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Four MIT seniors win Marshall Scholarships

mechanical and ocean engineering and a minor in history of art and architecture. She will undertake an ... Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and of ocean science and engineering, describes ... Technology and Civil and Environmental Engineering and co-chair of MIT’s Presidential Committee on ...

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MIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America

of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and from MIT D-Lab, Associate Director for Research ... partnership, and collaboration; and Victor Ayerdi, head of the Mechanical Engineering Department. At AGEXPORT, ... effort. guatemalan-woman-workshop-1024.jpg MIT D-Lab and the Department of Mechanical Engineering will ...

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A material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will

forward. They have designed a long-sought device, which they refer to as an “electrical heat valve,” that ... temperatures.” Yongjie Hu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace ngineering at the University of ... researchers at MIT including Professor Gang Chen have designed a long-sought device, which they refer to as an ...

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Study suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2

reported similar demonstrations, but the mechanisms driving the electrochemical reaction have remained ... Malaysia. Breaking bonds Carbon-capture technologies are designed to capture emissions, or “flue gas,” from ... toward designing those processes.” This research is supported by Sunway University in Malaysia. Tuesday, ...

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New general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales

Xuanhe Zhao, the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor and professor of mechanical engineering and civil and ... environmental engineering at MIT. “This discovery has significant implications for the design of new materials, ... significant implications in material design Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are ...

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MIT Students Win First Round of SpaceX Hyperloop Contest

a design and sub-scale, prototype pod for the competition. Pods must accommodate a mechanical pusher that ... mile-long run. With strengths in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering and ... MIT. Douglas P. Hart of Mechanical Engineering, is facilitating team members working on the project for ...

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Faculty Research: Printing in Reverse

utmost importance, requiring specific electrochemical and mechanical properties to allow the etching to ... select the stamp materials based on particular electrochemical and mechanical properties, since we want ... chemical-mechanical polishing, which does not work well for copper in particular,” he says. “So we have reduced ...

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Taking a leap in bioinspired robotics

mechanical engineering graduate program. There, he experienced his first taste of design freedom. “That was ... in the next five to 10 years, says Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... principles from biomechanics, human decision-making, and mechanical design to build a service robot that Kim ...

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Former MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72

through a period of striking change and growth. A mechanical engineer by training, Vest was president of ... Engineering and Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering. Vest fostered MIT’s international engagement ... earned a BS in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963, and MS and PhD degrees in ...

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Krithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

Mechanical Engineering, who researches novel designs for drip irrigation emitters that operate at lower ... candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ... across its various funding mechanisms. From the development of a novel, environmentally sustainable, and ...

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Kim, Sangbae Professor

“Mens et manus” in Guatemala

Amy Smith (center), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and founder of the MIT D-Lab, and ... Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with UVG and the Guatemalan Export Association (AGEXPORT). Launched ... growers and mechanical engineers at UVG developed a prototype for a low-tech cart for collecting snow ...

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First-year students take center stage on Killian Court

“PLAYsentations” — demonstrating the toys they created this semester in mechanical engineering class 2.00b (Toy ... courtesy of the 2.00b Team. David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering and instructor of 2.00b, saw ... and in-between could celebrate engineering design.” Throughout the PLAYsentations, attendees consumed ...

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MIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. Participating FIT faculty were Preeti Arya, ... instructor, Accessories Design.   To facilitate the intersection of design and engineering for products made ... designers and engineers, hopefully giving them an exciting window into the work of our brand.” By building ...

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Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Sili Deng

electricity and power,” explains Sili Deng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Brit (1961) ...   
 Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ... interested in engineering at very early age since my dad is an electrical engineer. When I was young, he ...

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Expanding the conversation about sustainability

a disproportionately heavy environmental burden. At MIT, she chose a double major in mechanical engineering with ... and received a presentation award during the MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition. This past ... Godfreey-Igwe worked under a lab in Stanford University’s civil and environmental engineering department to ...

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Outside-the-Box Thinker

an aspiring mechanical engineer on a budget wants a top-of-the-line guitar, what does he do? He makes ... a functional object. MIT-Nathan-Spielberg1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone As a mechanical engineering major at ... Mechanical Engineering, to manufacture what’s known as a “lab on a chip.” Currently, when a doctor wants to ...

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Understanding combustion

of mechanical engineering and the Brit (1961) & Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Assistant Professor Sili Deng is on a quest to ... degree in thermal engineering, she received her master’s and PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton, ...

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Steam from the sun

highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ... a solar intensity 10 times that of a typical sunny day. Ghasemi says the structure may be designed to be ...

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