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Karina Pikhart

2.009: Product Engineering Processes.   Karina Pikhart 1024.jpg   Pikhart was on a 15-member team ... because of it, but it turned out to be the best decision we could have made.”   After graduation, ... to work on the project. While earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford ...

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Racing into the future of autonomous driving

students. Zhang and her teammates from MIT Driverless — working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center ... white, the automobile named DUT18 wasn’t an ordinary race car. First, it was built by engineers at TU ... Delft; then, programmers at MIT wrote algorithms that would replace its human driver. Together, the two ...

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Refrigerator magnets

News Office green gchen2@mit.edu ... according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ...

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Solving a mystery of thermoelectrics

Tuesday, April 29, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red gchen2@mit.edu ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... which could lead to the discovery of new, improved thermoelectric materials. The findings — by MIT ...

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How to Succeed at MIT

Senior Taotao Zhang reflects upon her undergraduate journey at MIT as a transfer student. <iframe ... undergraduate journey at MIT as a transfer student. She talks about rising above her initial anxieties through ... undergraduate journey at MIT as a transfer student. Senior Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang, of China, reflects upon her ...

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On a Mission to Measure

Mechanical engineering students at MIT get hands-on experience conducting a research study from start to ... measure https://youtu.be/BpUasPfkLJs Health Impact Home Culture Home Education Home Undergraduate ...

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Faculty Promotions

core disciplines in our undergraduate program as well as our graduate program. She has been awarded ... Award for Undergraduate Advising, and a Best Paper Award at the 2013 ASME Design Theory and Methodology ... authority in the field of precision engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and ...

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Training STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential

partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... program, and the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition. During the 2017-2018 school year, PEN ... uncover the potential that already exists in these students.” Thursday, March 3, 2022 Zach Winn | MIT News ...

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Caroline Sorensen

MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) are plasma physicists and nuclear engineering researchers, ... says Dennis Whyte, the director of PSFC and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at MIT. “We ...

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Achieving advisory equilibrium

Committed to Caring (C2C) program. Cappellaro notes that the “best strategy [as an advisor is] to foster ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT. His work has focused on dynamic systems ... Cappellaro is a professor of nuclear science and engineering. She leads the Quantum Engineering Group at the ...

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Understanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces

mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... use to predict heat transfer from flat plates.” Monday, April 27, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News ... some have been taught incorrectly to generations of engineering students, a new analysis shows. The ...

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Researchers present novel, enzyme-free strategy for detaching cells from culture surfaces

from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute of ... author and mechanical engineering researcher at MIT, emphasizes the potential for industrial scalability. ... contamination-conscious workflows for cell therapies, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine Anchorage-dependent ...

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Student Profile: Julia Sokol, PhD Candidate

a stronger technical foundation, she applied to MIT for graduate school. During her master’s program, Sokol ... her fellow team members at MIT’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab are working on making drip ... supply. Julia Sokol, a PhD student in mechanical engineering, is hoping to improve sustainability and ...

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Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature

src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSWAbtQqhlo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering Sangbae Kim describes his cutting-edge research in the area of biomimetics, the study of ... biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots. Professor Kim's current project-- ...

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MechE Summer X

Information These summer offerings are intended for the benefit of the MIT Mechanical Engineering community ... through the MechE Summer X program. Proposals Upcoming Calendar of Activities Additional Information Past ... About The MIT MechE Summer Knowledge Exchange — or MechE Summer X — offers students, recent graduates, ...

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Faculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak

at MIT with Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman. Kolpak’s ... first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... “The behavior is influenced, and often dominated by, the interfaces,” says MIT assistant professor of ...

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Industrial Design

at MIT relevant to industrial design that do not necessarily include engineering content.  2.007 ... program. If no units are indicated, in general no engineering credit will be awarded for that particular ... to be mass-produced with mechanical engineering disciplinary background. The discipline involves many ...

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Getting a charge out of water droplets

| MIT News Office blue ... Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ... devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ...

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Transparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish

Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Maker Horizontal Made from hydrogel, robots may one day assist in surgical ...

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