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MIT HUMANS project breaks down borders, empowering global voices to reach for the stars

Dhulipala, mechanical engineering (MechE) PhD candidate; Jon MacArthur, PhD ’23 in aeronautics and ... Toyota Professor of Materials Processing in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, followed ... astronautics (AeroAstro); and Jan Onchoke Tiepelt, electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) PhD ...

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MIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day

Henry Credits: Jake Belcher Finding a flow Cullen Buie, associate professor of mechanical engineering ... event was convened by Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, who kicked off the symposium by enthusiastically ...

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3-D scanning, with your smartphone

this technology, which he’d worked on as an intern for mechanical engineering professor Doug Hart’s ... Systems integrate the Viztu technology, Milnes returned to MIT to finish his PhD in mechanical ... engineering. He is now working with two other MIT alumni on another startup, OpenWater Power, developing ...

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New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester

Henry Gale (1929) Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering. He arrived at MIT in 2014 ... and telecommunication engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. ... His research interests include robotic manipulation, mechanical design, and automation. Jane holds ...

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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity

says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... purposes, for instance, creating a continuum between dense associative memories and attention mechanisms in ...

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Learning Through Creation

Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth, empowers first-year students to conceptualize, design, and ... Grad Home https://youtu.be/kd3Bo0vhP0g Class 2.00a, Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, ... Class 2.00a, Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth, empowers first-year ...

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Running on Waste Heat

of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, used nanotechnology to ...

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Catching (radio) waves

mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma, now director of digital learning at MIT, had already done ... infrastructure,” Schoner says. “Instead of building the system, we design the engines that can power RFID features ...

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Where the wind blows

simply because the technology is mature," says Paul Sclavounos, an MIT professor of mechanical ... engineering and naval architecture. "There is no technological risk." Globally, 2 percent of ... a major contributor to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, says research engineer Stephen Connors, ...

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New Microfluidic Device Offers Means for Studying Electric Field Cancer Therapy

co-authors include Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological ... Engineering at MIT, as well as research scientists Andrea Pavesi and Giulia Adriani, postdoc Majid Ebrahimi ... directly from a patient, says Chwee Teck Lim, a professor of biomedical engineering at the National ...

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Robo-picker grasps and packs

stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... an impact,” says Alberto Rodriguez, the Walter Henry Gale Career Development Professor in Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ...

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MIT robot combines vision and touch to learn the game of Jenga

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the robot demonstrates something that’s ... a solitary, slow-moving, yet surprisingly agile game of Jenga. The robot, developed by MIT engineers, is ...

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New parameters in graduate mentoring

‘the best ability is availability’,” says Professor Cullen Buie of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, “and I’m constantly trying to figure out how to be more available for the people I mentor.” ... Sikes: Teaching beyond the lab Professor Hadley D. Sikes of the Department of Chemical Engineering is ...

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Monthly birth control pill could replace daily doses

a daily dose. Langer and Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... Entrepreneurship International Horizontal MIT engineers including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso have ...

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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

also include undergraduate Emma Wang and professor of mechanical engineering George Barbastathis. ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.  As the country battles a winter wave of new infections, ...

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Big data dreams for tiny technologies

nanoformulation,” says Giovanni Traverso, the Karl Van Tassel (1925) Career Development Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering, and senior corresponding author of the study. Their findings point to a strategy for that solves ... professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. “We can account for things like drug absorption, ...

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Giving robots better moves

Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who Odhner says encouraged ...

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Setting a new standard for hormone health

MIT studying mechanical engineering and design. Mathur, who began waking up in the middle of the night ... Wong was studying electrical engineering at Hong Kong University, and Suzuki was an undergraduate at ...

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A new way to perform "general inverse design" with high accuracy

investigator at LEES and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. S. Isaac P. Tian, NUS graduate student and ... allowing new materials and compounds to be “reverse-engineered” simply by inputting a set of desired ...

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This salty gel could harvest water from desert air

material,” says Carlos Díaz-Marin, a mechanical engineering graduate student and member of the Device ... MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of ...

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