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New African and African diaspora studies major takes off at MIT

mechanical engineering and is now a fellow at the Science Technology Policy Institute in Washington. She ... for pursuing a double major with mechanical engineering. Wood, an assistant professor of media arts ... desire to create a social impact through engineering, led her to forge a new path at MIT.  ...

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Reliable energy for all

mechanical engineering. He discovered a new area of interest, however, when he took 15.031J (Energy ... knew he wanted to study engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in ... engineering knowledge he needs to power off-grid communities around the world through his startup, Voya Sol. ...

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A shape-changing antenna for more versatile sensing and communication

engineered materials whose mechanical properties, such as stiffness and strength, depend on the geometric ... sensing for interaction design,” says lead author Marwa AlAlawi, a mechanical engineering graduate student ... in MIT’s departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and ...

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Designing for a more equitable world

others. A senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Smith recently sat down with the ... mechanical engineering, to introduce a low-cost filter that will be affordable to the poorest households. The ... School of Engineering to discuss her love of teaching MIT students about international development work, ...

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Knitted microtissue can accelerate healing

MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Mechanical Engineering Group. "That's why if you stretch your ... from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the laboratory's  Defense Fabric Discovery Center ... collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Themis Sapsis

marine engineering in 2005. He began his graduate studies at MIT in 2006, earning his PhD in mechanical engineering ... engineering, including uncertainty quantification of turbulent fluid flows, passive protection configurations ... these events? The mechanism we have discovered is related to a critical length-scale associated with ...

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How cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components

Department of Mechanical Engineering, found that an organelle feels a certain resistance in cytoplasm, ... computer science, and mechanical engineering at MIT; along with Somaye Jafari and Shengqiang Cai at the ... “But as mechanical engineers, we think the driving force is not the only part of this transport ...

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Building the mountain bike of wheelchairs

started EC.721 (Wheelchair Design in Developing Countries) an Edgerton Center and D-Lab course that ... studied the operating environments of developing countries, and then applied scientific and engineering ... village, says Tish Scolnik ’10, who took the course as a first-year student and also conducted research in ...

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MIT Hyperloop team competes in SpaceX global competition

The MIT team includes students concentrating in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, electrical ... Freidah/Department of Mechanical Engineering | 3 min, 7 sec Tuesday, January 24, 2017 MIT News Office Collaboration ... engineering, and business management. It’s one of 30 teams that have been invited to build a Hyperloop pod and ...

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3 Questions: The risks of using 3D printing to make personal protective equipment

Covid-19-related medical devices. Martin Culpepper is a professor of mechanical engineering, director of Project ... efforts. Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture ... discusses the risks associated with using 3D printing for PPE and what designers, researchers, and engineers ...

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Students launch products that help users harness their superpowers

lasso of truth. Batman has his suit. On Monday evening, teams of mechanical engineering students ... professor of mechanical engineering David Wallace has been at the helm of the class, which serves as ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education Maker Horizontal In the final ...

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Faculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak

mechanical engineering Alexie M. Kolpak. Yet studies at the atomic scale — for example, at the interface ... first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... scientist Simona Socrate to put a half-semester intro mechanics course, 2.01x (Elements of Structures) onto ...

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The MechE Way

capstone course – a requirement for a mechanical engineering undergraduate degree at MIT – they not only ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. They’re woven into every lab, every experiment, every faculty member ... need.’ They’re the ones who matter.” MIT mechanical engineers are taught to understand the entire process ...

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Smart manufacturing program boosts productivity in factories

research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Medical Engineering ... students — mechanical engineering PhD students and students in the Master of Engineering in Advanced ... a team of faculty and graduate students in the School of Engineering, who created a program in smart ...

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MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders

the discipline. The Department of Mechanical Engineering first offered a program in marine engineering ... Gillespy says. “We’ve had students working in electrical engineering on power systems, in mechanical ... hydrodynamics, electrical and structural engineering, materials science, and more. That’s why the Navy works so ...

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Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer

Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... Connects. Friday, July 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... charged with designing a product that solves a real-life problem for course 2.739 (Product Design and ...

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Moving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor

industry into closer partnership,” says MIT professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who will ... Prize. “Throughout the course of this center, Verde will do everything in our power to help this ... Rand, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the ...

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Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites

marine robots are our scouts, braving the rough seas to collect data for us,” says mechanical engineering ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering at MIT, have laid out their ... from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Quest for the most informative data To validate their ...

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Four from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science

physical sciences. After earning his doctorate from MIT in mechanical engineering, Suresh joined the ... SM ’81, PhD ’84, the Elihu Thomson Professor in Electrical Engineering and principal investigator in ... Emeritus and former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, was awarded the National Medal of Science. ...

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Alumni Spotlight: 6dot Innovations

the fall 2008 offering of Professor David Wallace’s popular course 2.009: Product Engineering ... the only remaining member to work on the project. While earning a master’s degree in mechanical ... engineering from Stanford University, she decided to make her work on the Braille Labeler official and started ...

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