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Drawn to big challenges, from GM to Caterpillar

a new student in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program. Johnson describes attending LGO ... the program.” She has brought that mindset to a wide range of engineering, product development, ... programs, but a visit to MIT’s campus and meetings with LGO professors made her choice easy, she says. The ...

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Making a remarkable material even better

in parallel, graduate student Elise Strobach of mechanical engineering had been learning how best to ... Sunlight program of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy; the ... Program. Lin Zhao PhD ’19 is now an optics design engineer at 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota.  This article ...

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A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine

part, by the U.S. Department of Energy. Wednesday, April 13, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine ... N. Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This is an ...

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Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves

Research. Friday, April 29, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Using machine ... predict. Now, MIT engineers have found a new way to model how waves break. The team used machine learning ... learning along with data from wave tank experiments, MIT engineers led by Professor Themis Sapsis and Dr. ...

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MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body

Nanotechnologies at MIT. Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship Horizontal MIT ... MIT-Ultrasound-sticker-1024.jpg MIT engineers designed an adhesive patch that produces ultrasound images of the body. The ... available only in hospitals and doctor’s offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the ...

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3Q: John Heywood on the future of the internal combustion engine

Heywood, the Sun Jae Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, joined auto industry propulsion ... engines. In the late 1960s, Heywood joined MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab, where he started researching why ... The future of the internal combustion engine, with some 2 billion in use in the world today, was ...

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Six MIT students named 2023 Schwarzman Scholars

children. He is in his second year of the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. Kuhl hopes to use his ... nearly 3,000 applicants. Since the program’s inception in 2015, 29 MIT students and alumni have been ... arriving at MIT. He is studying physics and electrical engineering with a minor in political science. After ...

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Toy-making offers seriously fun introduction to engineering

2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get ... In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, first year students get hands-on engineering and product ... design experience. Most engineers first discover their affinity for engineering in childhood. Long before ...

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Sanjay Sarma to step down as vice president for open learning

Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been responsible for MIT Open Learning, ... can also accelerate their time to degree once admitted to a traditional master’s program. MIT now ... program at MIT, and another 72 are currently enrolled. MicroMasters programs have been adopted by over 25 ...

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Four from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships

combination of intellectual prowess and public mindedness that characterizes MIT students at their best,” says ... Henry Aspegren, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, is an MIT master’s student in engineering. He received his BS ... in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT earlier this year. Aspegren aspires to ...

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Mechanical engineer-led startups offer healthcare solutions

Traverso, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Traverso is no stranger to startups. He has ... first year on MIT’s faculty, Traverso introduced a new class called Translational Engineering (2.s988), ... solutions all the more pressing. “There were a number of startups from MIT that addressed problems related ...

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Navy officer deepens her engineering and leadership skills at MIT

officer in July 2020 and applied to the graduate program in naval construction and engineering at MIT in ... J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership (GradEL) program. “The Navy has a need for engineering ... U.S. Navy lieutenant Asia Allison is earning a naval engineer degree and a master’s degree in ...

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School of Engineering welcomes new faculty in 2024-25

The MIT School of Engineering welcomes new faculty members across six of its academic units. This ... Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) report into both the School of Engineering and the MIT Stephen A. ... received his BS in nuclear engineering and physics from MIT and his PhD in plasma physics from the ...

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Twelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships

Department of State, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers opportunities for American student scholars in ... granted MIT awarded 2021 Fullbright Fellowships. Photos courtesy of MIT News. Top Row: Jenny Chan, ... engineering workshops in Israel with MIT's Global Teaching Labs. For her Fulbright, Stein will conduct ...

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Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Jeehwan ... electronic waste.  Now MIT engineers have taken a step toward that modular vision with a LEGO-like design for ... elements that can communicate with each other. Figure courtesy of the researchers and edited by MIT News ...

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