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Clearing the air

graduate, is one of seven MIT students who have interned with Plume Labs, a Paris-based startup that builds ... four summer interns from the MIT-France Program, which is part of the MIT International Science and ... founder of Plume Labs and an alumnus of MIT’s Technology and Policy Program. That’s because pollution ...

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Engineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces

Hearing aids, dental crowns, and limb prosthetics are some of the medical devices that can now be ... are typically designed to replace or support bones and other rigid parts of the body, and are often ... printed from solid, relatively inflexible material. MIT-Printed-Meshes-02-1024.jpg 3-D meshes are designed ...

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Lemelson-MIT announces National Collegiate Student Prize Competition winners

The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced winners of the Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student ... spanning 26 universities across the country. “The national expansion of the Lemelson-MIT National ... students across the country,” said Joshua Schuler, executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program. “This ...

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“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid

MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ... pictured here, that would store solar and wind energy in the form of white-hot liquid silicon, stored in ...

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Bacteria: The Good and the Bad

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  Bacteria: The Good and the Bad Teaser Text:  In search of ... the ideal bacteria for use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie ... src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3NeGCQFQdSc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> In search of the ideal bacteria for ...

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De Florez Competition Winners Split $20K in Prize Money

With an impressive array of some of the best gadget and product developments mechanical ... to compete for a total of $20,000 in prize money. Entrants do their best to pitch the gizmos and ... products they’ve designed to a team of judges, who look at each entry’s level of creativity, innovation, ...

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A measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind

care,” states Jain. They also cited Paul Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and ... lengths without seeing the measurements? MIT graduate students Pranay Jain and Anshul Singhal asked these ... questions, seeking to address the fact that most blind students drop out of math and science after 8th grade ...

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Data Science in Manufacturing Projects

students in the MIT Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Advanced Manufacturing and Design Program, ... through the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in the Fall of 2021 and continue through the Fall ... teams, composed of three students, will be supervised collaboratively by MIT faculty advisors and ...

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Creeping crystals: Observing salt creep at the single crystal scale

New research from the MIT Device Research Lab uncovers the hidden world of salt creeping Salt ... migration of salt crystals from evaporating solutions onto surfaces. Once they start collecting, the ... courtesy of the researchers. “The work not only explains how salt creeping begins, but why it begins and ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I then came back to MIT as a faculty member with the idea of ... Using Machine Learning with Physical Models to Predict Extreme Events 2017 was one of the most ... destructive hurricane seasons on record. Hurricane Harvey left the streets of Houston flooded. Hurricane Maria ...

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Professor Harry Asada Awarded a $2 Million Grant to Develop Robotic Educational Tool, “Teach-Bot”

model required lots of research and resources. Asada collaborates with the MIT Office of Digital ... manufacturing workers on robotics. Founded by professor of mechanical engineering and Ford Professor of ... various aspects of robotics; how a robot is constructed, and how it can communicate and coordinate its ...

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RJ Scaringe

the culmination of a journey that has its roots in MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab, where Scaringe ... Last November, much of the buzz at the Los Angeles Auto Show was generated by a company few people ... had heard of. According to RJ Scaringe SM '07, PhD '09 founder and CEO of Rivian Automotive, ...

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Reducing pesticide use while increasing effectiveness

population cycles, and other unpredictable factors. Farmers need to be savvy managers of the many resources ... the importance of these chemicals, a lack of technology that monitors and optimizes sprays has forced ... farmers to rely on personal experience and rules of thumb to decide how to apply these chemicals. As ...

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Diagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test

Joining Professor Patrick Doyle’s lab in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering gave Al-Sulaiman the ... a Zoom webinar near the end of her time at MIT this spring, Al-Sulaiman demonstrated how a standard ... , Al-Sulaiman says, “One of the important things I took away from my time at MIT, especially during the peak of ...

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MIT team races to second in electric car competition

is what the MIT Motorsports team did when they snagged a Second Place Overall Spirit of Excellence ... Photo courtesy of MIT Motorsports The team earned high finishes in four different categories at the June ... MIT Motorsports team places second at the Society of Automotive Engineers' electric car ...

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Guided Discovery at MIT

MIT Through emphasizing the process of discovery, instructors in course 2.001, Mechanics and Materials ... Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  Guided Discovery at MIT Teaser Text:  Guided Discovery at ... I, provide mechanical engineering students at MIT a foundation to build their careers on.  Mechanics ...

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Autonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea

An autonomous robotic system invented by researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic ... the most interesting locations, or “maxima,” in an environment. One example could be a source of ... a maximum can be any quantifiable value that researchers want to measure, such as water depth or parts of ...

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Wrinkle Predictions

Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... an assistant professor of mathematics at MIT. “Could you, in principle, predict these patterns? It’s ... slowly dries and shrivels, its surface creases, ultimately taking on the wrinkled form of a raisin. ...

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Mark Kurz

never expected to be at the forefront of a pandemic — who does? — but his participation in the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... been the cornerstone of my career,” Kurz says. Today, MIT LGO students earn an MBA from the MIT Sloan ...

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New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

creativity,” adds Faez Ahmed, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Ahmed and Nehme, along with ... Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today’s physical products. ... of commands to choose from. To be truly proficient in the software takes a huge amount of time and ...

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