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Student Spotlight: Yamile Pariente

position by another engineer who oversees engine design and construction. 2015ME_Yamille-1024.jpg Yamile ... cars, so I chose to become a mechanical engineer. “Of all the ‘manly’ hobbies my father tried to instill ... in me, cars is the one that stuck,” she jokes. But being one of only two women engineers on Porsche’s ...

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Changing lives with heart, humor, and engineering

of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t committed to engineering until he took 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials ... 7. MIT-Schwartz-Nick-01_1024.jpg “The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can ...

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Mens et Manus Across the Universe

faculty members are engineering for global change through their research, but that’s not the only way to ... (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia; Professor David Wallace works with faculty at the first women’s engineering ... environmental engineering, manufacturing, system design and management, and supply chain management. MIT ...

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Graduate Admissions FAQ

a degree in Mechanical Engineering or some related branch of engineering. The department's admission ... When should I send my transcripts and where? Will the Department keep me informed of my application ... engineering or in science may apply. How do I apply? Applicants to the MIT MechE graduate program should apply ...

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Nate Ball

rescue normally involves five to 10 rescuers over the course of hours, whereas a rescue conducted with an ... its battery (which is separable) and can lift up to 600 pounds. What kind of engineering challenges ... train as we pull power out of the battery and deliver it to the rope-climbing mechanism. We do a pretty ...

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Iridescent Displays

out a specific example where the training helped me. Because of the group I worked in (The Mechanics ... group within the Department of Mechanical Engineering), I picked up a habit of always trying to redefine ... something mechanical or materials related to them. It allowed me to see that the same kind of methods could ...

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Ernesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94

Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), passed away on March 21, in Murrieta, California. He was 94 ... a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Blanco briefly returned to ... Havana to lead the University of Villanueva’s mechanical engineering department. In 1960, after the Cuban ...

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Engineering Joy

a revolution in engineering education, and it quickly helped solidify the Department of Mechanical ... Fort Flowers (1941) Professor in Mechanical Engineering. “I can’t think of a single person to have ... Flowers became interested in mechanical engineering and design at a young age, thanks in large part to his ...

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Meet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia

Mechanical Engineering, the 27 fellows have been placed in 14 different departments, labs, and centers across ... mechanical engineering Kamal Youcef-Toumi and recently appointed program manager Theresa Werth, has worked ... home country. She worked with Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and ...

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Engineering Defense, with the Help of Butterflies

As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... specializing in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at ... a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts research for the ...

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Student Awards

Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering) Jad El Khoury, Rohun Kulkarni, Jacqueline ...   Lockheed Martin Prize (Outstanding Sophomore in Mechanical and Systems Engineering) Nicholas Kwok   Louis ... Michael Stern   Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...

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Staff Training

Available through the Course Catalog at the MIT Learning Center Go to: Atlas.mit.edu > ... Self-Service > My Training > MIT Learning Center > Course Catalog > Administration > Financial ... to Unallowable Costs (OSP) Course management (required) Stellar Overview for Course material ...

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Using mechanical forces to improve wound healing

Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Image courtesy of the Department of Mechanical Engineering In the early ... ’80s, Orgill earned his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and ... Technology (HST) program. Orgill’s particular course of study within HST was the Medical Engineering and ...

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Professor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94

Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Army, Griffith earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from New York University in 1950 ... and his master’s in mechanical engineering in 1952 from the University of Michigan, where he worked as ...

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Building an HMCo. Steam Engine: Introduction

Apprenticeship  Shirley was one of approximately a dozen mechanical engineering students taking a course I teach ... As a sailor and mechanical engineer with a proclivity for antique machinery, nautical-based projects ... my query, “When are you heading out?”, caught me a little off guard.  I stopped to process what she ...

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How cell mechanics influences everything

of Mechanical Engineering. MIT-Mingo-Guo-01-press_1024.jpg Ming Guo’s research bridges multiple ... fields, including cell biology, physics, and mechanical engineering, and he is working to apply the ... insights from cell mechanics to engineer materials for biomedical applications, such as therapies to halt ...

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Inventing soft things to solve hard problems

MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “I got close contact with many farm animals and asked lots of ... transport produce from rural farms to cities with a truck and took me along for the ride,” says Zhao, now an ... during the trips and let me read scientific books later.” It was the start of a journey that has led him ...

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Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces

about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... fundamentals in engineering and gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams,” he says. “Coming to MIT was ... earned tenure as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He met his wife ...

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Veteran engineer studies career pathways of today’s graduates

be practicing engineers while others head in different directions. “What really drives me is to ... Seering, the Weber-Shaughness Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The other half of his ... time is spent teaching Course 6.912 (Engineering Leadership), which is part of the GEL core curriculum ...

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Le Morte d’Arthur and the engineer

game. Creating the game challenged Meeker as a student of literature and also as an engineer. How the ... student came to put laser to wood, and what craft she achieved Meeker, who majored in mechanical ... engineering and literature, had decided to start taking literature classes as a junior because she missed ...

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