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Inside the Innards of a Nuclear Reactor

of MIT’s d’Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, says one of the major ... place.   Exerpted from a story by Jennifer Chu. To read the whole story, visit MIT’s New Office: ... http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/nuclear-robots-0721.html. Monday, December 5, 2011 sadlers gray asada@mit.edu ...

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Professor Alberto Rodriguez presents work on robotic extrinsic dexterity

robotic hands.   Friday, July 11, 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering blue ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU ...

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Lallit Anand selected for ASME Drucker Medal

Mechanical Engineering yellow anand@mit.edu ...

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Research update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces

Researchers at MIT have followed up on their discovery that droplets of water acquire an electric ... reported in the journal ACS Nano by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical ... droplets are removed, the cleaner the surface. The research was supported by MIT’s Solid-State ...

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Megan Smith

Megan Smith received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT in ... (CTO) of the United States of America.   A past member of the MIT Corporation, Smith has had a prolific ... familiar, but it gets the best results.”   Smith will deliver the address at MIT’s 2015 Commencement ...

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Rock music helps students and educators explore engineering

hands-on approach to teaching is thanks in large part to her MIT education, especially Professor Emeritus ... of Mechanical Engineering) while at MIT. “He had an amazing way of getting you to learn by doing. ... This story was originally posted on the Slice of MIT blog. Thursday, April 19, 2018 Jay London | MIT ...

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J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants

(J-WAFS) at MIT. J-WAFS is funding these and other projects through its fifth round of seed grants, ... providing over $1 million in funding to the MIT research community. These grants, which are funded ... competitively to MIT principal investigators (PIs) across all five schools at the Institute, exemplify the ...

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Less-wasteful laser-cutting

in mind can even be fabricated. With this in mind, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and ... Ticha Sethapakdi, who led the development of the system alongside MIT Professor Stefanie Mueller, ... Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Adam Conner-Simons | MIT CSAIL Collaboration Entrepreneurship Horizontal A team ...

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A low-tech solution for high-impact health care

first-ever hackathon. Photo courtesy of the MIT Innovation Initiative. Most ailments are easily treatable if ... or technology, a team of MIT undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students from multiple disciplines set ... Rome on the weekend of March 8-11. Student organizers from Harvard University and MIT worked with the ...

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D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries

MIT D-Lab students and instructors are improving the efficacy and economics of a brooder ... the MIT D-Lab class 2.652/EC.712 (Applications of Energy in Global Development), with mentors and ... CDAS-BC), and an intern. Photo courtesy of MIT D-Lab. Developed through participatory design with ...

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Department News

engineering and computer science at MIT, is internationally recognized for his work with MechE Professor ... University College Dublin, and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. His PhD research is ... is One in a Million Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer With a sailing pavilion steps away from MIT ...

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Innovation at the Interfaces

interface between mechanical engineering and biology. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering was at ... http://meche.mit.edu/people/cloud. Thank you, as always, for your continued support of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. ...

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Study shows forward osmosis desalination not energy efficient

In a recent study published in the Journal of Membrane Science, MIT professor John Lienhard and ... Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ...

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Catching (radio) waves

In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency ... MIT’s Auto-ID Center, ThingMagic developed RFID readers for the supply chain that could read many tags, ... from a Somerville, Mass., garage to an office in MIT’s neighborhood of Kendall Square, the company, ...

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Ira Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91

prominent scientists, and he served as head of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering (which later ... nurtured. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and studied at MIT under the GI bill ... Dyer became head of the MIT Department of Ocean Engineering, which eventually merged with the ...

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New parameters in graduate mentoring

than any other on-campus resource, according to the most recent MIT Enrolled Graduate Student Survey. ... for holistic graduate mentorship at MIT. Three of the most recent honorees, professors Cullen Buie, ... says Buie, for professional and personal reasons. “There is a tendency at a place like MIT to believe ...

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Reducing the burden of tuberculosis treatment

medical facilities. To help overcome that, a team of researchers led by MIT has devised a new way to ... Traverso, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at ... Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, are the senior authors of the ...

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Researchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans

challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... we could do with laser ultrasound,” says Brian W. Anthony, a principal research scientist in MIT ... MIT postdoc Xiang (Shawn) Zhang, recent doctoral graduate Jonathan Fincke, along with Charles Wynn, ...

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Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ... source. The system, which builds on a design initially developed three years ago at MIT by members of the ... Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; ...

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Advancing industry convergence through technology and innovation

Launched in October 2020, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology ... MIT graduate students working on research in industry and technology convergence who are ... Fatunde. Bottom row, left to right: André Medeiros Sztutman and Kaymie Shiozawa. Photo Credit: MIT News ...

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