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Let it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof

water-resistant,” says Varanasi, who is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. “If you’re standing out in ... which was developed in recent years by co-author Karen Gleason and her co-workers. Gleason is the ... conventional water-repellent coatings have been shown to persist in the environment and accumulate in our ...

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Hairy tongues help bats drink up

with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT’s Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT. The researchers have ... polymer material, lined with small, 3-millimeter-high hairs, similar in dimension to those of actual bats. ...

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School of Engineering first and second quarter 2020 awards

of Mechanical Engineering was named the 2020 Sloan Research Fellow in Physics on Feb. 17. Song Han of ... Council on Women in Computing on May 29. Dick K.P. Yue of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ...

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Faculty Promotions

and Productivity, and currently serves as Graduate Admissions Officer in Mechanical Engineering ... authority in the field of precision engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and ... R&D 100 Awards. Most recently, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

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New sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath

Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Bhatia’s group focuses in part on developing nanoparticle sensors ... Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to ... Engineering The idea is that a person would first breathe in the nanoparticles, similar to inhaling asthma ...

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MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants

is also principal research scientist in mechanical engineering and the Institute for Medical ... training at an MIT.nano IMMERSED seminar in September 2021. With this seed grant, Hupp plans to develop an ... audio. The two see the project possibly leading to fully immersive “in real life” gaming experiences with ...

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Four from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science

physical sciences. After earning his doctorate from MIT in mechanical engineering, Suresh joined the ... SM ’81, PhD ’84, the Elihu Thomson Professor in Electrical Engineering and principal investigator in ... tomography represents one of the biggest engineering breakthroughs from MIT in the past few decades. The ...

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MIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School

elasmobranchs and cetaceans.  Marianna Rogers, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT, says it was ... undergraduate in mechanical engineering.   This exposure, says Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical engineering ... perspective on current research in marine robotics via lectures with MIT and Portuguese faculty and other ...

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From LGO to PhD

currently pursuing a PhD in computational mathematics at Stanford University. He specializes in machine ... Exploration Alaska, so he enrolled in the LGO program for experience in engineering management. There, he ... worked with Goodyear to develop machine learning algorithms to automate a tire-inspection process. He ...

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School of Engineering fourth quarter 2022 awards

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ...  and Mechanical Engineering received the Society of Engineering Science's James R. Rice Medal on Oct. 21. ...   Arup Chakraborty of the Department of Chemical Engineering received the APS Max Delbruck Prize in ...

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Ocean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle

gaining urgency as interest in marine minerals has grown. The ocean’s deep-sea bed is scattered with ... of the conjecture,” says study co-author Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... take: a “selfie,” and a “drive-by.” Both maneuvers began in the same way, with the vehicle setting out ...

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Projects advance naval ship design and capabilities

construction and engineering being conducted at MIT. 2n Program 1024.jpg Students enrolled in the Course 2N ... Taft MEng '19, SM '19, who works with James Kirtley, professor of electrical engineering and ... for doctors to train local medical professionals in developing countries. The Navy's current ...

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Temperature difference propels droplets

mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor David Quere at ESPCI in Paris, MIT postdoc Nada Bjelobrk, ... a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was not associated with this research. ... surfaces, or developing powerful condensers. In power plants, for example, the faster droplets can be shed ...

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Joystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely

MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat ... patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm. With a modified joystick, surgeons in one hospital may control ... arteries and vessels. The researchers demonstrated the system in a “phantom,” a transparent model with ...

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From counting blood cells to motion capture, sensors drive patient-centered research

research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “MIT.nano has the tools to support ... connecting researchers with underserved populations who may not normally participate in clinical trials. The ... presentations underscored the multidisciplinary reach of sensors research. Mechanical engineering Associate ...

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Learners today, leaders tomorrow

described how the DEDP program helped inform his work in child development and health-care screening with ... Management, will begin running courses in September.  David Hardt, professor of mechanical engineering, echoed ... Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP), Principles of Manufacturing, and Statistics and Data Science in an ...

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School of Engineering third and fourth quarter 2020 awards

in Supply Chain List by B2G on Sept. 9.   Ellen Roche of the Department of Mechanical Engineering won ... Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... centers. The following are awards presented to engineering faculty in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2020. ...

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MIT graduate programs earn top marks from US News

; materials engineering; and mechanical engineering (tied with Stanford). The Institute placed second in ... aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering (tied with Georgia Tech) and nuclear engineering. In the rankings of graduate programs ... U.S. News and World Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of ...

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School of Engineering second quarter 2021 awards

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... centers. Spring_2019_1 1024.jpg Eighteen members of the MIT engineering faculty received awards in ... a Google Research Scholar Award on April 7.   John Lienhard of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was ...

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Prakash Govindan

crisis that inspired Govindan – who received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian ... Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT – to do his part to find ... to his town center as a young man in Chennai, India, with his brother, Srinivas. The hot sun on their ...

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