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Sophia Chen

Sophia Chen, a fifth-year senior double majoring in mechanical engineering and art and design, ... learned about  MIT D-Lab  when she was a Florida middle schooler. She drove with her family from their ... home in Clearwater to Tampa to an MIT informational open house for prospective students. There, she ...

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A teacher’s education in Haiti

experience teaching that ignited a spark in Brooks. MIT-Haitian-Orphanage-1024.jpg Mechanical engineering ... engineering classes at MIT. He saw an opportunity to replicate class 2.00b (Toy Product Design), when teaching ... mechanical engineering senior’s original plans for the summer of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic. He ...

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Darya Guettler

MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries, ... outreach programs and encourage kids to get excited about ways they can use engineering to help the planet. ... concentrations. She arrived at MIT with the goal of mitigating climate change through technological innovation, ...

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A shape-changing antenna for more versatile sensing and communication

Sethapakdi, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Soo Yeon Ahn of the ... in MIT’s departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering and ... MIT researchers have developed a reconfigurable antenna that dynamically adjusts its frequency ...

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Aspiring to sustainable development

a rising junior in mechanical engineering at MIT, collaborated with UVG researchers and Indigenous farmers ... waste by the country’s shrimp industry. Sophomores Ariana Hodlewsky, majoring in chemical engineering ... MIT students made a major contribution to both the engineering and marketing sides by emphasizing that ...

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New Solar Absorber Could Improve Efficiency of Solar Thermal Technology

The MIT and Masdar Institute Cooperative Program helped launch the Masdar Institute in 2007. Research ... Masdar Institute-MIT team develops device that harnesses more sunlight, enhancing efficiency of ... researchers at MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has discovered a low-cost way to ...

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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Robotic probe measures electrical property known as ... gain,” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering and senior author of a paper on the ... don’t have a good way to implement the rich knowledge from these chemical experts into our robots, we ...

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Dexter Ang

change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... MIT through the Advanced Study Program. Ang enrolled in classes at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, ... click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. The MIT startup Pison Technology, ...

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Faculty highlight: A. John Hart

software-driven analysis. Hart was assistant professor of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and ... with the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity ... Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering A. John Hart hopes progress in the science and ...

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Hannah Gazdus

a full-time engineer.” Image and artwork: Hannah Gazdus Gazdus was drawn to MIT by project classes such as ... double-majoring in creative writing and mechanical engineering, Gazdus sees her childhood play as a harbinger of ... her interests now: “That definitely paved the way.” An MIT senior double-majoring in creative writing ...

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Laura Rosado

MIT’s Human Systems Lab and Little Devices Lab. Her 2019 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program ... When Laura Rosado was headed to MIT four years ago, she was undecided about choosing a major. ... engineering and creative writing. Photo Credit: Ian MacLellan Then, in the spring semester of her first year, ...

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A factory for FrEDs at MIT

Program in Mechanical Engineering, who advised the students. MIT_News_8_12_22_18040.jpg A team of MIT ... MIT is famous as a factory of ideas. You could also call MIT a factory for learning. But for one ... group of students over the past year MIT has been, in fact, a factory. The team of graduate students ...

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Low-cost “smart” diaper can notify caregiver when it’s wet

a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Sen, Kantareddy, and their colleagues at ... supported in part by Softys under the MIT Industry Liason Program. Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Jennifer Chu ... Now MIT researchers have developed a “smart” diaper embedded with a moisture sensor that can alert ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Dana Yoerger (SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83)

research and academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT ... right locations. From there, they characterized the plume and calculated its chemical flux, as well as ... determined which directions the currents were taking it. As an MIT student, Yoerger studied under Professor Tom ...

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Dana Yoerger

academic program of graduate students studying oceanographic engineering through the MIT/WHOI Joint Program ... chemical flux, as well as determined which directions the currents were taking it.   As an MIT student, ... and abilities. I like going to sea and solving problems at sea by producing engineering and scientific ...

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Gilbert, Daniel Technical Instructor

Microchip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth

Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a member ... a recent PhD graduate from MIT’s Computational and Systems Biology Program, and Selim Olcum, a research ... through the MIT/DFCI Bridge program, to determine if the device could be used to predict patient response ...

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Giving robots better moves

connections, and the entire program was eventually run by former MIT associate professor Gill Pratt. After ... team had invented during the DARPA program. “Generally, we’ve been in such close proximity to MIT that ... That’s what MIT spinoff RightHand Robotics has incorporated into its robotic piece-picking systems, which ...

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Audrey Chen

engineering degree, she could be found leather crafting, glass blowing, or table welding in one of MIT ... MIT’s autonomous boat team  Arcturus  to entering a leadership position at 3D printing technology ... passion for engineering at a young age and skipped several grades in math. In her first year of high ...

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Alum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market

MIT's Translational Fellows Program enables the move with special funding for entrepreneurs. ... Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... transport. With the assistance of MIT’s Translational Fellows Program (TFP), McGovern has been able to focus ...

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