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A new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech

Before coming to MIT, Benjamin Lienhard focused most of his energy exploring fragile quantum ... initiatives. Through GradSAGE, Lienhard is positioned to help other MIT students. On the GradSAGE Leadership ... Sub-Committee with engineering graduate students Vamsi Mangena, Laureen Meroueh, Lucio Milanese, Clinton Wang ...

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Crystan McLymore SM ’23: Exceling at sea and in the lab

mechanical engineering at MIT, after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect ... Credit: Tony Pulsone In the lab of Giovanni Traverso, associate professor of mechanical engineering, ... and she chose to apply to MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), even though she says she ...

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Research update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces

Researchers at MIT have followed up on their discovery that droplets of water acquire an electric ... reported in the journal ACS Nano by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical ... engineering Evelyn Wang, graduate student Daniel Preston, and former postdoc Ryan Enright. The finding could ...

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Student-Built Robots Compete on the Slopes

legendary at MIT. Clare Zhang, a junior majoring in mechanical engineering, built that winning robot. While ... up points each time. 2007 Winter. 1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone Many of the head-to-head, ... Mechanical Engineering, who originated MIT’s robotics competition (then called 2.70) and ran it for many ...

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Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14

fixing leaks. An MIT Tata Center fellow and Deshpande Center grantee, Swaminathan is developing a modular ... Swaminathan_Jaichander_SM_1024.jpg Photo by Tony Pulsone Zero-liquid discharge is the idea that, instead of being discharged back ... engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ...

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Turning emissions into fuel

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ... chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. The new membrane-based system was developed by MIT ... PhD 1024.jpg XiaoYu Wu pictured with the reactor his team used for the research. MIT researchers have ...

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Students demonstrate "calculated imagination" in robot competition

"Red Eye" through the game board at Thursday’s competition. Photo: Tony Pulsone “We’re all ... competition has become a seminal event in MIT’s academic calendar. Spearheaded by Professor Emeritus Woodie ... members of the MIT community cheered as the 32 students were whittled down to the final two: Erika Mynio ...

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Twenty-three MIT faculty honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2023-25

In the halls of MIT, a distinctive thread of compassion weaves through the fabric of education. As ... to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty members who ... have served as exceptional mentors to graduate students. Twenty-three MIT professors have been selected ...

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How to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed

consequences. To help prevent such mistakes, researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab  developed ... the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), ... about the work  by lead author Young-Jin Park, a LIDS graduate student; Hao Wang, a research scientist ...

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MIT J-WAFS announces 2022 seed grant recipients

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has awarded eight MIT principal ... investigators with 2022 J-WAFS seed grants. The grants support innovative MIT research that has the potential to ... have significant impact on water- and food-related challenges. The only program at MIT that is ...

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Danielle Zurovcik

start a global medical device company called WiCare.   Zurovcik_Danielle_1024.jpg Photo by: Tony Pulsone ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... our protocol,” she explains.   When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ...

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

The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) has announced that two MIT PhD ... Karnik’s lab, is awarded a J-WAFS fellowship. Photo by Tony Pulsone This fall will mark the second year ... candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a past co-president of the MIT Water Club. The ...

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Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing

MIT co-authors include Caglar Ozturk, Debkalpa Goswami, Jean Bonnemain, Sophie Wang, and Ellen Roche, ... hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ...

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Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers, innovator in design and engineering education, dies at 75

Flowers, Pappalardo Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Tony Pulsone Flowers was ... instrumental in shaping MIT’s hands-on approach to engineering design education, first developing teaching ... 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). This annual MIT event, which has now been held for nearly five ...

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New sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient’s breath

Tadesse and Aditya Garg stand next to the Raman microscope. Credit: Tony Pulsone, MIT Mechanical ... Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to ... laboratory-grade instruments that are not available in most doctor’s offices. The MIT team has now shown they can ...

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MechE History and Timeline

II and Civil Engineering became Course I. That same year Assistant Professor Channing Whitaker, MIT ... the Joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program (previously XIII-W) will continue. Heads of ... 1991-2001 Rohan C. Abeyaratne 2001-2008 Mary Boyce 2008-2013 Gang Chen 2013-2018 Evelyn Wang 2018-2022 A. ...

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