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Broadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the past 10 years, recently ... advanced genomics and systems-biology approaches to go after the most elusive details in the ocean biome ... actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/broadening-scope-microbial-oceanographyIcing ALS: MIT Family Reshapes Research Models
Rafael Reif and the mechanical engineering faculty recently took the chilly dunks — with a decidedly MIT ... through which I view research today,” he says. ALS TDI has used a systems engineering and manufacturing ... Professor John Heywood SM ’62, PhD ’65 and his two sons, Jamie ‘91 and Ben ’93, have used MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/icing-als-mit-family-reshapes-research-modelsInnovating for health equity
a team of bioengineers, mechanical engineers, and social scientists from MIT EMS and Harvard’s Crimson ... Throughout her time at MIT, senior Abigail Schipper has volunteered as an EMT with MIT EMS, ... a student-run ambulance supporting the MIT community as well as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Boston. As a first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovating-health-equityMIT graduate programs earn top marks from US News
U.S. News and World Report has again placed MIT’s graduate program in engineering at the top of ... and Yale University. Among individual engineering disciplines, MIT placed first in six areas: ... programs. The MIT Sloan School of Management also placed highly; it shares with Stanford University the No. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-programs-earn-top-marks-us-newsPeer coaching helps graduate students thrive
’05, who also works as a research engineer at MIT. Hendrickson draws a distinction between coaching and ... spring of 2020, she got an email about the launch of the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Coaching Program ... for students. Her first reaction was, “What do I have to lose?” MIT-Grad-Coach-01-press_0-1.jpg Since ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/peer-coaching-helps-graduate-students-thriveWhat happens during the first moments of butterfly scale formation
happen as engineers,” says Mathias Kolle, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “But in ... signature shimmer. MIT researchers have now captured the initial moments during a butterfly’s metamorphosis, ... chrysalis. MIT-Butterfly-Buckling-01-press_0.jpg An optical micrograph shows the scales on the wings of an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-happens-during-first-moments-butterfly-scale-formationA simpler method for learning to control a robot
in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society ... mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Marco Pavone, associate professor of ... such a system is simple enough, engineers can derive a controller by hand. Modeling a system by hand ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simpler-method-learning-control-robotA new way to mix oil and water
down wells are also emulsions, Varanasi says. The work was supported by the MIT Energy Initiative, the ... researchers at MIT might turn that expression on its head, providing a way to get the two substances to mix ... the proportion of surfactant. The findings, by MIT graduate student Ingrid Guha, former postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mix-oil-and-waterLicense plates of MIT
use them. It might not come as a surprise to learn that quite a few MIT community members have ... and MIT-related plates that color their rides. MIT-LicensePlates-01-press.jpg As an MIT graduate ... affiliate of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. A little piece of tech heaven One of the most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/license-plates-mitGEARing technology for developing markets
GEAR Lab,” says Winter, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “One ... Several years ago, as a graduate student at MIT, Amos Winter spent a summer in Tanzania surveying ... resulted in the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), developed at the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gearing-technology-developing-marketsNominations open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
Biological-Electrical Systems for Ocean Engineering." This project focuses on engineering living cells using the ... The MIT Sea Grant College Program announces that nominations are now open for the Doherty ... Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nominations-open-doherty-professorship-ocean-utilizationUltrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses, study finds
iStockphoto A new study by researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering suggests that ... about its physical integrity. MIT-Virus-Vibrations-1024.jpg Ultrasound has potential to damage ... coronaviruses, a new MIT study finds. Illustration of Corona Virus. Image Credit: MIT News, with images from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultrasound-has-potential-damage-coronaviruses-study-findsGraphene holds up under high pressure
But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ... associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... possibilities for energy-efficient desalination at high salinities.” Karnik’s co-authors are lead author and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureTen from MIT awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
from MIT in 2018 with a BS in mechanical engineering. The Soros fellowship will fund his graduate ... graduated from MIT in 2016 with a BS in mechanical engineering. She was born in San Diego, California, the ... in materials science and engineering. After graduating MIT in May, she will begin a PhD in materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ten-mit-awarded-2020-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansProviding hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
electronics technicians and engineers. Weninger teaches LEAP bootcamp-1024.jpg: MIT materials science and ... materials science and engineering, MIT.nano Associate Director Brian Anthony, principal research scientist ... train engineers on photonic and electronic device packaging and testing. At MIT.nano, learners bonded ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/providing-hands-photonics-education-across-massachusettsOne giant leap for the mini cheetah
Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Now, Margolis and his collaborators have developed a system that improves the ... its body. The researchers tested their system on the MIT mini cheetah, a powerful, agile robot built ... and Computer Science; Professor Sangbae Kim in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/one-giant-leap-mini-cheetahAlumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)
degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... you’re putting a planar system on contoured skin, causing many wrinkles and bends to develop that create ... unnecessary amount of energy needed to power it. After years of research, experience, and experimentation, she ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-danielle-zurovcik-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9811Danielle Zurovcik
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ... pressure to a wound,” says Zurovcik. “The answer is based on the fact that you’re putting a planar system ... energy needed to power it. After years of research, experience, and experimentation, she understood that ...
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