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Building a better indoor herb garden

day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... , Briggs’s father passed away unexpectedly. “It was a big blow to me. My motivation took a big hit, so it was ... hard for me to keep working on my research,” Briggs shares. Briggs ordered a home hydroponic garden in ...

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Randall Briggs

day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... , Briggs’s father passed away unexpectedly. “It was a big blow to me. My motivation took a big hit, so it was ... hard for me to keep working on my research,” Briggs shares. Briggs ordered a home hydroponic garden in ...

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How to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber

device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, who is the paper’s lead author. “They were empty, there was air inside,” he says. “No one had ... work shows the potential of both photonic engineering and materials science to advance solar energy ...

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A new way to harness waste heat

Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... than what was used to charge it. That extra energy, of course, doesn’t just appear from nowhere: It ... was not around at that time” for the battery electrodes, as well as advances in engineering the ...

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Meet the Oystamaran

mechanical and ocean engineering to make the world a better place. Luckily, she found the perfect senior ... — composed of six students in mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, and electrical engineering and ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Maker Horizontal MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea ...

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Finding Wonderland

MarieMoudio_1024.jpg “Mechanical engineering attracted me because it gave me the flexibility to delve into a range of ... humanities here and a rich intellectual culture,” Moudio says. “Mechanical engineering attracted me because ... comfort her. She inhales deeply and thinks, “I’m a mechanical engineer. I make things.” ...

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Marie Elimbi Moudio

MarieMoudio_1024.jpg “Mechanical engineering attracted me because it gave me the flexibility to delve into a range of ... humanities here and a rich intellectual culture,” Moudio says. “Mechanical engineering attracted me because ... — never fail to comfort her. She inhales deeply and thinks, “I’m a mechanical engineer. I make things.” ...

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Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions

the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-principal investigator Paul Barton, the Lammot du ... Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, aims to produce hydrogen without CO 2 emissions while creating ... study to gain a holistic understanding of the coupled chemo-mechanical processes that accompany CO ...

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Building robots to expand access to cell therapies

a great adventure for someone like me, a physician-scientist, to interact with mechanical engineers and ... engineering team of Multiply Labs. Photo Courtesy of Multiply Labs. In a recently announced project, Multiply ... requires scientists to extract blood from a patient, isolate immune cells, genetically engineer those ...

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The breadth of MechE

expanding the field of mechanical engineering into new areas, driving increased interdisciplinary ... fields, and redefining what mechanical engineering is,” says Faez Ahmed, d'Arbeloff career ... development assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering. Across MechE, faculty and staff are engaging in ...

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Caitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21

in mechanical engineering — helped her balance diplomacy with technical discipline. So did a 2020 ... Hardt, Braun’s mechanical engineering advisor. “All of this took place during a time of great uncertainty ... process can often take six months to a year.) While engineering is important, Braun is most excited about ...

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Slowing the Spread

As Covid-19 cases increased worldwide, mechanical engineers developed solutions to help slow and ... is transmitted and manufacturing PPE, mechanical engineers have been a driving force in many research ... projects that seek to slow Covid-19’s spread and save lives. “Mechanical engineers are used to developing ...

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Student entrepreneurs think inside the box

a chemistry, biology, and physics junior minoring in nuclear engineering; and Erica Yuen, a mechanical ... a mathematical economics sophomore; Eswar Anandapadmanaban, an electrical engineering and computer science ... junior; Jordan Harrod, a PhD candidate studying medical engineering and medical physics; Samuel Salomon, ...

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3Q: Felice Frankel on improving the visual side of science

scientist at MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a new book that describes ways for ... appealing. Felice Frankel has spent more than 25 years helping scientists and engineers create engaging and ... MITx. Her latest book, “Picturing Science and Engineering,” published this week by MIT Press, is an ...

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Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82

Ernest “Ernie” Cravalho, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT, passed away on ... Tuesday, April 13, at the age of 82. Cravalho served as a member of MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty ... in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving his doctoral ...

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A Revolution in Higher Education

says Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Examples ... schools’ massive open online courses, or MOOCs, including MITx. The edX platform has been customized and ... engineering. “And we’ve never forgotten our roots. MIT’s retained that deep interest in learning by doing,” ...

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Izzy Lloyd

MIT senior Isabel “Izzy” Lloyd will graduate this spring with not only a degree in mechanical ... engineering, but with the pleasure of knowing she accomplished a goal she set for herself as a freshman: to ... spearheading the TMYAD (“Tell Me About Your Day”) campaign. To Lloyd, the MIT experience is as rich in its ...

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Understanding the Arctic

Image Teaser Headline:  Navigating beneath the Arctic ice A team of engineers from MIT developed ... Robotics Ocean Science and Engineering Innovation Environment Security Impact Home Research Home Culture ... Home Undergraduate Graduate Post-Doc Course 2-A Alumni Home Prospective Student Home News & Media ...

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A material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will

turned out, was the case when adding hydrogen, but not oxygen). “It was a surprise to me when I saw the ... temperatures.” Yongjie Hu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace ngineering at the University of ...

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