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Meet the Oystamaran
and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering and director of MIT Sea Grant, and Dan ... When Michelle Kornberg was about to graduate from MIT, she wanted to use her knowledge of ... Electromechanical Robotic Systems), came out of conversations between Michael Triantafyllou, who is MIT’s Henry L. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-oystamaran-0First-year students take center stage on Killian Court
On a chilly Monday in May, MIT’s Killian Court was transformed into a festival of fun. Over 1,200 ... iconic location so early in their time at MIT was a surreal experience. “It was such a symbolic setting. ... realize the capacity you have as an MIT student to create something that could have an impact on the world ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-year-students-take-center-stage-killian-courtSophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
learned about MIT D-Lab when she was a Florida middle schooler. She drove with her family from their home ... in Clearwater to Tampa to an MIT informational open house for prospective students. There, she heard ... Madagascar 1.jpg Sophia Chen, pictured here in Madagascar on an MIT D-Lab project to test a water vapor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sophia-chen-it%E2%80%99s-our-duty-make-world-better-through-empathy-patience-and-respectBasketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
according to a new study by MIT researchers, there’s one member who consistently boosts their team’s ... performance: the data analyst. An MIT basketball player dribbles during a game. Credit: MIT DAPER The new ... analyst who’s being paid $9 million,” says study author Henry Wang, a graduate student in the MIT Sports ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesA Customizable Curriculum
The 2-A Flexible Degree Program Offers In-Depth Undergraduate Study Professor Youcef-Toumi ... M. Scott Brauer by Alissa Mallinson As is often the case, the MIT Department of Mechanical ... flexibility,” says Undergraduate Education Officer Professor Anette “Peko” Hosoi. “Once 2-A became accredited in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/customizable-curriculumA new way to make microstructured surfaces
Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the ... function as sensors of mechanical or chemical signals. Kevin Turner, an associate professor of mechanical ... doctoral student from the University of Michigan; and Sameh Tawfick, a former postdoc at MIT who is now at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfacesSquishy robots
the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsA microchip for metastasis
Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... system lies in its simplicity and elegance,” says Muhammad Zaman, an associate professor of biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisCocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs
An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... inspired by nature. John Bush, a professor of applied mathematics, and renowned Spanish chef José Andrés ... nature to the kitchen.” MIT scientists design two culinary novelties, inspired by nature. The first is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cocktail-novelties-inspired-nature%E2%80%99s-designsBlooming ocean fronts
winter, there’s little phytoplankton,” says Raffaele Ferrari, the Breene M. Kerr Professor of Oceanography ... in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “It’s like going into a desert. And ... as to what triggers the bloom onset.” Ferrari and John Taylor, a former postdoc at MIT and now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blooming-ocean-frontsStudent Spotlight: PhD Candidate Faye Wu (SB ’09, SM ’12)
designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab. Wu – who earned an SB and an SM in mechanical engineering from MIT ... – has been a member of Professor Asada’s lab for two years, working on a set of futuristic robotic ... Melanie Gonick/MIT An outside observer would see a user with two hands – and 12 fingers. One of the hands ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-phd-candidate-faye-wu-sb-%E2%80%9909-sm-%E2%80%9912Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Maker ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU Horizontal Professor ... robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... using the environment as a helping hand. The team, led by Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/giving-robots-more-nimble-graspOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on ... and associate professor at the University of Michigan. “From an engineering perspective, the focus ... would be on helping the robot better navigate and understand its surroundings.” At MIT and Woods Hole, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-build-uncrashable-carA new way to mend a broken heart
Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... involving a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity ... a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. The hearts that received ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mend-broken-heartA flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble
rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... that map void spaces. SPROUT was developed in collaboration with Margaret Coad '15, a professor at ... the University of Notre Dame and an MIT graduate. When looking for collaborators, Hanson — a graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flexible-robot-can-help-emergency-responders-search-through-rubbleMagnetic mixer improves 3D bioprinting
Development Professor of Tissue Engineering and assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the study. “If we can print tissues that more closely mimic ... (SHED) at MIT, which provides infrastructure and interdisciplinary expertise to help translate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-mixer-improves-3d-bioprinting3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint
can be. Meanwhile, Professor Anette “Peko” Hosoi, co-founder and faculty director of the MIT Sports ... MIT Sports Lab researchers are applying AI technologies to help figure skaters improve. They also ... a figure skater’s jump and make recommendations on how to improve. Lu, a former researcher at the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-using-ai-help-olympic-skaters-land-quintSeparating finely mixed oil and water
journal Scientific Reports by MIT professor Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Brian Solomon, and postdoc M. ... ecosystems. But MIT researchers have discovered a new, inexpensive way of getting the two fluids apart again. ... cloudy appearance. Anish Tuteja, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-finely-mixed-oil-and-waterModerating Extremes in Building Design
and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ... panels to improve insulation and software packages to guide architects. The professor of architecture and ... for that. One option is to use aerogel. It’s not a new technology, but, in conjunction with MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moderating-extremes-building-designNo more blackouts?
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “In the end, it is a step toward lower-cost microgrids that can ... at MIT have developed a method for guaranteeing the stability of any microgrid that runs on direct ... current, or DC — an architecture that was originally proposed as part of the MIT Tata Center’s uLink ...
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