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MIT PhD students shed light on important water and food research

One glance at the news lately will reveal countless headlines on the dire state of global water ... wildfires. Every year, MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) offers fellowships ... to outstanding MIT graduate students who are working on innovative ways to secure water and food ...

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Solar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries

engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT ... over a background of cars and solar panels. Image: MIT News As a test case, the researchers examined in ... Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Thursday, May 21, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ...

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Wang, Evelyn N. Vice President for Energy and Climate

From electric racecars to prosthetic feet – students present their research at annual exhibition

At the 4th Annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition, students hone their communication ... inside the Johnson Ice Rink, mechanical engineering graduate student Sydney Sroka had a different ... participating in the annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE). In its fourth year, MERE, which ...

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The Making of a Mechanical Engineer in Seven UROPs

the office that housed the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Having worked through ... In 2004, a few days into his first semester at MIT, Folkers Rojas ’09, SM ’11, PhD ’14 stopped by ... UROP. Even 15 years ago, this was a big task. The Institute’s flagship experiential learning program ...

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Search-and-rescue algorithm identifies hidden “traps” in ocean waters

mechanical engineering at MIT. “This method uses data in a way that it hasn’t been used before, so it ... mechanical engineering at MIT, who oversaw the project, and their colleagues report their results in a study ... | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal Researchers including Professor Thomas Peacock ...

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By attracting the world’s sharpest talent, MIT helps keep the US a step ahead

United States from Venezuela and eventually served as MIT’s president from 2012 to 2022. “There is no ... Engineering and Computer Science and director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ... “The bottom line is that both MIT and the U.S. grow stronger when we harness the talents of the world’s ...

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Bringing it all back home

October 16, 2022 Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office International Horizontal Governor Tom Wolf PhD '81 ... speaking at MIT on Thursday, contending that if U.S. states pursue broad, long-term measures to improve the ... of Pennsylvania, a 1981 graduate of MIT's PhD program in the Department of Political Science, ...

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Evelyn Wang: A new energy source at MIT

decades at the Institute. Wang earned her undergraduate degree from MIT in mechanical engineering, and her ... Glanzman Wang, a mechanical engineering professor by trade, began work this spring as MIT’s first vice ... day,” says Wang, who is also the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT. “There’s no better place than MIT ...

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Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration

MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, will explore whether Alzheimer’s pathology is driven by ... expertise to join the field, MIT’s Aging Brain Initiative (ABI) this month awarded five seed grants after ... a competition among labs across the Institute. Founded in 2015 by nine MIT faculty members, the ABI promotes ...

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AI and machine learning for engineering design

and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Within mechanical engineering ... environmental engineering, aeronautics and astronautics, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and nuclear and ... Society of Mechanical Engineers Systems Engineering, Information and Knowledge Management 2025 Best Paper ...

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Building an HMCo. Steam Engine: Introduction

thoughts about MIT’s most famous naval architect and steam engineer, Captain Nathanael Herreshoff, were ... next apprentice class would fabricate a Herreshoff Mfg Co. steam engine using drawings from MIT ... would be our fourth attempt casting a particularly vexing part for our Herreshoff steam engine.   The ...

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Faculty Spotlight

Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became ... a chemical transformation. What do you like best about being a MechE professor at MIT? Once you leave the ... Precision Engineering, and the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology. Why is ...

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A champion of renewable energy

MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries, ... through technological innovation, and soon joined the MIT Undergraduate Energy Club, where she says she ... vote for it!” Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Hannah Meiseles | MIT News correspondent Culture Horizontal ...

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Master of Engineering in Manufacturing

individual hands-on undergraduate courses such as Design and Manufacturing I and II, Product Engineering ... undergraduate level, and in fact we have never had an undergraduate degree in manufacturing at MIT. As a result, ... provides the context to immediately apply classroom learning.” There are other programs at MIT addressing ...

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School of Engineering second quarter 2019 awards

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Twelve list by Chemical Engineering News on Aug. 22, 2017. Vincent W.S. Chan, of the Department of ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International ...

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The poster session goes virtual

Opportunities Program (UROP) projects, and postdocs gather to share their mechanical engineering research with ... Each fall, graduate students, undergraduate students who have completed Undergraduate Research ... the wider MIT community. They practice their presenting skills, explaining their research projects as ...

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MIT engineers find a way to protect microbes from extreme conditions

Institute for Space Health, Space Center Houston, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and by 711 ... Christina Karavasili, Benjamin Muller, and James Byrne. Thursday, July 4, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News ... storage. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to make microbes hardy enough to withstand these ...

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Decarbonizing the Diesel Engine

consider a career in engineering. “John Wall is the reason I went to MIT,” Rumsey says. “He really ... encouraged me.” Although Rumsey completed her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Purdue ... also appears in the  September/October issue  of MIT Alumni News magazine, published by MIT Technology ...

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