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MIT launches MITx MicroMasters in Principles of Manufacturing

Manufacturing and Design, originally established at MIT in 2001 through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research ... curriculum, which is the result of many years of research and development, to learners around the world ...

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum honors MIT D-Lab with National Design Award

today. D-Lab’s programs include more than 20 interdisciplinary courses, six research groups working in ... D-Lab’s nearly 20 years of world-leading collaborative design education and research focused on empowering ...

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The Making of a Mechanical Engineer in Seven UROPs

the office that housed the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Having worked through ... faculty-mentored research across all disciplines. Slice_201910_Rojas4 1024.jpg In those days before the whole ...

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Student Spotlight: Peter Godart '15, SM '19, PhD Candidate

applications for space exploration, he realized he wanted to devote his attention to researching solutions for ... research focus. “I want to take the world’s aluminum trash that’s sitting in landfills and extract the ...

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Class Close-Up: 2.S999

Solving for carbon neutrality at MIT While so many faculty and researchers at MIT are developing ... energy use on campus. One takeaway from her research was the need for better controls and sensors to ...

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Folkers Rojas

the office that housed the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Having worked through ... faculty-mentored research across all disciplines. In those days before the whole process moved online, “My job was ...

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Peter Godart

applications for space exploration, he realized he wanted to devote his attention to researching solutions for ... research focus. “I want to take the world’s aluminum trash that’s sitting in landfills and extract the ...

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Data Science in Manufacturing Projects

research and education on campus and outline the information about the projects. In the second, we invite ... by sharing some research in data science and its application with partner manufacturing companies. ...

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Helping underrepresented doctoral students of color thrive in the broader MIT community

appreciated the flexibility of the funding, which can be used to attend conferences and for research expenses ... necessarily go to a network event in my community of research to talk about those things,” she says. “But [at ...

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Laura Rosado

Rosado embarked on a lifelong romance with trains, and she says a current research interest in ... MIT’s Human Systems Lab and Little Devices Lab. Her 2019 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program ...

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Five from MIT named 2023 Quad Fellows

an electrochemical materials researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, designing solid-state ... witnessing blackouts in his native Puerto Rico following Hurricane María. He has presented his research on ...

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Bianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries

Program, which applies MIT research and engineering to ocean-related challenges, Champenois is developing ... will make Champenois’s results available to stakeholders such as research scientists, industry ...

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Building a better indoor herb garden

hard for me to keep working on my research,” Briggs shares. Briggs ordered a home hydroponic garden in ... healthier to cook your own food at home.” After much research and experimentation, GardenByte was born in ...

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Imagine it, Build it

how 2.679 combined lessons about electronics with research and presentations from Buonassisi’s lab. ... “It’s great seeing engineering applied in research,” she says, adding that the class opened up a whole ...

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There’s Magic in Mechatronics

are very much informed by what Trumper has found important in his research. The two-week-long lab ... real tools that they will find useful years from now in their own engineering research or practice. ...

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MIT students' works redefine human-AI collaboration

to research and science in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and a premier ... research collaborator Keunwook Kim, is a device that creates collective memories by merging the deeply ...

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On a quest for a better football helmet

says. “We did this with a fraction of the research and development budget of our competitors. It’s ... project. He started full time with LIGHT last year. Since then, Brush has managed research and development ...

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Kodiak Brush