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Homing in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells

and the Skoltech NGP program. Tuesday, March 30, 2021 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ... used for virtually all commercial solar panels. Now, an international interdisciplinary team led by MIT ... has come up with a new approach to narrowing the search for the best candidates for long-lasting ...

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Collaborating for irrigation access solutions: Where policy and engineering meet

in the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at MIT, led by Amos Winter, the Ratan N. Tata ... J-WAFS and MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program. As part of Xylem’s mission to solve water issues, the ... energy-efficient systems like drip irrigation — can help. Two research teams at MIT have been invested in this ...

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Sarah Tress

art.” Tress has been an undergraduate apprentice in MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the ... just outside the hospital’s gated entrance, and recognizing her privilege as an MIT student and a U.S. ... Tress says. “I want to show that the face of success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, ...

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School of Engineering first quarter 2019 awards

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Biological Engineering and the MIT Media Lab, was awarded the Rumford Prize on Jan. 30. Emery N. Brown, of ... received a Young Investigator Research Program grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-first-quarter-2019-awards

Ice melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities

partnered with MIT-Africa, an MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program, to ... "ZAHARA approached the MIT-Africa Program as a passionate and well-organized group," says MIT ... some of whom are pictured here. Photo courtesy of MIT News. Sudan-U.S. relations have recently entered ...

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Developing community around design

currently enrolled in masters or doctoral programs across MIT. Engineers, business students, architects, ... Professor and a professor of architecture and of civil and environmental engineering. The 2022 Design ... When the creation of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) — a major interdisciplinary ...

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Prosper Nyovanie

engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in mechanical engineering. He discovered ... I was super excited about UROP [the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program]. That program made MIT ... studying … because by then you’d usually have electricity.” “The best thing about being at MIT is that ...

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MechE Minor

a minor program of study in mechanical engineering. Students who wish to designate mechanical engineering ... Minoring in Mechanical Engineering The requirements for a minor in mechanical engineering are as ... from the Course 2 or 2-OE degree programs. Four of the six subjects must be from the Course 2 or 2-OE ...

https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/meche-minor

Engineers invent vertical, full-color microscopic LEDs

| MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professor Jeehwan Kim and a team of engineers have developed ... a “screen door effect” such that users perceive stripes in the space between pixels. Now, MIT engineers have ... create vertical, multicolored pixels. MIT_Vertical-LEDs-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers have developed a new ...

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Translating MIT research into real-world results

related to water or food. Modeled after the esteemed grant program of MIT’s Deshpande Center for ... H. Lienhard V. “But successful commercialization of MIT technology requires engineers to focus on ... many challenges beyond making the technology work. MIT’s I&E network offers a variety of programs ...

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Inspired by hands-on learning, MechE junior creates Haiti’s first of its kind open-use Makerspace

centers at MIT to design the project to best meet the needs of the targeted students. Collaborating groups ... Inspired by MIT’s hands-on approach to learning, Junior MechE student Wilhem Hector spent the ... very first hands-on class, in Spring 2022,” Hector says. In taking the class, he realized he needed to ...

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MIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway

intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea ... Grant through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). They contributed to projects ... Grant College Program. Collaborating with the MIT-Scandinavia MISTI (MIT International Science and ...

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