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Late Summer Listening

Engineering Horizontal Podcasts and audio stories offer a great way to learn about big ideas from MIT ... Podcasts and audio stories offer a great way to learn about big ideas from MIT Members of the ... from the Pappalardo Lab, aka “the most wicked lab on campus,” but did you know that MIT is also home to ...

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A New Quantum Approach to Big Data

the same even when something is bent and stretched every which way.   MIT-Quantum-Big-Data.JPG This ... computers to streamline these problems has been developed by researchers at MIT, the University of Waterloo, ... Mechanical Engineering, explains that algebraic topology is key to the new method. This approach, he says, ...

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Stepping on stage with Beyoncé

working for—a celebration of everyone involved.” MIT-Joe-Brown-Beyonce-Coachella-2018_1024.jpg Joe Brown ... in Course 2 [mechanical engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own ... continued to build his skills as step master of his fraternity while at MIT. But it wasn’t until after ...

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Road Safety Drives VP of GM

mechanical engineering, when his younger brother was struck by a distracted driver and suffered a severe neck ... networks—and giving people their time back.”  Anderson credits MIT, where he focused on robotics while studying ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as an incubator that provided him with both the ...

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Our History, at Hart

MechE displays in MIT Hart Nautical Gallery given a full refresh Situated near the midpoint of the ... first-floor hallway of building 5 is MIT Museum’s Francis Russell Hart Nautical Gallery, one of the oldest ... marine technology archives in the United States. This space tells the story of MIT’s deep history with ...

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Sterling Anderson

mechanical engineering, when his younger brother was struck by a distracted driver and suffered a severe neck ... networks—and giving people their time back.”  Anderson credits MIT, where he focused on robotics while studying ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as an incubator that provided him with both the ...

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Bennett, Andrew Senior Lecturer
Roche, Ellen Professor; Associate Department Head

Measuring Students' Passion

typically taken during mechanical engineering students’ Junior Year, arms students with the knowledge and ... audiences.  “Perhaps the most important skill to have as an engineer is the ability to communicate what you’ve ...

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Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram, a leader in ship design and hydrodynamics, dies at 83

Jerome Milgram ’61, PhD ’65, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at MIT, passed away at the ... Milgram received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1961, where he also served as captain of the sailing ... Milgram joined the faculty at MIT, where he would spend the remainder of his career. As the W.I. Koch ...

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Letter from the Department Head

Department Head Dear Friends, The Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT has been at the forefront of ... MIT. Sincerely, Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head ... innovators, and engineering leaders.” Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and ...

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Fast, furious, and soon to be electric

certified Formula One cars. To Sly and the rest of the MIT Formula SAE team, this is home. Seated ... unassumingly next to the MIT Museum, N51 houses multiple student teams working under the auspices of the ... and fun — a home for mechanical and electrical engineers exploring their love for design and ...

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Saving the radome

points," says Milo Hooper, a senior in mechanical engineering and president of the MIT Radio Society. ... Perched atop the MIT Cecil and Ida Green Building (Building 54), MIT’s tallest academic building, ... a large, golf ball-like structure protrudes from the roof, holding its own in the iconic MIT campus ...

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Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip

developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals ... identical, low-cost electric motors that the researchers engineered using off-the-shelf parts. Each motor can ...

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Researchers “iron out” graphene’s wrinkles

bullet-train journey, significantly limiting graphene’s electrical performance. Now engineers at MIT have found ... Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. “Now we ... Samuel Cruz, and Yunjo Kim from MIT, along with researchers from IBM, the University of California at Los ...

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Where to Grab Space Debris

a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Field Robotics, MIT researchers will describe a new algorithm for gauging ... a more powerful computer. MIT-Spinning-In-Space-1024.jpg Artist rendering of the International Space ... Station (ISS).  Image courtesy of NASA (edited by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT) Space trash “There are ...

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Solid, liquid, or gas? Technique quickly identifies physical state of tissues and tumors

associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We hope that, by simply looking at where the cells ... MIT_Cell-Fingerprints-01-PRESS_0.jpeg MIT researchers have developed a way to decode images of cells to determine whether a tissue is ... track various cancers. Photo credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute, edited by MIT News Now, ...

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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity

says Jean-Jacques Slotine, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of brain and cognitive ... cognitive functions. MIT researchers have now put forth a new hypothesis for how astrocytes might contribute ... MIT-AstroCyteMemory-01-press_1024x768.jpg MIT researchers have a new hypothesis for how brain cells called astrocytes might contribute to ...

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High-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet

Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... such as vaccines through skin without using needles. MIT-Bubble-Jet-1024.jpg New study on water jets ... famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple, pioneered by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton. ...

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Once-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials

a variety of medications,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases ... medication from within the stomach. MIT-Schizophrenia-Trial-01-PRESS_1024x768.jpg The ingestible capsule is ...

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