involvement in the engineering community has furthered the IEEE mission of promoting technology to benefit ... society. Collage-of-Asada-Shah-and-Daniel-2048x1365.png From left to right: Devavrat Shah, Harry Asada, ... and scientific interests. Asada and his group seek effective solutions to socially and economically ...
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https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-inaugural-schwarzman-scholarsalumni and their guests were finishing up lunch and conversation, starting to direct their attention to ... session for the second annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE) was about to begin. Unlike ... and staff who volunteer as judges are tasked with deciding how well the student presenters communicate ...
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https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/computing-health-planetHigh-resolution seabed maps would not only be useful to find missing objects like ships or aircraft, but also to ... On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible was about an hour-and-a-half into its two-hour descent to ... search-and-rescue equipment via ship to the area of interest and comprehensively surveying that area. A search ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-based-sonar-system-could-rapidly-map-ocean-floor-high-resolutionToday, 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. In the United States, ... that is unsafe to drink. The increasing need for drinking water is stretching traditional resources ... such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. To improve access to safe and affordable drinking water, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-waterInnovations, an assistive technology company started by MechE alumna Karina Pikhart (SB ’09), take us back to ... was split into two groups that competed with each other to develop the most promising prototype for ... replacing the other two when the team’s reaction to both of them were lackluster. “As team leader,” says ...
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https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-students-named-2020-rhodes-scholarscreated a new approach to modeling carbonate chemistry using machine learning and readily available ... seawater. However, understanding the effects of ocean acidification is challenging due to the lack of ... Cod Bays From Surface Measurements “, presents a data-driven approach to exploring and modeling ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-modeling-4d-ocean-and-coastal-acidification-massachusetts-and-cape-cod-baysMicro/Nano Engineering Micro and nanotechnology have had and will continue to have a tremendous ... nanostructured materials now used in automobiles, nanostructured energy conversion devices that significantly ... Additional Suggested Concentration Subjects 1.021J Introduction to Modeling and Simulation 2.180 Biomolecular ...
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https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/can-led-filled-%E2%80%9Crobot-garden%E2%80%9D-make-coding-more-accessiblepartnering with organizations such as NASA, Ferrari, and IBM. Based on her studies of the end-to-end design ... process, she has measured just how crucial early-stage sketching and prototyping are for success. The ...
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