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PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and ... Godart of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mark Brennan of the Department of Urban Studies ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. He spent his childhood in Tanzania, received his undergraduate ...

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Startup founded by MIT alumnus unveils electric vehicles for the future

release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps change the future Scaringe studied mechanical ... the Los Angeles Auto Show. MIT-Rivian_1024.jpg One of the two models unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto ... engineering  for his master’s and PhD in the Sloan Automotive Laboratory, where he was a member of the ...

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Startup’s tablets deliver cancer drugs more evenly over time

Blaesi came to MIT, he knew he wanted his mechanical engineering PhD work to form the basis of a company. ... quantities. MIT-Enzian-01-press_1024.jpg Aron Blaesi PhD ’14 holds two gastroretentive fibrous dosage forms, ... Early on, as part of the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing, he worked on manufacturing ...

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“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"

engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... much of his MIT career. The program offered master’s and doctoral degrees to engineering students ... of Ocean Engineering merged into the Department of Mechanical Engineering to become the Center for ...

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Introducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance

Gallant, alliance director who is also the Kendall Rohsenow Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Five-year collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova aims to accelerate the energy transition and ... scale new innovations. MIT and GE Vernova launched the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance on ...

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GEARing technology for developing markets

GEAR Lab,” says Winter, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “One ... Several years ago, as a graduate student at MIT, Amos Winter spent a summer in Tanzania surveying ... resulted in the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), developed at the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) ...

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Cookstoves and Connections in the Himalaya

Lisa Tang, a master’s student in mechanical engineering, and Connie Ly and Luke Chapman, two ... undergraduate sophomores in mechanical engineering. Working with partner universities in India and Nepal, we ... MIT D-Lab "In this time of isolation, this trip was a precious chance to connect with the ...

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Jim Christian

Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ...

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Sanjay Sarma to step down as vice president for open learning

Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been responsible for MIT Open Learning, ... After nearly a decade running MIT’s digital learning platforms and education initiatives, Vice ... Rafael Reif announced today in an email to the MIT community. Sarma, who is the Fred Fort Flowers and ...

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How to make oxygen on the moon

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... the regolith itself. “It gets everywhere, wears out all sorts of mechanisms,” says Mr White. And the ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...

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Palak Patel

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... the regolith itself. “It gets everywhere, wears out all sorts of mechanisms,” says Mr White. And the ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...

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Study: There’s real skill in fantasy sports

sports,” says Anette “Peko” Hosoi, associate dean of engineering at MIT. “We ask, does that skill have an ... teams,” says Hosoi, who is also the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering. “But ... of your league’s standings at the end of the season, a new MIT study suggests your performance ...

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Saving the radome

points," says Milo Hooper, a senior in mechanical engineering and president of the MIT Radio Society. ... Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, ... a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus ...

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Can your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?

civil and mechanical engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point; Daniel Kondor, ... in Engineering and professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at ... study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special ...

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New model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together

predict until now,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and the Division of Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s ... they can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together. Researchers at MIT, Brigham ...

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A leg up for STEM majors

engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... mechanical engineering because I really enjoy the hands-on aspects of the field.” In parallel to her design ... going on.” With one year to go, Hovendon is contemplating graduate school in mechanical engineering ...

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Where to Grab Space Debris

a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering. The researchers tested their algorithm using two small ... a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ...

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Probing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Knowing all this information of how the material behaves across ... like liquid or hold their shape like a solid. Now MIT researchers have peered into the microstructure ... co-authors are MIT graduate student Jae Hyung Cho and Roberto Cerbino of the University of Milan. A single ...

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Randall Briggs

day. But in 2016, halfway through his studies for his master's degree in mechanical engineering ... Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 didn’t set out to build indoor gardens when he arrived at MIT. The ... bending. Briggs received his foundation in machining as an undergrad at  the MIT Edgerton Center, where he ...

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Solid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors

associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ... MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ...

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