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Lessons from the Clean Air Car Race 50 Years Later

engine cars, with some electric cars powered by massive batteries, hybrid vehicles, and one car powered ... professor of mechanical engineering. “It amazed me just how talented and motivated the young people who ... In 1968, MIT and Caltech challenged each other to an electric car race with MIT’s car heading west ...

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I2P Example Project Areas

In 2019, the I 2 P Program offered graduate students in mechanical engineering project ... advanced manufacturing, design, bioengineering, nano-engineering, and more. Below are example project ... Wearables, electrical Connections- Propose and evaluate methods of making durable electrical connections for ...

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Emily Satterfield

for art and oil painting. Her father is an electrical engineering with a knack for DIY automation ... do both,” she says. Upon enrolling in MIT, Satterfield set out to study electrical engineering at ... ’22, who recently graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. Raised in Lowell, ...

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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Robotic probe measures electrical property known as ... photoconductance. Credit: iStock Their system utilizes a robotic probe to measure an important electrical property ... known as photoconductance, which is how electrically responsive a material is to the presence of light. ...

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Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time

alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in ... Engineering Conference, quantifies the impact of a zero-emission truck’s design range on its energy storage ...

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First Annual MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Awards Presented

(Mechanical Behavior of Materials); Max Goldman, lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ... Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for 6.004 (Computation Structures). The awards were ... Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering for 3.032 ...

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Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; his fellow first author Hsueh-Cheng Wang, who was ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering; and Laura Giarré, a professor of electrical engineering at the ... engineering at MIT and one of the paper’s two first authors. “Having something that didn’t infringe on their ...

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Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars

majoring in physics and electrical engineering. The daughter of immigrants from Ghana and Thailand, she ... mechanical engineering with a concentration in biomedical engineering. At Oxford, he will pursue an advanced ... degree in research science engineering. Daher’s Rhodes Scholarship was announced Nov. 15 Claire Halloran ...

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“You’re surrounded by a community that cares about you”

assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science — “Which is course…?” he asked of the new ... a new path, and Raman went on to earn degrees in both electrical engineering and architecture. “Whatever ... in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, he realized that “my heart ...

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Guardian Ag’s crop-spraying drone is replacing dangerous pilot missions

engineering at MIT, and the two robot enthusiasts became lifelong friends. “When Charles came to MIT, he ... was a key selling point to me when I was touring mechanical engineering labs as a junior in high ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he taught a section of Course 2.007 that tasked students with ...

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Sun-powered desalination for villages in India

60 percent of India is underlain by salty water — and much of that area is not served by an electric ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, appears in the journal Desalination. Winter explains that ... 35,000 mg/L — as well as the region’s lack of electrical power. (For on-grid locations, the team found, ...

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Class Close-Up: 2.S999

says Timothy Gutowski, professor of mechanical engineering and co-instructor for the class. In nearly ... climate change, the evolution of the electric grid, or the development of MIT’s upgraded Central Utilities ... engineering, played the role of a beachfront property owner who objected to the installation. “It was a really ...

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Peter Godart

on harnessing enough energy from these small pellets to power desalination and generate electricity ... generate enough energy to power desalination and generate electricity for natural disaster survivors. ... engineering and Godart’s advisor. “It is inexpensive, robust, efficient, and clean – producing no toxic ...

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MIT-Delft University of Technology team places third in Formula Student Germany driverless competition

Concept, and third for Engineering Design and Presentation. FSG-MIT-Delft-Driverless-Car-1024.jpg The ... student engineering competitions in the world, FSG takes place at the Hockenheimring Track. Close to 3,500 ... worked together to modify TU Delft’s electric race car, building the software to operate the car ...

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George Hatsopoulos, senior lecturer emeritus and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, dies at 91

Mechanical Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Throughout his illustrious ... George Nicholas Hatsopoulos, an MIT mechanical engineering senior lecturer emeritus who founded ... received The John Fritz Medal which is often regarded as the highest honor in engineering ...

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Evelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as director of the Department of ... professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed as director of the ... engineering from MIT in 2000. After receiving her master’s degree and PhD from Stanford University, she ...

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Researchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles

bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... fabricating and then flattening out the graphene, the researchers tested its electrical conductivity. They ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ...

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Controlling bubble formation on electrodes

Using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen can be an effective way to produce ... clean-burning hydrogen fuel, with further benefits if that electricity is generated from renewable energy ... a way to generate hydrogen out of electricity, and it can be used for mitigating the fluctuations of the ...

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Putting projects at the forefront

Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Go calls it “a bridge to my passions.” He and the ... poster about a new project-centric program, the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET), she went ... the potential to re-engineer engineering education. MIT-NEET-1024.jpg Second-year student Albert Go ...

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Driving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit

pieces of technology. As Ford’s chief electric vehicle (EV), digital, and design officer, Field SM ... '92 is tasked with leading the development of the company’s electric vehicles, while making new ... and electric future, Field effectively has to lead a fast-moving startup inside the legacy carmaker. ...

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