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Teaching robots how to move objects

engineers convened in a cavernous exhibit hall in Nagoya, Japan, for the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge. The ... undergraduate career. She studied mathematics and engineering physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education Horizontal PhD candidate Maria Bauza is developing ...

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J-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture

professor of mechanical engineering, and Chintan Vaishnav, senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management ... a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. J-WAFS Solutions funding is supporting the ... runoff Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, received a 2017 grant to support ...

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Advocating for federal research funding on Capitol Hill

Biological Engineering, who was motivated to participate by the NSF funding that enabled her to train in ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The absence of the OTA compromises the ability of Congress to govern. ... Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day 2019. ...

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum honors MIT D-Lab with National Design Award

School of Engineering. “The D-Lab team deeply understands that designing and developing products and ... engineering. “Design is such an important part of what we do at D-Lab — we believe that both the products and ... known as The Haiti Class, which sought to apply engineering and design principles to the complex issues ...

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Tissue model reveals role of blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s patients. Image: Christine Daniloff, MIT MIT engineers have now developed a tissue model that ... Roger Kamm, the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biological Engineering at ... project several years ago, along with researchers at MGH who had engineered neurons to produce large ...

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Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again

Originally from Zimbabwe, Phuthi, who majored in physics and minored in mechanical engineering, was looking ... a huge benefit to have stepped outside his fields of science and engineering and attend School of ... Reda, an electrical engineering and computer science major in her third year, and Hazel Sive, biology ...

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Alumni Profile: RJ Scaringe SM ’07, PhD ‘09

compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low emissions. “RJ was a low key but ... sustainability.   Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ...

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RJ Scaringe

limit of homogeneous charge compression ignition engines, an internal combustion engine with low ... promoting sustainability.   Mary Beth Gallagher Department of Mechanical Engineering Tuesday, April 28, 2020 ...

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Super-strong surgical tape detaches on demand

Last year, MIT engineers developed a  double-sided adhesive  that could quickly and firmly stick ... organs,” says Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering ...

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IdeaStream 2020 goes virtual

impact on the environment or society. Svetlana Boriskina of the Department of Mechanical Engineering said ... pandemic, the Hadley D. Sikes Lab had developed immunoassays using engineered binding proteins that ... Department of Mechanical Engineering built on a statistic — only about 2 percent of applied pesticides adhere ...

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Membrane around tumors may be key to preventing metastasis

basement membrane, a material that itself has been tricky for scientists to characterize. Now MIT engineers ... Ming Guo, a lead author of the study and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Guo’s ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers led by Associate Professor Ming Guo have found that a biological membrane ...

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Controlling bubble formation on electrodes

mechanical engineering at MIT, says that “what’s really exciting is that as the technology of water splitting ... continues to develop, the field’s focus is expanding beyond designing catalyst materials to engineering mass ... MIT engineers, including Professor Evelyn Wang, Associate Professor Betar Gallant, and grad student ...

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Supporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout with extra-strength glass

Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... drawn to the MIT LGO program because it covered three main areas: engineering and technology ... Engineering while participating in an immersive, six-month research fellowship at partner organizations, ...

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Mark Kurz

Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... drawn to the MIT LGO program because it covered three main areas: engineering and technology ... Engineering while participating in an immersive, six-month research fellowship at partner organizations, ...

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Charlene Xia ’17, SM ’20

Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT. ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... combine my passion for food, my technical expertise in ocean engineering, and my interest in sustainably ...

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Controlling how “odd couple” surfaces and liquids interact

postdocs Kyle Wilke, Zhengmao Lu, and Youngsop Song and professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang. ... demonstrated before,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering. The findings are so new there may be many real-world applications that the team ...

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From LGO to PhD

learning models for sequence data. Smith was ready to accelerate his career as a drilling engineer at BP ... Exploration Alaska, so he enrolled in the LGO program for experience in engineering management. There, he ... engineering professor David Hardt, praises LGO’s natural link between industry and academia. Having worked ...

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Toward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices

in electrical engineering and computer science and CSAIL affiliate. “FlexBoards tackle these issues ... Mueller, a CSAIL affiliate and associate professor in the MIT departments of Electrical Engineering and ... Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and Yoonji Kim, an assistant professor in the College of Art ...

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Hot flash relief during menopause

a degree in mechanical engineering offered. Her experience in the Course 2 capstone class 2.009, Product ... Engineering Processes, led her down the path of entrepreneurship. In December2019, she and her teammates ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Entrepreneurship Horizontal Loewen Cavill ’20 hopes to shatter the ...

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Translating MIT research into real-world results

H. Lienhard V. “But successful commercialization of MIT technology requires engineers to focus on ... big and small,” says Eric Verploegen PhD ’08, former research engineer in MIT’s D-Lab and founder of ... training to participants across New England. Trainings are open to researchers, engineers, scientists, and ...

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