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Three awards for MIT research in anthropology, economics and political science
award winners from MIT: Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and ... a wonderful recognition of a promising scholar." Full story at MIT SHASS News MIT Political Scientist ... of Political Science at MIT. The award recognizes the best book published over the past two years in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-awards-mit-research-anthropology-economics-and-political-scienceUndersea living: Alumna joins Cousteau mission
the ocean was separate from my love for engineering until I got to MIT,” she says. Wednesday, August ... like I could have a vacation house underwater,” the mechanical and ocean engineering alumna says of her ... research mission! #MIT2014 pic.twitter.com/lqvOPfkr3s — MIT (@MIT) June 6, 2014 Young was originally ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undersea-living-alumna-joins-cousteau-missionRobotics in the 21st Century
fears? Faculty in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering believe there is more to it than that. ... actuators, in collaboration with Professor Jeff Lang in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ... highway merges, rotaries, and four-way intersections. Her system is programmed to take control of the car ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotics-21st-centuryMIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications
says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Krebs and his colleagues explored the robot MIT-Manus as a tool for evaluating patient improvement over ... time. The robot, developed by the team at MIT’s Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-robot-may-accelerate-trials-stroke-medicationsCells get ready for their close-up
In 2007, MIT scientists developed a type of microscopy that allowed them to detail the interior of ... distribution of the cells’ mass to sort them,” says Yongjin Sung, a former postdoc in MIT’s Laser Biomedical ... PRApplied. Instead of using fluorescent tags, the MIT method analyzes the cells’ index of refraction ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cells-get-ready-their-closeNews & Research
Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-researchProfessor Alberto Rodriguez presents work on robotic extrinsic dexterity
robotic hands. Friday, July 11, 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering blue ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU ... Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and incoming graduate student ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-alberto-rodriguez-presents-work-robotic-extrinsic-dexterityStudent Spotlight: Yamile Pariente
engineering. Pariente will return to MIT in the spring semester to finish up her senior year in mechanical ... position by another engineer who oversees engine design and construction. 2015ME_Yamille-1024.jpg Yamile ... division. When coordinators at MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives), which organized ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-yamile-parienteFaculty Promotions
flexible engineering degree within Mechanical Engineering (Course 2-A, now the sixth largest major at MIT ... 2005 and, before joining MIT, worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann ... Professor Evelyn Wang received her SB from MIT, and her MS and PhD from Stanford University. She is an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotions-1Students prepare for real-world product development through hands-on collaboration
engineering student, one MIT Sloan School of Management student, and one student from the Rhode Island School ... each student was from — School of Engineering, [MIT] Sloan School of Management, or RISD,” Seering ... “It’s all about the process,” says MIT professor Warren Seering. He’s referring to his spring ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-prepare-real-world-product-development-through-hands-collaboration2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
Engineering is the second largest engineering department at MIT, and this version of the popular Dynamics ... classic experiences of an MIT undergraduate, when edX releases 2.03x Dynamics on Oct. 28. Mechanical ... course covers many key concepts in the first year curriculum for mechanical engineering (or Course 2) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/203x-dynamics-aims-improve-learning-and-campusA robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the MIT ... Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ... teenagers will design and build an AUV at MIT this summer. Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nicole Estvanik Taylor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-dives-search-malaysian-airlines-flightHarder, better, faster, stronger
says Elliot Owen, a junior in mechanical engineering and battery lead for MIT FSAE. “This year’s ... a Formula-style electric race car from the ground up. Every year. For students who are members of MIT Motorsports ... — a.k.a. the MIT Formula SAE (FSAE) team, originally founded in 2001 — that task determines how they spend ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harder-better-faster-strongerDroplets break a theoretical time barrier on bouncing
Engineering at MIT, along with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of ... mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman, and recent MIT PhD recipient ... to bounce away from such a surface. But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-break-theoretical-time-barrier-bouncingTackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time
alone. A new study by MIT researchers, presented at the recent American Society of Mechanical Engineers ... ZhiYi Liang, PhD student on the renewable hydrogen team at the MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and ... GEAR, and Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-energy-revolution-one-sector-timeSangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSWAbtQqhlo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering Sangbae Kim describes his cutting-edge research in the area of biomimetics, the study of ... biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots. Professor Kim's current project-- ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sangbae-kim-inspired-natureStents inspired by paper-cutting art can deliver drugs to the GI tract
structures, MIT engineers and their collaborators have designed a new type of stent that could be used to ... an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s ... stents in patients. The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Other authors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stents-inspired-paper-cutting-art-can-deliver-drugs-gi-tractFinding Wonderland
Engineering (MechE). “I thought everyone at MIT would be about science all the time. Instead I found strong ... Moudio will graduate from MIT able to apply the principles of engineering, physics, and material sciences ... “Only at MIT.” Thursday, May 26, 2016 Meg Murphy | School of Engineering Culture Education International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-wonderlandFaculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi
journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, along ... with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at ... Droplets Break a Theoretical Time Barrier on Bouncing By David Chandler, MIT News Office Those ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-kripa-varanasiSoft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body
Scientists have a new tool to precisely illuminate the roots of nerve pain. Engineers at MIT have ... 1024NoPainFibers-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have designed a soft hydrogel optical fiber (shown illuminated) that stimulates ... if pain is involved,” says Siyuan Rao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the ...
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