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Mission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
If you take a stroll past the MIT Sailing Pavilion on Memorial Drive, you may see, among the usual ... engineering at MIT and graduate student Brooks Reed and colleagues, which was just accepted into the ... article Monday, October 7, 2013 Genevieve Wanucha | Oceans at MIT blue hover@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-tulip-robotic-pursuit-charles-riverBridging Earth and space, and art and science, with global voices
cutting-edge MIT payloads: a depth-mapping camera and a mini-rover called “AstroAnt.” Also on that craft were ... etched on a 2-inch silicon wafer computationally designed by Professor Craig Carter of the MIT Department ... 2-inch Humanity United with MIT Art and Nanotechnology in Space (HUMANS) wafer (left) landed on the moon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bridging-earth-and-space-and-art-and-science-global-voicesNew Faculty
at MIT. Dr. Kolpak’s research employs atomic and electronic structure modeling techniques such as ... mechanical engineering from Wichita State University, an MS in materials science and engineering from MIT ... , and a Naval Engineer’s degree from MIT. He has served in the US Navy for 15 years, most recently ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-faculty-1Alum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market
MIT's Translational Fellows Program enables the move with special funding for entrepreneurs. ... Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... transport. With the assistance of MIT’s Translational Fellows Program (TFP), McGovern has been able to focus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketPowered by Literature on Her Way Toward an MD
Senior Cara Lai cites MIT Literature studies as key to her preparation for medical practice. When ... she first arrived at MIT, a freshman in 2012, Cara Lai was focused on engineering studies. But it ... wasn't long before Lai discovered that the breadth and depth of an MIT education is designed to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-literature-her-way-toward-mdMobilizing across borders to address global challenges
essential for global collaboration to be unencumbered by distance. The MIT International Science and ... fund recipient and MIT professor of architectural history and theory Mark Jarzombek. “The insights and ... Roche, the W.M. Keck Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering at MIT, had a similar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobilizing-across-borders-address-global-challengesStrengthening America’s manufacturing base
of Defense’s chief technology officer. In a recent talk at MIT, she spoke about the DoD’s initiatives ... talk, which was part of the Manufacturing@MIT Distinguished Speaker Series, she touched on many areas, ... to working for the DoD for the number of years the DoD covered their tuition. MIT has led a number ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/strengthening-america%E2%80%99s-manufacturing-baseA glimpse inside Intel
telling an MIT audience that the ongoing expansion of his firm’s production capacity would bolster the ... Pat Gelsinger, center, spoke at the Manufacturing@MIT distinguished speaker series. Photo credit: Jeff ... before a capacity crowd in MIT’s Wong Auditorium. “Let’s build the fabs where we want them.” The relative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glimpse-inside-intelBuilding a framework for remote making
Making is central to MIT’s identity. It is the embodiment of MIT’s motto, "mens et ... students was recently launched to enable safe making from home. Developed by MIT Project Manus and MIT ... MIT-sponsored purposes,” says Martin Culpepper, professor of mechanical engineering and director of Project ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-framework-remote-makingReducing inequality across the globe and on campus
of mechanical engineering senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John ... in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t want to limit myself to working on a single discipline. ... a mechanical engineering perspective,” she adds. Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-inequality-across-globe-and-campusBuilding bridges to Ukraine through language, art, and community
In a new course that ran this Independent Activities Period (IAP), MIT students studied Ukrainian ... Ukraine in February 2022, Maria Khotimsky, senior lecturer in Russian in MIT Global Languages, recalls ... seeing tremendous student and faculty action around MIT. Khotimsky got to know MIT’s Ukrainian students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-bridges-ukraine-through-language-art-and-communityA. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care
An accomplished MIT student researcher in health care robotics, with many scholarship and ... health-care robotics has been shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the ... MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology. Photo: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/michael-west-advancing-human-robot-interactions-health-careAspiring to sustainable development
In a first for both universities, MIT undergraduates are engaged in research projects at the ... Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), while MIT scholars are collaborating with UVG undergraduates on ... Agency for International Development, this five-year, $15-million initiative brings together MIT, UVG, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aspiring-sustainable-developmentTabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible
For over a decade, through a collaboration managed by MIT.nano, MIT and Tecnológico de Monterrey ... fiber-extrusion devices, or FrEDs, alongside peers at MIT in an “in-the-lab” teaching and learning factory, the ... designed by MIT graduate students to teach smart manufacturing principles. On the right, an assembled FrED. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tabletop-factory-box-makes-hands-manufacturing-education-more-accessibleProfessor Slocum Awarded 2014 Department of Energy Grant
One of three MIT-led research teams to win a NEUP awards. Three MIT-led research teams have won ... between MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison to ... collaborators are Lin-wen Hu of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab; Professor Per Peterson of the University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-slocum-awarded-2014-department-energy-grantSchool of Engineering awards for 2014
The MIT School of Engineering recently honored outstanding faculty, and graduate and undergraduate ... high quality engineering education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering’s ... Environmental Engineering, and/or the MIT Sloan School of Management, who inspires students in pursuing and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2014A robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the MIT ... Discover how, in the spirit of the late MIT professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton, Boston-area ... teenagers will design and build an AUV at MIT this summer. Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nicole Estvanik Taylor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-dives-search-malaysian-airlines-flightSchool of Engineering Awards for 2016
Two MechE professors win excellence in teaching awards. The MIT School of Engineering recently ... education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering’s five other academic ... development: Duane Boning '84, SM '86, PhD '91, director of the MIT and Masdar Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2016Wind power — even without the wind
be intermittent and unpredictable. But a new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that ... diameter is about that of MIT’s Great Dome, or of the dome atop the U.S. Capitol.) Later, when power is ... store up to 6 megawatt-hours of power, the MIT researchers have calculated; that means that 1,000 such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windYoussef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou to direct the Center for Computational Engineering
Youssef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou have been named co-directors of MIT’s Center for ... MIT,” says School of Engineering Dean Anantha Chandrakasan. Photo: Lillie Paquette/School of Engineering ... “This is an exciting time for computation at MIT, and I’m delighted they have agreed to serve in this ...
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