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If you design in a box, whether it’s for someone in the US or someone in India, your solution isn’t going to be right.

- PhD candidate Natasha Wright (SM ’14), Vice President of GAME

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Graduate student Dora Aldama combines business and mechanics during Boeing internship.

Graduate student Dora Aldama combines business and mechanics during Boeing internship.

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Wai Cheng

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Ernesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94

Ernesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94

Peter So teams with researcher from MGH to improve the accuracy of epidural needle placement.

Peter So teams with researcher from MGH to improve the accuracy of epidural needle placement.

Gang Chen and Rohit Karnik receive grants from the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS)

Mathias Kolle devises tiny “microlenses” made from complex liquid droplets the size of a human hair.

Mathias Kolle devises tiny “microlenses” made from complex liquid droplets the size of a human hair.

PHOTO GALLERY: 2017 SM and PhD Graduates

PHOTO GALLERY: 2017 SM and PhD Graduates

Alexie Kolpak and Amos Winter honored with 2017 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Awards

GelSight sensor enables a robot to judge the hardness of the surfaces and objects it touches.

GelSight sensor enables a robot to judge the hardness of the surfaces and objects it touches.

Jeehwan Kim

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Jerome Milgram

Professor Emeritus

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Julien Barber studies methods of preventing superconducting magnets used in fusion research from overheating.

Julien Barber studies methods of preventing superconducting magnets used in fusion research from overheating.

Xuanhe Zhao is the 2017 recipient of the Young Investigator Medal from the Society of Engineering Science.

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