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More than 25 from MIT Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists in 2016

student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering “Wright’s approach to removing salt from groundwater ... Fellowship." Sampriti Bhattacharyya (Manufacturing and Industry) Grad student in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and founder of Hydroswarm “Bhattacharyya has developed underwater drones that are capable of ...

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Tonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive

Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical Engineering in 2007, where he established the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “It’s ...

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Let your car tell you what it needs

Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT; and two others. A smartphone app combining ... the car’s left front tire needs air, its air filter should be replaced next week, and its engine needs ... Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The new paper’s co-authors include research scientist ...

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3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles

Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and ... engineering roles could also be sources of good jobs if automated taxi fleets are deployed at scale, but will ...

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Student Spotlight: David Larson ’16, SM ’18, PhD Candidate

design and engineering through the sailing route,” says Larson. “I wanted to understand the physics of ... Sclavounos, professor of mechanical engineering and naval architecture. The class would end up shaping the ... 2016, Larson enrolled in MIT’s graduate program for mechanical engineering and ocean engineering. The ...

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Office of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners

Systems, and Society, and Professor Douglas Hart, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.  The Trancik ... This year, undergraduate students taking 2.013 (Engineering Systems Design) and 2.014 (Engineering ... transition from student to professional engineer.” The fall semester will be spent in design, and in the ...

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The proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturing

-MBA degree with a strong focus on manufacturing; the Department of Mechanical Engineering offers an advanced ... multiple projects in recent decades aimed at renewing U.S. manufacturing. “We want to deliberately design ... biosciences, chemical engineering, and more. MIT contributions to management and logistics have also helped ...

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Powering Desalination with the Sun

graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ... noticeably salty, so later, after returning to MIT, Wright  began designing an electrodialysis desalination ...

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Saving seaweed with machine learning

Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT. ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... combine my passion for food, my technical expertise in ocean engineering, and my interest in sustainably ...

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Powered by the sun

I knew I was interested in mechanical engineering, and I was thinking of a way I could apply mechanical ... engineering to solving world problems, and I thought energy was a world problem and solar car was the perfect ... personal with Flux, and to learn first-hand what goes into designing, building, and racing a solar car. ...

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The Freedom of Constraint

a two-hour focus group that Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Maria Yang has started to answer. ... December 13, 2014 Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering green International Maker ... Engineering for global change. You’ve probably heard of MechE alum and Associate Professor Hugh ...

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Wind power — even without the wind

Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ...

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Cooling buildings worldwide

and Mechanical Engineering. Lienhard is Norford’s colleague at the Center for Environmental Sensing ... mechanical engineering graduate students: Tianyi Chen, who was working with Norford on the impacts of outdoor ... Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (’72) Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Paired up for a class project, they ...

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The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants

technique.” Mathias Kolle, Rockwell Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... '20 collaborated with Kolle throughout his PhD program in mechanical engineering, making the project ... Hart, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The two are developing an edible, ...

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Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining

mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... professor of mechanical engineering and of ocean science and engineering, and Glenn Flierl, professor of ... study of such plumes. He was joined by Alford and Eric Adams, senior research engineer at MIT, as well ...

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MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge

(equivalent to 597.5 miles). In the process, SEVT member and rising junior in mechanical engineering Cameron ... five-day race, their solar car, Nimbus — designed and built entirely by students — beat eight other SOVs ... Mehrotra, a rising senior in electrical engineering and computer science. “We were all hopeful, but I don’t ...

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J-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies

in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a solution. He and his team have been awarded ... Mechanical Engineering “ Manufacturing and Marketing E. coli Test Kits to Promote Safely Managed Drinking ... a 2015 J-WAFS Solutions grant which has since been supported by The Engine, has received numerous ...

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J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies

for research at MIT D-Lab and professor of mechanical engineering, has pioneered a new approach to ... The team includes Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, and ... Eric Verploegen, a research engineer in MIT D-Lab. Instead of relying on traditional refrigeration with ...

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Simple, solar-powered water desalination

Zhang and Lin Zhao, postdoc Zhenyuan Xu, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in this ... designed to serve a single household, perhaps using a flat panel on a large shallow tank of seawater that ...

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System provides cooling with no electricity

E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. But this is a different issue that has received much ... magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do exactly that. The device, ... a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ...

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