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Four from MIT are named 2018 IEEE Fellows

Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and MIT Lincoln ... mechanical and aerospace applications. How is editor-in-chief of the IEEE Control Systems magazine and an ... Aeronautics and Astronautics. Lynette Jones, senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao

a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, a master’s in materials engineering, a PhD in mechanical engineering, ... design? During my PhD study, I worked on the mechanics of soft materials. Since the human body is ... external technologies. That has become my major research interest – using mechanical engineering to improve ...

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School of Engineering third quarter 2018 awards

Society on Sept. 26. Svetlana Boriskina, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was elected to the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, was named the Class of 1960 Fellow on Sept. 21. Luca Daniel, of the ... International Mathematics Union on Aug. 1. Domitilla Del Vecchio, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, ...

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McKinley, Gareth H Professor

J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants

Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering. John H. Lienhard V, director of J-WAFS and the ... “Commercializing effective technologies with sound business models is one of MIT’s most effective mechanisms to ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-PI Amy Smith, senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical ...

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Mapping the effects of crystal defects

— can affect electrical and heat transport through crystals, at a microscopic, quantum mechanical level. ... understanding of the mechanism of the dislocation-phonon interaction has been elusive and controversial, which ... in the journal Nano Letters, in a paper co-authored by postdoc Mingda Li, Department of Mechanical ...

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On a mission to measure

How does cargo weight affect fuel economy in cars? What are the mechanical differences between ... bench pressing dumbbells and bench pressing barbells? How does temperature alter the mechanical ... during mechanical engineering students’ junior year, arms students with the knowledge and skills needed ...

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J-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture

MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have ... professor of mechanical engineering, and Chintan Vaishnav, senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management ... a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. J-WAFS Solutions funding is supporting the ...

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School of Engineering second quarter 2022 awards

Knowledge Award on June 17. John Lienhard of the Department of Mechanical Engineering received the Donald ... Boston Globe ’s Tech Power Players 50 on June 1. Stefanie Mueller of the Department of Mechanical ... on Jan. 1. Carlos Portela of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was named to the MIT ...

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The MIT Bike Lab: A place for community, hands-on learning

love of bikes really materialized when she was in college. Champenois studied mechanical engineering ... volunteer mechanic has a vested interest in promoting sustainability and improving urban infrastructure. ... Champenois is a graduate student in the joint Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science/Engineering ...

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MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2022-23

mechanical engineering. It placed within the top five in three other engineering areas: ... Education Horizontal US News & World Report has ranked MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering the ... number one mechanical engineering undergraduate program at schools where the highest engineering degree ...

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Microfluidics and nanofluidics research address global challenges

Rohit Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, addresses real-world ... July 22, 2014 John Freidah | Mechanical engineering green International karnik@mit.edu ...

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J-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions

Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, has been awarded ... professor of mechanical engineering, is developing novel spray formulations comprising charged molecules to ... Karnik, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and co-PI Amy Smith, who is a senior lecturer in ...

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Delivering life-saving oxygen

recalls Daniele Vivona, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Italy. In early March, Vivona and ... energy carriers,” explains Yang Shao-Horn, professor of mechanical engineering and EEL’s director. “We ... father Alexander Slocum Sr., Walter M. May and A. Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as well ...

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Bischofberger, Irmgard Associate Professor

Motion-Induced Quicksand

MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... mechanical behavior of the sand itself has changed because something was moving far away,” Kamrin says. “How ...

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New method for propulsion in fluids

propel objects. In the natural world, the mechanism may influence the motion of icebergs floating on the ... journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ... could turn out to be a significant mechanism, he says. “It’s very rare in fluid mechanics to discover ...

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