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Student Spotlight: Nikolai Begg

credit: Tony Pulsone PhD candidate Nikolai Begg (SM ‘11) grew up in a box of LEGO® bricks and hasn’t ... and is a recipient of the prestigious 2013 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his inventions that ... appreciation for the importance of living a problem,” says Professor Alexander Slocum, Begg’s advisor. “In ...

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Cheng, Wai K Professor

Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves

Rufer, and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. A recent study  found that if farmers ... A team of researchers at MIT and a spinoff company they launched has developed a system to do just that. ... a paper by recent MIT alumni Vishnu Jayaprakash PhD ’22 and Sreedath Panat PhD ’23, graduate student Simon ...

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Wiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence

graduate studies at the University of Navarra in San Sebastian led to her working with MIT Professor John ... Hosoi, who is the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering as well as an applied math ... Center (SSRC), and is now advised by Ali Jadbabaie, the JR East Professor of Engineering and head of the ...

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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 ... Department of Energy, the work was supported by a fellowship from the MIT Energy Initiative, the Graduate ... MIT. The system, developed by researchers at MIT and Stanford University over the last few years, makes ...

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Leonard, John J Professor; Associate Department Head

The Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown

Professor of Marine Technology and Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering Professor ... a joint MIT-WHOI program in oceanographic engineering. In 1989, Professor Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis ... functional AUVs to become commercially successful. Several areas of mechanical engineering – such ...

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MIT graduate engineering, business, economics programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2022

MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering the number one mechanical engineering graduate program for ... , electrical/electronic/communications engineering (tied with Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley), ... MechE #1 Grad School.jpg MIT’s graduate program in engineering has again earned a No. 1 spot in ...

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Broadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography

of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the past 10 years, recently ... centered at the University of Hawaii at Manoa to study the role of microscopic organisms in the ocean ... actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ...

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What happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation

happen as engineers,” says Mathias Kolle, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But in ... professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering Peter So, professor of mathematics Jörn ... Dunkel, and professor of material physics and chemistry Bodo Wilts of the University of Salzburg. A live ...

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Researchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves

these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ... improvement of global climate models, the researchers say. The paper is co-authored by 42 researchers from 25 ... Prior measurements, the new work found, had been drawn from too narrow a slice of the region, resulting ...

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Using Engineering Savvy to Improve Product Designs

a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT, didn’t expect to attend such a large university, but during ... 's Department of Mechanical Engineering where he works in the Ideation Lab making software tools to see what can ... student in mechanical engineering, thinking about design is a way of life; whether he is creating a novel ...

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Three from MIT Named Inaugural Schwarzman Scholars

graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in civil engineering and a concentration in Mandarin. She currently ... New award pays for one-year master's at Tsinghua University in China. Two MIT undergraduates ... and one MIT alumna were named Schwarzman Scholars and will be awarded a year of study and leadership ...

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Study: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions

research scientist Livia Giordano in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kelsey Stoerzinger PhD ’16, ... Binghong Han PhD ’16, postdoc Alexis Grimaud, Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, and six ... appointments in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and is ...

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Five with MIT ties elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2021

Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; and Feng Zhang, a professor in the MIT departments of ... Science degree from the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering in 1999. A professor of biomedical ... biomedical engineering and surgery at Northwestern University;  Darrell Gaskin SM ’87, a professor of health ...

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New Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection

Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... assistant professor and a research affiliate in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, says the team’s results ... a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ...

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The proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturing

engineering professor and one of the leads of the Initiative for New Manufacturing. Beyond its everyday work, ... -MBA degree with a strong focus on manufacturing; the Department of Mechanical Engineering offers an advanced ... manufacturing, creating jobs and economic growth. Indeed, one of the strongest through lines in MIT history is ...

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Four researchers with MIT ties earn 2023 Schmidt Science Fellowships

a graduate of the Department of Chemical Engineering, where he worked with Professor J. Christopher Love on ... earned her PhD from Princeton University, where she developed light-driven, catalytic methodologies for ... objectives for my future career.” Yirui Zhang SM ’ 19, PhD ’ 22 is a graduate of the Department of Mechanical ...

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