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Hugh Herr

degree in mechanical engineering in 1993. He also received a PhD in biophysics at Harvard, and worked at ... sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Herr is building sophisticated devices ... were amputated below the knees. Hugh Herr 1024.jpg Photo courtesy of MIT Media Lab. “It’s alarming to ...

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Six MIT students named 2023 Schwarzman Scholars

arriving at MIT. He is studying physics and electrical engineering with a minor in political science. After ... children. He is in his second year of the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. Kuhl hopes to use his ... mechanical engineering and electrical engineering and computer science. She has conducted research to elevate ...

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Going for the gold

light. It’s something fourth-year mechanical engineering major and lifelong skier Tyler Ashoff has had to ... and Carlo Salmini MBA ’11, a material engineer and MIT Sloan School of Management alum. “Of all the ... Anette “Peko” Hosoi, associate dean of engineering and professor of mechanical engineering. Throughout ...

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Hybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances

late 2000s, when Phan was recalled to MIT twice to solve different engineering problems — both times ... Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical Engineering and vice president for open learning, asked him to ... Phan founded the startup in 2014, along with Sarma and other MIT engineers, and set up operations in ...

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Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2024 R&D 100 Awards

is shared with the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. FocusNet is a machine-learning ... Mechanical Engineering developed new forms of biocompatible fabrics that mimic the mechanical properties of ... Fifteen technologies developed either wholly or in part by MIT Lincoln Laboratory have been named ...

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MIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation

Engineering. It provides a hub that will encourage design work at MIT to grow and cross disciplines among ... civil and environmental engineering, will be the founding director of the MIT Morningside Academy for ... Design. Yang, associate dean in the School of Engineering and the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical ...

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The most interesting startup in America is in Massachusetts. You’ve probably never heard of it.

mechanical engineering at MIT and cofounder of the most interesting startup in America. It’s called ... Aerospace uses the machines to build fuel nozzles for its jet engines; rather than welding together 20 ... more easily graft onto, complex computer-cooling devices, and small missile engines. Until a couple of ...

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Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says that biologically inspired sensors, modeled after the harbor ... a large-scale model of a harbor seal’s whisker, and identified a mechanism that may explain how seals sense ...

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Farmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half

of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 when he went to ... prizes such as runner-up awards at the  MIT $100K  and  Rice Business Plan  competitions. Over-spraying ...

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A factory for FrEDs at MIT

Program in Mechanical Engineering, who advised the students. MIT_News_8_12_22_18040.jpg A team of MIT ... a job as a mechanical design engineer at Tesla, Li is working as a mechanical tool design engineer at ... MIT is famous as a factory of ideas. You could also call MIT a factory for learning. But for one ...

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New pill can deliver insulin

’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he is starting as a faculty member in 2019, is also a senior ... 2 diabetes An MIT-led research team has developed a drug capsule that could be used to deliver oral doses of ... says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ...

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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

gain,” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering and senior author of a paper on the ... developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Robotic probe measures electrical property known as ... materials discovery. This work is supported, in part, by First Solar, Eni through the MIT Energy Initiative, ...

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Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram, a leader in ship design and hydrodynamics, dies at 83

Jerome Milgram ’61, PhD ’65, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at MIT, passed away at the ... Mechanics) in mechanical engineering in addition to 6.003 (Signals and Systems) in electrical engineering for ... on legacy.com for details. Tuesday, January 4, 2022 Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal ...

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2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style

mechanical engineering. This year, instructors modeled the competition’s obstacle course after major ... assistant professor of mechanical engineering, dressed as a British redcoat and ringing a bell, called to ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, dressed as a Revolutionary soldier and brandishing a wrench, ...

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Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... fibers that could be used as artificial muscles for robots, prosthetic limbs, or other mechanical and ... biomedical applications. MIT-Artificial-Muscles-1024.jpg The tiny coils in the fiber developed by MIT ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi

journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, along ... with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at ... Environmental Protection Agency. Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton ...

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Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.

are Faez Ahmed, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with Angela Dai, associate ... and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Jennifer Chu | MIT News ... electric vehicle range, can therefore be slow and siloed from company to company. MIT engineers say that ...

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A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors

area. MIT engineers have now devised a way to make this kind of deployment safer, by encasing bacterial ... spreading modified genes to other organisms. MIT-Bacteria-Containment-1024.jpg MIT engineers have devised ... electrical engineering and computer science and of biological engineering, and Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor ...

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