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3-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-scanning-your-smartphoneA closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy
chemotherapy they receive. To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with an ... 1024-Closed-Loop-Chemo-01-press_0.jpg To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with a way to continuously ... the safety and efficacy of many drugs,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closed-loop-drug-delivery-system-could-improve-chemotherapyUntangling How Cables Coil
associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “We have ... can significantly slow telecommunications around the world. Now engineers at MIT, along with computer ... theoretical analyses. In the lab, MIT engineers set up a desktop system to spool spaghetti-like cables onto ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/untangling-how-cables-coilHybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half
a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... emissions for a given amount of power produced. The concept, proposed by MIT doctoral student Katherine Ong ... and Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor Ahmed Ghoniem, is described in their paper in the Journal of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-system-could-cut-coal-plant-emissions-halfNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... which is the basis for a startup company called Infinite Cooling that last month won MIT’s $100K ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
help a human is an even thornier exercise. Now, MIT roboticists have a way to cut through the data ... a novel Relevance framework developed at MIT, the robot identifies and prioritizes objects in the scene to ... make it much easier for a robot to interact with humans,” says Kamal Youcef-Toumi, professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansGlassy carbon, now with less heat
Last winter, MIT researchers discovered that a phenol-formaldehyde polymer transformed into ... adding a small fraction of carbon nanotubes to this material. Glassy carbon 1024.jpg Research by MIT ... Alexander J. Constable (2015), postdoc Luiz Acauan, and the senior author, professor of aeronautics and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatProtecting maternal health in Rwanda
MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address ... PhD '02, research scientist in mechanical engineering at MIT and technology lead for the team. ... by Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, a professor at Harvard Medical School, was awarded the $500,000 first-place ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-maternal-health-rwandaNeed a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ... decide exactly what to explore in their experiments. What if artificial intelligence could help? MIT ... says Buehler. “At MIT, we do that by having a bunch of people with different backgrounds working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiIce Bucket Challenge: The MechE Way
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J-d-kSOahiI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Professor Chen was nominated for the ... accepted the challenge and was joined by MechE faculty members Professor Gareth McKinley, Associate ... Professor Tonio Buonassisi, Associate Professor Maria Yang, and Assistant Professor Amos Winter. Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-bucket-challenge-meche-wayEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... says Wilson, now professor emeritus, is to make it a fee rather than a carbon tax. The difference, he ... assignment he loved, but had to leave after contracting a severe case of malaria. In 1966, he came to MIT at ...
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