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Four researchers with MIT ties earn 2023 Schmidt Science Fellowships

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research focuses on creating new materials for robots. By ... background is only in engineering, with very limited exposure to neuroscience. I'm very excited to be ... a graduate of the Department of Chemical Engineering, where he worked with Professor J. Christopher Love on ...

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Turning a circle into a square is possible with this kirigami-inspired formula

structures in nature, architecture, and more. Scientists and engineers have also taken inspiration from ... products of from-scratch design. There’s been no blueprint for engineers to determine the pattern of cuts ... with kirigami, we can actually turn a square shape into a circle shape.” For engineers, the new method ...

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Benchtop test quickly identifies extremely impact-resistant materials

being more resilient to impacts than others. That’s what MIT engineers are finding in experiments with ... microscopic metamaterials — materials that are intentionally printed, assembled, or otherwise engineered with ... the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers report on a new way to quickly test ...

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Aspiring to sustainable development

a rising junior in mechanical engineering at MIT, collaborated with UVG researchers and Indigenous farmers ... Baller, a rising sophomore in mechanical engineering, joined a team of Indigenous farmers and UVG ... mechanical engineers investigating the manufacturing process and potential markets for essential oils ...

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2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles

When Michael Benjamin, principal research scientist in the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering ... a second-year student in mechanical engineering, hold the UAV they constructed in course 2.S01. Credit: Tony ... engineering and the primary lecturer and content creator of 2.S01, and Captain Michael Sacarny from MIT Sea ...

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Cultivating confidence and craft across disciplines

Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Research Group ... for their exploration within mechanical engineering and beyond. One student reflected on the manner in ... a non-engineering field joined the mechanical engineering graduate program, Karnik never viewed their background as ...

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Leeb, Steven B Professor

Pushing the limits of athletic performance

Mechanical Engineering, is not like most bikers. She straightens her helmet, stands her bike up, and ... (Mechanics and Materials I), Hosoi has access to dozens of eager engineering students. She adds a new ... (formerly STE@M). MIT 3-Sigma Sports aims to solve the biggest engineering problems across sports. The ...

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Using mechanics for cleaner membranes

soon be in sight. A team of researchers from the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, supported by ... everyone,” says Omar Labban PhD ’20 of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, a joint lead author of a new ... engineering professors saw the potential of uniting their areas of expertise. John Lienhard, the Abdul Latif ...

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MIT J-WAFS announces 2022 seed grant recipients

engineering, science, technology, and business innovation, as well as social science and economics, ... Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is ... Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. Her 2022 J-WAFS seed grant project seeks to effectively remove ...

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Charting the future of production

engineers at the undergraduate and graduate levels, the nation is at best adequate in pK-12 STEM education, ... (mechanical engineering) and Berger. Since early 2022, this group, which includes faculty from across campus, ... new initiative in manufacturing at MIT. This would tie together efforts spanning engineering, social ...

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Kolle, Mathias Associate Professor

Student Spotlight: John Lewandowski (PhD Candidate)

says Lewandowski. “Engineers would design a device that was very sensitive but also very costly, or ... engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and studied biology as an ... effects.” It was Lewandowski’s engineering frame of mind brought to bear on his biological knowledge that ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Professor David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ’06)

David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology at Georgia Institute of ... to emulate what insects do.” When Richard Larson – the Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems and ... Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ...

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Illuminating a complex disease

infertility, but very little is known about how it arises. In 2009, biological engineer Linda Griffith launched ... Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... mechanical engineering departments, and a senior author of the paper. “Endometriosis patients report symptoms ...

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Cooling when there’s too much heat

MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... Bird, who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University. “Common ... and fuel-injected engines, as well as for processes such as spray cooling of hot metal. One ...

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Cocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs

time,” Bush says. “Engineers often take it to the next step by asking, ‘How can we apply this?’ In this ... collaboration, scientists and engineers have combined with chefs, allowing us to follow the entire route from ... cocktail boats, Lisa Burton and Nadia Cheng — at the time, graduate students in mechanical engineering ...

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David Hu

  This is a question that David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology ... to emulate what insects do.”   When Richard Larson – the Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems and ... Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ...

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For Stronger, Lighter, Cheaper Materials, Scroll Up

courtesy of the researchers   “If you really want to make an engineering structure, at this point it’s not ... Engineering. “Graphene oxide is two to four orders of magnitude cheaper, and with our technique, we can tune ... paper originally grew out of an MIT class, 2.675 (Micro/Nano Engineering), taught by Rohit Karnik, ...

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