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Bryan Schmid

MechE alumni Nate Ball (SB ’05, SM ’07) and Bryan Schmid (SB ’03, SM ’05) entered the MIT ... sales was actually to MIT for that purpose: the Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and ... difficult was the transition from engineering to entrepreneurship? MIT certainly fosters an interest in ...

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Moderating Extremes in Building Design

and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ... for that. One option is to use aerogel. It’s not a new technology, but, in conjunction with MIT ... another possibility, a recent project in India supported by the MIT Tata Center is testing new roof ...

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A New Mechanism for Catalyzing the Splitting of Water

researchers at MIT, the Skoltech Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin show in a new ... contains precious metals. Through collaboration with MIT theorists, the team unraveled how the reaction ... nature of the electronic structure in cobalt and oxygen,” MIT mechanical engineering graduate student Xi ...

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Talking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V

problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... irrigation. Amazing things are being done at MIT in all of these areas, and the Department of Mechanical ... your role as director of MIT’s water and food initiative, J-WAFS, what do you see as the Institute’s ...

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Internet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other

Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... lost in the supply chain. So, Sarma, along with research scientist David Brock of MIT and Kevin Ashton, ... remains active today, emerged from the MIT Auto ID Center. “In many ways that effort also laid the ...

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How cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components

MIT have found that these organelles and other intracellular components may experience the surrounding ... team, led by Ming Guo, the Brit and Alex d'Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor in MIT ... at MIT, who will join Guo’s lab as a graduate student this fall. Other co-authors include Yulong Han, ...

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Engineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight

a sidewinding rollercoaster — a flight pattern known as dynamic soaring. Albatross_1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... Now engineers at MIT have developed a new model to simulate dynamic soaring, and have used it to ... Bousquet, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “The region is extremely ...

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No more blackouts?

at MIT have developed a method for guaranteeing the stability of any microgrid that runs on direct ... current, or DC — an architecture that was originally proposed as part of the MIT Tata Center’s uLink ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “In the end, it is a step toward lower-cost microgrids that can ...

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How to float your coffee creamer

what if the two liquids didn’t mix? MIT scientists have now explained why under certain conditions ... able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... engineering, John Bush, professor of applied mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics, and Gareth ...

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Robo-picker grasps and packs

stored. Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day ... Engineering at MIT. Rodriguez and his colleagues at MIT and Princeton will present a paper detailing their ... Mathworks, and Amazon. Sunday, February 18, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Entrepreneurship ...

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Derek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing

by layer, in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's additive manufacturing (AM) machines. They were also ... drones, and breath monitors. He earned a master's of engineering in manufacturing degree at MIT ... coined by an MIT professor when machines first used inkjet heads to dispense adhesives to bind layers ...

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Measuring cancer cell “fitness” reveals drug susceptibility

By studying both the physical and genomic features of cancer cells, MIT researchers have come up ... MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), an extramural member of the Koch Institute ... Scott Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering ...

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Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip

MIT’s new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals ... developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... hallways of MIT’s Pappalardo Lab and along the slightly uneven ground of Killian Court. In both ...

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Researchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid

typically a much more random process. Now, a study by researchers at MIT and Princeton University shows that ... a paper by MIT graduate Amir Pahlavan PhD ’18, Professor Howard Stone of Princeton, MIT School of ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and MIT Professor Ruben Juanes. The key to ...

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Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping

engineers at MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to control ... the approach as an MIT postdoc. “Now if you want to open a heavy door, the human can command the robot ... mechanical engineering at MIT.   More than motion Previously, Kim and Ramos built the two-legged robot HERMES ...

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Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics

inflexible. Now a process developed by MIT engineers may be the key to manufacturing flexible electronics with ... functionality, in one flexible chip,” says Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Jackson Bauer, and Caroline Ross from MIT, along with collaborators from the University of Wisconsin at ...

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“Inactive” pill ingredients could raise the dose of your medication

twist, MIT researchers have discovered that two other inactive ingredients may actually boost medication ... increasingly helping to identify and design new drugs. In a recent discovery, MIT researchers used a deep ... postdoc at MIT’s  Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. If a promising biological association is ...

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Understanding the impact of climate change on the ocean

RS3824_2020 Michelle Kornberg 1024.jpg Photo By Tony Pulsone During MIT’s First-Year Pre-Orientation Program, ... her first year, Kornberg started working with the MIT Sea Grant College Program as an undergraduate ... others who had a background in materials science.” The student team built a prototype for an MIT Lincoln ...

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Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions

The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center, one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s ... meet these challenges with a cohort of industry members that are supporting promising MIT research, ... resulted in 15 entries by MIT researchers. “The application process revealed a great deal of interest from ...

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Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread

A model developed by MIT researchers shows a direct link between the number of people who become infected ... global statistics of this pandemic,” says lead author Raj Dandekar, a graduate student in MIT ... work,” says co-author Christopher Rackauckas, an applied mathematics instructor at MIT. “Instead, good ...

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