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Alumni 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 ...

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Nicholas 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-mabey

Featured 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 ...

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Drawn 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-caterpillar

Professor 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 ...

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An assisted step forward: Max Burns talks about the process, and teamwork, of invention

assistive technology research.  I joined the MIT Newman Laboratory for Human Rehabilitation, where I’ve been ... technology, correct–it’s another outgrowth of your primary research interest.  Yes! I helped restart the MIT ... Assistive Technology Club, where we pair small teams of MIT students with a person who has a disability, who ...

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Sustainable and Global Development

that there are many excellent classes at MIT relevant to sustainability that do not necessarily include ... Design 2.812: Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT 2.813: Environmentally Benign Design and Manufacturing ... Link:  guom@mit.edu ...

https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/sustainable-and-global-development

Legena Henry

engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ... says she credits MIT for showing her how the best solutions come from a multidisciplinary approach. It ... crisis around,” she says.  Henry is member of the  MIT Educational Council.    Communications Department ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henry

Phillip Daniel

As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at home ... on campus, surrounded by like-minded students. “MIT is a place where the students are nerdy, and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/phillip-daniel

Mechanical engineer-led startups offer healthcare solutions

solutions all the more pressing. “There were a number of startups from MIT that addressed problems related ... to spread,” says Dr. George Whitfield, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT ... Traverso, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Traverso is no stranger to startups. He has ...

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Real People, Real Solutions at D-Lab

lesson of  MIT D-Lab, which works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative ... MIT Morningside Academy for Design, an Institute hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and ... clean water. That’s how Heilshorn and six classmates from MIT and Wellesley found themselves last fall ...

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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe

efficiently. In MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Laboratory for ... objects. Contact-Aware_1024.jpg MIT researchers are teaching robots to understand their own limits while ... precision) without sacrificing safety or embodied intelligence,” says lead senior author and MIT Assistant ...

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MechE Connects: Spring/Summer 2015 Issue

technology that’s been developed – some of it right here in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... people's lives healthier, safer, and more comfortable. http://mecheconnects.mit.edu ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-connects-springsummer-2015-issue

Bourouiba wins $2.2M NIH Grant

transmission MIT Associate Professor Lydia Bourouiba is part of a multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary ... continued growth and strengthening of Prof. Bourouiba’s led  Fluids and Health initiative at MIT  and builds ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bourouiba-wins-22m-nih-grant

Accessible, open-source tools for measuring zeta potential

Research from the  MIT Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation  (LEMI) presents a novel solution, ... and Chemical engineering departments at MIT, and is supported by a  Multi University Research ...

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MechE researchers pioneer human motor control theory through global collaboration at TU Munich

Rehabilitation. The MIT team, comprising two Germans, two Italians, a Spaniard, and an American, said they found ... traditions,” shares the MIT team. The Munich team plans to visit Cambridge to perform additional experiments ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-researchers-pioneer-human-motor-control-theory-through-global-collaboration-tu

"Biomedical lab in a box" empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries

graveyards,’” says Nevan Hanumara, SM ‘06, PhD ‘12, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... a larger impact. Working as a team, and with support from MIT International Science and Technology ... Initiatives (MISTI), MIT Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL), and the Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public Service ...

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Demo Day features hormone-tracking sensors, desalination systems, and other innovations

MIT student teams celebrate business milestones at the capstone event for the 2025 delta v summer ... accelerator. Kresge Auditorium came alive Friday as MIT entrepreneurs took center stage to share their progress ... Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. It also doubles as a celebration, with Trust Center Managing ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demo-day-features-hormone-tracking-sensors-desalination-systems-and-other-innovations

FIREFLI uses light to sense poor blood supply in body tissue, can provide earlier diagnosis for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

costly, and invasive. A new approach introduced by researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ... AMI, ultimately improving patient outcomes,” says Jack Chen, a doctoral student at MIT in the ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/firefli-uses-light-sense-poor-blood-supply-body-tissue-can-provide-earlier-diagnosis

David Bierman

thermophotovoltaics since his time at MIT, and Antora’s ties to MIT are especially strong because its progress is the ... result of two MIT startups becoming one. Alumni join forces Bierman did his masters and doctoral work in ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-bierman

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