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Three MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows

that defy conventional boundaries. Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical engineering and the ... Sapsis, the William I. Koch Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Center for Ocean ... Technology and professor of mechanical engineering and biological engineering; Mehrdad Jazayeri, professor of ...

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3 Questions: Engineering hurricane barriers of the future

Oceans at MIT's Genevieve Wanucha sat down with Chiang C. Mei, Ford Professor Emeritus of ... Engineering in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to ask for his perspective on the ... What would this technology look like and how much would it cost? A. From an engineering point of view, ...

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Seven from MIT named National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows

Ocean Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, funded by the Office of ... Chetan Bhatt of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program named National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate ... Seven MIT graduate students have been awarded 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering ...

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Thirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships

Photos courtesy of Fulbright winners. Lainie Beauchemin ’22 earned a BS in biological engineering at MIT ... plans to return to MIT to pursue a PhD in electrical engineering. Victor Damptey  will graduate in June ... will graduate this spring from the Master of Architecture and Master of City Planning programs at MIT ...

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Alumni Profile: RJ Scaringe SM ’07, PhD ‘09

sustainability.   Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... '07, PhD '09 founder and CEO of Rivian Automotive, that was entirely by design. “Prior to the LA ... products, Rivian has announced over $1.5 billion of investments from companies like Amazon, Ford, and Cox ...

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Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14

engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his master’s degree in mechanical ... Recover and reuse. Despite having two degrees in mechanical engineering, a passion for ... thermodynamics, and a love for math, PhD candidate Jaichander Swaminathan spends most of his time these days ...

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Professor Slocum Awarded 2014 Department of Energy Grant

collaborators are Lin-wen Hu of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab; Professor Per Peterson of the University of ... awards from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) initiative to support ... between MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison to ...

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In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ... a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not ... senior author of both papers. MIT postdoc Sameer Rao and former graduate student Hyunho Kim SM ’14, PhD ...

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MIT PhD students shed light on important water and food research

issues they face,” says Aditya Ghodgaonkar, PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... climate change.” A PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zhang works in the Nano ... Paquette Katharina Fransen In Professor Bradley Olsen’s lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao

a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, a master’s in materials engineering, a PhD in mechanical engineering ... design? During my PhD study, I worked on the mechanics of soft materials. Since the human body is ... questions about things that are impactful for human society. I then use tools from my different areas of ...

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Unleashing the potential of the mind

robotics for people with ALS at the University of Rhode Island. After speaking with him about the potential ... Ang on a mission that would change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical ... assistive technology course run by John Leonard, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean ...

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A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water

Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... abundant components. The family of materials allows engineers to precisely tune the catalyst’s structure ... Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ...

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Department News

Boyce Elected to NAE Professor Mary Cunningham Boyce, Mechanical Engineering Department Head and Ford ... Professor of Engineering, was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Professor Boyce ... Festival’s Accelerator-Innovative Web Track competition, two MIT students—Tom Milnes, MechE PhD candidate ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Neville Hogan

elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, developed the ... . “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from a kinematics ...

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School of Engineering Awards for 2016

assistant professor of mechanical engineering Michael Short '05, PhD '10, assistant professor of ... Two MechE professors win excellence in teaching awards. The MIT School of Engineering recently ... dedication, care, and creativity:  Maria Yang '91, associate professor of mechanical engineering Junior ...

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Three from MIT awarded 2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Luu Trang Luu graduated from MIT with a BS in mechanical engineering in 2018, and a master of ... a PhD in engineering at Stanford University, with the goal of creating new biomedical devices that can ... Torre is a PhD student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. With Professor ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi

journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, along ... with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at ... Environmental Protection Agency. Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton ...

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Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82

Ernest “Ernie” Cravalho, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT, passed away on ... Tuesday, April 13, at the age of 82. Cravalho served as a member of MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty ... in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving his doctoral ...

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Discovering nature’s properties through nonlinear solid mechanics

professor of civil and mechanical engineering, was founded in 2016 in the Department of Civil and ... within healthcare. Hannah Varner, a mechanical engineering PhD student leading the VCCE effort in the ... effects of torsion on them. Mrityunjay Kothari, a postdoctoral associate with a PhD in solid mechanics, is ...

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Professor Emeritus Justin “Jake” Kerwin, an expert in propeller design and ship hydrodynamics, dies at 90

of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) as assistant professor in 1960, one year prior to ... Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Kerwin, who served on MIT’s ocean ... Justin “Jake” Kerwin ’53, SM ’54, PhD ’61, professor emeritus of naval architecture, passed away ...

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