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Peter Lehner

Prospective-Students Prospective-Undergrad Research Education Graduate Undergraduate Alumni ...

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MechE student named a Rhodes Scholar

independent research on the legal challenges faced by new technologies with John Akula, a senior lecturer at ...

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MIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage

research to develop the design further. The next iteration will be more compact, have a slightly different ... research scientist Nevan Hanumara MS ’06, PhD ’12 to help lead the initial ramp up. “The numbers are ... them into engineering design requirements takes a lot of time and effort. This is a year-long research ...

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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 ...

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Design’s new frontier

part of the first wave in computing in design. The ability of researchers and practitioners to ... outcomes of design research in my opinion,” says Maria Yang, Gail E. Kendall Professor and director of ... sparked a second revolution in design engineering. Researchers and faculty at MIT’s Department of ...

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3-D Printing 101

together quick prototypes and use spaces ranging from research labs to maker spaces was essential  to ... additive manufacturing. “Through our teaching and research, we hope to open up new opportunities for 3-D ...

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Using Engineering Savvy to Improve Product Designs

versions.  Currently, Burnell’s research focuses on improving existing engineering design software. One ... structure, rather than requiring the engineer to click a button. Burnell explains that this research aims to ...

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Talking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V

Engineering in particular is working on almost every one of these issues. How does your research fit in? My ... have gone on to form two companies based on the developments. We’ve also done a lot of research on the ...

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Tapping the hidden value of farm waste, while reducing harmful burn off

but it remains inaccessible to farmers in remote regions of the world. Ghoniem and Kung’s research ... previously started a biochar company in Kenya. But his PhD research aims to contribute to the fundamental ...

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High-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch

for their food. The researchers then set up an experimental 10-gallon tank, which they filled with ... researchers also tracked the direction and speed of the particles in the tank as the fish propelled itself out ...

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Finding leaks while they’re easy to fix

developing world. Now, a new system developed by researchers at MIT could provide a fast, inexpensive ... MIT-Leak-Detection-1024.jpg Researchers have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in ...

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Ken Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand

Ken Kamrin has dedicated his research to predicting the behavior of sand and other granular material, ... granted tenure, has dedicated his research to predicting the behavior of sand and other granular material, ...

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Asegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun

Ridge National Laboratories, Northwestern University, and the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research ... Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E. Each postdoc helped to crystallize his own research goals. At Oak Ridge, ...

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Ritu Raman Is an Architect of Muscle and Nerve

pillars. Her research was the first to demonstrate that light stimulation could be used to exercise muscle. ... is diseased or injured,” Raman says. In recent, unpublished research, Raman’s muscle studies have ...

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MIT-derived algorithm helps forecast the frequency of extreme weather

patterns around the world at a resolution of 110 kilometers. The researchers used eight years of past data ... was supported, in part, by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Monday, March 25, 2024 ...

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New computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials

standard benchmark approach. The researchers intend to use the technique to speed up the search for ... correctly. With that goal in mind, the researchers developed two new computer vision algorithms to ...

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The Quest for Clean Water

MIT researchers design a solar-powered desalination device for rural India. The air was hot and ... Amos Winter, director of the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at the MIT Department of ... and PhD candidate Natasha Wright, a researcher in Winter’s GEAR Lab and a fellow of the MIT Tata ...

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Faculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak

performance of a particular material,” Kolpak says. The researchers also quantified the relationship between ... first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... and then they did a project using DFT that was related to some of their research. I had one student do ...

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Seeing solutions through, across continents

to Peru to research, test, and implement several technologies that promote health and sustainability ... from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). With the help of their advisor, D-Lab ...

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Cheetah III robot preps for a role as a first responder

down version of the Cheetah, called the Mini Cheetah, designed for robotics research and education. ... motivated more by potential applications than pure research. Kim and his team studied the requirements for ...

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