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The challenges and triumphs of the graduate experience
For many graduate students, the first time they enter MIT’s campus as a student is a momentous ... occasion. Standing among the pillars and domes for the first time as an MIT student elicited a moment of ... Gallant ’08, SM ’10, PhD ’13, associate professor of mechanical engineering. “It’s by definition ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/challenges-and-triumphs-graduate-experienceIn Search of a Major She Loves
traditional or direct path to mechanical engineering at MIT — she switched majors twice, determined to find ... the many academic opportunities MIT offers, Magzoub has kept her sights set on developing practical ... assumed she would attend a local university for college, but she decided to apply to MIT. Once she was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/search-major-she-lovesLeveraging computational tools to enhance product design
advised by Maria Yang, a professor in mechanical engineering at MIT and the MIT D-Lab faculty academic ... Uganda. For this project, she is working with Yang, Dan Sweeney at MIT D-Lab and Sili Deng, a professor of ... As an undergraduate at MIT, Jana Saadi had to find a way to fulfill her humanities class ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leveraging-computational-tools-enhance-product-designUnderstanding and treating disease
Helmholtz Career Development Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. “Rather than ... 0.1 percent,” says Associate Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio. “It’s not really at the point that you ... therapies to treat it. Diagnosing disease Understanding disease starts with the cell. Assistant Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-and-treating-diseaseTeaching mechanical engineering in a pandemic
history. Well before MIT announced its plans for fall semester in early July, faculty and teaching staff ... housemates, or in the dorms.” Like Hanumara and the 2.75 teaching team, faculty and staff across MIT have had ... nature of many mechanical engineering classes posed a unique challenge for faculty and staff in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-mechanical-engineering-pandemicHow cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components
team, led by Ming Guo, the Brit and Alex d'Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT ... MIT have found that these organelles and other intracellular components may experience the surrounding ... at MIT, who will join Guo’s lab as a graduate student this fall. Other co-authors include Yulong Han, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cytoplasm-%E2%80%9Cfeels%E2%80%9D-cell%E2%80%99s-componentsHow to float your coffee creamer
engineering, John Bush, professor of applied mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, and Gareth ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Education Horizontal A new study from Professor Gareth ... what if the two liquids didn’t mix? MIT scientists have now explained why under certain conditions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerMeasuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility
Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ... Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal New research from Professor Scott Manalis ... By studying both the physical and genomic features of cancer cells, MIT researchers have come up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/measuring-cancer-cell-%E2%80%9Cfitness%E2%80%9D-reveals-drug-susceptibilityMini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals ... developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... in the lab of Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering. Kim says loaning mini ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mini-cheetah-first-four-legged-robot-do-backflip-0Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping
engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ... the approach as an MIT postdoc. “Now if you want to open a heavy door, the human can command the robot ... assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has detailed the approach in a study ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-and-jumpingHealing with hydrogels
children with limited motor skills inspired Yuk to apply to MIT for graduate school to build robots for use ... in rehabilitation. Shortly after being accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, ... Yuk received an email from a new faculty member, Xuanhe Zhao, now professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/healing-hydrogelsStudy: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A recent study by Professor Anette “Peko” Hosoi focused on ... particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, MIT engineers have ... stadiums,” says study author Anette “Peko” Hosoi, the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-masking-and-distancing-place-nfl-stadium-openings-2020-had-no-impact-local-covid-19Stripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... | MIT News Horizontal A new study by Professor Irmgard Bischofberger finds that chiral structures, with ... which an object cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. 1024_Twisted-Liquid-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
MIT principal investigators are leading this effort: Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology ... refrigeration. To address this challenge, an MIT research team funded by a 2019 seed grant from the Abdul Latif ... and mechanical engineering in the Department of Architecture; Daniel Frey, a professor in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenyaTackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time
GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ... alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... ZhiYi Liang, PhD student on the renewable hydrogen team at the MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-energy-revolution-one-sector-timeFrom microfluidics to metastasis
the Koch Café between Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute and the David H. Koch Professor of ... Biology, and Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the departments of Biological ... Matthew Vander Heiden, an associate professor of biology. Jacks and Manalis were inspired: Could a similar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-metastasisFor cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better
professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ... researchers at MIT and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have outlined a pathway to slashing ... detailed in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by MIT postdoc Zhe Liu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-betterEngineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Imagine connecting a neuromorphic device to ... MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made ... through an image processing task, programming the memristors to alter an image, in this case of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-put-tens-thousands-artificial-brain-synapses-single-chipEngineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
restrict ourselves to methods that could scale,” says Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of ... Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they ... much less N95 material than a traditional N95 mask. mask_1024.jpg Researchers at MIT and Brigham and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskOcean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle
of the conjecture,” says study co-author Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... and highly contested. Now MIT ocean scientists have shed some light on the topic, with a new study on ... surface. Through a sequence of carefully conceived maneuvers. the MIT scientists used the vehicle to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-scientists-measure-sediment-plume-stirred-deep-sea-mining-vehicle