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Class opens the door to a new world of mechanical engineering

short-changed over his minuscule prize, the senior in mechanical engineering considered it a fitting award for ... says Portela, who is the d’Arbeloff Career Development assistant professor in MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering. “We were convinced that a design challenge — where students would invent new 3D ...

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MIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education

the En-ROADS climate simulator" — Lana Cook, associate director of the MIT Systems Awareness Lab; ... toolkit for design thinking" — Aisling O’Grady, project manager at the MIT Energy Initiative; and ... Engineering and digital learning scientist at MIT Open Learning Hands-on manufacturing skills are crucial for ...

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Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories

deployed a prototype system that successfully built a solar farm with SOLV Energy, one of the largest solar ... year. From surgical robots to solar robots While majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, Hunter found ... emerging as a key bottleneck in the deployment of solar energy. Now the startup Charge Robotics is ...

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Dora Aldama

engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ... Dreamliner plane, headed from Los Angeles to Shanghai. To a typical passenger, the twin-engine jet airliner ... engineering and an exciting glimpse into her immediate future. The 787 was the same model she would be working ...

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Educating future naval leaders

both from MIT’s perspective and the Navy’s perspective. We have access to the greatest engineering ... structure, and ship resistance. The following semester, students enroll in 2.702 (Systems Engineering and ... ranging from systems engineering to understanding the needs of stakeholders and translating those needs ...

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Sustainable solutions at home and abroad

Patel_1024-lpr.jpg Portrait of mechanical engineering senior Arnav Patel outside Building 7 at MIT. Photo Credit: ... departments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and MIT D-Lab, was the first class ... carbon-free energy enterprises. For Patel, who is now co-chair of MIT Divest along with physics major Jessica ...

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Mooney, Joseph Phelim Postdoctoral Fellow

Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars

engineering with minors in energy studies and public policy. At Oxford, Halloran will pursue an MSc in energy ... in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and an independent research project on ... William Oliver in the Engineering Quantum Systems Group of the Research Lab for Electronics. Her research ...

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MechE Connects Spring 2024: News and Awards

direct-drive, skill transfer, and wearable systems. Ellen Roche received MIT’s annual Harold E. Edgerton Faculty ... engineering education at MIT.” Staff awards Janice McCarthy, MechE Administrative Assistant 2, received an MIT ... Fest/MIT Museum) Antora Energy, co-founded by David Bierman SM ’14, PhD ’17, is commercializing a thermal ...

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Robot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics

Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... To develop a low-energy anchoring system that can create quicksand around itself in this way, the ... an MIT spinout based in Quincy, Mass. Energy-saving anchoring Winter first began developing the ...

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Vandiver, J Kim Professor

Technique quickly identifies extreme event statistics

research by MIT scientists may help engineers design more resilient offshore platforms. Courtesy of the ... researchers Now engineers at MIT have developed an algorithm that quickly pinpoints the types of extreme ... structure,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You can ...

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Gallant, Betar Associate Professor

J-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT

MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has transformed the landscape of ... systems. Drawing MIT faculty to water and food research J-WAFS open calls for proposals enable faculty to ... supply chains affect food safety, with a team of faculty spanning the MIT schools Engineering and Science ...

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Control Instrumentation Robotics

who aim to combine mechanical engineering (design, control, dynamics) with course 6 disciplines such ... Physical Systems”, CIR focuses more on control of electromechanical systems. As with all 2-A ... Manufacturing I 2.12 Introduction to Robotics 2.14 Analysis and Design of Feedback Control Systems   Additional ...

https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/control-instrumentation-robotics
Trumper, David L Professor

Student Awards

Systems Engineering) Sean M. Cockey   Meredith Kamm Memorial Award (Excellence in a Woman Graduate ...   Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Award (Outstanding Student in the Marine Field) ... in Ocean Engineering) Grace Young   Alfred A.H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Fund Award ...

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Understanding the Arctic

Image Teaser Headline:  Navigating beneath the Arctic ice A team of engineers from MIT developed ... ice with GPS accuracy. A team of MIT engineers and naval officers led by Professor Henrik Schmidt ... Institution, and General Dynamics Mission Systems using a Bluefin®-21 UUV. Controls, Instrumentation and ...

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Hello! 2.009 Returns

MechE seniors were back on the Kresge stage for the final presentations of 2.009; Product Engineering ... from ​the MITfits. Health Energy Innovation Environment Security ...

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

of them, noting that they represent essential pieces of a rich support system available to MIT ... intelligence. “I had come to MIT to become an electrical engineer, and I had certainly learned that,” Raman ... setting out with energy, ready to “bring my ‘A’ game.” But her older brother, who also had attended MIT ...

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