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From NASA to MIT to Formlabs
documenting MIT student life with her camera (garnering the acclimation “The Eyes of MIT” by MIT Admissions ... could be found leather crafting, glass blowing, or table welding in one of MIT’s makerspaces, ... team Arcturus. “Arcturus has been the highlight of my MIT career,” Chen says. She founded the team at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nasa-mit-formlabsOverlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... sciences, and an author of the new study. Dmitry Krotov, a research staff member at the MIT-IBM Watson AI ... memories, the ratio of the amount of information stored to the number of computational units is very high ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overlooked-cells-might-explain-human-brain%E2%80%99s-huge-storage-capacityQS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2021
Campus_Aerial Dome MIT1024.jpg Aerial View of the MIT Campus. Photo Credit: Christopher Harting The Institute ... Rankings rates MIT number one in Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering for 2021. ... MIT has been honored with 12 No. 1 subject rankings in the QS World University Rankings for 2021. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-no-1-12-subjects-2021Taking on the stormy seas
On his first day of classes at the Technical University of Athens’ School of Naval Architecture ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and computational methods to try to predict ... the other. Today, Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-stormy-seasRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
also improved a robot’s safety, reducing the number of collisions by more than 60 percent, compared to ... information to first determine the “class” of objects that have the highest probability of being relevant to ... the objective of “making coffee.” This might automatically filter out classes such as “fruits” and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... assignment he loved, but had to leave after contracting a severe case of malaria. In 1966, he came to MIT at ... The concept of a market-based mechanism to curb emissions of greenhouse gases — and thus slow the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesMIT announces 2022 Bose grants for ambitious ideas
conventional funding sources.” The program was named for the visionary founder of the Bose Corporation and MIT ... alumnus, Amar G. Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56. After gaining admission to MIT, Bose became a top math student ... MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced three Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants to support ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2022-bose-grants-ambitious-ideasQS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2022
News Office Education Horizontal QS World University Rankings has ranked MIT number one in the ... MIT has earned a No. 1 spot in 12 subject areas, according to the QS World University Rankings for ... Operational Research. MIT also placed second in two subject areas: Biological Sciences and Economics and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-no-1-12-subjects-2022Hidden ocean waves
time, ocean engineers and scientists from MIT, the University of Minnesota at Duluth (UMD), and the ... MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ... scientist at MIT. Lermusiaux says the team’s simulations of internal tides could help to improve sonar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hidden-ocean-wavesMIT and SUSTech announce Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech
MIT and the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China, have ... announced the launch of the Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech. ... SUSTech dean of engineering, Shiyi Chen, president of SUSTech, Richard Lester, associate provost at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-and-sustech-announce-centers-mechanical-engineering-research-and-education-mit-andA scientific approach to education reform
drawn on his years of experience directing MIT’s many online learning systems, ... different parts of a lesson with each other. Traditionally, classes have often involved teaching a concept, ... Challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic have laid bare the need to reinvent education. Sanjay Sarma’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientific-approach-education-reformMaking solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
employee and worked there for five years. “A lot of really hands on, project-based classes at MIT ... greatest number of people on the planet,” Hunter says. “Our mentality was if we can build anything, we ... Hunter says. “We can build much bigger sites much faster with the same number of people by just shipping ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-solar-projects-cheaper-and-faster-portable-factoriesKen Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
member in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Kamrin-02-PRESS-1024.jpg Associate Professor ... physics, a subject that allowed him to explore a diverse mix of classes, including radiation detection, ... International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. In 2003, Kamrin ventured cross-country to MIT to begin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ken-kamrin-seeks-fundamental-behaviors-sandProduct Development
of their sophomore or junior years. Profile Link: Seering@MIT.edu ... Product Development The mission of this concentration is to prepare future leaders in engineering ... of new products. The PD concentration includes many subjects from the school of management and is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/product-developmentMicro/Nano
application of optics in measurement, sensing, and systems design. classes offered in this concentration cover ... impact on a wide range of mechanical systems. Examples are microelectromechanical devices and systems ... improve the efficiency of macroscale energy systems, etc. Many faculty members in our department pursue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/micronanoSecretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visited MIT on Monday, meeting Institute leaders, ... business leaders and a fireside chat with MIT Professor Ernest Moniz, who was the U.S. secretary of energy ... in energy.” MIT-Energy Secretary-01-press_1024.jpg U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visited ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secretary-energy-chris-wright-%E2%80%9985-visits-mitMIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
Farm-Sveinung-Beckett-MIT-Aquaculture-1024.jpg MIT Sea Grant student intern Beckett Devoe (foreground) looks into one of the net pens at the ... Singsholmen salmon farm off the island of Hitra in Norway. Credit: Lily Keyes/MIT Sea Grant Credits: To help ... MIT Sea Grant director Michael Triantafyllou and professor of mechanical engineering Themistoklis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-sea-grant-students-explore-intersection-technology-and-offshore-aquaculture-norway-0How cell mechanics influences everything
recently received tenure and is the Class of ’54 Career Development Associate Professor in the Department ... of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Mingo-Guo-01-press_1024.jpg Ming Guo’s research bridges multiple ... the growth and spread of diseased and cancerous cells. Photo courtesy of Jared Charney At MIT, Guo and ...
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