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Danielle Zurovcik

MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... our protocol,” she explains.   When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...

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Stick with me

has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ... and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... Fund, a grant program supporting ideas to make MIT a more welcoming, inclusive, and healthy place. They ...

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Sensing the body at all scales

Brian W. Anthony, associate director of MIT.nano and faculty lead for the Industry Immersion Program in ... opportunities for commercial innovations. Elazer Edelman, director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering ... Engineering and Science at MIT. “The most important thing, I think, is to realize that engineers like us, ...

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Inspiring Hands-On Learning

accommodate the educational needs brought by new technologies and scientific advances, MIT packed up its ... this photo is a reminder of what MIT stands for – the soul and DNA of MIT, mind and hand, this is ... engineering. Kim, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Mechanical Engineering, is not an aeronautical engineer ...

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Dieffenbach, Jeff Sr. Program Manager, Educational Initiatives

Pitching transformative design

class 22.033 (Nuclear Science and Engineering Design), “We’re pretty nervous,” said Jared Wilson, a senior ... a commercially viable way through the application of nuclear science and engineering. Guided by class instructor ... Zachary Hartwig, the John C. Hardwick Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, three teams ...

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Cleaning Water Without the Grid

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, but he describes one of the most important aspects of his job as ... MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly ... “detective work.” That’s what he, MIT PhD candidate  Natasha Wright, and their fellow researchers did for two ...

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How to create selective holes in graphene

Kong, the ITT Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; MIT graduate students ... project received support from the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT and KFUPM and the U.S. ... Department of Energy. Tuesday, February 25, 2014 David L. Chandler, MIT News Office ...

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MechE Connects: Spring/Summer 2015 Issue

technology that’s been developed – some of it right here in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Through advanced programming, clever mechanics, and optimized dynamics, we are developing the robots we ... people's lives healthier, safer, and more comfortable. http://mecheconnects.mit.edu ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Professor Woodie Flowers (SM ‘68, MEng ‘71, PhD ‘73)

Flowers breathed new life into the MIT way of teaching engineering by doing, a reinvigoration at the right ... engineering is all about having fun. But it wasn’t always that way. As a high school student from a poor ... convictions led him to become a major force in the transformation of mechanical engineering education. Having ...

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Ravi Patil ’93, SM ’95, IT Executive and Storyteller

mechanical engineering, and he stays actively connected to MIT through a variety of volunteer activities. ... During his six years at MIT, Ravi Patil ’93, SM ’95 kept a journal. The 120-page record chronicled ... where it sat for years, mostly forgotten. “Late one night during the pandemic, I cracked open my MIT ...

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Professor Alberto Rodriguez presents work on robotic extrinsic dexterity

robotic hands.   Friday, July 11, 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering blue ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU ... Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and incoming graduate student ... research video (see below) was selected as a finalist for Best Video Award. The research he conducted along ...

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Tough New Hydrogel Hybrid Doesn’t Dry Out

Now engineers at MIT have found a way to prevent hydrogels from dehydrating, with a technique that ... Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, devised a method to robustly bind ... Nanotechnologies, and National Science Foundation. Sunday, June 26, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...

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Scientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene

making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... Department of Energy and a Lindemann Trust Fellowship. Tuesday, June 27, 2017 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... Collaboration International Horizontal MIT engineers, including Associate Professor Rohit Karnik, have designed ...

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A new way to make droplets bounce away

26, 2019 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship Horizontal The Varanasi Research Group ... In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ... MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ...

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Students launch products that help users harness their superpowers

lasso of truth. Batman has his suit. On Monday evening, teams of mechanical engineering students ... 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), have spent the semester developing and designing a product ... presented to a full capacity crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. They received a rock-star welcome. ...

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Tapping the MIT talent pool for the future of fusion

MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... of Engineering at MIT. “We need to be working on a host of integrated technologies to actually make ... Sorensen.Fusion.1024.jpg MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen earned a master’s degree at MIT in a MechE lab but is based ...

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Bryan Schmid

difficult was the transition from engineering to entrepreneurship? MIT certainly fosters an interest in ... Education Graduate Undergraduate Alumni /news/alumni-spotlight-atlas-devices President, Atlas Devices SB ... MechE alumni Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05) entered the MIT ...

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Hydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water

Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... Foundation. Monday, November 9, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red zhaox@mit.edu Horizontal Xuanhe Zhao ...

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Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ... around a hallway by 86 percent. Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office Collaboration ... tables or chairs, or determine whether a chair is already occupied. Researchers from MIT’s Computer ...

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