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Roche, Ellen Professor; Associate Department Head

Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will ... microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT's departments of Aeronautics ... Engineering; MIT Kavli Institute; the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology; the MIT Computer Science and ...

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Rohit Karnik named director of J-WAFS

founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel company and father of MIT alumnus Mohammed Jameel ’78, who founded and ... Rohit Karnik, the Tata Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named ... impact around the world,” Waitz wrote. J-WAFS is the only program at MIT focused exclusively on water and ...

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David Hu

science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ... Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... students in an active, goal-oriented exercise between segments. (To see an MIT BLOSSOMS video in action, ...

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Turning any room into an operating room

Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty research director of MIT’s D-Lab. Frey had been ... working on the concept of SurgiBox with Debbie Teodorescu, the company’s founder and CEO, who graduated ... project,” explains Frey, who also serves as Miller’s advisor. “At MIT, grad students can really deepen ...

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Just what the doctor ordered

Device Design). The class brings clinicians from Boston-area hospitals and MIT students together to ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, program manager at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, and ... engineering undergraduate, and a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ...

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Adventures in the Pappalardo Lab

calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space. In about 2010, working as a principal and ... that what he was providing wasn’t as meaningful as he would like. Luckily for MIT's Department of ... just, say, the next product development cycle.” So he headed back to MIT, where he had earned his PhD in ...

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Bold research visions recognized and rewarded

the late Amar Bose, a longtime member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, well ... Since 2013, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has been supporting MIT faculty with big, ... bold, and unconventional research visions. In the latest round of grants, four proposals from six MIT ...

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A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions

specific task,” says Alberto Rodriguez, an MIT visiting scientist who is a former member of the MechE ... members of the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube) under Rodriguez’ direction. “In this work ... co-founder and chief scientist for Ambi Robotics and Jacobi Robotics. “This can be immediately useful in ...

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New system recovers fresh water from power plants

A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ... floating away in clouds of vapor. But the new MIT system could potentially save a substantial fraction of ... which is the basis for a startup company called Infinite Cooling that last month won MIT’s $100K ...

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How MIT’s rocket, electric car, and solar vehicle teams have adjusted to the pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit all areas of the MIT communty. Those for which in-person hands-on ... experiences traditionally take center stage have had to pivot in unique ways. In this Q&A, the MIT ... international competitions. Here, juniors Max Kwon, president of the MIT Rocket Team; Jorge Nin, MIT Motorsports ...

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MIT Electric Vehicle Team: An Electrifying Start

race of the event and MIT’s electric motorcycle had never been raced on the road before. Each Electric ... first qualifier is a big event,” says MIT EVT Leader and mechanical engineering PhD student Lennon ... race on the Internet while working in an MIT machine shop that prompted Rodgers and the rest of the EVT ...

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Leveraging computational tools to enhance product design

As an undergraduate at MIT, Jana Saadi had to find a way to fulfill her humanities class ... had joined a friend in a class offered through MIT D-Lab, a project-based program aimed at helping ... behind product design. Now, she’s pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, researching how ...

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The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants

faculty member: Joann de Zegher, the Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor at the MIT Sloan ... Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT. His work is in wireless sensing, where his research group has largely focused on ... opportunity they provide for exploration. J-WAFS catalyzes research across all disciplines and programs at MIT ...

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