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Under the sea
“It’s great outreach, plus really interesting research.” The expedition, known as Mission 31, will ... math classes, conducting physics research at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland ... fragile ecosystems. I’ll likely focus my graduate research on mineral extraction — seabed mining — and how ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaGoing local in the "Coral Triangle"
“The guiding question of my research,” Heber says, “is how do we keep these coral mangrove systems ... participatory action research (PAR), a core approach within the MIT Science Impact Collaborative. PAR emphasizes ... community. Next summer, she will return to Bali and share her research synthesis with the leaders of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-local-coral-triangleBringing life to computer models of marine microbes
enthusiasm for research. "He's full of ideas and new ways of doing things," says Stephanie ... Dutkiewicz, principal research scientist in the Darwin Project. "Sometimes too many ideas to ... says. "This research environment is so rich in opportunities to collaborate with experts that you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-life-computer-models-marine-microbesTackling a global warming conundrum
global mean and local temperatures is one of the tasks of the century, as made clear in research by ... a multinational team of researchers, including John Marshall at MIT, published this week in the early online ... became curious about a climate model used by a United Kingdom research group at the Met Office Hadley ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-global-warming-conundrumModeling the spread of radioactivity in seawater
in a release of radioactive seawater. Researchers Changsheng Chen of the University of Massachusetts ... as little as five years. The researchers have been building and refining their mathematical model of ... other words, the researchers can use very small grid cells to compute information about what’s going on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/modeling-spread-radioactivity-seawaterSolving the polar climate conundrum
may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better understanding of the elemental ... researchers present a useful and timely reminder that the ocean is not a passive bath tub when it comes to ... Richard Seagar, the Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-polar-climate-conundrumPrakash Govindan
himself just begun a major research project investigating water purification. “We started developing ... a thermodynamic concept that was a main focus of the research and development performed at MIT and Gradiant. CGE ... Gradiant, which employs more than 30 researchers and operators – most of which are MIT graduates, says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/prakash-govindanClass Close-Up: 2.981 New England Coastal Ecology
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Instructors Juliet Simpson, Research Engineer at MIT Sea ... Grant, and Carolina Bastidas, Research Scientist at MIT Sea Grant, use the four-week class as an ... from abroad or other parts of the US,” says Bastidas, a marine biologist who focuses her research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2981-new-england-coastal-ecologyGame changer: How Christopher Weaver transformed video games and game studies at MIT
his MIT students to do the same. A longtime research scientist and lecturer in MIT’s Comparative Media ... originally centered largely on game design and research. Weaver brought a much-needed industry perspective, ... areas ranging from education to medicine to senior care. “There’s a lot of research now that is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/game-changer-how-christopher-weaver-transformed-video-games-and-game-studies-mitExpanding 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-education-africa-cambridge-and-back-againBubble-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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-capturing-surface-helps-get-rid-foamIllustrating 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illustrating-covid-19-hygiene-educationSchool 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-second-quarter-2022-awardsA 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glimpse-inside-intelSchool 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. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2023Class 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-opens-door-new-world-mechanical-engineeringTwo 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-films-nominated-new-england-emmy-awardsAI 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-and-machine-learning-engineering-designFaculty 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-john-hartMaking 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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