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Ta Corrales
long housed the MIT Museum. The rooms look more like a handyperson’s workshop than a scientist’s lab. ... Costa Rica when she discovered this eclectic enclave within MIT, where 26 staff members support 15 ... classes that teach MIT students how technological innovation can bring people together. The students, in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/ta-corralesRobot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies
Neural Jacobian Fields, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, can learn to control any robot from ... a single camera, without any other sensors. In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ... a shift from programming robots to teaching robots,” says Sizhe Lester Li, MIT PhD student in electrical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-know-thyself-new-vision-based-system-teaches-machines-understand-their-bodiesTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... land-based mining activities. To get my project started, I received a seed grant from the MIT Environmental ... Solutions Initiative, and I have also received a great deal of support from the MIT International Policy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockCrystal Winston
She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which provides ... were at risk of going bad. Engaging others in engineering Since her first year at MIT, Winston has been ... also a member of MIT’s Black Students’ Union and recently served as a social chair for Tau Beta Pi, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystal-winstonSaving seaweed with machine learning
master’s degree in media arts and science from the MIT Media Lab and had just submitted applications to ... Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-seaweed-machine-learningCharlene Xia ’17, SM ’20
master’s degree in media arts and science from the MIT Media Lab and had just submitted applications to ... Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/charlene-xia-%E2%80%9917-sm-%E2%80%9920Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale
New research from the MIT Device Research Lab uncovers the hidden world of salt creeping Salt ... when it does,’ says Joseph Phelim Mooney, a postdoctoral researcher in the MIT Device Research ... Mooney’s Marie Curie Fellowship at MIT. “I was focused on improving desalination systems and quickly ran ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creeping-crystals-observing-salt-creep-single-crystal-scaleCrystan McLymore
mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... and she chose to apply to MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), even though she says she ... to apply. Let them tell you no.” In fact, MIT told her yes, and once she was accepted, she contacted ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystan-mclymoreJennifer Rumsey
Wall is the reason I went to MIT,” Rumsey says. “He really encouraged me.” Although Rumsey completed ... worldview. “Being at MIT, you’re just around people from all parts of the country and the world and exposed ... her life preparing for this challenge—including her time at MIT, where she developed a passion for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jennifer-rumseyResearchers present novel, enzyme-free strategy for detaching cells from culture surfaces
detached from culture surfaces using enzymes—a process fraught with challenges,” says Kripa Varanasi, MIT ... from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute of ... Harvard and MIT present a novel enzyme-free strategy for detaching cells from culture surfaces. The method ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-present-novel-enzyme-free-strategy-detaching-cells-culture-surfacesRoad Safety Drives VP of GM
networks—and giving people their time back.” Anderson credits MIT, where he focused on robotics while studying ... technical foundation and the freedom to rethink how people and machines work together. “MIT is where ... real-world impact.” This story also appears in the November/December issue of MIT Alumni News magazine, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/road-safety-drives-vp-gmAmber Velez
campus. There, staff showed her how to use a tube roller tool to form the lyra’s curved shape. “MIT is ... how to make things at MIT, you learn that you have the ability to gain the skills to figure out what ... backpacking through Europe and gathering her thoughts, Velez arrived at MIT with a plan. Growing up in Tucson, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/amber-velezCrystan McLymore
mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... and she chose to apply to MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), even though she says she ... to apply. Let them tell you no.” In fact, MIT told her yes, and once she was accepted, she contacted ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/crystan-mclymore-0Hannah Gazdus
her interests now: “That definitely paved the way.” An MIT senior double-majoring in creative writing ... created prints of these paintings of MIT campus scenes. “I’ll always be writing and making art while being ... a full-time engineer.” Image and artwork: Hannah Gazdus Gazdus was drawn to MIT by project classes such as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hannah-gazdusJim Magarian
becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce Vickmark “I landed in aerospace ... leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program, Magarian has taken a new path ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-magarianAlumni Profile: Nicholas Mabey SM ‘93
wasn’t being done.” That search led him to the MIT Technology and Policy Program, a degree program that ... policy issues. “My time at MIT gave me the confidence to tackle big difficult problems by using both ... approach I learned at MIT with the political approach I learned working in government,” he explains. In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-nicholas-mabey-sm-%E2%80%9893Nicholas Mabey
MIT Technology and Policy Program, a degree program that combines graduate-level study in a subject ... like mechanical engineering with a thesis focused on technology policy issues. “My time at MIT gave me ... co-founding E3G combined the engineering and design approach I learned at MIT with the political approach ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nicholas-mabeyFeatured Article: Going clean
with a single alternative,” adds Reshma Rao PhD '19, a postdoctoral associate in MIT ... many researchers across MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering that have entered the race to ... working on is finding the optimal configuration for WECs in the water. Grgur Tokić PhD '16, an MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-article-going-cleanDrawn to big challenges, from GM to Caterpillar
For Denise Johnson MS '97, Caterpillar Group president and MIT Leaders for Global Operations ... a new student in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program. Johnson describes attending LGO ... classes and experiences really changed me as an individual, and my trajectory,” she says. Today, MIT LGO ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drawn-big-challenges-gm-caterpillarProfessor Emeritus Ronald Probstein, world-renowned expert in fluid mechanics, dies at 93
Sept. 19. Probstein, who joined MIT’s faculty in 1962, was a leading expert in fluid mechanics. His ... of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he would spend the remainder of his career. ... prestigious honors. In 1989, he was appointed as Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT. He was a fellow of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-ronald-probstein-world-renowned-expert-fluid-mechanics-dies-93