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Featured video: Karate is for everyone

nearly a decade ago. Since then, Chiloyan, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, has earned ... of Technology. Submitted by: School of Engineering | Video by: Lillie Paquette | 1 min, 46 sec ...

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Let your car tell you what it needs

the car’s left front tire needs air, its air filter should be replaced next week, and its engine needs ... Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. The new paper’s co-authors include research scientist ... Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT; and two others. A smartphone app combining ...

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Sarah Tress

that, she was a mechanical engineering major who wanted to make an impact — and she happened to take ... from the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust and a Tau Beta Pi Engineering Service Grant, Tress spent weeks the ... engineering major, Tress has also pursued a concentration in ethics. She is deeply engaged by questions of ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/sarah-tress

Derek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing

manufacturing field. The magazine Manufacturing Engineering, a publication of SME (formally the Society of ... Manufacturing Engineers), has named Straub among the 30 individuals under the age of 30 who are leading the ... Fabrication Engineering Group. "I think one thing that sets me apart is my exploratory mindset. ...

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Former MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72

through a period of striking change and growth. A mechanical engineer by training, Vest was president of ... the National Academy of Engineering from 2007 until earlier this year. During Vest’s presidency — the ... biological engineering; engineering systems; and new media, among others. “Personally and professionally, ...

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RAS Proposal Submission Timeline

Timelines Mechanical Engineering has established the following internal deadlines  to have ...

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Leading business past dollars and cents

an engineer sometime around seventh grade. “I had early dreams of getting into corporate America ... east to her dream school to do what women are sometimes told is impossible — become an engineer. Upon ... mechanical engineering class, a class that was 42 percent female. Flores was in good company in ...

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Annabel Flores

remembers. A planner from the beginning, she decided she wanted to be an engineer sometime around seventh ... are sometimes told is impossible — become an engineer. Upon beginning her collegiate career at MIT, ... she saw firsthand what was possible by looking around her own mechanical engineering class, a class ...

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The proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturing

biosciences, chemical engineering, and more. MIT contributions to management and logistics have also helped ... engineering professor and one of the leads of the Initiative for New Manufacturing. Beyond its everyday work, ... 21st Century: PIE, The Engine, and INM This century, manufacturing has had period of growth, but heavy ...

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Lights, camera, inspiration

out from Phoenix to celebrate their victory at MIT. “Passionate engineering knows no boundaries, and ... Mechanical Engineering Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73, and Edgerton Center Director J. Kim ... Vandiver, a professor of mechanical engineering. Students from the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics ...

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A leg up for STEM majors

engineering, are on widely divergent paths at MIT. But their lives do intersect in one dimension: They share an ... faster, where you want to act on a dataset in a few days, rather than weeks or months.” Engineering ... me,” she says. Initially, she headed toward environmental engineering, “but then I realized that pretty ...

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Hacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni

MBA ’13, and mechanical engineering alumnus Kevin Rustagi ’11. Having last year expanded nationwide, ... Amarasiriwardena says. But when he started studying chemistry and biological engineering at MIT, and was biking ... With Rustagi, a friend and mechanical engineering student, Amarasiriwardena began selling the shirts ...

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A new tool for modeling the human gut microbiome

However, MIT biological and mechanical engineers have now designed a specialized device in which they can ... community that could be used for this extreme case,” says Linda Griffith, the School of Engineering ... Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. “We showed that you can grow ...

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Students strive for “Balance!” in a lively product showcase

2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). With “Balance!” as its theme, the vibrant show attracted hundreds ... design, build, and draft a business plan for a product, in a process meant to emulate what engineers ... they embarked on a product engineering process journey,” said 2.009 lecturer Josh Wiesman. Trying to ...

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New model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance

a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... A model developed by MIT engineers predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Pictured ... model is reported in a study appearing this month in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. The study ...

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Squishy robots

the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... a new paper in the journal Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, could also be used in ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ...

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Remembering ‘Papa Flash’

physicists new ways to analyze the dynamics of fluids, air and engines and aided in World War II aerial ... Kim Vandiver, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, ... the tips of a rapidly whirring propeller, jumpstarting his future in ocean engineering at MIT. ...

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A Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee

going after this disruptive opportunity,” says Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... goal. In a paper published in IEEE’s Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, the ... replicate the adjusted torque profile, using simple mechanical elements. Currently, the group has engineered ...

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3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers

engineering and MIT’s “Maker Czar,” asked students what they build, where they work, what kinds of equipment ... — as in, “I’m an engineer: I prototype and make things.” And for others it means being part of ... metalworking. I thought that was pretty interesting. Sunday, December 20, 2015 School of Engineering red Culture ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson

engineering. Over the course of six decades, Wilson’s career has been peppered with many achievements, ... including inventing the progressive fee-plus-rebate policy in 1973 and designing jet engines. But wherever ... collaboration with the journal Engineering, for the best design in human-powered land transport. To my amazement ...

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