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Faculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux

Chandler, MIT News Office Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer   Sometimes the fastest pathway ... and shifting currents. But figuring out the best route in such settings is a monumentally complex ... them moving all at once toward separate destinations. But that’s just what a team of engineers led by ...

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How to make oxygen on the moon

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... everything we can on Earth now,” says Brant White, a program manager at Sierra Space, a private company. “The ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...

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This flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes

lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ... Sunday, September 29, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A team of researchers including ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ...

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How to prevent biofilms in space

September 6, 2023 David L. Chandler | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Microbial or fungal biofilms on ... a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ...

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AUVs: From Idea to Implementation

director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program, the Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering and ... founded the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory within the MIT Sea Grant College Program, and he and ... Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ...

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Emeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees

a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... November 5, 2013 David L. Chandler, MIT News Office red Culture ... British Columbia’s system was “the best in the world.” Public policy and economics were not Wilson’s ...

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Sensing the world around us

“Sensing is all around you,” said MIT.nano Associate Director Brian W. Anthony at Ambient Sensing, ... a half-day symposium presented in May by the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. Featuring MIT faculty and researchers ... magnificent.” Minchew’s group is working with other researchers at MIT to build a drone capable of flying for ...

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MechE Milestones

engineering at MIT dates back to the founding of the Institute in 1861. In fact, when the first students ... Engineering at MIT in a playful numeric nod at MIT’s course numbering system, kicked off with The R.B. Wallace ... MIT celebrates the 150-year anniversary of its first lab opening and its designation as Course ...

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Dragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds

supported, in part, by the Office of Naval Research Global. Tuesday, October 26, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News ... a grant from the MIT-Brazil MISTI program, and the team began to explore whether more subtle stimuli, such ... out other activities that are assumed to be less mentally taxing. The new study, by researchers at MIT ...

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How to clean solar panels without water

Advances Friday, March 11, 2022 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship ... a team of researchers at MIT has devised a way of automatically cleaning solar panels, or the mirrors of ... problem, they say. MIT-Cleaning-Solar-03-press.jpeg The new system uses electrostatic repulsion to cause ...

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Multi-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility

Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ... science discovery program launched by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Provided over four years, the ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ...

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