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Solving the puzzle of ice age climates
changes in the ocean, atmosphere, and ice cover,” says Raffaele Ferrari, the Breene M. Kerr Professor of ... Physical Oceanography in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, “and what we really ... place like no one has managed to do before,” says Daniel Sigman, a professor of geological and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-puzzle-ice-age-climatesWater world
significantly affect fluid motion. To fully understand how climate works, researchers at MIT say students must ... Green Professor of Oceanography, have worked to make rotating fluid dynamics more intuitive for ... University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, working with physics professor Amit Tandon, came up with an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-worldDana Yoerger
chemical flux, as well as determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, ... Yoerger studied under Professor Tom Sheridan, who was researching human-machine interactions. “One of ... oceanographer Professor Robert Ballard, who would later discover wreckage from the Titanic. “Sometimes I think ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dana-yoergerModel quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread
MERS. Now, a team of engineers at MIT has developed a model that uses data from the Covid-19 pandemic in ... studying civil and environmental engineering. Together with George Barbastathis, professor of mechanical ... a topical problem in typical MIT fashion,” adds Barbastathis. One of those students was Dandekar. “The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/model-quantifies-impact-quarantine-measures-covid-19%E2%80%99s-spreadA new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
specific task,” says Alberto Rodriguez, an MIT visiting scientist who is a former member of the MechE ... members of the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube) under Rodriguez’ direction. “In this work ... Bronars, who is now working with Pulkit Agrawal, assistant professor in the department of Electrical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-offers-robots-precise-pick-and-place-solutionsBose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
Since 2014, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has supported MIT faculty with innovative ... 2017 MIT Resource Development Horizontal Associate Department Head for Operations, Professor Evelyn ... six research teams composed of nine MIT faculty members will pursue projects ranging from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bose-grants-2017-reward-bold-and-unconventional-research-visions%C2%A0Underwater Robot for Port Security
contraband. Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MIT researchers ... Professor of Engineering Harry Asada. “If this is cheap enough — if I can get this out for $600, say — why ... routing of maritime traffic.” The MIT research was funded by the National Science Foundation. Friday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securitySun-powered desalination for villages in India
grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Now an analysis by MIT ... study, by MIT graduate student Natasha Wright and Amos Winter, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, appears in the journal Desalination. Winter explains that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-desalination-villages-indiaGetting a grip on robotic grasp
way to move your robotic fingers,” says Harry Asada, the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT ... — or rather, fingers. Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of ... 2014 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office orange asada@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-grip-robotic-graspBeyond low-hanging fruit
Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... (Precision Machine Design) class, sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, decided to give it a go. “So, ... nonproliferation.” History has a way of repeating itself, Slocum says: “Before you had MIT, you had people who wanted ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/beyond-low-hanging-fruitSometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
what a team of engineers at MIT has figured out how to do, in research results to be presented in May ... Lermusiaux, the Doherty Associate Professor in Ocean Utilization, developed a mathematical procedure that can ... in a constantly changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sometimes-quickest-path-not-straight-lineHydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Foundation. Monday, November 9, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red zhaox@mit.edu Horizontal Xuanhe Zhao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterStudents Unveil “Magical” Product Designs
finale one of MIT’s most-anticipated annual events. Arguably exceeding expectations, this year’s finale ... Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who has been blind since age ... students surprised Wallace, a professor of mechanical engineering and MacVicar Faculty Fellow, with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-unveil-%E2%80%9Cmagical%E2%80%9D-product-designsStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14
fixing leaks. An MIT Tata Center fellow and Deshpande Center grantee, Swaminathan is developing a modular ... engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ... see patterns. That’s the thing that interests me most.” As a PhD student under Professor Lienhard, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-jaichander-swaminathan-sm-14Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Skoltech-MIT Center for Electrochemical Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutter3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... curious class of heat-shrinking materials. The team, led by Nicholas X. Fang, an associate professor of ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedRe-engineering the sprinkler
A team of MIT engineers has described a novel way of controlling the flow of water in flexible ... a former postdoc at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design who is now a postdoc at the University of ... conserve resources.” Wang co-authored the paper with three researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/re-engineering-sprinklerJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentResearchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles
Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-%E2%80%9Ciron-out%E2%80%9D-graphene%E2%80%99s-wrinkles3-D scanning, with your smartphone
and technological expertise. But MIT spinout Viztu Technologies helped change that: Back in 2011, ... of his MIT dissertation. “Now it only takes a smartphone or digital camera a few minutes online to ... Systems integrate the Viztu technology, Milnes returned to MIT to finish his PhD in mechanical ...
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