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Lights, camera, inspiration

Alumni from MIT’s 2004 Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) Team and the Carl Hayden Community High ... the national MATE (Marine Advanced Technology Education) ROV Competition. Back in 2004, the MIT ROV ... competition by one point and gaining the status implied by "beating MIT." An article in Wired ...

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Wiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence

sensing and computation. At MIT, Arbelaiz is an applied math student who is working on the fundamentals of ... fascinating as compared to what we can achieve with human-made machines.” A fluid transition to MIT Her ... graduate studies at the University of Navarra in San Sebastian led to her working with MIT Professor John ...

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Affordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings

a startup spun out of MIT, is poised to start manufacturing such windows. Building operations make up 36 ... Technology development at MIT Research on AeroShield’s window technology began a decade ago in the MIT lab of ... Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). In late 2014, the MIT team received funding from ARPA-E, and other ...

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Department snapshot: Civil and Environmental Engineering

profiling academic departments at MIT. "T his is a department with a very long history,” says Andrew ... Whittle, the head of MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). That history, dating ... courses of study available to MIT students). But CEE is also a department that has changed significantly ...

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Using Engineering Savvy to Improve Product Designs

would improve them. Edward Burnell_1024.jpg Edward Burnell is a graduate student in MIT ... and appreciated its focus on intrinsic motivation.  Finding his place at MIT Burnell, who also has ... a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT, didn’t expect to attend such a large university, but during ...

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“Mens et manus” in Guatemala

Amy Smith (center), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and founder of the MIT D-Lab, and ... by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and managed by MIT’s Department of ... challenges — results that are picked up and used by policymakers and actors in the private sector,” says MIT ...

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Where the wind blows

world's total energy usage over the next half-century? As the MIT Energy Initiative approaches its fifth ... simply because the technology is mature," says Paul Sclavounos, an MIT professor of mechanical ... relatively close to consumers, are generally far enough away to be out of sight. MIT's Sclavounos has ...

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Class opens the door to a new world of mechanical engineering

says Portela, who is the d’Arbeloff Career Development assistant professor in MIT’s Department of ... challenge brought students into a lab at the world-class MIT.nano facility, an environment so delicate that ... enormous excitement in having participated in the competition and experienced the MIT.nano lab. “You walked ...

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When healthy meets fast food

MIT, now runs the largest vegan/vegetarian restaurant company in the U.S. “I saw the issues in the ... so.” Read more stories like this in the  Slice of MIT  blog. Tuesday, October 10, 2017 Julie Barr | MIT ...

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Engineering Joy

When the late professor emeritus Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73 was a student at MIT ... engineering students are educated — at MIT, and around the world.  A victor is crowned in the 1983 2.70 final ... competition. Credit: Calvin Campbell, Historical Collections, MIT Museum Flowers passed away in 2019, but his ...

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Using aluminum and water to make clean hydrogen fuel — when and where it’s needed

mechanical engineering at MIT. “Using aluminum as our source, we can ‘store’ hydrogen at a density that’s 10 ... Thomas W. Eagar, a professor of materials engineering and engineering management in the MIT Department of ... aluminum from a variety of sources. Using those samples, the MIT researchers performed a series of tests to ...

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Reimagining an iconic design class

For the past 50 years, mechanical engineering students at MIT have convened on campus for ... many students, the class and competition are a driving factor in their decision to enroll in MIT. “Each ... year, students tell us that they came to MIT specifically to take 2.007 and participate in the mayhem of ...

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Optimizing carbon nanotube electrodes

characteristics of vertically aligned CNT arrays that yield the most benefit has been difficult. Now an MIT team ... a technique developed by MIT collaborators in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Professor Brian ... their model, the MIT researchers inferred the CNT interspacing in their samples. Since the forest ...

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Accelerating 3-D printing

Recent work from an MIT lab may help 3-D printing fulfill its long-standing promise to transform ... Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity and the Mechanosynthesis Group at MIT. “3-D printing compels us ... a graduate-level MIT class in additive manufacturing, which is proving highly popular; and in 2018, he launched an ...

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RJ Scaringe

federal tax rebates. The company is planning to release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps ... be difficult, but he believes his time at MIT helped him persevere in the face of the major ... challenges that come with starting something as complex and capital-intensive as a automotive company. “MIT ...

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3Q: Leon Glicksman and John Lienhard on how to teach the unteachable

In August, Leon Glicksman, an MIT professor of architecture and mechanical engineering, and John ... with that.  Over more than 15 years, we have developed and co-taught a graduate-level subject at MIT on ... structure of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering’s doctoral qualifying exams, which focus primarily ...

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Removing carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust

assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and her group at MIT have therefore been focusing on ... such as sodium or calcium. With  seed funding  from the MIT Energy Initiative, the team has already ... topic.”  This research was supported by startup funding from the  MIT Department of Mechanical ...

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3 Questions: How to control biofilms in space

Researchers from MIT will be collaborating with colleagues at the University of Colorado at ... sick. MIT News asked professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi and doctoral student Samantha ... 2019 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration International Horizontal In an experiment on the ...

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Student Awards

(Outstanding Performance in Course 2.002) Antonia Warner   MIT-Lincoln Lab Beaver Works Barbara P. James Memorial ...

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Cooling buildings worldwide

alternative was brought to Norford’s attention by  John Lienhard, MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water ... and Modeling, a research group at the  Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Lienhard ... the MIT Energy Initiative. Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative Horizontal ...

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