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Living Undersea

Ocean engineering alumna Grace Young (SB '14) reflects on her experience as part of Fabien ... mechanical and ocean engineering alumna Grace Young '14 reflects on her experience. Young led the team ... footage of marine life on the coral reef in slow motion. Ocean Science and Engineering Environment Impact ...

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Ice Bucket Challenge, MechE Style

of MIT mechanical engineering professor John Heywood — as well as others with this disease. Chen was ... of Mechanical Engineering yellow Collaboration Culture JHEYWOOD@MIT.EDU ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, was nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by the Graduate ...

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Lights, camera, inspiration

out from Phoenix to celebrate their victory at MIT. “Passionate engineering knows no boundaries, and ... a career in engineering; it helped me pay for college; it brought me to MIT today; it sent me on the right ... Alumni from MIT’s 2004 Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) Team and the Carl Hayden Community High ...

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Forging ahead with care and compassion

a number of MIT professors are forging thoughtful ways to support students’ well-being and scholarly ... prior to MIT’s ramping down of research, which enabled them to be intentional with their discussions of ... issues in the news.” Concurring, Professor Anna Mikusheva empathizes with the challenges students face. ...

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Excitons observed in action for the first time

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ... exciton movement within materials has never been directly observed. Now scientists at MIT and the City ... journal Nature Communications, in a paper co-authored by MIT postdocs Gleb Akselrod and Parag Deotare, ...

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Empowering Futures

told MIT News. As an academic administrator, Regan served as a guiding force for countless graduate ... Shangzhi Wu SM ’81, MBA ’84, PhD ’85 reminisced about his journey to MIT over 45 years ago, recollecting ...

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Graduate student Sami Khan receives research award

Sami Khan, a dual-degree graduate student in mechanical engineering and technology and policy, ... recently received a research award from the Hydro Research Foundation. Khan — who conducts research in MIT ... 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering green ...

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Alumni Profile: Peter Lehner

Cotchett’s machine shop solidified his interest in mechanical engineering. A few years later, he came to MIT ... a teenager. He loved rebuilding old cars and wanted to become an aircraft engineer after college. “I knew ... a man named Mr. Cotchett who was a mechanical engineer during the Depression,” explains Lehner. “He was ...

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Yo-yo champion pursues his passions at MIT

not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering ... professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s Maker Czar. Culpepper helped Hattori find the makerspaces and ... Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ...

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George Hatsopoulos, senior lecturer emeritus and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, dies at 91

George Nicholas Hatsopoulos, an MIT mechanical engineering senior lecturer emeritus who founded ... engineering degree, and doctorate of science degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. His doctoral thesis, ... 1956, Hatsopoulos joined the faculty in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. That same year, ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Meg O’Neill (SB ’93, SM ’94)

a business context. “One of the best things about an MIT education is the emphasis on problem solving. It’s ... I’m not ready for. Saying ‘yes’ keeps doors open.” Having started at ExxonMobil as an engineer in ... After a few years, she transferred within the company to work as a reservoir engineer, producing models ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Elliot Avila (SB ’14)

Mechanical Engineering who has a particular interest in the developing world. As an undergraduate student in ... a product designer and engineer for the company Global Cycle Solutions, working on a multi-crop thresher. ... the work that I’m doing has been really fulfilling. From an engineering perspective, the kind of ...

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