Nonlinear Dynamics Lab are now applying the LCS approach to predict ... Haller, professor of nonlinear dynamics at ETH Zurich, who forged this dynamical systems theory approach ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wreckage-comes-ashoreBuilding robots to expand access to cell therapies
founded by Fred Parietti PhD ’16 and former visiting PhD at MIT Alice Melocchi, is hoping to bring the ... startup came from Melocchi, who was a visiting PhD candidate in MIT’s chemical engineering department in ... 2013 and 2014. Melocchi had been creating drugs by hand in the MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-robots-expand-access-cell-therapiesA new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy
investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ... (LEES) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), ... MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with collaborators at MIT, National University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-perform-general-inverse-design-high-accuracyArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ... direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robotsOn a mission to measure
George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics and the instructor in charge of 2.671 during the fall ... experiments to test that hypothesis,” explains Assistant Professor Mathias Kolle, who teaches the 2.671 ... projects as a lab professor. “But when it’s something they care about, they are motivated to find out the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-measureUnderstanding combustion
currently the most feasible way to produce electricity and power,” explains Sili Deng, assistant professor ... Professor. RS3581_Deng, Sili 1024.jpg Deng is working toward understanding the chemistry and flow that ... dynamics.” Along with her team at the Deng Energy and Nanotechnology Group at MIT, she hopes that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionNeed a water filter? Peel a tree branch
fact, an MIT team has discovered that this low-tech filtration system can produce up to four liters of ... blocking most types of bacteria. Co-author Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering ... at MIT, says sapwood is a promising, low-cost, and efficient material for water filtration, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-water-filter-peel-tree-branchA Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes
MIT’s Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc: punching through ... typically very slow, so a robot has difficulty reacting in time,” says Ramos, of MIT’s Department of ... Sangbae Kim, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Center Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bipedal-robot-human-reflexesLobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... carapace that shields the rest of the crustacean. But engineers at MIT and elsewhere have found that this ... Qu and Fei Deng of Harvard University, and Zhao Qin, who is a research scientist in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lobster%E2%80%99s-underbelly-tough-industrial-rubberA creative desire, and the grit to get it done
When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... class — taught by Professor Daniel Frey — was aircraft, and the requirements of the final project were ... car. “The professor really just let us go crazy,” she says, adding that toward the end of the class, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creative-desire-and-grit-get-it-doneAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Researchers, including Professor Russ Tedrake, ... billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... Yang, an EECS graduate student; and senior author Russ Tedrake, the Toyota Professor of EECS, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesAlumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)
determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, Yoerger studied under Professor Tom ... with my life.” The guest was award-winning oceanographer Professor Robert Ballard, who would later ... research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-dr-dana-yoerger-sb-%E2%80%9977-sm-%E2%80%9979-phd-%E2%80%9983Competing Mechanisms Influence Tumor Cell Migration
Singapore Research Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and Mechanical Engineering ... student of Kamm’s, Melody Schwart (now a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) had ... December 5, 2011 sadlers gray rdkamm@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/competing-mechanisms-influence-tumor-cell-migration