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Sun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge
MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) completed their first race in three years, the 2018 ... vehicle class. SEVT-American-Solar-Challenge-2018-team-and-car-1024.jpg The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle ... Team poses with their solar vehicle. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team The event ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-car-shines-american-solar-challengeAlum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market
MIT's Translational Fellows Program enables the move with special funding for entrepreneurs. ... Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ... transport. With the assistance of MIT’s Translational Fellows Program (TFP), McGovern has been able to focus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-marketAspiring to sustainable development
In a first for both universities, MIT undergraduates are engaged in research projects at the ... Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG), while MIT scholars are collaborating with UVG undergraduates on ... Agency for International Development, this five-year, $15-million initiative brings together MIT, UVG, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/aspiring-sustainable-developmentTabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible
For over a decade, through a collaboration managed by MIT.nano, MIT and Tecnológico de Monterrey ... fiber-extrusion devices, or FrEDs, alongside peers at MIT in an “in-the-lab” teaching and learning factory, the ... designed by MIT graduate students to teach smart manufacturing principles. On the right, an assembled FrED. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tabletop-factory-box-makes-hands-manufacturing-education-more-accessibleJani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Two MIT seniors, Jani Adcock and Drew Bent, will be part of this fall’s inaugural class of ... Natel Energy, she designed components for a novel hydropower system. At MIT, she has served as an ... adviser for the student-run MIT Fall Career Fair, and as vice president of career development for MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsAdvocating for science funding on Capitol Hill
This spring, 26 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional ... spring, the MIT Science Policy Initiative (SPI) organizes the Congressional Visit Days (CVD). The trip ... members of the MIT Washington Office and learn about policy careers. group-picture.png Congressional Visit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advocating-science-funding-capitol-hillLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will ... microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT's departments of Aeronautics ... Engineering; MIT Kavli Institute; the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology; the MIT Computer Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityA Not-So-Trivial Pursuit
Senior Ernesto Ramirez is the first MIT student to compete in the "Hispanic College ... Crayton says Ramirez did very well: “He did a great job representing his family, his culture, and MIT ... addition to being a first for MIT, it sends an important message about the Institute. “This is just one way ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-so-trivial-pursuitA brave new ocean world
research engineer at MIT, says to describe the ceiling-to-floor map of the world ocean and continents that ... covers the walls outside his office in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary ... of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), a very widely used ocean modeling tool. Development of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/brave-new-ocean-worldStick with me
has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ... and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... stayed their entire time at MIT. “I feel truly lucky to have made such a terrific friend in Jerry,” says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meStudent Spotlight: Melinda Hale (PhD ’13) and Allison Yost (SM ’12)
couldn’t do it without the MIT entrepreneurial community, comprising an army of faculty, students, and ... years, she has been an organizer of the MIT Global Startup Workshop, which began as part of the MIT $100K ... identifies and maintains that point. Along with two partners she met through the MIT Martin Trust Center for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-melinda-hale-phd-%E2%80%9913-and-allison-yost-sm-%E2%80%9912Marilyn Wolfson named 2012 fellow of the American Meteorological Society
Marilyn M. Wolfson SM '83, PhD '90, associate leader of the Weather Sensing Group at MIT ... University of Michigan and both SM and PhD degrees from MIT, where she was named an Ida M. Green Fellow. She ... received the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence award in 2005 for “her work in the application of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/marilyn-wolfson-named-2012-fellow-american-meteorological-societyCSAIL, MechE marine experts win international self-driving boat competition
researchers from MIT and Olin College as one of 15 teams competing in the Maritime RobotX Challenge, which ... searching underwater for acoustic sources. MIT-Olin outperformed other universities from Australia, Japan, ... previous month, the MIT-Olin team’s boat had capsized on the Charles River, forcing them to completely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/csail-meche-marine-experts-win-international-self-driving-boat-competitionNews & Research
Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-researchSolving a Rubik's Cube in record time
better with improved motors and controls.” The pair met through the MIT Electronics Research Society, ... a motor actuating each face of a Rubik’s Cube," explains Katz, who conducts research at MIT ... by: Ben Katz/Jared Di Carlo | 0 min, 33 sec Thursday, March 15, 2018 MIT News Office Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-rubiks-cube-record-timeGraduate students win first place in 2019 Patagonia Case Competition
and Ty Christoff-Tempesta. A group of six MIT PhD and MBA students collaborated to develop and hone ... 2019 competition marks the first time that an MIT team has won first place in the Patagonia Case ... Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering, as well as from the MIT Sloan Sustainability ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-students-win-first-place-2019-patagonia-case-competitionSupporting the Covid-19 vaccine rollout with extra-strength glass
never expected to be at the forefront of a pandemic — who does? — but his participation in the MIT ... Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as an SM from the MIT Sloan School of Management. “I was really ... drawn to the MIT LGO program because it covered three main areas: engineering and technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-covid-19-vaccine-rollout-extra-strength-glassTackling social issues through engineering and theater
1024-Susan-Su-01-press_0.jpg Susan Su is an MIT senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in ... engineering major at MIT, Su had childhood dreams of being an artist, but she had never been exposed to ... were.” Su returned to MIT with a new appreciation for theater, not only as an art form but as a medium ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-social-issues-through-engineering-and-theaterPhD student recognized by International Desalination Association
MIT doctoral candidate Ronan K. McGovern SM '12 has received the Best Presentation Award of ... engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-student-recognized-international-desalination-associationGreen Eelgrass, Blue Carbon
MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in ... eelgrass meadows in temperate regions, like the Northeast. MIT Sea Grant is working with the Environmental ... for conservation. MIT Sea Grant and MassBays are working together to develop outreach materials ...
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