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Caroline Sorensen

MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... a growing fusion ecosystem in which researchers across disciplines — mechanical engineering, electrical ... MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) are plasma physicists and nuclear engineering researchers, ...

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Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves

the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ... that have a lasting impact,” explains Maria Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty ... says. Monday, October 21, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ...

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A robot that finds lost items

Mechanical Engineering. The research will be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference ... associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the ... lead author; electrical engineering and computer science graduate student Isaac Perper; research ...

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The Freedom of Constraint

a two-hour focus group that Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Maria Yang has started to answer. ... December 13, 2014 Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering green International Maker ... Engineering for global change. You’ve probably heard of MechE alum and Associate Professor Hugh ...

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How AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies

mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of ... Tassel Career Development Professorship, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and ...

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J-WAFS welcomes Daniela Giardina as new executive director

Professor of Water and Food in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Karnik was named the director ... those involving engineering, science, technology, business, social science, economics, architecture, ... Italy. She also holds a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the Politecnico of Milan in ...

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New materials improve oxygen catalysis

Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering ...

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Late Summer Listening

engineering challenges involved, such as designing for biocompatibility, ensuring device stability in the ... to hear the story read by an AI voice.    Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Jill Nguyen | Mechanical ... Engineering Horizontal Podcasts and audio stories offer a great way to learn about big ideas from MIT ...

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Faculty Research: Professor John Lienhard

Lienhard V, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering, you should. “The world supply of ... also spearheaded a one-of-a-kind course in desalination as part of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering curriculum. He has dedicated the past six years of his career to addressing this worldwide water ...

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Underwater Robot for Port Security

a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... and unique propulsion mechanism — which leaves no visible wake — the robots could, in theory, be ... Professor of Engineering Harry Asada. “If this is cheap enough — if I can get this out for $600, say — why ...

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Better batteries through biology?

Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a much greater driving range. But bringing that promise t ...

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Sustainable solutions at home and abroad

initially drawn to mechanical engineering because he wanted to keep his options open. “I felt like ... mechanical engineering is that perfect niche where there’s so much exposure to so many different fields. It ... decision I ever made,” says Patel, now a senior studying mechanical engineering. RS4590_Arnav ...

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How to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber

device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, who is the paper’s lead author. “They were empty, there was air inside,” he says. “No one had ... work shows the potential of both photonic engineering and materials science to advance solar energy ...

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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 ... than what was used to charge it. That extra energy, of course, doesn’t just appear from nowhere: It ... was not around at that time” for the battery electrodes, as well as advances in engineering the ...

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Meet the Oystamaran

mechanical and ocean engineering to make the world a better place. Luckily, she found the perfect senior ... — composed of six students in mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, and electrical engineering and ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Maker Horizontal MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea ...

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Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82

Ernest “Ernie” Cravalho, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT, passed away on ... Tuesday, April 13, at the age of 82. Cravalho served as a member of MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty ... in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. After receiving his doctoral ...

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A Revolution in Higher Education

says Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Examples ... schools’ massive open online courses, or MOOCs, including MITx. The edX platform has been customized and ... engineering. “And we’ve never forgotten our roots. MIT’s retained that deep interest in learning by doing,” ...

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Understanding the Arctic

Image Teaser Headline:  Navigating beneath the Arctic ice A team of engineers from MIT developed ... Robotics Ocean Science and Engineering Innovation Environment Security Impact Home Research Home Culture ... Home Undergraduate Graduate Post-Doc Course 2-A Alumni Home Prospective Student Home News & Media ...

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Moderating Extremes in Building Design

mechanical engineering says that both will be needed in the retrofitting of existing buildings and the ... start of a project would be the most prudent and cost-effective course. But such pro-activity isn’t ... professor of materials science and engineering Lorna Gibson, Glicksman has developed a fire-resistant ...

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Tackling poverty, one person at a time

for her work in developing countries. But before that, she was a mechanical engineering major who ... philosophy In addition to her mechanical engineering major, Tress has also pursued a concentration in ethics. ... have helped me understand the world as a whole. Engineering of course is great, because it lets you do ...

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