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Navigating beneath the Arctic ice

global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below the ice cover. A team of MIT engineers ... Sensing Systems (LAMSS) including Daniel Goodwin and Bradli Howard, graduate students in the MIT ... ICEX will serve to help the Navy in that mission.” ICEXCollageStory.jpg A team of MIT engineers working ...

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Undergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage

Graduating Senior Lays Groundwork for Locating Fresh Water Sources     Photo credit: MIT News ... agricultural. And in Cyprus, or any region where part of the demand for fresh water is being met by energy- and ... engineering, programming, and aeronautical engineering were just added benefits. I have gotten a lot more out ...

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Four MIT students named Schwarzman Scholars

was the content director of the 2016 MIT Energy Conference. As a Schwarzman Scholar, she hopes to ... Three undergraduate and one graduate student from MIT have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars. ... leadership training at Tsinghua University in Beijing. MIT’s four students, Alix de Monts ’14, Lisa Ho, Anita ...

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The proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturing

biosciences, chemical engineering, and more. MIT contributions to management and logistics have also helped ... Manufacturing@MIT working group; MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program offers a joint Engineering ... MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing, announced today by President Sally A. Kornbluth, is the ...

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Meet the 2023-24 Accenture Fellows

business, and technology. Michelle Vaccaro is a PhD candidate in social engineering systems whose research ... specifically for renewable energy technologies. By integrating the historically distinct domains of AI, systems ... Accenture Fellows advance technology at the crossroads of business and society The MIT and ...

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Separating the good from the bad in bacteria

Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... benignly in healthy individuals. But the bug poses a risk to those with weakened immune systems, and can ... — a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ...

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Innovation in Education: MechE Goes Online

a different idea. He founded MIT to think and to do – to teach craftsmen and farmers, as well as engineers and ... The Department of Mechanical Engineering, the second course of study to be offered at MIT, was ... For MIT mechanical engineers, who have a tendency to happily get their hands dirty, this flip works ...

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Tackling poverty, one person at a time

MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the Pappalardo Lab, for the past two years, where she has served as ... success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, but anyone.” Oxford and beyond When Tress ... When Staten Island-native Sarah Tress first arrived at MIT, she had never been outside of the ...

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Hacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni

Amarasiriwardena says. But when he started studying chemistry and biological engineering at MIT, and was biking ... heat-trapping sleeping bags, and performance dress shirts. MIT-Ministry-3(1).JPG The Apollo dress shirt, based ... co-found, with other MIT clothing tinkerers, Ministry of Supply, a Boston-based innovator of high-tech ...

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MechE alumna Danielle Zurovcik’s WiCare named finalist for Hult Prize

MIT spinoff WiCare, founded by mechanical engineering alumna Danielle Zurovcik SM ’07, PhD ’12, ... Standard pumps cost approximately $100 per day to overcome their inefficient energy usage, preventing low- ... energy waste, it costs less than $2 to manufacture and doesn’t require electricity at all. Hult Prize ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock

Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office   Their effect on the surface of ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ... Research (ONR).   Professor Thomas Peacock standing within a submerged model of the Luzon Ridge system at ...

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AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies

billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... only grasp using fingertips. This may help reduce energy consumption and drive down costs. In addition, ... this technique could be useful in robots sent on exploration missions to Mars or other solar system ...

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Sarah Tress

art.” Tress has been an undergraduate apprentice in MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the ... Tress says. “I want to show that the face of success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, ... studies. She has a firm foundation in engineering from her time at MIT and wants to spend the next few ...

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Annabel Flores

are sometimes told is impossible — become an engineer. Upon beginning her collegiate career at MIT ... program that instilled confidence in the engineer. After she graduated from MIT, Flores was determined to ... aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson

engineering. Over the course of six decades, Wilson’s career has been peppered with many achievements, ... including inventing the progressive fee-plus-rebate policy in 1973 and designing jet engines. But wherever ... premiere authority on bicycle design and MIT Press’s best selling book, he was recently invited to work on ...

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RAS Proposal Submission Timeline

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

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Acoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells

MIT engineers have devised a new, noninvasive way to measure the stiffness of living cells using ... departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... Collaboration International Horizontal MIT engineers, including Professor Scott Manalis, have devised a new, ...

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Meet the Oystamaran

Electromechanical Robotic Systems), came out of conversations between Michael Triantafyllou, who is MIT’s Henry L. ... and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering and director of MIT Sea Grant, and Dan ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Maker Horizontal MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea ...

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2020-21

Chemistry; Computer Science and Information Systems; Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering ... MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the ninth year in a row MIT has received this distinction. The full ...

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2022-23

Environment; Chemistry; Computer Science and Information Systems; Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural ... MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the 11th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. ...

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