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Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ...

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Once abroad is not enough

a mechanical engineering major, has integrated three study abroad experiences into his MIT education. “I first ...

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MIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles

Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. Participating FIT faculty were Preeti Arya, ...

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Microfluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes

Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can also frequently monitor the disease as it progresses.” Joining ...

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Charles Stuard Woodard

only a matter of exposure and getting to [students] early.” While a junior at MIT, the mechanical ...

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Cell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade

“You can think of the tumor like a sponge,” says Ming Guo, assistant professor of mechanical ...

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Five MIT students named 2020 Rhodes Scholars

mechanical engineering with a concentration in biomedical engineering. At Oxford, he will pursue an advanced ...

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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 ...

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Fostering forward momentum

program. Wang is the Gail E. Kendall Professor and department head in the Department of Mechanical ...

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Researchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells

Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ...

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A material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will

temperatures.” Yongjie Hu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace ngineering at the University of ...

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A new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech

a small research enterprise.” Meroueh, a fifth-year mechanical engineering graduate student and ...

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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication

Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Machine ...

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Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases

mechanical engineering, and the senior author of the study. This approach, described today in the journal ...

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Faithfully supporting well-being

Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1985. He is the director of the Mechatronics Research ...

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Solar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries

by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ...

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Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Imagine connecting a neuromorphic device to ...

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Covid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output

mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, research scientist Ian Marius Peters, and three others in Singapore ...

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A legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young

platform.  Emily Hanhauser  Emily is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering (MechE). Her research centers ...

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Forging ahead with care and compassion

along on a dog walk offered informal mechanisms for students to express challenges to her before they ...

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