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A Nanoscale Competition

design a compression-resistant nanoscale material — and win possibly the world’s smallest trophy. MIT ... Innovation Home Page Impact Home Research Home Culture Home Education Home Undergraduate Graduate Alumni Home ... Prospective Student Home News & Media Home Prospective Undergrad Home Prospective Grad Home ...

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A community of making

Schor, second from left, teaches students on the use of equipment in the MIT MakerWorkshop. Photo by John ... Freidah When Culpepper was named MIT’s maker czar in 2015, he started out by mapping out  MIT’s own maker ... system, and, with help from a range of internal partners,  launched several new programs  to improve the ...

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A new way to mend a broken heart

Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Image: Whyte, et al./Nature Biomedical Engineering A new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering ... involving a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity ...

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“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”

the Department of Mechanical Engineering who participated in “BattleBots” as an MIT student during the ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s MakerWorks space, the MIT Electronics Research Society ... engineering principles. Wendell notes that it’s great to see MIT students participating in “BattleBots” who ...

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Student-led conference charts the future of micro- and nanoscale research, reinforces scientific community

a letter to attendees, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) graduate ... New Hampshire on Jan. 24-25 for the first time since before the pandemic, MARC gathered over 240 MIT ... (MTL) and, since 2020, co-sponsored jointly with MIT.nano. 2023-01 MARC 316 edit.jpg Mechanical ...

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On a mission to measure

during mechanical engineering students’ junior year, arms students with the knowledge and skills needed ... ’11, who took the course as an undergraduate and now mentors students on their Go Forth and Measure ... engineer is the ability to communicate what you’ve done, why you did it, and why it’s important for people ...

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Imagine it, Build it

‘imagine it, build it,’” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering. “Between those two is ... a universe, and the purpose of this class is to aid aspiring engineers to bridge that gap.” MechE ... undergraduate Jessica Lam works on her design in the lab. Credit: Lauren Futami SM ’22 Students say the course ...

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Students demonstrate "calculated imagination" in robot competition

ticket). 2.007.2.043_1024.jpg John Taylor Novak, a mechanical engineering junior, navigates his robot ... engineers; we can do better than pure imagination,” said Winter as he kicked off the event. “We can do ... mushroom. The game board was designed to get students familiar with basic mechanical engineering principles. ...

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Alumni Profile: Jacklyn (Holmes) Herbst ’10 MEngM ‘11, Isabella DiDio ‘16, and Ann McInroy ‘18

experiences studying mechanical engineering at MIT to help each other solve problems. “There’s a lot of ... working for the same team. MIT-Alumni-1024.jpg From left to right: Ann McInroy ’18, Isabella Didio ’16, ... Microsoft as a Design for Assembly Mechanical Engineer in August of last year. “We have this shared ...

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Guided discovery in teaching structural mechanics

Over the course of their education at MIT, mechanical engineering undergraduate students have many ... MIT AeroAstro, where some of these same discoveries are used in class 16.001 (Unified Engineering ... mechanical engineering positions at the best companies in the world,” says Sachs. For mechanical engineering ...

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Bettina Arkhurst

and support one another during difficult times. Bettina Arkhurst, MIT senior and RAK Week founder ... Photo: Maisie O'Brien Coming to MIT, Arkhurst quickly settled in and made friends, but she worried ... and MIT is not a place to go through alone.” During her sophomore year, Arkhurst joined the ...

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Teaching robots how to move objects

undergraduate career. She studied mathematics and engineering physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia ... engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ...

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Printable electronics

Engineers at MIT have invented a fast, precise printing process that may make such electronic surfaces an ... Technology and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the team’s stamping process should be able to print ... professor of chemical engineering and MIT’s associate provost. A stamp from tiny pen quills There have been ...

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Breaking Through the Bacteria Barrier

developed by MIT engineers may help scientists quickly home in on the electric field “sweet spot” — the ... by DARPA and the National Science Foundation. Thursday, February 18, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News ... engineering. Genetically engineering any organism requires first getting its cells to take in foreign DNA. To ...

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Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship zhaox@mit.edu Horizontal A group of ... A team of MIT researchers has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open ... are published today in Science Advances. MIT-Sweat-Wearables-01-1024.jpg This breathable workout suit ...

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Five with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2025

Nicole Pham Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her ... Engineering; and a recipient of the ACM Computing Prize.  Additional MIT alumni who were elected to the NAM for ... and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology;   Michael E. Matheny SM ’06, an alumnus ...

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Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

(ICRA). Their study co-author is John Leonard, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Aquatic optics ... May 19, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal A new color-correcting tool, developed by MIT ... color of objects in the ocean without imaging them at close range. Now a team from MIT and the Woods ...

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A robot that finds lost items

October 5, 2021 Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Horizontal A robotic arm, developed by Associate Professor ... figure out which pile was hiding the keys. Researchers at MIT have created a robotic system that can do ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ...

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Making life friendlier with personal robots

Alghowinem says she dreamed of coming to MIT one day to develop Arabic-based technologies, and of creating ... her through. She earned an undergraduate degree in computing before leaving home to pursue graduate ... MIT as a postdoc with the Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women, which is housed in the MIT ...

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Optimizing carbon nanotube electrodes

by the MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund Program and by the King Fahd University of Petroleum and ... characteristics of vertically aligned CNT arrays that yield the most benefit has been difficult. Now an MIT team ... applications," says Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. "But an underlying ...

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