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Designing a ship or submarine for the U.S. Navy requires an understanding of naval architecture, hydrodynamics, electrical and structural engineering, materials science, and more. That’s why the Navy...
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The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry has long struggled with the issue of monitoring the characteristics of a drying mixture, a critical step in the production of medication and chemical...
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The field of mechatronics is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, occupying the intersection of mechanical systems, electronics, controls, and computer science. Mechatronics engineers work in a...
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Pursuing an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program project (or two or three) is a quintessential part of the academic experience at MIT. The program, known as UROP, allows students to be “...
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Before she had even earned her bachelor’s degree, MIT professor and biomedical engineer Ellen Roche was gaining research experience in the medical device industry. In her third year at the National...
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The following announcement was released jointly by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the National Strategic Research Institute.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) at...
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In 2023, more than 100,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses. The most effective way to save someone who has overdosed is to administer a drug called naloxone, but a first responder or bystander...
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MIT D-Lab students and instructors are improving the efficacy and economics of a brooder technology for newborn chicks that utilizes a practical, local resource: beeswax.
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Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — from electronics assembly...
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Each year, new MIT graduate students are tasked with the momentous decision of choosing a research group that will serve as their home for the next several years. Among many questions they face: join...
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A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater.
MIT engineers have found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure form and mixed with seawater, the...
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MechE postdocs Federico Tessari, Johannes Lachner, and recent graduate A. Michael West Jr., PhD ’24, spent time this summer immersed in cross-cultural collaboration at the Technical University of...
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced three MIT professors among the members of the 2024 class of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF). The fellowship is the DoD’s flagship single...
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What does your license plate say about you?
In the United States, more than 9 million vehicles carry personalized “vanity” license plates, in which preferred words, digits, or phrases replace an...
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We’ve all had the unpleasant experience of walking into a bathroom to discover a messy toilet seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever.
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Neural networks have made a seismic impact on how engineers design controllers for robots, catalyzing more adaptive and efficient machines. Still, these brain-like machine-learning systems are a...
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Foundation models are massive deep-learning models that have been pretrained on an enormous amount of general-purpose, unlabeled data. They can be applied to a variety of tasks, like generating...
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Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is a critical congenital heart defect. Babies born with ToF have four cardiac anomalies: an enlarged right ventricle, a hole in the wall separating the right from the left...
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MIT Club of Greece organized an event in June that welcomed over 400 attendees, including several graduates of the 2N (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) program and other MIT alumni,...
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Microbes that are used for health, agricultural, or other applications need to be able to withstand extreme conditions, and ideally the manufacturing processes used to make tablets for long-term...