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Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi interviewed by Qatari television series Etqan

MechE Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi first came to MIT as a graduate student in 1979. His research ... the world at the time. In the 1990’s he went on to run special workshops for NASA engineers on ... leaks in water systems. This research was part of the MIT Singapore Alliance and had the goal of ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Tonio Buonassisi

Chandler, MIT News Office Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are ... Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... Office, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the MIT-KFUPM Center for Clean ...

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Erik Ballesteros

is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... engineer who was a former lecturer at MIT. As a practical suggestion, she nudged Ballesteros to consider ... a master’s program in mechanical engineering. In interviewing with potential advisors, he immediately hit it ...

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Study: With masking and distancing in place, NFL stadium openings in 2020 had no impact on local Covid-19 infections

particularly at a time when vaccination against the virus was not widely available. Now, MIT engineers have ... Engineering at MIT. “If case counts start to rise again, we know what to do: mask people, put them outside, ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A recent study by Professor Anette “Peko” Hosoi focused on ...

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Illustrating Covid-19 hygiene education

a graduate student studying mechanical engineering at MIT. For her master’s thesis, she worked on household ... | MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Education International Horizontal MechE alum Jasmine ... medium to demonstrate health, hygiene, and safety best practices related to Covid-19. They have released ...

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Orisa Coombs

make a difference in the world led her to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t ... working with administrators across MIT on developing initiatives and programs to help food-insecure ... At a young age, Orisa Coombs pledged to use her engineering knowledge to reduce inequality. The ...

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Digital Instruments for Musical Togetherness

to make a new kind of sound engaged him, and he stuck with it. Arriving at MIT as an undergraduate ... his acceptance email to MIT. Ntaimo did take several robotics courses as an undergraduate MechE major. ... he says. Ntaimo has found MIT to be the perfect place to blend his interests in engineering and ...

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Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

Foundation. Wednesday, July 10, 2019 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal A team of ... researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... biomedical applications. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg The tiny coils in the fiber developed by MIT ...

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How much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?

materials  is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ... is more material-intensive than producing traditional combustion engines, and the  demand for battery ... Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Currently, most lithium is extracted from  hard ...

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MIT Federal Credit Union presents 2018 scholarships, People Helping People Award

a senior at MIT studying mechanical engineering, was named as the 2018 winner. “Even after 12 years, I am ... Each year, the MIT Federal Credit Union (FCU) presents the People Helping People Award to a credit ... within the MIT community. At this year's annual business meeting on April 25, Nick Schwartz, ...

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Intelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research

Grant Program, MIT Sea Grant is a federal-Institute partnership that brings the research and engineering ... Robotics. Fan, now a postdoc, and a team of researchers from the MIT Sea Grant College Program and MIT ... objectives, like reduced drag. Earlier this year, Fan was awarded an MIT Mechanical Engineering de Florez ...

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Emily Satterfield

’22, who recently graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. Raised in Lowell, ... do both,” she says. Upon enrolling in MIT, Satterfield set out to study electrical engineering at ... MIT. But she quickly found herself gravitating more toward mechanical engineering. For her, making ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Megan Smith (SB ’86, SM ’88)

An MIT MechE engineer goes to the White House.   Alumna Megan Smith, CTO of the United States. ... Courtesy of White House. Megan Smith received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering ... from MIT in 1986 and 1988, respectively. This year, she was appointed to the position of chief ...

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Student Spotlight: Nikolai Begg

2013 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner   by Stephanie Martinovich, Lemelson-MIT Program   Photo ... exemplifies the modern inventor,” says Joshua Schuler, executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program. “Far ... and is a recipient of the prestigious 2013 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventions that ...

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Breaking through the mucus barrier

Fitzgerald, and Robert Langer. Tuesday, September 27, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... the National Institutes of Health and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors of the ...

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Jennifer Rumsey and John Wall

‘72, his new roommate and a master’s student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, ... Advanced Heavy Duty Engine Development at engine design and manufacturing company Cummins. It was her first ... from Cummins just this past October – the MIT educational counselor for local high school students. ...

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MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2023

individuals to their 2023 class of fellows. Among them are two members of the MIT Koch Institute for ... addition, 11 MIT alumni were also recognized. The highest professional distinction accorded solely to ... count them both among the Koch Institute’s and MIT’s research community.” Daniel Anderson is the Joseph ...

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Mo Mirvakili

engineering, followed by a PhD in mechanical engineering under MIT Professor Ian Hunter, which involved ... Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 ... directly with Langer on a totally different problem in biomedical engineering. In Langer's famously ...

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