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Coatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces

professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant ... research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation, ... Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ...

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Racing into the future of autonomous driving

— vehicles. For Zhang, the competition was the test of a year’s work. A Course 6 (electrical engineering and ... a dual-degree MBA and mechanical engineering master’s student in the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) ... white, the automobile named DUT18 wasn’t an ordinary race car. First, it was built by engineers at TU ...

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Inaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named

assistant director for education at MAD; and David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering, MacVicar ... rigorous engineering to create a new paradigm for team-based, project-based design. In these courses ... into the design classroom to empower engineers and designers. His research goals are to develop new ...

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Knitted microtissue can accelerate healing

MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Mechanical Engineering Group. "That's why if you stretch your ... from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering and the laboratory's  Defense Fabric Discovery Center ... collaboration came while Gillmer and Guo were teaching a course at MIT. Guo had been researching how to grow ...

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Intelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research

Department of Mechanical Engineering, École Normale Supérieure de Rennes, and Brown University, reveal ... objectives, like reduced drag. Earlier this year, Fan was awarded an MIT Mechanical Engineering de Florez ... with MIT Sea Grant; Gurvan Jodin from ENS Rennes; MIT PhD candidate in mechanical engineering Yu Ma; ...

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Bubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double

by mechanical engineering postdoc Navdeep Singh Dhillon, professor of nuclear science and engineering ... Jacopo Buongiorno, and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. “Roughly 85 percent ... fellowship from Mechanical Engineering Department. The micro-nano structured surfaces used in the study were ...

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Exploring new frontiers in mineral extraction

mechanical engineering at MIT, and his team in the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab), are at the ... resources,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, in a video discussing his ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ...

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Inspiring Hands-On Learning

engineering. Kim, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Mechanical Engineering, is not an aeronautical engineer ... and reached a top speed of 6.8 miles per hour – and it changed the course of history. With that ... in the same approaches used by the Wright Brothers. The Wright Brothers were skilled mechanics ...

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Lifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram

taught fluid mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as signals and systems, and ... least of which is his expert understanding of hydrodynamics, fluid mechanics, and oceanography, ... unrelenting seeker of the most precise ocean science and engineering truths. He was a member of the MIT team ...

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“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"

of Ocean Engineering merged into the Department of Mechanical Engineering to become the Center for ... demand in the ocean shipping industry, the Department of Mechanical Engineering recently forged ... Pollution Act in 1990. Willemann graduated with a B.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from ...

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Sun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge

in line with challenge regulations. Included are electrical, dynamic, and mechanical tests. The team ... performed exceptionally well in electrical scrutineering. Mechanical scrutineering, however, brought bsome ... passed all mechanical and dynamic tests on the fourth and final day of Scrutineering. Jordan ...

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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 ... scale.” Lewis, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, is ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jennifer-lewis-scd-%E2%80%9991-%E2%80%9Ccan-we-make-tissues-are-made-you-you%E2%80%9D
van Rees, Wim Associate Professor

MechE Alumna Catches Rare Glimpse of Marine Life

Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering orange Collaboration Culture Education ... engineering major, Young fell in love with water at an early age. But Mission 31 gave her an ... renowned MIT engineer Harold “Doc” Edgerton, the namesake of MIT’s Edgerton Center. A visionary in ...

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Glicksman, Leon R. Professor

Faculty Research: Professor Roger Kamm

and Mechanical Engineering, and his doctoral student Ioannis Zervantonakis are two of the few who ... have. They are studying the mechanics of metastasis, the process of cancer cell migration from one ... several theories about the intricate mechanics taking place – which they published this year in the ...

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Pesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition

On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... 2022 Mary Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal ...

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Cheng, Wai K Professor

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 ... published in Communications Engineering. The authors are Thomas J. Matarazzo, an assistant professor of ...

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Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso

at scale? There was a lot of fundamental mechanical engineering at play – from large scale ... As both a biomedical engineer and physician, Giovanni Traverso is uniquely positioned to tackle ... particularly in relation to gastroenterology. In addition to being assistant professor of mechanical ...

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