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Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

(ICRA). Their study co-author is John Leonard, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Aquatic optics ... color of objects in the ocean without imaging them at close range. Now a team from MIT and the Woods ... 3D models of an underwater scene,” says MIT graduate student Daniel Yang. The researchers applied ...

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Bose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions 

Since 2014, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has supported MIT faculty with innovative ... six research teams composed of nine MIT faculty members will pursue projects ranging from ... Justin Solomon, and Or Hen were recognized at a reception on Monday, Nov. 20, hosted by MIT President L. ...

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MechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award

for MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), attended the black tie affair where he ... Interested in highlighting the important work done in Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research ... in rural India. With the generous support of Robert Stoner, deputy director of the MIT Energy ...

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Navigating beneath the Arctic ice

global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below the ice cover. A team of MIT engineers ... ICEX will serve to help the Navy in that mission.” ICEXCollageStory.jpg A team of MIT engineers working ... Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Maker Horizontal A team of MIT ...

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The poster session goes virtual

Opportunities Program (UROP) projects, and postdocs gather to share their mechanical engineering research with ... the wider MIT community. They practice their presenting skills, explaining their research projects as ... conference. As with most events and conferences, the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE) had to ...

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Undergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage

Graduating Senior Lays Groundwork for Locating Fresh Water Sources     Photo credit: MIT News ... engineering, programming, and aeronautical engineering were just added benefits. I have gotten a lot more out ... strictly within the bounds of mechanical engineering, where I am most comfortable.” Indeed, locating SGD, ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux

Chandler, MIT News Office Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer   Sometimes the fastest pathway ... them moving all at once toward separate destinations. But that’s just what a team of engineers led by ... changing situation. That’s what MIT’s Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and Assimilation Systems ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock

Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office   Their effect on the surface of ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ... Recherche Scientifique and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France, and the MIT France Program. ...

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Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing

hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function. MIT engineers are hoping to ... MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and ... replica of a patient’s heart. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT. The procedure involves first converting medical ...

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Invisible tagging system enhances 3D object tracking

counterparts,” says MIT CSAIL and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD candidate Mustafa ... affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and ... could lead you to dangerous links and viruses. Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and ...

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Making waves

Harvard, he accepted a faculty position at MIT. Based in the ocean science and engineering section of MIT ... Engineers” on a shelf in Pierre Lermusiaux’s office. The textbook, which he has kept since he was an ... engineering undergraduate in Belgium, introduces each chapter with a quote from the fictional sleuth ...

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Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution

Laboratory and the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering 's Ocean Science and Engineering lab is ... the submersible had gone missing.) Untitled design (70).jpg A research team from MIT Lincoln ... algorithms. The MIT campus collaborators are developing algorithms for data processing and image formation, ...

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Faculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak

at MIT with Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman. Kolpak’s ... first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... “The behavior is influenced, and often dominated by, the interfaces,” says MIT assistant professor of ...

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Study Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies

MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to ... work on other technologies. An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s ... Vladimir Bulović, the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technology and MIT’s associate dean for ...

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Staff Training

Available through the Course Catalog at the MIT Learning Center Go to: Atlas.mit.edu > ... Self-Service > My Training > MIT Learning Center > Course Catalog > Administration > Financial ... Journal Vouchers (VPF) MIT Procurement Cardholder* SAPgui: Basic Skills (self-study) Fundamentals: Intro ...

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