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Ingestible, expanding pill monitors the stomach for up to a month
Xuanhe Zhao, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Zhao and senior collaborator Giovanni ... MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, ... Traverso, a visiting scientist who will join the MIT faculty in 2019, along with lead authors Xinyue Liu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-expanding-pill-monitors-stomach-monthA robot that finds lost items
October 5, 2021 Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Horizontal A robotic arm, developed by Associate Professor ... figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsMicrofluidics and nanofluidics research address global challenges
Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, addresses real-world ... July 22, 2014 John Freidah | Mechanical engineering green International karnik@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-and-nanofluidics-research-address-global-challengesStudent Spotlight: Spencer Wilson (Candidate SB ’15)
students to start the famously hands-on Course 2 program in mechanical engineering at MIT with little ... a scientific point of view…. A lot of people discredit learning those ideas formally, but MIT does a really ... still building on those projects. For his senior thesis, he’s working at MIT’s Center for Bits and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-spencer-wilson-candidate-sb-%E2%80%9915Inside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor
Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, says one of the major ... place. Exerpted from a story by Jennifer Chu. To read the whole story, visit MIT’s New Office: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inside-innards-nuclear-reactorResearch update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces
reported in the journal ACS Nano by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical ... Researchers at MIT have followed up on their discovery that droplets of water acquire an electric ... droplets are removed, the cleaner the surface. The research was supported by MIT’s Solid-State ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-update-electric-fields-can-push-droplets-surfacesPhonon catalysis could lead to a new field
sometimes in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius. In a new study, a team of researchers at MIT and the ... just like it's very hot,” says Asegun Henry, professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of ... conduction is lacking,” adds Yang Shao-Horn, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy and co-author. YangAse.jpg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phonon-catalysis-could-lead-new-fieldAchieving advisory equilibrium
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT. His work has focused on dynamic systems ... Professor of Political Science. Tsai is also the founder and faculty director of the MIT Governance Lab, ... transformative.” C2C invites graduate students from across MIT’s campus to nominate professors whom they believe to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/achieving-advisory-equilibriumMaster of Engineering in Manufacturing
practice with the Master of Engineering in Manufacturing (MEngM). Professor David E. Hardt (Photo credit: ... Tony Pulsone) Ralph E. and Eloise F. Cross Professor of Mechanical Engineering David E. Hardt explains, ... undergraduate level, and in fact we have never had an undergraduate degree in manufacturing at MIT. As a result, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/master-engineering-manufacturingNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... such detections possible in real time, according to a team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital ... Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsA New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
difficulties in transferring the graphene from the foil to useful substrates. Now researchers at MIT and the ... led by A. John Hart of MIT. Lead authors of the paper are Dan McNerny, a former Michigan postdoc, and ... Viswanath Balakrishnan, a former MIT postdoc who is now at the Indian Institute of Technology. Currently, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneSolving a mystery of thermoelectrics
researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... which could lead to the discovery of new, improved thermoelectric materials. The findings — by MIT ... graduate student Sangyeop Lee; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering; and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsOrienteering for robots
Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ... student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ... his advisors, John Fisher, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsBetter batteries through biology?
area. Belcher, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... number of charging-discharging cycles the batteries can withstand. Now, MIT researchers have found that ... by graduate student Dahyun Oh, professors Angela Belcher and Yang Shao-Horn, and three others. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/better-batteries-through-biologySeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... — a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... China Sea, are produced. The new findings come from a team effort involving MIT and several other ... associate professor of oceanography at the University of Washington who was involved in the related field ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-powerSolving the polar climate conundrum
the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT, and his group investigated this phenomenon ... may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better understanding of the elemental ... explain why the Arctic has warmed faster than the Antarctic. In MIT computer simulations of the ocean and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-polar-climate-conundrumTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... MIT have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. The framework ... extreme events occur,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsTeaching robots how to move objects
Manipulation and Mechanisms Laboratory at MIT (known as MCube Lab) under Assistant Professor Alberto ... graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ... in Barcelona. During a year as a visiting student at MIT, Bauza was able to put her interest in ...
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