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Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again

beneficial research, education, and innovation, contributing to economic and intellectual trajectories of ... African countries, while advancing MIT scholarship and research. “We are always looking to build ... with data processing and validation pipelines during his physics research in the Laboratory for Nuclear ...

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Bubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam

product and may require extra processing steps for their removal. Now, researchers at MIT have come up ... Kripa Varanasi. The new system uses surfaces the researchers call “aerophilic,” which attract and shed ... International Horizontal The Varanasi Research Group has developed system for reducing or eliminating foam ...

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Illustrating Covid-19 hygiene education

Product Engineering Processes, she learned the importance of good user research and user design. ... Florentine_Jasmine_1024.jpg “One of the central challenges when doing user research is figuring out how to clearly communicate ... in rural India. As a result, she had to get creative with her user research. Armed with look-a-like ...

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School of Engineering second quarter 2022 awards

Department of Chemical Engineering received the Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research from ... the  International Association for Cryptologic Research on June 27.   Dina Katabi of the Department of ... Science and Engineering was named a 2022 Materials Research Society Fellow on April 28.   Vinod ...

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A glimpse inside Intel

provides $52 billion in federal funding for research, design, and manufacturing in the U.S. semiconductor ... a bullish note, suggesting that vast new areas of research had been opened up in recent years — which also ... science and engineering. While discussing with Bulović the interaction between academic research and ...

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School of Engineering awards for 2023

EECS; and   Anne White, associate provost and associate vice president for research administration and ... research assistant. Staff awards The Ellen J. Mandigo Award for Outstanding Service, presented for the ... of Engineering’s administrative, support, sponsored research, and, when appropriate, academic staff. ...

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Class opens the door to a new world of mechanical engineering

Carlos Portela wanted to give students a hands-on research experience at the exciting frontier of their ... graduate-level research and use very high-level facilities,” he says. “It got me excited to potentially go back ... into research.”   This article appeared in the Spring 2024 edition of our magazine, MechE Connects. For ...

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Two MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards

environmental research. “No Drop to Spare,” created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was ... MechE senior producer and creative lead, follows a team of researchers from the  K. Lisa Yang Global ... Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center working in Kenya, Morocco, and Jordan to deploy affordable, user-driven ...

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AI and machine learning for engineering design

Computation and Digital Engineering Lab (DeCoDE), where research focuses on developing new machine learning ... the practice skill of “literally how to code it.” The curriculum incorporates discussions on research ... “Student projects from this course often lead to research publications, and have even led to awards.” He ...

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Faculty highlight: A. John Hart

mechatronic hardware to achieve two objectives: one, to build a machine that could help out the researcher by ... research and to use automation to discover hidden factors in the process." Hart envisions a day when ... Research and Office of Naval Research, National, and the Deshpande Center at MIT. The group is affiliated ...

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Making waves

particularly apt for Lermusiaux, who has devoted his research, in part, to eliminating unlikely scenarios in ... of this computational engineering work can be done remotely, thanks to the Internet. Researchers can ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, his group carries out research in mechanics, computations and control. ...

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New heads of house join undergraduate and graduate communities to start the fall semester

enjoyed themselves, especially the contact with students outside classrooms and labs.” In his research ... group, Jarillo-Herrero has regular contact with students from MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... undergraduates as heads of house. Why Next House? Jarillo-Herrero researched the student-produced Interactive ...

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Three professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows

activities, research, travel, and other scholarly expenses. With the addition of the 2017 fellows, the program ... research, primarily through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). UROP was established by ... address the future of undergraduate research. The MacVicar Day symposium will take place on Friday, March ...

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To advance climate action, MIT seeks partnerships beyond industry

even this one, to solve alone,” said Maria Zuber, MIT’s vice president for research, in opening ... the Vice President for Research is taking stock of the Institute’s climate progress to date. The ... that policymakers know to turn to MIT for scientifically-sound climate research. “In my ideal world, ...

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The answer may be blowing in the wind

R&D advances Moderating a panel on MIT research that is moving the industry forward, Robert Stoner, ... Stoner said, researchers must first address some serious issues, including building and maintaining these ... significantly for offshore installations, dramatically improving their efficiencies. Howland hopes his research ...

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Panel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future

and associate vice president for research administration and a professor of nuclear science and ... delicate balancing of production with demand. Anuradha Annaswamy, a senior research scientist in MIT’s ... MITEnergyInt_June23_1024x768.jpg Senior Research Scientist Anuradha Annaswamy (center) and other speakers addressed areas where new ...

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Addressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design

Leon Glicksman of the  Building Technology Program  within the Department of Architecture, and Research ... fruit and vegetables. After studying existing cold storage options and conducting user research with ... Glicksman, a professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, drew on his previous research in ...

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The future of motorcycles could be hydrogen

and “we want to provide this bike as a platform for researchers and for education, where researchers ... a commercial product, Mehrotra says, “our vehicle is fully designed for research, so you can swap components in ... in research.” He adds that “at the moment, this vehicle is affordable for research, but it’s not ...

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Bioinspired robotics class offers intriguing surprises

researchers need to understand this cognitive bias, this tendency toward  anthropomorphism, in order to even ... begin developing robots that can help humans with their physical movements. While Kim’s research ... stamina.” The research projects that 2.74 students embark on in the second half of the class single out very ...

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Full Steam Ahead

instructional and research purposes; the effect of the governing method upon the economy, and the effect of ... under the Department.” Some of these labs are still operating today, though their names and research ... Heat Transfer Lab is home to research in transport phenomena and energy conversion processes for solar ...

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