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Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction

resources,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, in a video discussing his ... capabilities for assessing the scale of impact. Today, his MIT Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab) is at ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...

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Making silicon devices responsive to infrared light

institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... Office, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the MIT-KFUPM Center for Clean ... Water and Energy, a joint project of MIT and the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mining. Thursday, ...

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Basic training

to 10 of MIT’s makerspaces; pairing with a maker community; and up to $100 in “makerbucks,” a stipend ... A sign above the door says it all: MakerLodge. Here MIT students build things: a four-legged ... robot, a zoetrope, a gumball machine, an alpha particle spark detector. In fact, a group of them helped ...

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Advocating for science funding on Capitol Hill

members of the MIT Washington Office and learn about policy careers. group-picture.png Congressional Visit ... This spring, 26 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional ... given the recent announcement of budget cuts for several federal science agencies for FY24.  The ...

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Fostering forward momentum

Management, a professor of work and employment research, and the co-director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work ... and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on updating ... Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, where she develops innovative computational models and ...

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Catching (radio) waves

from a Somerville, Mass., garage to an office in MIT’s neighborhood of Kendall Square, the company, ... the technology and they needed the skills we had assembled coming out of MIT,” says Bernd Schoner PhD ... mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ...

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New Faculty

group moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he is now assistant professor and ... Mellon University under the supervision of Professor Matthew T. Mason, then he spent a year as ... a postdoctoral associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Professor ...

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Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter

Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... When one type of an oxide structure called perovskite is exposed to both water vapor and streams ... of electrons, it exhibits behavior that researchers had never anticipated: The material gives off ...

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Engineers design color-changing compression bandage

of mechanical engineering at MIT. “These fibers can provide information about the pressure that the ... results of these first efforts were published in Advanced Materials in 2013. When Kolle joined the MIT ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, May 28, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...

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Students present mechanical engineering projects that have global impact

Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are working to remove the intimidation ... a whole.” Mechanical engineering research across MIT is incredibly diverse and touches upon a wide swath of ... A graduate student in MIT’s GEAR Lab, Varner is in the process of building a prototype system that ...

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Faithfully supporting well-being

member of his lab is paramount to Youcef-Toumi. Kamal 1024.jpg Professor Youcef-Toumi joined the MIT ... love of knowledge.” As he notes, this will result in better work — “and you will be happier, too.”  ... Zuckerman Sivan has been proactive in reaching out to students in the midst of the pandemic, checking on ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock

Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office   Their effect on the surface of ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ... Large-Scale Tests in the Lab and the South China Sea Reveal the Origins of Underwater Waves that ...

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‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness

at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ... University. A robotic walking coach Hogan and Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of ... For most healthy bipeds, the act of walking is seldom given a second thought: One foot follows the ...

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Soft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body

Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at MIT have ... University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who carried out part of the work as a postdoc at MIT. “Our fibers can ... nerves are genetically manipulated to respond to light, the fibers can send pulses of light to the nerves ...

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Solving a Rubik's Cube in record time

a motor actuating each face of a Rubik’s Cube," explains Katz, who conducts research at MIT ... references have been made in all corners of popular culture — from "The Simpsons" to "Being ... John Malkovich." For the better part of four decades, this small handheld object has tormented ...

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One giant leap for the mini cheetah

and Computer Science; Professor Sangbae Kim in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; and ... designed in-house at MIT by some of our collaborators. The mini cheetah is a great platform because it is ... prospect. In recent years, four-legged robots inspired by the movement of cheetahs and other animals have ...

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Lifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood

Heywood (left) in the Sloan Automotive Lab, with Professor James Keck (right). Photo courtesy of MIT ... MIT,” he says. “People’s investment in what they did here and the intensity of their commitment to doing ... director of the MIT Sloan Automotive Lab, and the group’s research focus expanded to include a wider range ...

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