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Course 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design

Mechanical Design isn’t a typical course, even for mechanical engineering. One of the last undergraduate ... courses mechanical engineering students can opt to take at MIT, “this class integrates all the other ... other mechanical engineering courses that I have previously taken at MIT and showed me how to apply the ...

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Illuminating a complex disease

Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ... Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies. Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Anne Trafton, MIT News Office ...

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An implantable sensor could reverse opioid overdoses

Engineering. Tuesday, August 13, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Professor Giovanni ... high-risk population,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... opioid overdose. Courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News However, many people are alone when they ...

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School of Engineering first quarter 2024 awards

Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of ... their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes ... Engineering and Computer Science received an IEEE 2024 Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation ...

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Center to advance predictive simulation research established at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE) within the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing — will ... advanced programming languages, compiler technologies, and software performance engineering tools, ... scientist of mechanical engineering. MIT was among a total of nine universities selected as part of the ...

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Protecting seafarers and the global supply chain during Covid-19

Covid-19 Task Force. Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering, is a member of the task force, ... Arctic. Peacock was originally connected to the UN Global Compact through the MIT Policy Lab at the Center ... and safety of seafarers After the plight of cruise ships and news broke about the Covid-19 cases ...

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The power of play

science and technology for gaming. The creation of the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program, says Brian ... program’s first call for proposals. Applications are due May 25.  Tuesday, April 2, 2019 MIT ... A new collaboration between MIT.nano and NCSOFT, a video game development company based in South ...

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Three awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political science

a wonderful recognition of a promising scholar." Full story at MIT SHASS News MIT Political Scientist ... of Political Science at MIT. The award recognizes the best book published over the past two years in ... occurring in the Western Balkans over a twenty-year period." Full Story at MIT SHASS News MIT ...

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Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... Engineering at MIT, is developing a  microbial alternative to the Haber-Bosch process. Some farms have ...

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Advanced silicon solar cells

today. At the  MIT Photovoltaics Research Laboratory  (PVLab), teams are working both to define what’s ... Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and lab director. ... morishige-buonassisi-jensen-mit-meche-00_2.jpg Left to right: Ashley Morishige, Tonio Buonassisi, and Mallory Jensen of the MIT Department of ...

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From NASA to MIT to Formlabs

interests at MIT. When she wasn’t fulfilling the requirements for her mechanical engineering degree, she ... MIT’s autonomous boat team Arcturus to entering a leadership position at 3D printing technology company ... engineering at a young age and skipped several grades in math. In her first year of high school, she saw ...

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A. Michael West

shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT ... to participate in the  MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP). The program identifies talented ... undergraduates to spend a summer on MIT’s campus, conducting research with the mentorship of MIT faculty, ...

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Ultrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses, study finds

coronaviruses, a new MIT study finds. Illustration of Corona Virus. Image Credit: MIT News, with images from ... iStockphoto A new study by researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering suggests that ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A new study by researchers including Professor ...

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A Message from New MechE Department Head John Hart SM ’02, PhD ’06

doing this at MIT, and to have an extended network of alumni and friends so invested and engaged in our ... success.  My predecessor as Department Head, Evelyn Wang, the Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering ... Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering, led our department since 2018 and through an especially ...

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Five MIT PhD students awarded 2022 J-WAFS fellowships for water and food solutions

and family. Aditya Ghodgaonkar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... industry. James Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he has ... then received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT. In addition to working in the ...

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Kirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale

journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X Fang and five ... 5, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Nicholas ... Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ...

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MIT researchers remotely map crops, field by field

the resources to maintain. MIT-mapping-crops-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a method to ... fraction of an acre to the next. Image: Courtesy of the researchers; Google Street View Now, MIT engineers ... the d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ...

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