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Modeling the spread of radioactivity in seawater

MIT Sea Grant College Program. The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant released ... Massachusetts Bay, as part of an MIT Sea Grant-funded project. This may help scientists understand how those ... international and local importance. Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Rachel VanCott | MIT Sea Grant ...

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Blooming ocean fronts

in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “It’s like going into a desert. And ... as to what triggers the bloom onset.” Ferrari and John Taylor, a former postdoc at MIT and now ... general principle that must hold.” Friday, November 4, 2011 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office orange ...

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Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Faye Wu (SB ’09, SM ’12)

designing in Professor Harry Asada’s lab. Wu – who earned an SB and an SM in mechanical engineering from MIT ... Melanie Gonick/MIT An outside observer would see a user with two hands – and 12 fingers. One of the hands ... Engineering red Maker asada@mit.edu Horizontal Student Faye Wu is designing a robotic finger system you can ...

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Giving Robots a More Nimble Grasp

robots. Engineers at MIT have now hit upon a way to impart more dexterity to simple robotic grippers: ... Tuesday, August 4, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red Maker ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU Horizontal Professor ...

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How Crispy is Your Bonbon?

smooth, even chocolaty shell. Now, a theory and a simple fabrication technique derived by MIT engineers ... and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “I’m sure chocolatiers have come up with techniques ... National Science Foundation. Sunday, April 3, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Pedro Reis ...

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Researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging

have been prevented. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent ... the Italian energy company Eni S.p.A. through the MIT Energy Initiative. Thursday, April 13, 2017 ... David Chandler | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship Horizontal ...

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Turning any room into an operating room

Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty research director of MIT’s D-Lab. Frey had been ... project,” explains Frey, who also serves as Miller’s advisor. “At MIT, grad students can really deepen ... MIT.” Sunday, January 7, 2018 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering ...

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Just what the doctor ordered

Device Design). The class brings clinicians from Boston-area hospitals and MIT students together to ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, program manager at the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, and ... engineering undergraduate, and a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ...

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On a mission to build the uncrashable car

As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on ... would be on helping the robot better navigate and understand its surroundings.” At MIT and Woods Hole, ... vehicle, using similar technologies he worked with as a graduate student at MIT. But instead of mapping ...

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A new way to mend a broken heart

involving a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity ... Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. The hearts that received ...

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Advocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill

In late March, 29 MIT graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduates traveled to Washington to ... works at the intersection of research and public policy. This is the 13th consecutive year MIT students ... MIT's Science Policy Initiative, including MechE grad student Quantum Wei, met with lawmakers on ...

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Schools of Science and Engineering join hands to transform learning

record. DSC00825 1024.jpg MIT students explore the practical application of electromagnetic concepts ... at MIT. Together, they came up with a revolutionary classroom model known as Technology-Enabled ... Professor of Physics. Funding for 8.02’s experiments comes from EECS, the Department of Physics, and the MIT ...

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Guided discovery in teaching structural mechanics

Over the course of their education at MIT, mechanical engineering undergraduate students have many ... MIT AeroAstro, where some of these same discoveries are used in class 16.001 (Unified Engineering: ... instrumental not only as they progress in their education at MIT, but also as they move forward into different ...

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The tenured engineers of 2020

The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to eight members of its ... MIT, where he provides programmatic and technical leadership for programs related to the development of ... Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to eight members of its faculty including mechanical ...

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School of Engineering second quarter 2022 awards

Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Engineering was named to the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 on June 30.   Farnaz Niroui of the ... on Jan. 1.   Carlos Portela of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was named to the MIT ...

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The tenured engineers of 2022

The School of Engineering has announced that MIT has granted tenure to 14 members of its faculty ... Engineering and Computer Science (which reports jointly to the School of Engineering and MIT Schwarzman ... System and AI LAB in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), co-founder of ...

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A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

rescue teams navigate these structures, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the ... the University of Notre Dame and an MIT graduate. When looking for collaborators, Hanson — a graduate ... Wahl | MIT Lincoln Laboratory Horizontal When major disasters cause people to get trapped under rubble, ...

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3D-printed metamaterials that stretch and fail by design

metamaterials have been lightweight options designed for stiffness and strength. New research from the MIT ... available now in the journal Nature Communications. Its other MIT-affiliated authors are James Utama ... Surjadi, Bastien F. G. Aymon, and Ling Xu. This work was performed, in part, through the use of MIT ...

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Magnetic mixer improves 3D bioprinting

Development Professor of Tissue Engineering and assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the study. “If we can print tissues that more closely mimic ... (SHED) at MIT, which provides infrastructure and interdisciplinary expertise to help translate ...

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Microbes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech

wastewater, and potentially sell some back to grid," says Cullen Buie, who heads up MIT's Laboratory ... MIT in 2010. "The lab encompasses all the things that interest me, including alternative ... batteries LEMI, in collaboration with Professor Martin Bazant in MIT's Department of Chemical ...

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