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A Makerspace for Students, by Students

Initiated and led by students, MIT MakerWorks fosters making with a strong engineering focus. If ... Engineering (MechE) makerspace, it would have to be “students.” Not “maker,” although of course making is the ... prototype parts for their research, and undergrads use it for research needs as well. The engineering While ...

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Jennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”

scale.” Lewis, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, is ... at MIT; Jennifer Lewis PhD ’91, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at ... Assistant Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Jared ...

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Crystal Winston

a job,’” she laughs. “‘But maybe you could do mechanical engineering.’” Now, a decade or so later, Winston ... has taken her dad’s advice to heart. This June, she’ll complete her degree in mechanical engineering ... basically, a flying car,” she says. She texted a friend studying aerospace engineering, and the two came up ...

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Can your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?

published in Communications Engineering. The authors are Thomas J. Matarazzo, an assistant professor of ... civil and mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point; Daniel Kondor, ... Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University; Markus J. Buehler, the Jerry McAfee Professor ...

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Light-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post trauma

professor and d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and MIT ... tissue engineering, but many previous studies have focused on creating replacement tissue in the lab, ... lab-engineered skeletal muscle implants only offer limited mobility recovery but, in Raman’s study, the ...

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Designing vehicles that drive, fly — and swim

I don’t know if inventor is a job,’” she laughs. “‘But maybe you could do mechanical engineering.’” Now, ... mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... for, basically, a flying car,” she says. She texted a friend studying aerospace engineering, and the ...

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Innovation in Education: MechE Goes Online

Mechanical Engineering – nor the Institute as a whole for that matter – has been at the forefront of ... a different idea. He founded MIT to think and to do – to teach craftsmen and farmers, as well as engineers and ... academics, to “democratize science” as Sanjay Sarma, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the ...

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Tackling poverty, one person at a time

for her work in developing countries. But before that, she was a mechanical engineering major who ... Engineering Service Grant, Tress spent weeks the following summer visiting wheelchair factories in Vietnam and ... philosophy In addition to her mechanical engineering major, Tress has also pursued a concentration in ethics. ...

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Nick Schwartz

of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... 7. “The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can change people’s lives for the ... and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t ...

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Featured video: Karate is for everyone

nearly a decade ago. Since then, Chiloyan, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, has earned ... of Technology. Submitted by: School of Engineering | Video by: Lillie Paquette | 1 min, 46 sec ...

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Let your car tell you what it needs

the car’s left front tire needs air, its air filter should be replaced next week, and its engine needs ... Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The new paper’s co-authors include research scientist ... Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT; and two others. A smartphone app combining ...

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Sarah Tress

that, she was a mechanical engineering major who wanted to make an impact — and she happened to take ... from the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust and a Tau Beta Pi Engineering Service Grant, Tress spent weeks the ... engineering major, Tress has also pursued a concentration in ethics. She is deeply engaged by questions of ...

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Derek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing

manufacturing field. The magazine Manufacturing Engineering, a publication of SME (formally the Society of ... Manufacturing Engineers), has named Straub among the 30 individuals under the age of 30 who are leading the ... Fabrication Engineering Group. "I think one thing that sets me apart is my exploratory mindset. ...

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Former MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72

through a period of striking change and growth. A mechanical engineer by training, Vest was president of ... the National Academy of Engineering from 2007 until earlier this year. During Vest’s presidency — the ... biological engineering; engineering systems; and new media, among others. “Personally and professionally, ...

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RAS Proposal Submission Timeline

Timelines Mechanical Engineering has established the following internal deadlines  to have ...

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Leading business past dollars and cents

an engineer sometime around seventh grade. “I had early dreams of getting into corporate America ... east to her dream school to do what women are sometimes told is impossible — become an engineer. Upon ... mechanical engineering class, a class that was 42 percent female. Flores was in good company in ...

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Annabel Flores

remembers. A planner from the beginning, she decided she wanted to be an engineer sometime around seventh ... are sometimes told is impossible — become an engineer. Upon beginning her collegiate career at MIT, ... she saw firsthand what was possible by looking around her own mechanical engineering class, a class ...

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Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso

As both a biomedical engineer and physician, Giovanni Traverso is uniquely positioned to tackle ... engineering at MIT, he serves as a physician at BWH. In July, you published findings on a reusable face mask ... at scale? There was a lot of fundamental mechanical engineering at play – from large scale ...

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Lights, camera, inspiration

out from Phoenix to celebrate their victory at MIT. “Passionate engineering knows no boundaries, and ... Mechanical Engineering Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73, and Edgerton Center Director J. Kim ... Vandiver, a professor of mechanical engineering. Students from the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics ...

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A new way to mend a broken heart

Image: Whyte, et al./Nature Biomedical Engineering A new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering ... Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. “If the patient already has some degree of heart ...

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