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Collaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects

Voigt, a professor in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, made those comments at the first of ... Sept. 14th and Sept. 28th at the Samberg Center. The annual workshop brings members of the MIT community ... the Universidad Politécnica in Spain.   Voigt and experts in plastid engineering and plant gene ...

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Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?

part, by the Draper Fellow Program. Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Daniel Ackerman | MIT News Office ... sample of cells extracted from zinnia leaves. MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based ... Beckwith is lead author and a PhD student in mechanical engineering. Coauthors are Beckwith’s co-advisors ...

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2.009 makes its “Move!” onstage

presentations of 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). MIT-2009-Final Presentations-01-press_0 2.jpg ... course co-instructors Ellen Roche, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and Josh ... A full-capacity audience waits in Kresge Auditorium for the MIT 2.009 Prototype Launch to begin. The 2022 theme ...

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From electric racecars to prosthetic feet – students present their research at annual exhibition

At the 4th Annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition, students hone their communication ... inside the Johnson Ice Rink, mechanical engineering graduate student Sydney Sroka had a different ... participating in the annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE). In its fourth year, MERE, which ...

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Abigail Schipper

chief for MIT EMS and leads the Stop the Bleed program, an emergency-care training course for the public ... bioengineers, mechanical engineers, and social scientists from MIT EMS and Harvard’s Crimson EMS, Schipper ... Throughout her time at MIT, senior Abigail Schipper has volunteered as an EMT with MIT EMS, ...

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Making 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper

designs are manually programmed into the printer, and each finished part is manually removed before ... handles all prints, which can be expensive. Now MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to ... part. MIT-NVBot-1-1024.jpg MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to market the only ...

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MIT plays key role in statewide effort to produce PPE

engineer Michael Rein PhD ’17, and CEO Sasha Stolyarov, who has worked at MIT for more than a decade, ... Palmer with MIT's Industrial Liaison Program (ILP). Within minutes, Palmer replied that he would ... health care workers safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. MIT_plays_key_role_PPE_1024.jpg   This photo, from ...

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Hands-on education goes remote

in their decision to study mechanical engineering. The hands-on aspect of MIT MechE’s education ... By its very nature, mechanical engineering is a “hands-on” field. While students studying ... mechanical engineering receive a solid foundation in fundamentals, at some point nearly every Course 2, ...

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3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles

As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor ... Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), and ...

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AUVs: From Idea to Implementation

director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program, the Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering and ... founded the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory within the MIT Sea Grant College Program, and he and ... Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ...

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Harvesting fresh water from fog

MIT professor of chemical engineering Robert Cohen — has been able to increase the fog-collecting ... surface chemistry, the team — which includes MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gareth McKinley and ... electrodialysis can provide cost-effective treatment of salty water from fracked wells. Researchers at MIT ...

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Deploying non-contact vitals sensing kiosks across campus

undergraduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT, Koeppen developed an interest in using mechanical ... University’s mechanical engineering program, he was part of the founding team at Sparx Hockey, which produces ... 11, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Graduate ...

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Moving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor

industry into closer partnership,” says MIT professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who will ... The following was issued as a joint announcement from MIT.nano and the MIT Research Laboratory for ... use. Today, the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced that MIT ...

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Andy Obst

community in Minnesota but parted ways when they went off to college. Andy initially studied engineering at ... the University of Minnesota, but after his sophomore year, he transferred to MIT and earned his degree ... in mechanical engineering on an Army ROTC scholarship. He joined Beta Theta Pi and formed lasting ...

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With campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT

MIT addresses its own contributions to climate change through programs and initiatives like class ... In 2015, MIT set a goal to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 32 percent ... MIT has reduced campus emissions by 24 percent over the past five years. Cumulative efforts to reduce ...

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Inventor Creates Hub for Innovation

resources, the equipment, the mentorship, and access to manufacturers, education, and programming,” he says. ... and books where he kept encountering the seemingly all-powerful name MIT.  “That really started my ... journey of ‘Well, how do I become a part of this?’” he says.  His determination to reach MIT inspired his ...

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Bill Fienup

resources, the equipment, the mentorship, and access to manufacturers, education, and programming,” he says. ... and books where he kept encountering the seemingly all-powerful name MIT.  “That really started my ... journey of ‘Well, how do I become a part of this?’” he says.  His determination to reach MIT inspired his ...

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From the Classroom to the Lab

participating in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), MechE students step into the world of ... firsthand experience with the methods engineers use to understand and quantify the physical world. Here, ... components for a buck-boost converter for his lab assignment. 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing II), MIT ...

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