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In it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students

research, the pressure to reach academic milestones, and the management of life outside MIT can tax even the ... personally so that they develop a sense of interest and belonging. Murcott prefers smaller classes so that ... In the Olsen lab, graduate students and post-docs participate in small focus groups where a number of ...

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Student Spotlight: Grace Young (SB ‘14)

ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living ... and math classes, conducting physics research at Johns Hopkins University and the University of ... Maryland during her summer vacations and taking advanced math classes at the University of Maryland during ...

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3 questions with James H. Williams, Jr., professor of mechanical engineering

engineering knowledge, joy, and teaching style that have inspired generations of MIT students as well as ... Fellow. He is also the first MIT professor to be named the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching ... simultaneously, a decision that Williams attributes to the “brilliantly synergistic vision” of MIT Press Director ...

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School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Photo Courtesy of MIT News. Navid Azizan will join the MIT faculty with dual appointments in the ... application, which will lead to collaborations across DMSE and in the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of ... Journal of Ethics, and  Nature Medicine, and featured in media outlets such as MIT News, NVIDIA, and the ...

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Adi Mehrotra

a “revamping” of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), a student-led research team that is probing the future of ... Fueled by curiosity and a love of science, second-year graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is ... but says he was drawn to mechanical engineering and took as many MechE classes as he could. During his ...

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3Q: John Heywood on the future of the internal combustion engine

Heywood, the Sun Jae Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, joined auto industry propulsion ... recharging for MIT Energy Initiatives’ “Mobility of the Future” project. If you own a battery electric ... for a few years.   In a report I and co-workers wrote as part of an MIT’s Energy Initiative project, ...

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Giving robots better moves

a simpler, streamlined process.” Pushing the limit Odhner completed his PhD in the lab of Harry Asada, MIT ... the DARPA Autonomous Robotic and Manipulation Challenge. Many of the competing teams had MIT ... making the semifinals of the MIT 100K competition in 2013 as “Manus Robotics,” the team was introduced to ...

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3 Questions: Engineering hurricane barriers of the future

Oceans at MIT's Genevieve Wanucha sat down with Chiang C. Mei, Ford Professor Emeritus of ... Engineering in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to ask for his perspective on the ... possibility of storm surge barriers on the East Coast of the United States. He is well known for his ...

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Using mechanics for cleaner membranes

soon be in sight. A team of researchers from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, supported by ... potential for this technology and spoke with plant operators across a number of industries who all expressed ... primarily looks at organic foulants and the technique has only been evaluated for a limited number of ...

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MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2022-23

is No. 2. MIT has placed second in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best ... this year with the University of California at Berkeley. Among business subfields, MIT is ranked first ... in two specialties. Within the magazine’s rankings of “academic programs to look for,” MIT topped the ...

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Kirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale

Now, researchers at MIT and in China have for the first time applied this approach to the creation of ... creation of new light-based communications, detection, or computational devices. MIT ... journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X Fang and five ...

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School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of ... postdoctoral research at MIT, he developed a series of novel technologies for drug delivery as well as ... College, and was named one of the most promising innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Traverso is ...

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Channeling creativity through art and engineering

a robot came in the spring of her sophomore year. She enrolled in class 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. ... that channel her seemingly endless creativity.  “Being creative has always been a huge part of who ... ’22, who recently graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. Raised in Lowell, ...

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Emily Satterfield

a robot came in the spring of her sophomore year. She enrolled in class 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. ... that channel her seemingly endless creativity.  “Being creative has always been a huge part of who ... ’22, who recently graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. Raised in Lowell, ...

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MIT Water Summit Convenes Experts to Discuss Global Water Challenges

head of civil engineering; Earl Jones, chairman of the New England Water Innovation Network; MIT civil ... More than 200 people attend second annual summit organized by the MIT Water Club. As the world’s ... population sprints toward larger and larger numbers, concerns about water scarcity follow closely behind. ...

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Powering Desalination with the Sun

MIT-natasha-wright_1024.jpg Photo by: Bryce Vickmark Wright joined the lab of Amos Winter, an assistant professor of ... contaminants from groundwater to make it safe to drink. There are already a number of filters on the market ... that can do this, and during her second trip to India, Wright interviewed a number of villagers, ...

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Abigail Schipper

Schipper organized every CPR class hosted by MIT EMS, certifying thousands of people. She says it was ... sophomore year, Schipper taught every CPR class hosted by MIT EMS, certifying thousands of people. She feels ... A longtime leader of MIT EMS, senior Abigail Schipper hopes to increase peoples’ access to medical ...

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Batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles

The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout ... the co-founders’ side project, which was modified throughout two MIT classes and a lab. In 2011, McKay ... joined 2.013/2.014 (Engineering System Design/Development) taught by MIT professor of mechanical ...

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Annabel Flores

of the LGO Class of 2003 after Flores spoke on an LGO Reunion panel on leadership: "I never felt ... her LGO mentors at MIT. They charted the path to senior leadership: earn a breadth of experience from ... aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program ...

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