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Going for the gold

light. It’s something fourth-year mechanical engineering major and lifelong skier Tyler Ashoff has had to ... and Carlo Salmini MBA ’11, a material engineer and MIT Sloan School of Management alum. “Of all the ... a project for the class 2.S983 (Sports Technology: Engineering and Innovation) to develop goggle lenses that ...

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Bringing meaningful technologies to market

MIT-Student-Chun-01-1024.jpg After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management ... science, Chun aims to earn a master's degree in engineering science at Oxford University. After he ... feedback from users and published a paper about the device for a mechanical engineering conference. While ...

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A droplet walks into an electric field …

strike. This revelation led engineers to design thicker coverings around power lines to limit lightning ... engineers tune the electric field or the size of droplets for a range of applications that depend on ... molecular analysis. “Before our result, engineers and scientists had to perform computationally intensive ...

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A legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young

a background in engineering. In her research, she draws inspiration from nature and biological cybernetics to ... systems. From an engineering perspective, her contributions guide the design of algorithms for autonomous ... Engineering and Computer Science, Cen considers exogeneous factors (e.g., legal norms and financial ...

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Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots

body move in multiple ways. In recent years, scientists and engineers have looked to muscles as ... direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ...

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Study finds cell memory can be more like a dimmer dial than an on/off switch

Lite-Brite pattern. But MIT engineers have found that the picture has many more shades. ... — either fully activated or fully repressed. But MIT engineers have found that a cell’s memory is set not ... Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical and biological engineering at MIT. “The consequence is that ...

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Professor Slocum Awarded 2014 Department of Energy Grant

Charles Forsberg of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) has been awarded $5 million as ... Engineering's Professor Alexander Slocum was awarded a $400,000 NEUP grant to develop a seawater uranium ... Engineering red Maker slocum@mit.edu Profesor Slocum was awarded a 2014 Department of Energy NEUP grant to ...

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Faculty Promotions

authority in the field of precision engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and ... elements based on engineering principles and truly embody the Institute’s mens et manus motto. He has ... and Productivity, and currently serves as Graduate Admissions Officer in Mechanical Engineering ...

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Celebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019

Pulsone Keating received his master’s degree and PhD in mechanical engineering and was a member of the MIT ... tinkering with and building devices. This predilection for making led to not only his love of engineering ... Canada, Keating pursued his twin passions — earning a dual degree in mechanical and materials engineering ...

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MIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation

Engineering. It provides a hub that will encourage design work at MIT to grow and cross disciplines among ... engineering, science, management, computing, architecture, urban planning, and the arts. The academy will ... to traditional STEM education. If science and engineering education equips the students with ...

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Eight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2023

Engineering and Computer Science; Senthil Todadri, professor of physics; Evelyn N. Wang, the Ford Professor of ... Engineering (on leave) and director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy; ... Research and Engineering Center; Yukiko Yamashita, professor of biology and core member of the Whitehead ...

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Erik Ballesteros

is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... an astronaut inspects or makes repairs. Ballesteros is collaborating with engineers at the NASA Jet ... in engineering that challenged students to build robots from kits, that they would then pit against ...

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FIREFLI uses light to sense poor blood supply in body tissue, can provide earlier diagnosis for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

Laboratory for Translational Engineering (L4TE) and first author on a new paper presenting the work. Once ... associate professor of mechanical engineering, and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, who ... 2, 2025 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal FIREFLI uses light to sense ...

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Adi Mehrotra

demonstration in October. Mehrotra majored in electrical engineering and computer science as an undergraduate, ... but says he was drawn to mechanical engineering and took as many MechE classes as he could. During his ... concluded that a project that focuses on an open-source hydrogen engine would be important to building ...

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Design’s new frontier

mechanical engineers have expanded the computing tools they use to ideate, design, and prototype. More ... sparked a second revolution in design engineering. Researchers and faculty at MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering are utilizing these technologies to reimagine how the products, systems, and ...

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Student Spotlight: Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang (Candidate SB ’14)

English. Now, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, she is preparing to graduate this winter ... and begin a new job at Apple as an iPad product design engineer. The path she took from A to B wasn’t ... 2.013: Engineering System Design, and Apple offered her a coveted internship – and eventually a full-time ...

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2.12: Introduction to Robotics

engineering student, it’s a fun hands-on convergence of design, manufacturing, kinematics, controls, ... engineering, but it’s particularly important in robotics – we wouldn’t have robotics without it.” An elective ... mathematical concepts and a chance to build on their foundation in mechanical engineering basics. Students ...

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