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Training STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential

uncover the potential that already exists in these students.” Thursday, March 3, 2022 Zach Winn | MIT News ... partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... program, and the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition. During the 2017-2018 school year, PEN ...

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New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand

engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... MIT-Driving-Sand-1.JPG Engineers at MIT have come up with a scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ... the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ...

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When to get your head out of the game

just after.” Getting knocked around — for science Harvatine, who studied mechanical engineering at MIT ... athletes. Now an MIT-invented tool is aiding in detecting and diagnosing concussions, in real-time. ... MIT-Jolt_1024.jpg Photo by Rob Chron In 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine estimated that each year ...

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Featured video: Engineering joy

Lillie Paquette | 4 min, 58 sec Tuesday, May 29, 2018 MIT News Office Culture Education Horizontal ... MIT senior Isabel “Izzy” Lloyd will graduate this spring with not only a degree in mechanical ... engineering, but with the pleasure of knowing she accomplished a goal she set for herself as a freshman: to ...

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Richard Li

by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an antibacterial, ... “This is meaningful to me and how I spent my time the past four years at MIT, and we now have the best ... seat. Now, an MIT alumni-founded startup is working to flush away that problem forever. MIT has ...

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Low-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet

a notification to a caregiver that it’s time for a change. Image: MIT News The sensor consists of a passive radio ... a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Sen, Kantareddy, and their colleagues at ... supported in part by Softys under the MIT Industry Liason Program. Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Jennifer Chu ...

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Peer coaching helps graduate students thrive

November 19, 2023 Zach Winn | MIT News Education Horizontal The Graduate Student Coaching Program created ... spring of 2020, she got an email about the launch of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Coaching Program ... ’05, who also works as a research engineer at MIT. Hendrickson draws a distinction between coaching and ...

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Understanding the impact of climate change on the ocean

her first year, Kornberg started working with the MIT Sea Grant College Program as an undergraduate ... RS3824_2020 Michelle Kornberg 1024.jpg Photo By Tony Pulsone During MIT’s First-Year Pre-Orientation Program ... 2-OE (Mechanical and Ocean Engineering). Later that year, Kornberg declared 2-OE. “I think ocean ...

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Peter Chamberlain

student. Problems worth solving While pursuing his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at MIT ... are a leading cause of injury-based death for older adults in the U.S.  Decreased mobility could also ... has contracts in 12 states across the U.S. and has aided the move to home health care caused by the ...

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How to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber

Chandler | MIT News Office green Collaboration gchen2@mit.edu Vertical MechE researchers have developed ... reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou, professors Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Fang, Evelyn Wang, and Sang-Gook ...

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Power Efficiency in the Violin

a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team modeled the airflow through a simple round ... February 10, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office gray Collaboration MAKRIS@MIT.EDU Horizontal A new study ...

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Low-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking

countries. Now MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor ... Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ... Technology and Design. Monday, June 25, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture ...

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PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. He spent his childhood in Tanzania, received his undergraduate ... education in Canada, and worked in Houston as an engineering consultant before being drawn to MIT to pursue ...

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Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost

unit.” Credit: Courtesy of the researchers; edited by MIT News But for the most part, these designs are ... limited in the amount of motion and power they can produce. Now, MIT engineers are aiming to give bio-bots ... author Ritu Raman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT. “Such modularity ...

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Unleashing the potential of the mind

him back to MIT through the Advanced Study Program. Ang enrolled in classes at MIT’s Sloan School of ... limitless ways. We’re not going to bottleneck that.” Saturday, February 13, 2021 Zach Winn | MIT News Office ... click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. MIT-Pison-Technologies-1024.jpg The MIT ...

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An easier way to remove medical devices

Park, Weema Madani, and Alison Hayward. Monday, November 7, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office ... Traverso, the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... postdoc, is the lead author of the paper. MIT-Dissolving-Devices-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have shown ...

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MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator

volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to ... | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship International Horizontal A rapidly assembled volunteer ... MIT-Ventilator-Project-1024.jpg This shows the setup used for preliminary testing of an earlier version of the low-cost prototype ...

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Alum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market

MIT's Translational Fellows Program enables the move with special funding for entrepreneurs. ... Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... transport. With the assistance of MIT’s Translational Fellows Program (TFP), McGovern has been able to focus ...

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How to make hydrogels more injectable

a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ... appears today in the journal Matter. Connor Verheyen, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Program in ... 2023 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A new computational framework developed by ...

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