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Audrey Chen

interning at NASA. She asked her mentor and became a drone air traffic control researcher at NASA at 15. “I ... Admissions), working as a researcher sampling deep-sea sediment, or notably, running the ... researched as land autonomy is. There’s immense potential for marine autonomy to benefit the world. You think ...

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The Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown

planet.” Indeed, it is only in the past few decades that researchers have really been able to inspect, ... to look into the oceans. His OAWRS technique allowed researchers to take images of areas about 100 ... foundation for the use of acoustics as a means for gathering ocean data. Researchers at MIT have also ...

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Inventing soft things to solve hard problems

to become one of the most prolific engineering researchers at MIT. When people ask him what his lab ... underwater without losing their grip. The research showed that the sticky substances in barnacles are bathed ... added chitosan, a sugar derived from shellfish skeletons. The researchers froze the mixture into sheets ...

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Pushing the limits of athletic performance

Some of the research projects stem from the needs of industry partners, while others are inspired by ... work done in the lab to athletics. Many MechE faculty are conducting cutting-edge research at the ... Engineering and Emmy Awards rarely go hand-in-hand — unless you’re Principal Research Scientist Brian Anthony, ...

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“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid

clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ... the glowing metal back into electricity when it’s needed. The researchers estimate that such a system ... system stems from a project in which the researchers looked for ways to increase the efficiency of a form ...

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School of Engineering second quarter 2019 awards

was named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society on May 2. Elazer R. Edelman, of the Institute for ... the Outstanding Researcher Award from Intel Corporation on April 1. Song Han, of the Department of ... of Mechanical Engineering, awarded the Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research ...

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Daniel Hastings and Maria Yang appointed associate deans of engineering

the director of SMART, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He was appointed head ... Hastings is a recognized leader whose research spans laser material interactions, fusion plasma physics, ... to aeronautics and astronautics research, Hastings has received numerous honors including: the Losey ...

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NASA selects three MIT alumni for astronaut training

completion, missions may involve performing research aboard the International Space Station, launching from ... astronomer at a naval research lab in Washington and to research supernovae at NASA's Goddard Space ... researcher. He most recently worked as a medical physicist in the Radiation Oncology Department at the Brigham ...

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Manipulating the future

of his own research at the Toyota Research Institute and MIT’s Robot Locomotion Group, and it became ... in robotics is precisely what drew graduate student Anubhav Guha to the course. His research focuses ... directly related to his research. “I kind of wanted to explore the field a bit and get a feel for the ...

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MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders

engineering, where they work on Navy-related research ranging from autonomous vehicles to applied ocean ... doing research that is valuable to our nation’s security, and the high esteem the Navy places on MIT ... which continues to support the Navy and MIT’s naval programs through its research. The 2N program was ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Meg O’Neill (SB ’93, SM ’94)

O’Neill first started with ExxonMobil at its Upstream Research Company, the oil industry was just starting ... cutting edge applied research. Moving into the production environment put all that engineering in ...

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Talking Shop with Professor David Gossard

computer science and its intersection with mechanical engineering. His research activities included solid ... and principal research scientist Simona Socrates taught 2.01x). His fundamental dynamics course, ...

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Student Spotlight: Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang (Candidate SB ’14)

– which now has almost 200 members; conducted high-level research, working on the mechanical aspects of ... summer doing an internship,” she says. “I thought I would spend my junior summer conducting research, but ...

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Today's Annoyances, Tomorrow's Technology

shells — Reis pursues “curiosity-based research” at the interface of science and engineering. “The ... of delicate sine waves. Reis wondered why. Now, in his lab, at one bench researchers analyze what ...

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A gold medal in oceanography

processes. His research has focused on problems of ocean circulation involving interactions between motions ... triggered a vast amount of research, including the Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment, a major field ...

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Professor Koichi Masubuchi, Leading Expert in Welding Science and Fabrication Technology, Passes Away at 92.

division of the Transportation Technical Research Institute in Tokyo before taking leave to serve in ... was having with its Apollo project. During his 50 years conducting research on welding technology, ...

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David Hesslink: Taking his passion to the major leagues

to join him on another project as part of a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program). ... Cousins, who now works in research and development for the Rays, and they undertook a new project to invent ...

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David Hesslink

as part of a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program). Together they worked with the Houston ... intern for the Tampa Bay Rays. He teamed up yet again with Cousins, who now works in research and ...

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Ten from MIT awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Department of Mathematics. During his time at MIT, Devalapurkar has worked on projects at the Emory Research ... Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), MIT’s Summer Program for Undergraduate Research, and the University of ... building technology in the MIT Department of Architecture, Mohamed Ismail is researching the application of ...

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