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How to prevent biofilms in space

Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering and founder of a company called LiquiGlide, which makes ... a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ...

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Industrial Design

to be mass-produced with mechanical engineering disciplinary background. The discipline involves many ... at MIT relevant to industrial design that do not necessarily include engineering content.  2.007 ... (GRAD) 2.744 Product Design (GRAD) 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design 2.729: D-Lab Design for Scale 4.031 ...

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MIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School

elasmobranchs and cetaceans.  Marianna Rogers, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT, says it was ... 2025 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Education Horizontal MIT Portugal ... undergraduate in mechanical engineering.   This exposure, says Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical engineering ...

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A Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee

going after this disruptive opportunity,” says Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... replicate the adjusted torque profile, using simple mechanical elements. Currently, the group has engineered ... prosthetics, at a fraction of the cost. MIT-Prosthetic-Knee-4-1024.jpg A prototype of the prosthetic knee ...

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Designing vehicles that drive, fly — and swim

mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... I don’t know if inventor is a job,’” she laughs. “‘But maybe you could do mechanical engineering.’” Now, ... was while working on this project, she says, that she knew she wanted to be a mechanical engineer ...

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Designing cleaner vehicles

to mechanical engineering and took as many MechE classes as he could. During his junior year, ... mechanical design and sparked an interest in vehicle design. He now heads up a “revamping” of the MIT ... March 31, 2024 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Horizontal ...

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Tackling poverty, one person at a time

MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the Pappalardo Lab, for the past two years, where she has served as ... success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, but anyone.” Oxford and beyond When Tress ... for her work in developing countries. But before that, she was a mechanical engineering major who ...

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Creating “big, beautiful things”

perspective.” Robotic spectaculars Parrish also loves building physical objects, and his mechanical engineering ... programming mechanical things — is where I think I can get the most enjoyment.” Even before he joined MIT ... engineering, computers, mechanical stuff, everything someone needs to know in order to be able to do that,” ...

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Crystal Winston

a job,’” she laughs. “‘But maybe you could do mechanical engineering.’” Now, a decade or so later, Winston ... has taken her dad’s advice to heart. This June, she’ll complete her degree in mechanical engineering ... this project, she says, that she knew she wanted to be a mechanical engineer. While the multifunctional ...

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Ocean engineering students set stage for a smarter fleet

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Mechanical engineering blue ... working life. Now, Course 2N (Ocean Engineering) students Travis Anderson, Katie Gerhard and Bart ... operating hours above 28 knots. In his Naval Engineer’s thesis (advised by Professor Franz Hover), Travis ...

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Nick Schwartz

of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t ... committed to engineering until he took 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I), with Rohan Abeyaratne, the Quentin ...

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Coatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces

research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation, ... Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant ...

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Rogue Wave Ahead

developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... Themis Sapsis, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical ...

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Getting the Salt Out

well, but pure water does not. McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and ... the surface. Now researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia say they have found an economical solution for ... a paper co-authored by MIT professor John Lienhard, postdoc Ronan McGovern, and four others. The method ...

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Designing cleaner vehicles

arenas: designing clean energy vehicles and enhancing mechanical engineering education at MIT. For the ... intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering. MIT-Aditya Mehrotra-01-press_0-1.jpg: MIT graduate ... and help them build. I knew of MIT as one of the best mechanical engineering departments in the world. ...

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Burning things to make things

of mechanical engineering, is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion ... Utilization and associate professor of mechanical engineering, is leading research to drive the transition from ... Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Burning things to make things ...

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Bubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double

by mechanical engineering postdoc Navdeep Singh Dhillon, professor of nuclear science and engineering ... Jacopo Buongiorno, and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. “Roughly 85 percent ... fellowship from Mechanical Engineering Department. The micro-nano structured surfaces used in the study were ...

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Class Close-Up: 2.981 New England Coastal Ecology

MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Instructors Juliet Simpson, Research Engineer at MIT Sea ... a third-year mechanical engineering student. “We talked about the bad nor’easter earlier in January and ... mechanical engineering student, and biological engineering student Jenna Melanson (right) at a field trip in ...

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Study: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions

appointments in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and is ... research scientist Livia Giordano in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kelsey Stoerzinger PhD ’16, ... of these observed catalytic activities is not well-understood. Now, a team at MIT has shown that in ...

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SENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing

associate director of MIT.nano, and a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical ... sensing and recognition Jeehwan Kim, associate professor with a dual appointment in mechanical engineering ... and advanced manufacturing systems. A center of excellence powered by MIT.nano, SENSE.nano received ...

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