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Covid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output

mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, research scientist Ian Marius Peters, and three others in Singapore ... natural experiment. The findings are reported today in the journal Joule, in a paper by MIT professor of ... Government. Wednesday, July 22, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Horizontal As the air cleared after ...

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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2024-25

Electronic Engineering; Linguistics; Materials Science; Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing ... Engineering; Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy; and Statistics and Operational Research. MIT also placed ... also places first in 11 subject areas including Mechanical Engineering ...

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Lincoln Laboratory and National Strategic Research Institute launch student research program to tackle biothreats to national security

conducted a pilot of the program embedded within the MIT Engineering Systems Design and Development II ... fluid mechanicals, controls, and solid mechanics." In total, 12 mechanical engineering students ... the confidence to pursue a career path in biotech," says Rachael Rosco, an MIT mechanical ...

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The Freedom of Constraint

a two-hour focus group that Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Maria Yang has started to answer. ... December 13, 2014 Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering green International Maker ... Engineering for global change. You’ve probably heard of MechE alum and Associate Professor Hugh ...

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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 ...   Contributions may be made in Cravalho’s name to MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering or to the Boston ...

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Phonon catalysis could lead to a new field

just like it's very hot,” says Asegun Henry, professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of ... sometimes in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius. In a new study, a team of researchers at MIT and the ... temperatures engineers could use cheaper materials to build them. This would lower the cost of fuel cells and ...

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Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships

a senior majoring in literature and mechanical engineering with a concentration in Russian language. As ... ’22 completed her undergraduate education at MIT with degrees in both electrical engineering and ... creative writing and will graduate this month with an MS in mechanical and ocean engineering. Her thesis ...

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Innovating for health equity

a team of bioengineers, mechanical engineers, and social scientists from MIT EMS and Harvard’s Crimson ... access to medical advancements. As a mechanical engineering major with a concentration in biomedicine and ... something I was provided and thought, ‘I’m a mechanical engineer. I think I can do better,’” she says. With ...

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