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Mitigating the Impact of a Blowout Preventer Failure

Text:  PhD candidate Folkers Rojas researches how to mitigate the impact of a Blowout Preventer failure. ... describes his thesis research in mitigating the impact of a Blowout Preventer failure by using a continuous ... Engineering Energy Environment Impact Home Research Home Graduate Post-Doc Prospective Student Home ...

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Bacteria: The Good and the Bad

researches a novel method to qui <iframe width="640" height="360" ... use in a microbial fuel cell (MFC), MIT Associate Professor Cullen Buie researches a novel method to ... Research Home Undergraduate Graduate Post-Doc Prospective Student Home Prospective Undergrad Home ...

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Amos Winter Named "Innovator under 35"

innovators under 35" in 2013. His research group, GEAR Lab, develops disruptive technologies ... Review. His research group develops disruptive technologies specifically for developing regions where high ... Review as one of "35 innovators under 35" in 2013. His research group develops disruptive ...

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Innovation at the Interfaces

  “In this issue, we showcase the immense impact our faculty research has had on human health and ... Engineering Dear Friends, Education and research innovations in mechanical engineering are increasingly ... the vanguard of bioengineering research before it was even recognized as an academic field. In the ...

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Five MIT PhD students awarded 2022 J-WAFS fellowships for water and food solutions

academic year by providing networking, mentorship, and opportunities to showcase their research. New this ... year, fellowship nominations were open not only to students pursuing water research, but food-related ... research as well. The five students selected were chosen for their commitment to solutions-based research ...

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A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors

bacteria to express genetic circuits that they don’t normally have, researchers can enable them to detect ... antibiotic resistance, which enables the researchers to ensure that their genetic circuit has been correctly ... a process called horizontal gene transfer. To try to prevent this kind of gene exchange, researchers have ...

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Learning to Solve

Hallmark program “SuperUROP” lets undergrad engineers dive into a year-long research experience. ... year-long research projects that are part of the Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or ... Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), are immersed in a graduate-level research ...

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On a Mission to Measure

Mechanical engineering students at MIT get hands-on experience conducting a research study from start to ... finish during Course 2.671’s “Go Forth and Measure Project.” Students are given the freedom to research ...

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Cells get ready for their close-up

also revealed key properties, such as the cells’ density. Now the researchers have adapted that method ... Research Center and lead author of a paper describing the technique in the inaugural issue of the journal ... original 2007 version of this technology, known as tomographic phase microscopy, researchers led by the ...

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