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Adventures in the Pappalardo Lab

calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space. In about 2010, working as a principal and ... director of mechanical engineering at Continuum, a global innovation firm, Daniel Braunstein says he felt ... that what he was providing wasn’t as meaningful as he would like. Luckily for MIT's Department of ...

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New Faculty

group moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he is now assistant professor and ... telecommunication engineering. He moved to the United States and earned his PhD in robotics in 2013 from Carnegie ... a postdoctoral associate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Professor ...

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A glimpse inside Intel

Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the MIT Computer Science and ... telling an MIT audience that the ongoing expansion of his firm’s production capacity would bolster the ...

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Inside two MIT students’ historic BattleBots runs

of collaborations and friendships. It’s at its core an engineering challenge, so of course MIT ... match, MIT PhD student Ginger Schmidt became the first female captain (in this case, co-captain) to win ... long-running Discovery channel show. MIT has played an outsized role in BattleBots since the show’s inception ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Roger Kamm

and Mechanical Engineering, and his doctoral student Ioannis Zervantonakis are two of the few who ... system. They found that when macrophages are absent, it is extremely rare for tumor cells to migrate ... one of the first systems to image this process in real time and be able to characterize transport ...

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Strengthening America’s manufacturing base

Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu (center) visited the Beaver Works space in MIT ... U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu serves as the Department ... of Defense’s chief technology officer. In a recent talk at MIT, she spoke about the DoD’s initiatives ...

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Three awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political science

award winners from MIT: Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and ... a wonderful recognition of a promising scholar." Full story at MIT SHASS News MIT Political Scientist ... of Political Science at MIT. The award recognizes the best book published over the past two years in ...

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Undersea living: Alumna joins Cousteau mission

the ocean was separate from my love for engineering until I got to MIT,” she says. Wednesday, August ... like I could have a vacation house underwater,” the mechanical and ocean engineering alumna says of her ... research mission! #MIT2014 pic.twitter.com/lqvOPfkr3s — MIT (@MIT) June 6, 2014 Young was originally ...

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Blooming 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 ... consuming carbon dioxide and sunlight to produce energy. Eric D’Asaro, a professor of oceanography at the ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Megan Smith (SB ’86, SM ’88)

An MIT MechE engineer goes to the White House.   Alumna Megan Smith, CTO of the United States. ... Courtesy of White House. Megan Smith received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering ... from MIT in 1986 and 1988, respectively. This year, she was appointed to the position of chief ...

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MIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications

says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Krebs and his colleagues explored the robot MIT-Manus as a tool for evaluating patient improvement over ... time. The robot, developed by the team at MIT’s Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human ...

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News & Research

Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...

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The power of play

A new collaboration between MIT.nano and NCSOFT, a video game development company based in South ... science and technology for gaming. The creation of the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program, says Brian ... W. Anthony, the associate director of MIT.nano, arose out of a series of discussions with NCSOFT, ...

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Finding love in the lab

regalia, crossed the stage at MIT’s doctoral hooding ceremony, and emerged on the other side with their ... doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering. Less than two weeks earlier, Nill and Nietner were at another ... MIT Commencement in June 2018, just after their wedding and honeymoon. “One of the best parts of being ...

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2024 MAD Design Fellows announced

Since its launch in 2022, the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) has supported MIT graduate ... health, architecture, urban planning, engineering, and social justice. On May 1, MAD announced the 2024 ... cohort of Design Fellows at the MIT Museum. Sofia Chiappero, MCP student in the Department of Urban ...

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Using mechanical forces to improve wound healing

’80s, Orgill earned his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and ... medical exposure. As a mechanical engineering student at MIT, it was only natural that Orgill gravitated ... Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship YANNAS@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alum Dennis Orgill SM ’80, PhD ...

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Professor Alberto Rodriguez presents work on robotic extrinsic dexterity

robotic hands.   Friday, July 11, 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering blue ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU ... Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and incoming graduate student ...

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Student Spotlight: Yamile Pariente

engineering. Pariente will return to MIT in the spring semester to finish up her senior year in mechanical ... position by another engineer who oversees engine design and construction. 2015ME_Yamille-1024.jpg Yamile ... division. When coordinators at MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives), which organized ...

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Solving the polar climate conundrum

may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better understanding of the elemental ... the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT, and his group investigated this phenomenon ... explain why the Arctic has warmed faster than the Antarctic. In MIT computer simulations of the ocean and ...

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Students prepare for real-world product development through hands-on collaboration

engineering student, one MIT Sloan School of Management student, and one student from the Rhode Island School ... each student was from — School of Engineering, [MIT] Sloan School of Management, or RISD,” Seering ... “It’s all about the process,” says MIT professor Warren Seering. He’s referring to his spring ...

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