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Alumni Spotlight: VADM (ret) Paul Sullivan (SM ’80)
the average sophomore undergraduate at MIT knew more engineering calculus than I did, even as a math ... program in naval architecture and marine engineering, the crafts of naval architecture and ship design ... stronger materials, more powerful engines, more powerful mission systems, and reduced costs. “There is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-vadm-ret-paul-sullivan-sm-%E2%80%9980Featured video: Building a roller coaster
Every year during residence exploration week at MIT, or REX week, our undergraduate residence ... hopefully choose to join. So, how do you get the attention of first-year MIT students? At East Campus, you ... students who use them to customize their rooms. Video by: Melanie Gonick/MIT News | 3 min 21 sec Sunday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-building-roller-coasterTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Alberto Rodriguez
Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Maker ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alberto Rodriguez ... inertia of objects, its pose, or other mechanical properties such as friction. Another is control: Once ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-alberto-rodriguezSearching for Global Water and Food Solutions
issues need complex solutions, and, for that, MIT has created the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food ... approach, coupled with MIT’s unique capabilities, that will set the lab apart and bring innovative solutions ... Jameel '78, a civil engineering graduate, with the intent of tackling world food and water issues ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/searching-global-water-and-food-solutionsWhat drives ecosystems to instability?
communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ... a professor of physics at MIT. “We can trace out a boundary that predicts the loss of stability and the onset ... Science. Jiliang Hu, an MIT graduate student, is the lead author of the paper. Other authors include Daniel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-drives-ecosystems-instabilityBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
The group grew with new members from PAOC and the Department of Civil Engineering at MIT, becoming ... As a member of the interdisciplinary Darwin Project in the MIT Earth Systems Initiative, ... change," says John Marshall, an oceanographer at MIT who has known Follows for decades. "That's ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesHear from our Students
Burn Yo-Yo Champion Hacking for Lilly The Magic of Making Water is Life We Are MechE at MIT Designing ... Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing MIT Hyperloop A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students How to Succeed at MIT Living ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hear-our-studentsStudent Spotlight: Paul Lazarescu
A Modern-Day Inventor by Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office Photo credit: Allegra Boverman As ... other. Lazarescu and current MechE undergraduate Rachel Dias Carlson had received funding from the MIT ... currently in orbit. Although he loves engineering, Lazarescu has also nurtured an interest in business ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-paul-lazarescuTalking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma
Professor Sanjay Sarma has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1996, after ... MIT/Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Collaboration. Can you tell us about the current ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-sanjay-e-sarmaPhD Candidate Albert Wang (SB ’10, SM ’12)
| Department of Mechanical Engineering red Culture Education Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal Albert Wang is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-candidate-albert-wang-sb-%E2%80%9910-sm-%E2%80%9912UROP/UPOP
If you’re looking for a MechE-focused UROP or thesis project, go to Mechanical Engineering Thesis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/uropupopDemystifying the Cretaceous hothouse
Ferreira, research scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, whose ... they created a model ice-free aquaplanet to look for a mechanism by which the ocean would transport ... heat from the tropics into the poles indirectly. They found that the mechanism involves water vapor. In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/demystifying-cretaceous-hothouseBroadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the past 10 years, recently ... actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ... founding SCOPE investigators, along with others at MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/broadening-scope-microbial-oceanographyChisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert ... genomic level to its role in the global biosphere. Langer, a biomedical engineer who focuses on ... engineering, where his discoveries led to the creation of new tissues such as artificial skin for burn victims. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/chisholm-langer-receive-nation%E2%80%99s-highest-honors-scientists-and-inventorsLetter from the Department Head
Alumni and Friends, Ocean engineering is a major area of focus in the Department of Mechanical ... engineering, robotics, control, communications, modeling, biology, mechanics, and biomimetics – and the many ... “As engineers, the untapped potential of the oceans calls to us…but we also feel responsible for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-0Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)
research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT ... determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, Yoerger studied under Professor Tom ... producing engineering and scientific results.” Yoerger, in addition to being a major part of the team that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-dr-dana-yoerger-sb-%E2%80%9977-sm-%E2%80%9979-phd-%E2%80%9983Dana Yoerger
academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT/WHOI Joint Program ... chemical flux, as well as determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, ... and abilities. I like going to sea and solving problems at sea by producing engineering and scientific ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dana-yoergerExcitons observed in action for the first time
exciton movement within materials has never been directly observed. Now scientists at MIT and the City ... journal Nature Communications, in a paper co-authored by MIT postdocs Gleb Akselrod and Parag Deotare, ... a basic mechanism underlying photosynthesis: Plants absorb energy from photons, and this energy is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excitons-observed-action-first-timeA 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
production of specialized parts. Now Inkbit, a startup out of MIT, is working to bring all of the benefits of ... Wojciech Matusik, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Javier Ramos BS ... printing, and the following year the four engineers received support from the Deshpande Center to ...
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