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Water is Life

As overpopulation and lack of rainfall fuel a crisis-level need in rural India for affordable drinking water, PhD candidate Natasha Wright and Assistant Professor Amos Winter work to design a low-cost desalination system, guided by insight from their extensive in-the-field research.

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Deploying non-contact vitals sensing kiosks across campus

Graduate students Ivan Goryachev and Ryan Koeppen ’19 have been working on the development of a thermal trailer and subsequent kiosks that could be deployed on campus during the Covid-19 pandemic.

MIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection

MIT Society of Women Engineers members, including a number of MechE students, have been developing innovative and creative ways to maintain programming during the pandemic.