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The race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships

A graduate of MIT’s naval architecture and marine engineering program, Goddard took the Alpino’s trip to ... engineering duty officer for the Navy. It was then he was given the opportunity to enroll in MIT’s naval ... architecture and marine engineering program (then known as Course 13A). “When I showed up at MIT in June of ...

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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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MechE Summer X

Information These summer offerings are intended for the benefit of the MIT Mechanical Engineering community ... About The MIT MechE Summer Knowledge Exchange — or MechE Summer X — offers students, recent graduates, ... led and organized by members of the MIT MechE community. Activities can be academic and non-academic. ...

https://meche.mit.edu/education/meche-summer-x

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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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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Once-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials

a variety of medications,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases ... medication from within the stomach. MIT-Schizophrenia-Trial-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg The ingestible capsule is ...

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Monitoring muscles to improve athletic training

innovation, and entrepreneurship while pursuing his PhD in mechanical engineering, and Babini was on his way ... tailor workouts to their body’s needs. MIT-Humon-02-1024.jpg Humon’s first product, the Hex, straps onto ... working on a class project together at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Wiese was minoring in technology, ...

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New gels could help the medicine go down

Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have created ... pills, such as older people or people who have suffered a stroke. MIT-DrugGel-02-press.jpeg The ...

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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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PhD student recognized by International Desalination Association

engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ... MIT doctoral candidate Ronan K. McGovern SM '12 has received the Best Presentation Award of ... KFUPM through the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy. Friday, October 25, 2013 Mechanical ...

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Jennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”

Assistant Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Jared ... Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, for a question-and-answer ... at MIT; Jennifer Lewis PhD ’91, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at ...

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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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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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J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies

for research at MIT D-Lab and professor of mechanical engineering, has pioneered a new approach to ... The team includes Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, and ... Eric Verploegen, a research engineer in MIT D-Lab. Instead of relying on traditional refrigeration with ...

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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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Ice melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities

Ali as lead instructors were Abdalla Osman, a senior studying mechanical engineering, and Shakes ... member in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, had an opportunity to observe the ... Initiatives International Horizontal Abdalla Osman, a senior studying mechanical engineering, was a lead ...

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Sensing the world around us

principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, spoke about his work on robotic ... “Sensing is all around you,” said MIT.nano Associate Director Brian W. Anthony at Ambient Sensing, ... a half-day symposium presented in May by the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. Featuring MIT faculty and researchers ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-us

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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