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Talking Shop: David Hardt SM ’75 PhD ‘78

’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and later served as Director of the MIT Laboratory for ... he noticed that MIT’s degree programs weren’t adequately preparing engineering students for careers ... in manufacturing. In 2010, he helped develop MIT’s Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing ...

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Amber Velez

engineering.” Her research focuses on clean energy and decarbonization.  Velez built her second major by hand, ... campus. There, staff showed her how to use a tube roller tool to form the lyra’s curved shape. “MIT is ... how to make things at MIT, you learn that you have the ability to gain the skills to figure out what ...

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Four from MIT awarded 2018 Schwarzman Scholarships

Henry Aspegren, from Ann Arbor, Michigan, is an MIT master’s student in engineering. He received his BS ... in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT earlier this year. Aspegren aspires to ... "Kate" Scott, from Barrington, Illinois, is an MIT senior majoring in materials science and engineering ...

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MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program awards third annual seed grants

Engineering and Science. “These projects are just a few examples of the ways MIT researchers are exploring how ... MIT.nano has announced its next round of seed grants to support hardware and software research ... grants are awarded through the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program, a four-year collaboration between ...

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How to make oxygen on the moon

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... develop systems that could supply astronauts living on a future lunar base. Those astronauts will need ... test its system on the moon, using real regolith in low gravity conditions. The moon’s gravity could be ...

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Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi interviewed by Qatari television series Etqan

leaks in water systems. This research was part of the MIT Singapore Alliance and had the goal of ... MechE Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi first came to MIT as a graduate student in 1979. His research ... the world at the time. In the 1990’s he went on to run special workshops for NASA engineers on ...

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MIT MechE DEI Vision Statement

a better place, the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department (MechE) aims to solve global challenges by ... fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment in the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department where ... everyone in our community can thrive. Citations 1 Mechanical Engineering at MIT 2 MIT Human Resources: ...

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Nikayah Etienne

engineering. That’s when Etienne started looking into MIT. After her junior year of high school, she ... participated in the intensive Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) program at MIT, where ... to earn a bachelor’s degree. Senior Nikayah Etienne is majoring in mechanical engineering with ...

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Overcoming obstacles with an electric hovercraft

says Nick Dowmon, software engineering lead and a System Design and Management (SDM) graduate student. ... engineering. MIT’s entry was the only fully-functioning levitating pod in the competition at SpaceX ... Maker Horizontal The MIT team, which includes a number of mechanical engineering students, placed first ...

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Wallace, David Professor

3 Questions: A shared vocabulary for how infectious diseases spread

infectious pathogens through the air. Lydia Bourouiba, the director of the MIT Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... Transmission Laboratory and the Fluids and Health Network, an associate professor in the MIT departments of ... Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and a core member of the Institute for ...

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Production in the Innovation Economy

MIT Faculty See Promise in American Manufacturing     Photo Credit: MIT News Office by Peter ... Dizikes, MIT News Office   Not long ago, MIT political scientist and faculty member Suzanne Berger was ... stores. As she saw on the factory floor, the company has developed an innovative automation system that ...

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Solving the puzzle of ice age climates

Earth’s slow wobbles in its transit around the sun, researchers agree that the solar-energy decrease alone ... Physical Oceanography in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, “and what we really ... Shock to the system This question demanded the use of the field’s accumulated knowledge of ocean ...

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Researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging

the Italian energy company Eni S.p.A. through the MIT Energy Initiative. Thursday, April 13, 2017 ... have been prevented. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent ... journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ...

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An inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight

longer-term compatibility of this system,” Traverso says. MIT-Gastric-Balloon-01-press_0.jpg The new balloon ... limitation.” The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Karl van Tassel Career ... Monday, December 2, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Giovanni ...

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Bringing it all back home

speaking at MIT on Thursday, contending that if U.S. states pursue broad, long-term measures to improve the ... society,” said Wolf, who received his doctorate in political science at MIT. 1024TomWolf.png Gov. Tom Wolf ... of Pennsylvania, a 1981 graduate of MIT's PhD program in the Department of Political Science, ...

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Rohit Karnik named director of J-WAFS

Rohit Karnik, the Tata Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named ... MIT who are dedicated to the mission of securing water and food systems. That mission is more ... engineering at MIT, before being promoted to associate professor in 2012. His research group focuses on the ...

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Q&A: How MITHIC is fostering a culture of collaboration at MIT

and Maria Yang, interim dean of the MIT School of Engineering, discuss the value of MITHIC and the ... Yang: MITHIC is very important to MIT, and I think of this from the point of view as an engineer, which ... to MITHIC and MIT’s engineering enterprise. Q: How does MITHIC fit into MIT’s broader mission?  ...

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MechE Minor

Minoring in Mechanical Engineering The requirements for a minor in mechanical engineering are as ... a minor program of study in mechanical engineering. Students who wish to designate mechanical engineering ...

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