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Making agriculture more resilient to climate change

Researchers across MIT are taking on these agricultural challenges from a variety of angles, from engineering ... associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Marelli is the director of one of the six ... Engineering at MIT, is developing a  microbial alternative to the Haber-Bosch process. Some farms have ...

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MechE Summer X

Information These summer offerings are intended for the benefit of the MIT Mechanical Engineering community ... the scientific, engineering and environmental aspects of the textile and fashion industry. It is ... About The MIT MechE Summer Knowledge Exchange — or MechE Summer X — offers students, recent graduates, ...

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Making 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper

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 ... years ago in a MIT fraternity house’s basement and commercially launched last April, the printer is now ...

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3D printing tiny parts for big impact

partners like Johnson and Johnson in MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program. Many of BMF’s early customers were ... parts that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by MIT ... functions. MIT-BMF-Technologies-1024.jpg Boston Micro Fabrication’s machines use a technology co-developed by ...

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A glimpse inside Intel

Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and director of the MIT Computer Science and ... Department of Political Science, the Industrial Performance Center, MIT.nano, Machine Intelligence for ...

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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 ... Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ... four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability ...

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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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Departmental News & Awards- Summer 2019

Departmental News- MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering has been named the number one ... Memoriam- Ernst G. Frankel MME ’60, SM ‘60, professor emeritus of ocean engineering who served on MIT ... expert in naval architecture and former department head of MIT’s Department of Ocean Engineering, passed ...

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Game changer: How Christopher Weaver transformed video games and game studies at MIT

instructor and in helping to create MIT’s game studies curriculum, has rippled through the industry. Started ... In the mid-1980s, an electrical engineer and avid sports fan named Ed Fletcher approached his boss ... the company’s founder and president, had a background in physics, mechanical engineering, and computer ...

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Professor Emeritus Justin “Jake” Kerwin, an expert in propeller design and ship hydrodynamics, dies at 90

at the age of 90 on May 23. Kerwin, who served on MIT’s ocean engineering faculty for four decades, ... bachelor’s degree in from MIT in 1953 and his master’s degree in 1954, he was named a Fulbright Scholar. For ... Kerwin and his wife Marilyn played jazz alongside fellow retired MIT ocean engineering faculty in a band ...

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Better batteries through biology?

number of charging-discharging cycles the batteries can withstand. Now, MIT researchers have found that ... area. Belcher, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... industrial-scale production were substituted in the actual manufacturing. Jie Xiao, a research scientist at the ...

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System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat

a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a way to generate ... a paper by MIT graduate student Lin Zhao, MIT Professor Evelyn Wang, MIT Professor Gang Chen, and 10 ... others at MIT and IIT Bombay. The key to the new system is the use of optically transparent aerogel, ...

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New model of the GI tract could speed drug development

MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... a drug in just hours. In a paper appearing today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the researchers used ...

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Graduate Admissions FAQ

engineering or in science may apply. How do I apply? Applicants to the MIT MechE graduate program should apply ... a bachelor's or a master's degree by the time he/she registers in MechE. Most incoming students will have ... a degree in Mechanical Engineering or some related branch of engineering. The department's admission ...

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Student Spotlight: PhD Candidate Jaichander Swaminathan SM '14

engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his master’s degree in mechanical ... engineering at MIT, Swaminathan has always loved math. “It feels good to solve math problems,” says the former ... Recover and reuse. Despite having two degrees in mechanical engineering, a passion for ...

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