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Talking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson

Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, there is only one way to get to work – on his beloved bike. Cycling ... premiere authority on bicycle design and MIT Press’s best selling book, he was recently invited to work on ... a fourth edition. David Gordon Wilson_1024.jpg Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson on the world-record ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao

that frequently cause discomfort, and in some instances infection. Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao is ... Engineering Entrepreneurship International Horizontal Associate Professor Xuanhe Zhao is making comfortable ...

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Alumni Spotlight: Associate Professor Hugh Herr (SM ’93)

  A condensed version of a story by Courtney Humphries, MIT Technology Review   Uncomfortable ... that technologists can do better. An associate professor of media arts and sciences and leader of the ... Biomechatronics Group in MIT’s Media Lab, Herr is building sophisticated devices that aid human movement by ...

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Three MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced three MIT professors among the members of the ... mit-bush-fellows-24_0.png: Left to right: Domitilla Del Vecchio, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences & ... influential inventor, engineer, former professor, and dean of the School of Engineering at MIT, the highly ...

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Student robot competition honors the legacy of the late beloved professor, Woodie Flowers

future engineers as a professor at MIT, a co-founder of the global FIRST Robotics Competition, and host ... own decision to become a professor. Reflecting on the MIT Commencement address she gave in 2015, Megan ... the competition’s founder, the late Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers. Flowers inspired generations of ...

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Professor Emeritus T. Francis Ogilvie, former ocean engineering department head, dies at 89

he resigned from his role at the University of Michigan, and in 1982 he arrived at MIT as professor ... Thomas (T.) Francis Ogilvie, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, passed away on March 30, at ... architecture programs educated students. He served as department head for MIT’s Department of Ocean Engineering ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley

Fog-harvesting system developed by MIT and Chilean researchers could provide potable water for the ... world’s driest regions.   By David Chandler, MIT News Office   Photo courtesy of researchers. In some of ... pull it right out of the air, from fog that drifts in from warm oceans nearby. Now researchers at MIT ...

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3 questions with James H. Williams, Jr., professor of mechanical engineering

Fellow. He is also the first MIT professor to be named the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching ... In two new textbooks, Professor of Mechanical Engineering James H. Williams, Jr. shares his ... engineering knowledge, joy, and teaching style that have inspired generations of MIT students as well as ...

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Talking Shop: Professor Ian W. Hunter

Zealand, where he is an honorary professor, and has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since ... The Micro Mass Spectrometer   by Alissa Mallinson   Photo credit: Tony Pulsone Professor Ian W. ... and the world around us. ****** Hatsopoulos Professor of Mechanical Engineering Ian W. Hunter is ...

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Talking Shop with Professor John Leonard

University of Oxford (1994). http://marinerobotics.mit.edu/ John Google.jpg Professor John Leonard trying the ... 3, 2016 Alissa Mallinson Culture Education JLEONARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Professor John Leonard talks ... Self-Driving Cars John J. Leonard is the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering and ...

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LiquiGlide

Professor Varanasi’s Condiment-Bottle Coating Gives Waste the Slip   Photo: Courtesy of the ... Varanasi Research Group by Alissa Mallinson   The Varanasi Research Group, led by Associate Professor Kripa ... Day. Along with Professor Kripa Varanasi, the LiquiGlide team is J. David Smith, Christopher J. Love, ...

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Targeting Product Design for the Developing World

differences, in cultural expectations. goa-market 1024.jpg Based on Professor Yang’s studies, designing for ... microentrepreneurs’ needs can increase a company’s chances of succeeding in an emerging market In a new MIT study, ... Associate Professor Maria Yang and her research team suggest that microentrepreneurs are a promising and ...

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Professor Emeritus Ernest Cravalho, an expert in thermodynamics and pioneer in thermal fluids education, dies at 82

Ernest “Ernie” Cravalho, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT, passed away on ... Tuesday, April 13, at the age of 82. Cravalho served as a member of MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty ... transfer, and bioengineering, Cravalho helped shape MIT’s thermodynamics education into what it is today. ...

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Professor Emeritus Justin “Jake” Kerwin, an expert in propeller design and ship hydrodynamics, dies at 90

Justin “Jake” Kerwin ’53, SM ’54, PhD ’61, professor emeritus of naval architecture, passed away ... at the age of 90 on May 23. Kerwin, who served on MIT’s ocean engineering faculty for four decades, ... As an undergraduate at MIT he joined the MIT Sailing Team. In his research, he developed the ...

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Stephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92

Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random ... professor in 1991. Across MIT, Crandall is remembered as an outstanding teacher and scholar, noted for the ... World War II, he joined MIT as a staff member in the Radiation Laboratory in 1942. After earning his PhD ...

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Professor Slocum Awarded 2014 Department of Energy Grant

collaborators are Lin-wen Hu of the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab; Professor Per Peterson of the University of ... One of three MIT-led research teams to win a NEUP awards. Three MIT-led research teams have won ... between MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison to ...

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Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram, a leader in ship design and hydrodynamics, dies at 83

Jerome Milgram ’61, PhD ’65, professor emeritus of ocean engineering at MIT, passed away at the ... Milgram received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1961, where he also served as captain of the sailing ... Milgram joined the faculty at MIT, where he would spend the remainder of his career. As the W.I. Koch ...

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Lifetime Achievement: Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram

standard today.   Shortly thereafter, Professor Milgram became a member of the faculty at MIT, and was ... in MechE and Professor of Ocean Engineering.    “He has an approach that’s uniquely MIT,” adds Professor ... The Sherlock Holmes of the Seas by Alissa Mallinson   Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram Photo ...

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Ernesto Blanco, mechanical design professor and inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair, dies at 94

Ernesto E. Blanco, a renown inventor, mechanical designer, and beloved former professor in MIT ... an assistant professor position at MIT. In 1964, he temporarily left MIT and accepted a role on the ... lecture halls. He was invited by Professor Robert Mann to join MechE at MIT as an adjunct full professor ...

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Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91

David Gordon Wilson, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away on May 2 at the age ... of 91. Wilson served on MIT’s faculty since 1966 and remained an active member of the mechanical ... Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to conduct research abroad at MIT and Harvard University. At the conclusion of his ...

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