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Professor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94

the best undergraduate experimental project in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. During that ... Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... more. During Griffith’s time at MIT, he helped shape the new undergraduate curriculum by serving on the ...

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Coatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces

research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation, ... Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... Engineering. MIT Research Scientist Sahab Babaee is the lead author of the paper, along with Simo Pajovic, an ...

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To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays

MIT engineers have found that one filter feeder has evolved to sift food in ways that could improve ... Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled ... Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. A better trade-off The new ...

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School of Engineering Awards for 2016

Two MechE professors win excellence in teaching awards. The MIT School of Engineering recently ... education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering’s five other academic ... Engineering, and/or the MIT Sloan School of Management, who inspires students in pursuing and achieving ...

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Six from MIT awarded 2023 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

’22 Desmond Edwards graduated from MIT in 2022 with a double major in biological engineering and ... funding from MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, he started a study investigating the ... Truong ’20, and Vaibhav Mohanty, an MD-PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and ...

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Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023

MIT faculty in 2001. Chen served as department head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering from ... Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). She has also been named an MIT MacVicar Fellow, a AAAS fellow, an ASBMB ... Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), director of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile ...

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3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers

2015, Martin Culpepper surveyed all undergraduate and graduate students at MIT about their activities ... engineering and MIT’s “Maker Czar,” asked students what they build, where they work, what kinds of equipment ... MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them. During the summer of ...

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Four from MIT are named IEEE Fellows for 2021

jointly chartered by Lincoln Laboratory and the MIT School of Engineering, he directs a program of ... are four members of the MIT community: Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical engineering ... ; Asuman Ozdaglar, professor and head of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ...

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Responsive design meets responsibility for the planet’s future

program. In February 2022, Horowitz took part in a sit-in in Building 3 as part of MIT Divest, ... collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... engineering projects through D-Lab, where community partners from around the world work with MIT students on ...

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Unleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells

Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal A team of researchers including Professor ... MIT-Perovskite-Efficiency-1024.jpg Solar cells made of perovskite have great promise, in part because they can easily be made on ... a paper by former MIT postdoc Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, MIT professors Tonio Buonassisi and Moungi Bawendi, ...

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SuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress

annual Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (SuperUROP), featured more than 130 poster ... SuperUROP-2018-poster-screens-MIT-1024.jpg About 130 undergraduates discussed the progress of their yearlong research projects at during the ... success of MIT’s flagship UROP program. While traditional UROP experiences last just one term, SuperUROP ...

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Liberty Ladd

mechanical engineering and a master's in political science. Courtesy of Jodi Hilton MIT News ... Space Force and I am in the Air Force ROTC Reserve Officer Training Corps program through MIT. Through ... logistical operations of our training program. I used to be on the MIT Mock Trial team, which I joined ...

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Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made ... Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Imagine connecting a neuromorphic device to ... through an image processing task, programming the memristors to alter an image, in this case of MIT ...

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Team Led by MechE Engineers Places Second at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

Nevan Hanumara. The students involved in the project were mechanical engineering undergraduates Jarrod ... Engineering, and the Office of Digital Learning. With this second place win under their belt, MIT EVT looks ... KOMMIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), led by members of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team and professional ...

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Three professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows

mechanical engineering. Now in its 25th year, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program was created to honor the ... research, primarily through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). UROP was established by ... honor the new MacVicar Fellows. The program and reception are open to the entire MIT community. Caspar ...

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MIT engineers design a soft, implantable ventilator

Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation. Sunday, December 11, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... which stimulates the diaphragm to contract. A new proof-of-concept design by MIT engineers aims to one ... Engineering and Science at MIT. “The biomechanics of this design are closer to normal breathing, versus ...

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Giving early-career women in mechanical engineering the tools to succeed in academia

Mechanical Engineering Workshop hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program, which is ... a researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who also works for the MIT IMPACT Program. IMPACT helps ... Werth, the program manager for Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering. The first day concluded with ...

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