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A creative desire, and the grit to get it done
When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... academics. She jokingly says she chose MIT because it had the “best pool in the Northeast,” and speaks very ... water during practice.” She has applied to graduate school at MIT and has worked on projects through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creative-desire-and-grit-get-it-doneAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... the MIT researchers designed a simple model that performs a similar type of smoothing, enabling it to ... in part, by Amazon, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, and the Ocado Group. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesFaculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock
Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office Their effect on the surface of ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ... Recherche Scientifique and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France, and the MIT France Program. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-thomas-peacockFaculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux
Chandler, MIT News Office Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer Sometimes the fastest pathway ... changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and Assimilation Systems ... and Wayne Leslie. The work was funded by the Office of Naval Research and by the MIT Sea Grant College. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-pierre-lermusiauxFaculty Research: Professor John Lienhard
Credit: David Castro-Olmedo/MIT by Alissa Mallinson If you live in a First World country, you probably do ... University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and leads the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT; he ... their innovation. For more information, watch a video at http://ilp.mit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-john-lienhard-0Alumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)
degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... of our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-danielle-zurovcik-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9811Undergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage
Graduating Senior Lays Groundwork for Locating Fresh Water Sources Photo credit: MIT News ... Oceanographic Institution (Charette is a currently funded MIT Sea Grant investigator), Olesnavage selected sites ... collaboration between MIT and The Cyprus Institute: young, promising scientists performing cutting-edge research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undergraduate-spotlight-katy-olesnavageA new way to make microstructured surfaces
Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the ... doctoral student from the University of Michigan; and Sameh Tawfick, a former postdoc at MIT who is now at ... Tuesday, July 29, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-microstructured-surfacesSquishy robots
applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ... robotics.” Monday, July 14, 2014 Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent red Collaboration PEKO@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsA microchip for metastasis
Now researchers from MIT, Italy, and South Korea have developed a three-dimensional microfluidic ... Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at MIT, have outlined the results ... Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microchip-metastasisEngineering students demonstrate product prototypes
yoga or sell some veggies, organize your workshop or calm an elderly relative, MIT’s mechanical ... engineering students may be able to help you do it better. Before a raucous crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium ... MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-students-demonstrate-product-prototypesCocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs
An MIT mathematician and a celebrity chef have combined talents to create two culinary novelties ... nature to the kitchen.” MIT scientists design two culinary novelties, inspired by nature. The first is ... Wednesday, November 6, 2013 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office yellow Collaboration Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cocktail-novelties-inspired-nature%E2%80%99s-designsDanielle Zurovcik
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... method and effective, inexpensive design, Zurovcik, who also has a minor in business from the MIT Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/danielle-zurovcikDavid Hu
Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ... students in an active, goal-oriented exercise between segments. (To see an MIT BLOSSOMS video in action, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-hu2.75: Precision Machine Design
students through this process since 2004, when he founded the class on the famous MIT credo “mens et ... part of a mechanical engineer’s education? Isn’t the science enough? “At MIT, we teach really great ... Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue Collaboration Education Maker slocum@mit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/275-precision-machine-designGoing local in the "Coral Triangle"
of tourists, and if littering and pollution pose threats. As a PhD student in MIT's Department ... participatory action research (PAR), a core approach within the MIT Science Impact Collaborative. PAR emphasizes ... coral-reef species they are about to visit. Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Genevieve Wanucha | Oceans at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-local-coral-triangleA climate window in the Southern Ocean
of Oceanography at MIT. “The Southern Ocean is the window by which the interior of the ocean connects ... a multi-institution team led by MIT’s collaborator, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to measure how waters ... account.” Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climate-window-southern-oceanModeling 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/modeling-spread-radioactivity-seawaterBlooming 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blooming-ocean-frontsStudent 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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