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Surface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize

MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... ’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ... and lifetime.” MIT-WaterPrize22-02-press.jpg Michael Gangemi, left, and Yajing Zhao of Mesophase. In ...

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Jim Magarian

becoming a graduate student at MIT, and many of the watershed moments in his engineering career were filled ... with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program. Photo: Bryce Vickmark “I landed in aerospace ... leadership instructor with the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership (GEL) Program, Magarian has taken a new path ...

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Orisa Coombs

senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John Freidah “At 15, the intense pain and sense of ... make a difference in the world led her to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT. “I didn’t ... Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that improved the lives of others. Her work on ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/orisa-coombs

Training STEM teachers to uncover students’ full potential

In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...

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Heather Beem

In the summer of 2011, MIT PhD student Heather Beem travelled to a rural region of Ghana to try ... she noticed something special about MIT’s community. “Everyone had this confidence that we could solve ... world to have that experience in their education as well.” Beem realized that part of MIT students’ ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/heather-beem

Prosper Nyovanie

studying … because by then you’d usually have electricity.” “The best thing about being at MIT is that ... engineering, and upon coming to MIT as an undergraduate, he majored in mechanical engineering. He discovered ... energy studies. Now as a graduate student and fellow in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) ...

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2.S01: Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles

arrived at MIT 25 years ago, only professors and postdoctoral students were allowed to touch the ... When Michael Benjamin, principal research scientist in the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, ... engineering and the primary lecturer and content creator of 2.S01, and Captain Michael Sacarny from MIT Sea ...

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Dexter Ang

click a mouse to read an e-book, one of her favorite activities. The MIT startup Pison Technology, ... change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... MIT through the Advanced Study Program. Ang enrolled in classes at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, ...

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Faculty Feature: Gene Delivery Technique Combines Microfluidics With Electric Shock

As director of MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation (LEMI), Cullen Buie has ... electrolyzers to microbial fuel cells. As director of MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation ... Research Scientist and past Translational Fellow at MIT. Cullen Buie, Director, MIT Laboratory for Energy ...

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Whitehead Institute receives $10 million to study sex chromosomes’ impact on women’s health

Page, Whitehead Institute director and MIT professor of biology, who leads the sex differences ... a master’s degree at MIT in 1961, she was the sole woman in the school’s mechanical engineering department. ... Whitehead Institute, she established an MIT-based summer program to introduce female high school students to ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whitehead-institute-receives-10-million-study-sex-chromosomes%E2%80%99-impact-women%E2%80%99s-health

A scientific approach to education reform

normal be? Sanjay Sarma, MIT’s vice president for open learning, sees this unprecedented upheaval as ... drawn on his years of experience directing MIT’s many online learning systems, ... says.   Monday, August 17, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Culture Education Horizontal In his ...

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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

developed by MIT researchers could speed things up. Robotic probe measures electrical property known as ... gain,” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering and senior author of a paper on the ... materials discovery. This work is supported, in part, by First Solar, Eni through the MIT Energy Initiative, ...

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Caitlin Braun MBA ’21, SM ’21

training in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program — wherein she obtained both her MBA and SM ... months,” says MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John Carrier, who was Braun’s internship advisor. Braun still ... of using digital technology to fix a poorly understood and organized operation,” says Professor David ...

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'Imagine it, build it' describes spirit of 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II)

says Tonio Buonassisi, professor of mechanical engineering. "Between those two is a universe, and ...

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Student Spotlight: John Lewandowski (PhD Candidate)

conversely, less costly but also less sensitive.” John Lewandowski, a PhD candidate in Associate Professor ... John Hart’s research group. According to Lewandowski, a PhD student in Associate Professor John Hart’s ... Disease Diagnostic Group (DDG), quite a bit of attention. DDG won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship ...

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A new way to irrigate crops year-round

Noyce Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT, for encouraging students to pursue ideas outside of ... lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ...

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Transatlantic connections make the difference for MIT Portugal

says John Hansman, the T. Wilson Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and co-director of ... hugely successful,” says Douglas Hart, MPP co-director and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Professor Douglas Hart, co-director of the MIT Portugal Program (MPP), discusses the successful, ...

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Six from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2025

culture, and education. MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth H. McKinley Credit: John Frediah ... Those elected from MIT in 2025 are: Lotte Bailyn, T. Wilson Professor of Management Emerita; Gareth ... Six MIT faculty members are among the nearly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public ...

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MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel

Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We’re trying to achieve ... and MIT postdoc; Harry Tuller, MIT professor of materials science and engineering; Xiao-Yu Wu of the ... MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ...

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MIT engineers develop a soft, printable, metal-free electrode

inflammation that in turn can degrade an implant’s performance. Now, MIT engineers have developed a metal-free, ... biological tissue. MIT_Hydro-Electrode-01-PRESS_0.jpg MIT engineers developed a metal-free, Jell-O-like ... other organs in the body,” adds Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-develop-soft-printable-metal-free-electrode

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