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Driving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit

in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... after his first stint as a development engineer at Ford Motor Co., Field now has a chance to marry the ... to have a huge impact, you need people to change the course you’re on, and you need people to build ...

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Doug Field

in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Field took a job at Ford in 1987. The big Detroit ... after his first stint as a development engineer at Ford Motor Co., Field now has a chance to marry the ... to have a huge impact, you need people to change the course you’re on, and you need people to build ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/doug-field

A closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy

MIT’s Karl van Tassel Career Development Professorship, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... chemotherapy they receive. To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with an ... 1024-Closed-Loop-Chemo-01-press_0.jpg To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, MIT engineers have come up with a way to continuously ...

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Saving the radome

points," says Milo Hooper, a senior in mechanical engineering and president of the MIT Radio Society. ... remote radio astronomy experiments for the Physics Junior Laboratory (J-Lab), a foundational course in ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-radome

Farmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half

of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 when he went to ... Make it stick Of course, farmers don’t spray pesticides for fun. A  2021 study  found that if farmers ...

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Tackling air pollution with autonomous drones

pollution monitoring system is the capstone project of recently graduated New Engineering Education ... the other projects we were looking at,” says Trautman, who majored in electrical engineering and ... 2017 in an effort to fundamentally reconceptualize the way that engineering is taught at MIT. It ...

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Sustainable and Global Development

Engineering for Sustainability, is intended for students interested in work on sustainability in the context ... of US industry or in other industrialized settings. The other track, in Engineering for International ... be coupled to the minor programs in Environmental Engineering Science or Applied International ...

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MIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage

units, professor of mechanical engineering Alex Slocum Sr. and other engineers at MIT swung into action, ... A complex design challenge Alexander Slocum Jr. SB ’08, SM ’10, PhD ’13, a mechanical engineer who is now ... Jung, an MIT master’s student in mechanical engineering. Jung — who previously served five years in the ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-fill-covid-19-related-ventilator-shortage

In it together: Faculty mentors and graduate students

Lienhard2 1024.jpg Professor John Lienhard of the Department of Mechanical Engineering makes the members of ... Mechanical Engineering makes the members of his lab feel secure in their positions — and they are happier for ... space for everyone Associate professor of chemical engineering Bradley Olsen recognizes that balancing ...

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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 ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advance-climate-action-mit-seeks-partnerships-beyond-industry

From triathlons to aerospace, Caitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21 pursues passions for leadership and manufacturing

in mechanical engineering — helped her balance diplomacy with technical discipline. So did a 2020 ... Hardt, Braun’s mechanical engineering advisor. “All of this took place during a time of great uncertainty ... process can often take six months to a year.) While engineering is important, Braun is most excited about ...

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Alumni Spotlight: VADM (ret) Paul Sullivan (SM ’80)

program in naval architecture and marine engineering, the crafts of naval architecture and ship design ... stronger materials, more powerful engines, more powerful mission systems, and reduced costs. “There is ... aircraft using a linear induction motor. The physics are simple, but the engineering of actually getting it into ...

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Ten from MIT awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

from MIT in 2018 with a BS in mechanical engineering. The Soros fellowship will fund his graduate ... graduated from MIT in 2016 with a BS in mechanical engineering. She was born in San Diego, California, the ... studies at Harvard University where he will earn dual MBA and MS in engineering sciences degrees. ...

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Accelerating 3-D printing

3-D printing, says  A. John Hart, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the ... down current 3-D printers, Hart teamed up with Jamison Go SM ’15, who now a mechanical engineer at ... Sebastian Pattinson, a former postdoc in mechanical engineering who is now a lecturer at the University of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-3-d-printing

Ice Bucket Challenge, MechE Style

Department of Mechanical Engineering, was nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by the Graduate ... Association of Mechanical Engineers (GAME) Service Chair Jay Sircar, on behalf of GAME service volunteers, to ... mechanical engineering alumnus Jamie Heywood '91 to support his late brother Stephen Heywood — both sons ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-bucket-challenge-meche-style

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 ... automotive lab, and befriended a few KU students over the course of the trip. We are glad to have built ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cookstoves-and-connections-himalaya

David Bierman

MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ... conversion systems. In 2016, while taking course 15.366 (Climate and Energy Ventures), he met Jordan Kearns ... Science and Engineering. The two were studying renewable energy when they began to think about the ...

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Designing Toys

Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on ... engineering and In class 2.00b, Toy Product Design, offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... offered by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, first-year students get hands-on engineering and ...

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Teaching in a Pandemic

Home Undergraduate Graduate Course 2-A Alumni Home Prospective Student Home News & Media Home ...

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“MIT Illuminations,” a colorful installation and introduction to creative computation, is now open in Kendall Square

iconic 2.009 and 2.00b courses in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, cofounder of the immersive ...

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