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Professor Slocum Awarded 2014 Department of Energy Grant
One of three MIT-led research teams to win a NEUP awards. Three MIT-led research teams have won ... between MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison to ... collaborators are Lin-wen Hu of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab; Professor Per Peterson of the University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-slocum-awarded-2014-department-energy-grantSchool of Engineering awards for 2014
The MIT School of Engineering recently honored outstanding faculty, and graduate and undergraduate ... high quality engineering education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering’s ... Environmental Engineering, and/or the MIT Sloan School of Management, who inspires students in pursuing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2014A robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the MIT ... Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ... teenagers will design and build an AUV at MIT this summer. Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nicole Estvanik Taylor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-dives-search-malaysian-airlines-flightSchool of Engineering Awards for 2016
Two MechE professors win excellence in teaching awards. The MIT School of Engineering recently ... education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering’s five other academic ... development: Duane Boning '84, SM '86, PhD '91, director of the MIT and Masdar Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2016Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram, a leader in ship design and hydrodynamics, dies at 83
Jerome Milgram ’61, PhD ’65, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at MIT, passed away at the ... Milgram received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1961, where he also served as captain of the sailing ... Milgram joined the faculty at MIT, where he would spend the remainder of his career. As the W.I. Koch ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-jerome-milgram-leader-ship-design-and-hydrodynamics-dies-83Wind power — even without the wind
be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that ... diameter is about that of MIT’s Great Dome, or of the dome atop the U.S. Capitol.) Later, when power is ... store up to 6 megawatt-hours of power, the MIT researchers have calculated; that means that 1,000 such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windYoussef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou to direct the Center for Computational Engineering
Youssef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou have been named co-directors of MIT’s Center for ... MIT,” says School of Engineering Dean Anantha Chandrakasan. Photo: Lillie Paquette/School of Engineering ... “This is an exciting time for computation at MIT, and I’m delighted they have agreed to serve in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/youssef-marzouk-and-nicolas-hadjiconstantinou-direct-center-computational-engineeringOffice of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners
This October, the MIT Office of Sustainability (MITOS) announced the winners of the 2018 Campus ... Sustainability Incubator Fund grants. With the Incubator Fund, MITOS supports research that utilizes MIT’s campus ... innovation on campus. “The MIT campus provides a unique opportunity for researchers to work with staff and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/office-sustainability-names-2018-grant-winnersStudent group helps blind boater sail independently
This fall, a team of four students in MIT’s course 6.811 (Principles and Practices of Assistive ... Technology, or PPAT) designed a device that will help Pauline Dowell, a legally blind MIT employee, sail more ... independently. PPAT-blind-sailor- Pauline-Dowell-1024.jpg MIT employee Pauline Dowell (center) and her seeing eye ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-group-helps-blind-boater-sail-independentlySensing the body at all scales
of MIT-launched startup companies, and current MIT graduate students. Held online earlier this ... symposium,” says Vladimir Bulović, founding faculty director of MIT.nano and Fariborz Maseeh Professor of ... Brian W. Anthony, associate director of MIT.nano and faculty lead for the Industry Immersion Program in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-body-all-scalesEngineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures
process throughout a building’s construction, from manufacturing to demolition. Now MIT engineers, ... from 3D-printed, recycled glass. Using a custom 3D glass printing technology provided by MIT spinoff ... material,” says Kaitlyn Becker, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We’re taking glass and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-building-structuresLifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram
courtesy of the MIT Museum He refers to himself as a seagoing Sherlock Holmes. Known for many things, not ... unrelenting seeker of the most precise ocean science and engineering truths. He was a member of the MIT team ... undergraduate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, adding naval architecture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-emeritus-jerome-milgramDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Wins New England Emmy Award for “Hope Regenerated”
1970s. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) multimedia team has been recognized with ... A Life-Saving Discovery at MIT MechE,” the only winning film submitted by an institute of higher education. ... Yannas was studying the physics of collagen and the theory of viscoelasticity in polymers at MIT when he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-wins-new-england-emmy-award-%E2%80%9Chope-regenerated%E2%80%9DA community of making
Schor, second from left, teaches students on the use of equipment in the MIT MakerWorkshop. Photo by John ... Freidah When Culpepper was named MIT’s maker czar in 2015, he started out by mapping out MIT’s own maker ... making life of MIT students. At the same time, Culpepper says, he went on a national listening tour and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/community-makingErnesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94
Ernesto E. Blanco, a renown inventor, mechanical designer, and beloved former professor in MIT ... climbing wheelchair, one of 150 inventions showcased in the museum. // MIT President Susan Hockfield and ... VIP's kick off the celebration of the institute's 150th anniversary with an event at the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ernesto-blanco-mechanical-design-professor-and-inventor-stair-climbing-wheelchair-dies-94Building 31 powers back up
A $52 million renovation of the 90-year-old Building 31 on MIT’s campus has transformed the space ... from MIT alumnus Kent Kresa. Professor Jonathan How from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ... joint research and educational program with MIT Lincoln Laboratory. “It was the generosity and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-31-powers-backJani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Two MIT seniors, Jani Adcock and Drew Bent, will be part of this fall’s inaugural class of ... Natel Energy, she designed components for a novel hydropower system. At MIT, she has served as an ... adviser for the student-run MIT Fall Career Fair, and as vice president of career development for MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsTata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio
The MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design recently announced eight new projects for the ... world. The center received close to 70 inspiring proposals that will put the MIT community’s wealth of ... Diabetes" — Richard Fletcher of MIT D-Lab "Assessing the Socioeconomic and Technical Requirements for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tata-center-adds-eight-new-projects-its-2018-2019-portfolioProfessor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91
of 91. Wilson served on MIT’s faculty since 1966 and remained an active member of the mechanical ... Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to conduct research abroad at MIT and Harvard University. At the conclusion of his ... then the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson joined MIT’s faculty in 1966. He ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilson-expert-human-powered-transport-and-gas-turbinesAdvocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
This spring, 26 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional ... spring, the MIT Science Policy Initiative (SPI) organizes the Congressional Visit Days (CVD). The trip ... members of the MIT Washington Office and learn about policy careers. group-picture.png Congressional Visit ...
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