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Pedro Reis receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation

young researchers. Reis is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental ... Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Work in his research lab — the Elasticity, Geometry ... failure into functionality. Some of Reis’ research deals with explaining the physics behind the mechanical ...

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Lallit Anand Awarded 2018 William Prager Medal

the most prestigious awards given to researchers in solid mechanics, the William Prager Medal is given ... to an individual each year for outstanding research contributions in either theoretical or ... Prager Medal for his “outstanding research contributions to large deformation plasticity theory that are ...

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Inaugural MechE Rising Stars Workshop will introduce early-career women to the world of academia

early-career researchers interested in pursuing a career in academia This fall, MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... of the brightest women graduate students, post-docs, and early-career researchers in mechanical ... brightest women graduate students, post-docs, and early-career researchers. ...

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Designing cleaner vehicles

Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), a student-led research team that is probing the future of transportation.  ... a hydrogen-powered motorcycle. The EVT, which has a long history of research into renewable energy and electric ... build something cool, but through research for the project we found that sources and knowledge-bases for ...

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Adi Mehrotra

a “revamping” of the MIT Electric Vehicle Team (EVT), a student-led research team that is probing the future of ... a hydrogen-powered motorcycle. The EVT, which has a long history of research into renewable energy and electric ... build something cool, but through research for the project we found that sources and knowledge-bases for ...

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Droplets Made to Order

New method allows microdroplets of any shape to form on a surface. MIT researchers have developed ... not involved in this research, says: “This work is a very nice follow-up” to the initial discovery ... “could potentially be useful for bio-microarrays or lab-on-a-chip applications.” The research was ...

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Crumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage

researchers have now found that crumpling a piece of graphene “paper” — a material formed by bonding together ... Australia who was not involved in this research. He says the team “provides an extremely simple but highly ... I believe will bring wearable energy storage devices closer.” The research team also included Jianfeng Zang ...

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Faculty Promotions

achievements and contributions to research, education, mentorship, and service.   Domitilla Del Vecchio, ... Arbor. Professor Del Vecchio’s research focuses on control of nonlinear systems and has two main thrusts: ... multidisciplinary dynamical system modeling, the ability to realize her research results in physical form, the ...

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Lallit Anand selected for ASME Drucker Medal

field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering through research, teaching, and service to the ...

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Two from MIT named to Popular Science's Brilliant 10 list

brilliant young researchers is our chance to honor the most promising work — and the most hardworking people ... Institute for Brain Research and a core member of the Broad Institute. He received the award for his work on ... list. Ten MIT researchers were included on previous lists. Monday, September 16, 2013 Charles Jennings ...

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MIT alum receives Navy award

course of [his] career as an Acquisition Professional.” Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research ...

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Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing

Science and Engineering Bioengineering Environment Security Impact Home Research Home Undergraduate ...

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Professor A. Douglas Carmichael, Leading Ocean Engineer, Passes Away at 86

chief engineer at Dracones, Limited, developing a flexible oil barge and researching materials, ... handling, and hydrodynamics; and then as a senior project engineer for Northern Research and Engineering in ... a research fellow for four years, supervising several graduate students, then transitioned to English ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-douglas-carmichael-leading-ocean-engineer-passes-away-86

The tenured engineers of 2017

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, does research in bioelectronics, specifically the ... for applications in biotechnology, fluid mechanics, and energy. His research is applicable to ... Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has research interests that include the instability of ...

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