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Hugh Herr

sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Herr is building sophisticated devices ... were amputated below the knees. Hugh Herr 1024.jpg Photo courtesy of MIT Media Lab. “It’s alarming to ... the next few years. A condensed version of a story by Courtney Humphries MIT Technology Review ...

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Inspired to Heal the Human Heart

Therapeutic and Technology Design and Development research group and recipient of the 2022 MIT Future Founders ... robotic heart designed for high-fidelity testing of mitral valve repair strategies. Photo: Courtesy Roche ... Lab DESIGN INSPIRATION OFTEN STRIKES ELLEN ROCHE IN HER MIT LAB. But it can also emerge while she’s ...

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Engineering Joy

, most of his classes involved paper-and-pencil exercises with predetermined solutions. Flowers had an ... 1970s, Flowers took over instruction of 2.70, now called class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). ... entire class a kit of materials [and] a common goal, which was to build a machine — to climb a hill, or ...

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Why boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces

expected to move much more slowly. But, counterintuitively, the series of experiments at MIT has showed ... the rapid motion. Image Courtesy of the Researchers edited by MIT News. The oily film acts almost like ... MIT-Self-Propulsion-Ani.gif Researchers used extreme high-speed photography to reveal the details of the moving droplets. “You ...

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Control Instrumentation Robotics

concentrations, there is a great deal of flexibility in designing your curriculum and most upper-level classes ... one of the most popular concentrations in Course 2-A. This concentration is suited for the students ... Physical Systems”, CIR focuses more on control of electromechanical systems. As with all 2-A ...

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On a quest for a better football helmet

class at MIT, 2.009 (Product Engineering Process). In the process of building prototypes, students in ... number-one-rated helmet at the price of a lot of much lower-rated helmets.” Other helmets from LIGHT are already ... ’17 went from MIT middle linebacker to leading the development of LIGHT’s Apache helmet, which ...

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SuperUROP: Showcasing students' research work in progress

SuperUROP-2018-poster-screens-MIT-1024.jpg About 130 undergraduates discussed the progress of their yearlong research projects at during the ... success of MIT’s flagship UROP program. While traditional UROP experiences last just one term, SuperUROP ... funded by the School of Engineering and the MIT Quest for Intelligence, a campus-wide initiative launched ...

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What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation

chrysalis. MIT-Butterfly-Buckling-01-press_0.jpg An optical micrograph shows the scales on the wings of an ... happen as engineers,” says Mathias Kolle, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But in ... A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales like miniature shingles on ...

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John Hart named head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering

John Hart, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, has been named the new head of the Department ... of Mechanical Engineering, effective July 1. “John has played a vital role shaping MIT ... community at MIT,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush ...

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New Microscope Creates Near-Real-Time Videos of Nanoscale Processes

molecules. MIT-Better-Micro-1-1024.jpg A new high-speed microscope produces images of chemical processes ... Instrument scans images 2,000 times faster than commercial models. State-of-the-art atomic force ... microscopes (AFMs) are designed to capture images of structures as small as a fraction of a nanometer ...

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MIT Maritime Consortium sets sail

Conor McArdle | School of Engineering A new consortium, formalized in a signing ceremony at MIT last ... evidence-based standards,” says Themis Sapsis, the William Koch Professor of Marine Technology at MIT and the ... director of MIT’s Center for Ocean Engineering. “It aims to bring the best from MIT in key areas for ...

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Taking a break and making connections

In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ... the possibility of a fresh start. jahnavi-kalpathy-mit-00_460.jpg “I was going through a lot of ... prepare for her return to MIT, Jahnavi took classes in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and aerodynamics ...

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Celebrating great mentorship for graduate students

shifting. A number of new programs have been initiated across campus that prioritize emotional and mental ... profiles housed on the Office of Graduate Education website, and MIT News articles. A celebration of caring ... Graduate students from across MIT’s campus are invited by the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) to ...

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2.150: Celebrating Mechanical Engineering at MIT

all of the alumni, friends, industry guests, and MIT community members who joined us! Event Photos ... the Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering Distinguished MIT MechE alumni and innovators share ... discussion.     strategicdirections2.png The breadth of MechE at MIT today.    Static_Web2150_logo.jpg   ...

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Sixteen MIT grad students named Siebel Scholars for 2017

challenges, the select MIT students are part of a class of 92 individuals receiving a $35,000 award for their ... Sixteen MIT graduate students are among the  2017 cohort of Siebel Foundation Scholars hailing ... including 216 MIT affiliates. This year's MIT honorees, chosen by the deans of their respective ...

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Jahnavi Kalpathy

In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ... to MIT, Jahnavi took classes in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and aerodynamics at a local ... stress of MIT and realize that my college experience is only a small part of what I can accomplish as an ...

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Could carbon monoxide foam help fight inflammation?

A team of researchers led by MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the University of Iowa, and Beth Israel ... MIT-Carbon-Monoxide-01-PRESS_0-1.jpg: Researchers at MIT and several other institutions designed this foam that can deliver bubbles of ... Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ...

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2021-22

and proportion of international students. MIT was also ranked the world’s top university in 12 of the ... make MIT what it is — and we also tremendously admire the achievements of academic institutions around ... this year, QS World University Rankings ranked MIT number one in mechanical engineering. ...

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