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2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles
When Michael Benjamin, principal research scientist in the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, ... arrived at MIT 25 years ago, only professors and postdoctoral students were allowed to touch the ... Communication) changed this a lot, by creating a class where undergraduate and graduate students could learn to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2s01-special-subject-invites-first-year-students-get-their-feet-wet-working-underwaterLessons from the Clean Air Car Race 50 Years Later
Agency by the end of the year. In the midst of this progress, a team of MIT students and faculty, with ... could make the 3,600 miles from MIT to Caltech in fast, rally-style race, while meeting new stringent ... race, participants of the Clean Air Car Race gathered on MIT’s Killian Court for a photo-op. Credit: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lessons-clean-air-car-race-50-years-laterWant to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.
engineering graduate student at MIT. Elrefaie and his colleagues will present a paper detailing the new ... electric vehicle range, can therefore be slow and siloed from company to company. MIT engineers say that ... at least in any sort of accessible, centralized form. MIT-car-aerodynamics-01-press_0.jpg In a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/want-design-car-future-here-are-8000-designs-get-you-startedHelping older adults stay safe and independent
is putting themselves at greater risk of falling.” MIT_Walk-Wise-01-PRESS_0.jpg WalkWise uses ... Chamberlain could have imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop ... as a graduate student. Problems worth solving While pursuing his master’s degree in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-older-adults-stay-safe-and-independentMIT Maritime Consortium releases “Nuclear Ship Safety Handbook”
Ship Safety Handbook ” by the MIT Maritime Consortium aims to change that and set the standard for safe ... (left to right) Anthony Valiaveedu, Nat Edmonds, and Jose Izurieta pose in MIT's Hart Naval ... Gallery. Credits: Tony Pulsone/MIT MechE: “This handbook is a critical tool in efforts to support the adoption of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-maritime-consortium-releases-%E2%80%9Cnuclear-ship-safety-handbook%E2%80%9DMIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech
through the Harvard and MIT MD-PhD program. Elly Nedivi is the William R. (1964) & Linda R. Young ... the MIT Future Founders Initiative has announced the MIT Future Founders Prize Competition, supported ... by Northpond Ventures, and named the MIT faculty cohort that will participate in this year’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-future-founders-initiative-announces-prize-competition-promote-female-entrepreneursBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
graduate student, Fanny Monteiro PhD '09, now at the University of Bristol, began to model ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesReducing pesticide use while increasing effectiveness
AgZen, an MIT spinout founded in 2020 by Professor Kripa Varanasi and Vishnu Jayaprakash SM ’19, PhD ’22. ... controlling and monitoring how sprayed droplets interact with leaves,” Varanasi says. With support from MIT ... Monday, March 11, 2024 David L. Chandler | MIT News Horizontal In field tests, AgZen an MIT spinoff from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-pesticide-use-while-increasing-effectivenessMechE Summer X
About The MIT MechE Summer Knowledge Exchange — or MechE Summer X — offers students, recent graduates ... led and organized by members of the MIT MechE community. Activities can be academic and non-academic. ... any member of the MIT MechE community can share expertise in a particular subject, skill, hobby, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/meche-summer-xTa Corrales
work the basis for her career. Solving problems Today, five years after graduating from MIT with ... long housed the MIT Museum. The rooms look more like a handyperson’s workshop than a scientist’s lab. ... Costa Rica when she discovered this eclectic enclave within MIT, where 26 staff members support 15 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/ta-corralesFrom triathlons to aerospace, Caitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21 pursues passions for leadership and manufacturing
training in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program — wherein she obtained both her MBA and SM ... months,” says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John Carrier, who was Braun’s internship advisor. Braun still ... graduate. “There’s a lot of new technology around distributed air vehicles and advanced air mobility. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/triathlons-aerospace-caitlin-braun-mba-%E2%80%9921-sm-%E2%80%9921-pursues-passions-leadership-andTwenty-three MIT faculty honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2023-25
have served as exceptional mentors to graduate students. Twenty-three MIT professors have been selected ... In the halls of MIT, a distinctive thread of compassion weaves through the fabric of education. As ... to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty members who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/twenty-three-mit-faculty-honored-committed-caring-2023-25Advanced silicon solar cells
today. At the MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory (PVLab), teams are working both to define what’s ... morishige-buonassisi-jensen-mit-meche-00_2.jpg Left to right: Ashley Morishige, Tonio Buonassisi, and Mallory Jensen of the MIT Department of ... conversion efficiency front — both at the MIT PVLab and around the world. One especially promising technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advanced-silicon-solar-cellsNew purification method could make protein drugs cheaper
to many other useful proteins, including antibody drugs and vaccines. MIT graduate student Caroline ... which help them to form protein crystals. Courtesy of the Researchers, colorized by MIT News. In an ... effort to help reduce those costs, MIT engineers have devised a new way to perform this kind of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-purification-method-could-make-protein-drugs-cheaperArtificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
— a goal that he is currently working toward. He and former graduate student Heather Beem, whose PhD thesis ... is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... object’s path, its size, and even its shape. Michael Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-whisker-reveals-source-harbor-seal%E2%80%99s-uncanny-prey-sensing-ability-0New tissue models could help researchers develop drugs for liver disease
hopes of discovering new treatments for these liver diseases, MIT engineers have designed a new type of ... disease,” says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT ... Former MIT postdoc Dominick Hellen is the lead author of the resmetirom paper, which appeared Jan. 14 in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-tissue-models-could-help-researchers-develop-drugs-liver-disease