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MIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day
Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president, ... members of the MIT community gathered to welcome Kornbluth with an academic symposium exploring the theme ... online, the symposium featured eight MIT faculty members representing a range of disciplines across the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-tackle-big-ideas-symposium-kicking-inauguration-dayHow to make oxygen on the moon
looking at it from the standpoint of, ‘Let’s try to minimise the number of resupply missions’,” she says. ... of a dusty regolith – a mixture of dust and sharp grit with a chemical composition mimicking real ... lunar soil. Soon, that regolith was gloop. A layer of it heated to temperatures above 1,650C. And, with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-oxygen-moonPalak Patel
standpoint of, ‘Let’s try to minimise the number of resupply missions’,” she says. When designing their ... of a dusty regolith – a mixture of dust and sharp grit with a chemical composition mimicking real ... lunar soil. Soon, that regolith was gloop. A layer of it heated to temperatures above 1,650C. And, with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/palak-patelTalking Shop: Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy
a senior research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can design smart ... Annaswamy serves as the Director of MIT’s Active Adaptive Control Laboratory. A world leading expert in ... number of passenger miles per unit of energy is maximized through something called ‘shared mobility on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-dr-anuradha-annaswamyMicrofluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing ... most use pricey optical components to detect the biomarkers. They also capture only a small number of ... Institutes of Biomedical Research. Monday, July 22, 2019 Rob Matheson | MIT News Office Collaboration ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutesFrom LGO to PhD
began preparing applications to PhD programs, all with the support of MIT mentors. “LGO opened up the ... advisors at MIT gave me a better sense of what doing research full time as a PhD student would be like,” he ... skills. She graduated with a newfound passion for research. “I focused a lot of my coursework at MIT on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lgo-phdReliable energy for all
apply them to global problems,” he says. “One of the things that excited me a lot about MIT was the ... where he will earn an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a master’s in mechanical ... engineering. He is also a fellow of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. When ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reliable-energy-allPitching transformative design
a commercially viable way through the application of nuclear science and engineering. Guided by class instructor ... team estimates, could function for 12 years. After running the numbers, the team projected a cost of ... number might prove attractive to aspiring asteroid miners. “We hope to bring ideas of the space industry ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pitching-transformative-designBringing it all back home
of Pennsylvania, a 1981 graduate of MIT's PhD program in the Department of Political Science, ... following the work of MIT’s Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE) task force. Berger, an expert in ... International Professor of Political Science and director of MIT’s Center for International Studies. “He put in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-it-all-back-homeAlumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
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 ... the ensuing years, Kearns led Medley Thermal through a number of projects in which gradually larger ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuelsIllustrating Covid-19 hygiene education
| MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Education International Horizontal MechE alum Jasmine ... From emergency manuals on airplanes to posters in hotel rooms depicting what to do in case of a fire, ... An international multidisciplinary team of volunteers known as TeamOSV-X has been utilizing this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illustrating-covid-19-hygiene-educationMIT announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing
researchers, initially in the area of artificial intelligence for manufacturing. INM joins the ranks of MIT ... Chandrakasan, MIT’s chief innovation and strategy officer and dean of engineering, who is part of the ... initiative’s leadership team. “MIT is uniquely positioned to harness the transformative power of digital tools ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-initiative-new-manufacturingDavid Bierman
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 ... the ensuing years, Kearns led Medley Thermal through a number of projects in which gradually larger ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-biermanNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
body, drastically reducing the number of different sizes a manufacturer would need to produce, while ... many applications, from robotics to components in the automobile and aviation industries. Now, MIT ... researchers have come up with one of the simplest and lowest-cost systems yet for developing such “muscles,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesSanjay Sarma to step down as vice president for open learning
and led a number of significant projects at MIT Open Learning, including desigining a competency-based ... Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been responsible for MIT Open Learning, ... which includes the Office of Digital Learning, the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili), the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sanjay-sarma-step-down-vice-president-open-learningAmos Winter wins the Harold E. Edgerton Award
persistent challenges in the developing world.” The committee, chaired by MIT Sloan School of Management ... and Manufacturing I), has been co-taught by Winter for the past few years. The themes of the class ... for 2013 by MIT Technology Review magazine; was a winner of the 2012 ASME/Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal; and ...
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