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Meet the Oystamaran

| Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Maker Horizontal MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea ... mechanical and ocean engineering to make the world a better place. Luckily, she found the perfect senior ... and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering and director of MIT Sea Grant, and Dan ...

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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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Sixteen MIT grad students named Siebel Scholars for 2017

schools, are: Brian Axelrod, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Alex Burns, MIT ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Brendan McCook, MIT Sloan School of Management Kelly ... Moynihan, Department of Biological Engineering Hung Nguyen, Department of Mechanical Engineering Novalia Pishesha, ...

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Tonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive

tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... Mechanical Engineering in 2007, where he established the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “It’s ...

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Finding Joy in Making, and the Making of #HellaJuneteenth

suburb of Maywood, Illinois, Harris majored at MIT in mechanical engineering and architecture and minored ... thinker and former MIT faculty member John Maeda ’89, SM ’89. On the eve of Juneteenth, Harris went on ... did that happen? Harris: I learned photography using a digital camera mostly at MIT [taking classes ...

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Peter Chamberlain

student. Problems worth solving While pursuing his master’s degree in mechanical engineering at MIT ... imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop as a graduate ... he met classmates who were starting the MIT Water Innovation Prize (WIP), a startup competition for ...

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There’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus

Professor of Engineering at MIT, and also a composer of experimental music. “This is the beginning of ... mechanics of the life,” he says. Friday, May 21, 2021 Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence ... SARS-CoV-2. The pandemic reached a new milestone this spring with the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. MIT ...

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A cool new way to study gravity

Shin, a PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE). “The key to answering ... 08_1024x768.jpg Dongchel Shin, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering and the lead author of a new paper that ... Department of Mechanical Engineering include Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...

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From microfluidics to metastasis

Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Koch Institute. As luck and lunch lines would have ... Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) at MIT, it would take Jacks and Manalis more than five ... engineering advancements over the years have made it possible to extract cells via liquid biopsy and analyze ...

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To advance climate action, MIT seeks partnerships beyond industry

and Professor Tim Gutowski of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Supporting students to ensure ... Timothy Gutowski, an MIT professor of engineering, described the hands-on class he co-teaches called ... MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, said her initial skepticism about joining the ...

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Oobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable

— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... engineering at MIT. “But it turns out the rules that govern how this material flows are very nuanced.” Kamrin, ... into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ...

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Researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging

journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ... have been prevented. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent ... the Italian energy company Eni S.p.A. through the MIT Energy Initiative. Thursday, April 13, 2017 ...

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System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat

Engineering and head of the mechanical engineering department. Being able to test the system in Mumbai was ... Prasher, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and an associate ... a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a way to generate ...

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Dragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds

of Mechanical Engineering. “We also find that compensating for sleep could be an important strategy. ... out other activities that are assumed to be less mentally taxing. The new study, by researchers at MIT ... be influenced by lack of sleep,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department ...

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Exploring Surfaces of Nanomaterials

sustainable energy conversion and storage,” says the Gail E. Kendall Associate Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Her work could lead to everything from better fuel cells ... been at MIT, the Electrochemical Energy Laboratory she directs has grown “to one with a research team ...

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Powered by the sun

I knew I was interested in mechanical engineering, and I was thinking of a way I could apply mechanical ... On a recent April afternoon, MIT sophomore Francis Wang drove out of the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 ... late nights in the student shop. Flux-on-road-in-Georgia 1024.jpg In January, Flux and the MIT Solar ...

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Droplets get a charge out of jumping

postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, mechanical engineering professor Evelyn Wang, and two others. Miljkovic says this ... In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that ... atmosphere, they say. The finding is reported in a paper in the journal Nature Communications written by MIT ...

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A new way to harness waste heat

Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... researchers at MIT and Stanford University have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat ... published in the journal Nature Communications by postdoc Yuan Yang and professor Gang Chen at MIT, postdoc ...

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Using sensors and social networks to make slopes safer

Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... Connects. Friday, July 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ...

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