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Student Awards

  Undergraduate   Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in ... Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Jacqueline Sly, Grace Young AMP Inc. Award (Outstanding Performance ... Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering) Edward Burnell, ...

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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 ... Objective for Passive Prosthetic Feet. Jerry Wang tied for second place with Nanofluidic Adventures in ... engineering students have to offer, this year’s de Florez Competition pitted 25 applicants against each other ...

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Research Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows

says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ... engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ... combining AeroShield technologies with other window solutions being developed at MIT, including Fang’s work ...

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US Manufacturing: A Modern-Day Renaissance

heart. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, manufacturing has been a part of our DNA since the ... creation of our first lab in 1874 with the donation of a steam engine—all the way to 1977, when MechE ... just as it did with 1989’s industrial productivity report Made in America. When President Obama ...

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MIT Electric Vehicle Team: An Electrifying Start

first qualifier is a big event,” says MIT EVT Leader and mechanical engineering PhD student Lennon ... 2011, and they did exactly that, coming in as the third-place team with the fourth-place bike (one of ... Transportation, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT School of Engineering – as well as their ...

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MIT’s solar car team wins 2022 American Solar Challenge for the second year in a row

for the second year in a row in the Single Occupant Vehicle category. Team with car.jpg The MIT Solar ... predictability of the track, teams must deal with changes in elevation, road conditions, and driving laws.  In ... junior Stephen Campbell says. “Our philosophy with the new version was to develop tools to assist the ...

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MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2022

engineering; materials engineering; and mechanical engineering. It placed second in bioengineering/biomedical ... and Harvard University. As in past years, MIT’s engineering program continues to lead the list of ... undergraduate engineering programs at a doctoral institution. The Institute also placed first in six out of 12 ...

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How slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide

of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... capacity and an 86 percent savings in mechanical power, compared with the use of traditional surfaces. ... products such as food, condiments, and cosmetics, and in products in the energy and pharmaceuticals ...

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3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?

Program in Mechanical Engineering. He weighs in on  why sensing is ubiquitous and how advancements in ... You can’t be an engineer or a scientist without being involved with sensing instrumentation in some ... Horizontal Brian Anthony, Principal Research Scientist in mechanical engineering and co-leader of SENSE.nano, ...

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Inspired to Heal the Human Heart

Development Professor and an associate professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and in ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Roche takes such ideas back to her lab, where she and her ... native country) before joining the faculty at MIT in 2017. Her 25-person lab, working closely with ...

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Finding love in the lab

Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering, on an idea she had developed with Nill: increasing STEM ... doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering. Less than two weeks earlier, Nill and Nietner were at another ... with David Hardt, professor of mechanical engineering. “Scott and Larissa are two of the most ...

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Collaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects

in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, whose expertise in optical materials proved to be key.  ... Engineering, has teamed up with Mircea Dincă, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, to ... Voigt, a professor in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, made those comments at the first of ...

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Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces

about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... earned tenure as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He met his wife ... launched another startup company, in partnership with MIT professor of chemical engineering and Associate ...

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Bridge to the future of engineering

and pathways for chemical engineering to grow. One-third of faculty in her department work with ... Dean of the School of Engineering Anantha P. Chandrakasan with Faculty Chair Susan Silbey playing a key ... Chandrakasan, the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “After consulting with ...

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MIT launches MITx MicroMasters in Principles of Manufacturing

graduate-level program enables engineers, product designers, and technology developers to advance their careers ... in a broad array of engineering capacities, including manufacturing, supply chain management, design, ... and product development.   “Throughout an entire undergraduate degree program, the conventional ...

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First Annual MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Awards Presented

(Mechanical Behavior of Materials); Max Goldman, lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ... feedback — and more dynamic learning — with more people in the class.” “Chris Terman developed several ... Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering for 3.032 ...

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Student teams design in the face of danger

teamwork, over the years many devices designed in the class have been developed into real products and have ... mechanical engineering David Wallace, by presenting him with a pair of Eames-style chairs (one of them ... conceived, designed, built, and tested by students in MIT’s iconic product design class known by its course ...

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Unlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence

challenges that are faced in developing for ocean environments,” says Alicia Cabrera-Mino ’17, who took the ... course last spring. Augmenting robotic marine vehicles with artificial intelligence is useful in a number ... artificial intelligence to be effective in the water, students need to combine software skills with ocean ...

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A Lifelong Relationship with the Institute

music.” As an undergraduate, she found great pleasure in working on teams to develop engineering projects ... enjoyable time for me,” she recalls. “I started taking classes in mechanical engineering, and it really ... Evelyn Wang (SB '00), an associate professor of mechanical engineering, attended MIT as an ...

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Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing

a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, Stanford professor of materials ... factors can interact with each other, and if the process is in open air, then humidity, for example, may ... machine learning system the team developed could prove to be important in guiding the optimization of ...

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