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Designing a revolution
a political third way,” says Eden Medina, an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Society, Technology, and ... presidential palace, beginning last month. Medina is co-curating the exhibition with Professor Hugo Palmarola ... and Professor Pedro Ignacio Alonso of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The exhibit will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-revolutionMore than a meal
With closed restaurants and collapsed traditional markets, MIT Sea Grant applied Covid-19 Rapid ... uncertainty. Seeking solutions, MIT Sea Grant first connected with the New England Fisheries Management ... unique strength in the MIT Sea Grant Program is our Advisory Group that has established and maintains ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-mealPills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
maximize their health,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when ... on schedule, MIT engineers have designed a pill that can report when it has been swallowed. The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pills-communicate-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherenceA quick stretch switches this polymer’s capacity to transport heat
MIT Professor Gang Chen and his collaborators found ways to untangle the mess of carbon chains and ... a material’s thermal conductivity cannot be changed without re-manufacturing it. But MIT engineers have now ... its plastic-like properties. In experiments, MIT engineers demonstrate a fiber, made from a common ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quick-stretch-switches-polymer%E2%80%99s-capacity-transport-heatWristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements
Chandrakasan, MIT provost and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Other ... challenge in robotics and virtual reality. Now, MIT engineers have designed an ultrasound wristband that ... palm. Graduate student Dian Li working with a robotic hand. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT News The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wristband-enables-wearers-control-robotic-hand-their-own-movementsCommunicating Engineering Research at MERE Showcase
impressed by the breadth of research being done by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering,” says one ... research in the department and network with alumni, faculty, students, and staff. 2015-MERE 1024.jpg MIT ... finest,” says Jerry Wang, a graduate student working in Professor Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou’s Nanoscale ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/communicating-engineering-research-mere-showcaseSchool of Engineering first quarter 2023 awards
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of ... scientists working in our academic departments, labs, and centers. Anuradha Agarwal of the MIT Microphotonics Center ... Sunday, April 30, 2023 School of Engineering Horizontal Professors Harry Asada and George Barbastathis are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-first-quarter-2023-awardsSchool of Engineering fourth quarter 2023 awards
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of ... Medical Engineering and Science received the 2023 MIT Prize for Open Data on Oct. 24. Jack Hare in the ... Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring on Oct. 13. Robert Langer, Institute Professor in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-fourth-quarter-2023-awardsNovel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surface
associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “There’s a lot of controversy, and there’s no easy way ... Karnik and his colleagues — Jongho Lee, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Tahar ... Laoui, a professor at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia — to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/novel-membrane-reveals-water-molecules-will-bounce-liquid-surfaceBreakthrough in boiling
associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, has made a significant breakthrough in ... describes its work in the March 11 issue of Applied Physics Letters. Baglietto, who arrived at MIT in 2011, ... Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Jacopo Buongiorno, the TEPCO Professor and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breakthrough-boilingNavigating beneath the Arctic ice
global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below the ice cover. A team of MIT engineers ... and naval officers led by Henrik Schmidt, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, is trying to ... Sensing Systems (LAMSS) including Daniel Goodwin and Bradli Howard, graduate students in the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-beneath-arctic-ice-0“Robot, make me a chair”
Gupta, an MIT architecture graduate student; Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering; ... an effort to make design faster and more accessible for non-experts, researchers from MIT and ... toward enabling that future,” says lead author Alex Kyaw, a graduate student in the MIT departments of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Crobot-make-me-chair%E2%80%9DRevolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence
Jeopardy! seemed unfair to people,” says Jeehwan Kim, the Class ‘47 Career Development Professor and ... a faculty member of the MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. “At ... make decisions based on the highest probability of success. Kim and the much of the faculty at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolutionizing-everyday-products-artificial-intelligenceSchool of Engineering third and fourth quarter 2020 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... School of Engineering highlight awards won by faculty including Assistant Professor Ellen Roche, ... Professor Yang Shao-Horn, Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso, and Professor Domitilla del Vecchio. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-third-and-fourth-quarter-2020-awardsRainfall Can Release Aerosols, Study Finds
Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “It’s a very common phenomenon, and it ... smell in the air after a light rain? Now scientists at MIT believe they may have identified the ... around MIT’s campus and along the Charles River. He also collected sandy soil from Nahant Beach in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-study-findsBuilding nursery 2.0
MIT professors and guest entrepreneurs. The two co-founders teamed up and created a business plan for ... monitor” — an innovative, sensor-implanted onesie being commercialized by a team of MIT alumni through ... their startup, Rest Devices. Dubbed the Mimo kimono, the baby monitor, based on the co-founders’ MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20The physics of curly hair
Pedro Reis, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ... researchers at MIT and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris provide the first detailed model for the ... Curie; and former MIT graduate student James Miller, who is now a research associate at Schlumberger-Doll ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physics-curly-hairProbing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/probing-microscopic-wiggles-squishy-materialsCustom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
| MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Ellen Roche and her team have developed a procedure ... hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/custom-3d-printed-heart-replicas-look-and-pump-just-real-thingNew purification method could make protein drugs cheaper
formation at low concentrations,” says Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and the ... 27, 2023 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A team of engineers led by Professor ... which help them to form protein crystals. Courtesy of the Researchers, colorized by MIT News. In an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-purification-method-could-make-protein-drugs-cheaper