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Undersea living: Alumna joins Cousteau mission
research mission! #MIT2014 pic.twitter.com/lqvOPfkr3s — MIT (@MIT) June 6, 2014 Young was originally ... miss MIT's Commencement. “It was a no brainer,” Young says of her decision to flip her "Brass ... Rat" — MIT's class ring — underwater, thousands of miles from Killian Court. Young, a Marshall ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undersea-living-alumna-joins-cousteau-missionNew Solar Absorber Could Improve Efficiency of Solar Thermal Technology
Masdar Institute-MIT team develops device that harnesses more sunlight, enhancing efficiency of ... researchers at MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has discovered a low-cost way to ... journal Advanced Optical Materials. The work contributes to a larger Masdar Institute-MIT research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-solar-absorber-could-improve-efficiency-solar-thermal-technologyBuilding the mountain bike of wheelchairs
living in rural areas where access to goods, services, and health care require long-distance travel. MIT ... Tanzania in summer 2005, shortly after graduating with an MS from MIT. He quickly realized that no existing ... improve wheelchair technology through the innovative capabilities of MIT.” Winter would teach the class ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-mountain-bike-wheelchairsAnette “Peko” Hosoi named associate dean of engineering
Anette “Peko” Hosoi has been named associate dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. Currently the ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Hosoi has been at MIT since 1997 and a member of the faculty since ... Engineering. Peko_Asiss Dean 1024.jpg Image: Lillie Paquette/MIT SoE “I am thrilled that Peko has agreed to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/anette-%E2%80%9Cpeko%E2%80%9D-hosoi-named-associate-dean-engineeringSun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge
MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) completed their first race in three years, the 2018 ... vehicle class. SEVT-American-Solar-Challenge-2018-team-and-car-1024.jpg The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle ... Team poses with their solar vehicle. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team The event ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-car-shines-american-solar-challengeGraduate student Sami Khan receives research award
recently received a research award from the Hydro Research Foundation. Khan — who conducts research in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-student-sami-khan-receives-research-awardMission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
If you take a stroll past the MIT Sailing Pavilion on Memorial Drive, you may see, among the usual ... engineering at MIT and graduate student Brooks Reed and colleagues, which was just accepted into the ... article Monday, October 7, 2013 Genevieve Wanucha | Oceans at MIT blue hover@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-tulip-robotic-pursuit-charles-riverBridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
cutting-edge MIT payloads: a depth-mapping camera and a mini-rover called “AstroAnt.” Also on that craft were ... etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Department ... 2-inch Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS) wafer (left) landed on the moon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bridging-earth-and-space-and-art-and-science-global-voicesStephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92
Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random ... World War II, he joined MIT as a staff member in the Radiation Laboratory in 1942. After earning his PhD ... in mathematics from MIT in 1946, he transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stephen-h-crandall-professor-emeritus-meche-dies-92Alum 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketPowered by Literature on Her Way Toward an MD
Senior Cara Lai cites MIT Literature studies as key to her preparation for medical practice. When ... she first arrived at MIT, a freshman in 2012, Cara Lai was focused on engineering studies. But it ... wasn't long before Lai discovered that the breadth and depth of an MIT education is designed to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-literature-her-way-toward-mdMobilizing across borders to address global challenges
essential for global collaboration to be unencumbered by distance. The MIT International Science and ... fund recipient and MIT professor of architectural history and theory Mark Jarzombek. “The insights and ... Roche, the W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT, had a similar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobilizing-across-borders-address-global-challengesStrengthening America’s manufacturing base
of Defense’s chief technology officer. In a recent talk at MIT, she spoke about the DoD’s initiatives ... talk, which was part of the Manufacturing@MIT Distinguished Speaker Series, she touched on many areas, ... to working for the DoD for the number of years the DoD covered their tuition. MIT has led a number ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strengthening-america%E2%80%99s-manufacturing-baseA glimpse inside Intel
telling an MIT audience that the ongoing expansion of his firm’s production capacity would bolster the ... Pat Gelsinger, center, spoke at the Manufacturing@MIT distinguished speaker series. Photo credit: Jeff ... before a capacity crowd in MIT’s Wong Auditorium. “Let’s build the fabs where we want them.” The relative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glimpse-inside-intelBuilding a framework for remote making
Making is central to MIT’s identity. It is the embodiment of MIT’s motto, "mens et ... students was recently launched to enable safe making from home. Developed by MIT Project Manus and MIT ... MIT-sponsored purposes,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and director of Project ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-framework-remote-makingReducing inequality across the globe and on campus
of mechanical engineering senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John ... in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t want to limit myself to working on a single discipline. ... a mechanical engineering perspective,” she adds. Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-inequality-across-globe-and-campusBuilding bridges to Ukraine through language, art, and community
In a new course that ran this Independent Activities Period (IAP), MIT students studied Ukrainian ... Ukraine in February 2022, Maria Khotimsky, senior lecturer in Russian in MIT Global Languages, recalls ... seeing tremendous student and faculty action around MIT. Khotimsky got to know MIT’s Ukrainian students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-bridges-ukraine-through-language-art-and-communityA. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care
An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... health-care robotics has been shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the ... MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology. Photo: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/michael-west-advancing-human-robot-interactions-health-careAspiring to sustainable development
In a first for both universities, MIT undergraduates are engaged in research projects at the ... Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), while MIT scholars are collaborating with UVG undergraduates on ... Agency for International Development, this five-year, $15-million initiative brings together MIT, UVG, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aspiring-sustainable-developmentTabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible
For over a decade, through a collaboration managed by MIT.nano, MIT and Tecnológico de Monterrey ... fiber-extrusion devices, or FrEDs, alongside peers at MIT in an “in-the-lab” teaching and learning factory, the ... designed by MIT graduate students to teach smart manufacturing principles. On the right, an assembled FrED. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tabletop-factory-box-makes-hands-manufacturing-education-more-accessible