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A portable light system that can digitize everyday objects

Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and leader of the HCI Engineering Group at CSAIL. ... appendage for many of us. Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the display ... statistics, as well as new designs on things like a wall, mug, or shoe. Researchers from MIT’s Computer ...

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Letter from the Department Head

Alumni and Friends,   Ocean engineering is a major area of focus in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. In fact, it is one that is almost as old as the Department itself.   Ship design and construction ... engineering, robotics, control, communications, modeling, biology, mechanics, and biomimetics – and the many ...

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Student Spotlight: Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang (Candidate SB ’14)

English. Now, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, she is preparing to graduate this winter ... and begin a new job at Apple as an iPad product design engineer. The path she took from A to B wasn’t ... 2.013: Engineering System Design, and Apple offered her a coveted internship – and eventually a full-time ...

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Aviation Week's 2014 Twenty20s Include Two with Ties to MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Mechanical Engineering for innovation in design. He and colleagues built a 3-D printer that produces glass ... degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. As a member of the Engineering Division, he has worked on ... for advanced degrees, Stern is working toward a master's degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. ...

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A Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?

Engineering — as well as MIT principal research scientist Ivan Celanovic, postdoc Ognjen Ilic, and Purdue ... and beyond One key to their success was designing a photonic crystal that works for a very wide range ... fluorescent and LED bulbs,” says Alejandro Rodriguez, assistant professor of electrical engineering at ...

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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2026

Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing Engineering; Mathematics; and Physics and Astronomy. MIT ranks No. ... received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Civil and ... Structural Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; ...

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Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease

rather stiff. MIT-Cell-Moves 1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised a way to assess a cell’s mechanical ... Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This technique really opens a door so that ... This research was funded, in part, by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Wednesday, August 2, ...

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Exploring growth within a confined space

mechanical engineering, grew cholera bacteria inside a soft gel, observing the architecture of the expanding ... Sharma, the M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. “One of ... have developed a theoretical framework to explain the mechanics of how growing bodies respond to ...

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Twelve from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships

majoring in mechanical engineering. As the winner of the Delft University of Technology’s Industrial Design ... Tony Terrasa Bottom Row: Miki Hansen, Laura Huang.  Jenny Chan is a senior studying mechanical engineering. Growing up ... Engineering Award, she will pursue a MS in integrated product design at TU Delft in the Netherlands. In tandem ...

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Stephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92

vibrations and rotordynamics, and a leader in transforming mechanics into an engineering science, passed away ... Graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in the early days of ... in mathematics from MIT in 1946, he transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, ...

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A new way to mix oil and water

either mechanically shaking the mix or using sound waves to set up intense vibrations within the liquid, ... surfactants, and now that the process has been identified, their findings “provide a kind of design guideline ...

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Scientists observe a single quantum vibration under ordinary conditions

like a wave, as the laws of classical physics predict. But under the laws of quantum mechanics, which ... and in precisely engineered, microscopic materials that researchers must probe in a vacuum. In ... is — a wave — and what quantum mechanics tells us it must be — a particle,” says Vivishek Sudhir, ...

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Adhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants

that kind of device failure, MIT engineers have found a simple and general way to eliminate fibrosis by ... for a drug, no need for a special polymer,” says Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor of mechanical ... engineering and of civil and environmental engineering. 1024-adhesive-implant-Frankel-iStock-01-press_0-1.jpg ...

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Yo-yo champion pursues his passions at MIT

not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering ... Department of Mechanical Engineering would allow Hattori to pursue his two biggest passions: robotics and ... division. While studying mechanical engineering has afforded Hattori the opportunity to explore his passions ...

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Alex Hattori

not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering ... Department of Mechanical Engineering would allow Hattori to pursue his two biggest passions: robotics and ... division. While studying mechanical engineering has afforded Hattori the opportunity to explore his passions ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-hattori

Next Generation Electronics

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build ... intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices.     Mechanics Bioengineering Micro and ...

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