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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Four from MIT named 2025 Goldwater Scholars

(bottom right) from the School of Science are MIT's newest Goldwater Scholars. Avani Ahuja, ... Professor of Chemistry. In addition to her studies, she serves the MIT community as an emergency medical ... Northwestern University and Nir Hacohen at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “My mentors and ...

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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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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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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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Two from MIT recognized as outstanding engineering leaders

Science and Engineering Fellow. Railey holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT ... undergraduate work, he was the co-winner of the MIT Department Mechanical Engineering de Florez Award for ... '13, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering and former technical staff member in MIT Lincoln ...

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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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Veteran engineer studies career pathways of today’s graduates

Seering, the Weber-Shaughness Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The other half of his ... mechanical engineering, from nine universities across the country. Magarian hopes the data within these files ... becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ...

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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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Q&A: Engineering professors on America’s Cup

hour). Several professors in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering — who are experts in naval ... mechanical engineering; Paul Sclavounos, a professor of mechanical engineering and naval architecture; and ... Jerome Milgram, professor emeritus of mechanical and ocean engineering, to answer a few questions about ...

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New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste

Lienhard, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and director of ... Engineering. The study’s co-authors include MIT mechanical engineering undergraduates Trent Lee and ... Vinn Nguyen, and Zi Hao Foo SM ’21, PhD ’24, who is a postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley. ...

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MIT mechanical engineering course invites students to “build with biology”

Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Biomechanics, Raman ... Photo: Lauren Futami/MechE Raman and Peter So, professor of mechanical engineering, co-teach the course, ... semester by professor of biological engineering Mark Bathe, say they hope to continue to build the amount ...

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