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Efficiency Innovation for Water Purification
From left to right: Karim Chehayeb, Gregory Thiel, Steven Lam, Prakash Narayan Govindan, Max St. John, Ronan McGovern,and Professor John Lienhard...
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by Alissa Mallinson
Innovation and creativity are concepts that imbue everything we do in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. They’re woven into every lab, every experiment, every faculty...
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STE@M students gather around Professors Hosoi and Slocum, and Patagonia’s O’Hara, as well as Francisco Goya (holding MIT penant) at Goya Windsurfing.
Courtesy of STE@M
by Alissa...
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Melinda Hale
Allison Yost
by Alissa Mallinson
Entrepreneurs abound in MechE, but they couldn’t do it without the MIT entrepreneurial community, comprising an army of faculty, students...
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2013 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner
by Stephanie Martinovich, Lemelson-MIT Program
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
PhD candidate Nikolai Begg (SM ‘11) grew up in a box of LEGO® bricks and hasn’t...
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A Modern-Day Inventor
by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office
Photo credit: Allegra Boverman
As a child, Paul Lazarescu (SB ‘13) dreamed of becoming an inventor.
“I always loved building things,”...
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Thinking Outside the Box Leads to Surface Innovations
By Alissa Mallinson
Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
Associate Professor Kripa Varanasi’s research lab became a sudden media sensation this...
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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
A version of this quote, originally penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Case-...
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From the Fukushima tsunami disaster to the Deep Water Horizon oil spill, environmental disasters exact all-too-memorable damage to coastal communities. Imagine if it was possible to predict the exact...
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Offshore wind could provide abundant electricity — but as with solar energy, this power supply can be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that...
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Fifty-five million years ago, the Earth was ice-less. Winters were balmy. Palm trees flourished all the way to the poles. As evidenced by fossils, crocodiles and broad-leaved, water-loving plants...
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As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, biogeochemical modeler Michael (Mick) Follows investigates the enormous role phytoplankton play in the ocean...
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President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert Langer with the nation’s highest honors for scientific discovery and invention. They were among 22 eminent...
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There’s a tricky chemical trade-off at work in our skies. As greenhouse gases provide their famous warming effect to Earth’s surface, aerosol pollution in the atmosphere actually partly counteracts...
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The late MIT Professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton enchanted the world with his high-speed flash photography, which could “freeze time” down to the millionth of a second — as a bullet tore through a banana...
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Zhang Baile Named One of Top 35 Innovators Under 35
Assistant Professor Zhang Baile of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has recently been recognized by Technology Review’s highly...
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We are pleased to introduce two new faculty members to the Department, Lieutenant Commander Jerod Ketcham and Assistant Professor Alexie Kolpak.
Alexie Kolpak, Assistant Professor
Professor...
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We are pleased to announce the promotions of Professor Daniel Frey and Professor Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou, both from the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure to Full Professor; Professor Pierre...
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“In this issue, we showcase the immense impact our faculty research has had on human health and comfort, consumer empowerment, and fundamental biological understanding.”
Mary C. Boyce, Ford...
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The 2-A Flexible Degree Program Offers In-Depth Undergraduate Study
Professor Youcef-Toumi directs students in one of MechE’s robotics courses, Course 2.12 Introduction to Robotics.
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