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The Eric P. & Evelyn E. Newman Lab Open House

Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  The Eric P. & Evelyn E. Newman Lab Open House Teaser Text:  The Eric P and Evelyn E Newman Laboratory provides a new home for robotics and biomechanics research in MechE. The Eric P and Evelyn E Newman Laboratory provi ...

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2025 Faculty Search Candidates

Mechanics Miguel Ángel Moreno-Mateos Institution Webpage Visit Schedule Seminar “Chalk Talk” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Website February 10- 11 Advances in Soft-Fracture Mechanics: Multiphysics, Sideways Cracks, and Configurat ...

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How to make oxygen on the moon

Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon. Once the team vacated the sphere, the experiment began. ...

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FA25 MechE TA Allocations

MechE Fall 2025 TA Allocations (as of 06/04/2025) Subject # Allocated TAs # Assigned TAs # Remaining TAs 2.00 0.5 2.001 3 3 2.003 3 3 2.004 2 1 2.005 3 3 2.006 1 2.008 2 1 2.009 5 5 2.013 1 2.032 1 1 2.080 0.5 2.086 2 2.145 1 2.151 0.5 2.155 2 2.20 1 1 2. ...

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Intelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research

a matter of weeks. The automated experimental facility, developed in the MIT Sea Grant Hydrodynamics ... to accelerated scientific discovery. Image: Dixia Fan and Lily Keyes/MIT Sea Grant Guided by active ... Robotics. Fan, now a postdoc, and a team of researchers from the MIT Sea Grant College Program and MIT ...

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Focusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges

student in mechanical engineering; and Harvey Michaels, a professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management. ... Like many things in 2020, the annual MIT EnergyHack hosted by the MIT Energy Club looked very ... different this year. For the first time since its founding six years ago, MIT EnergyHack was run as an ...

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Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves

Rufer, and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. A recent study  found that if farmers ... A team of researchers at MIT and a spinoff company they launched has developed a system to do just that. ... a paper by recent MIT alumni Vishnu Jayaprakash PhD ’22 and Sreedath Panat PhD ’23, graduate student Simon ...

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MIT engineers build smart power outlet

detectors, according to a team of MIT engineers, is that they often err on the side of being overly ... a desktop computer. Trip Detection 1024.jpg Using a small microcomputer and a soundcard, Professor Sanjay ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the smart power outlet is able to connect to ...

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Winners of 2020 Teaching With Digital Technology Award recognized for their innovations

On July 30, faculty and instructors across MIT were honored for their outstanding achievements in ... Teaching with Digital Technology Awards, co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice ... extraordinary process of moving all campus activity online. As MIT’s faculty and instructors began teaching in ...

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Advancing technology for aquaculture

working with Associate Professor Otto Cordero of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental ... error.  With funding from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), MIT Sea Grant is ... Engineering, Professor Taskin Padir and Research Scientist Mark Zolotas at the Northeastern University ...

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Tapping the MIT talent pool for the future of fusion

MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... Sorensen.Fusion.1024.jpg MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen earned a master’s degree at MIT in a MechE lab but is based ... making a huge impact on the world. This is exactly the kind of project that I came to MIT hoping to ...

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First-ever MIT Maker Faire attracts nearly 3,000 attendees to campus

attendees ascended upon the North Court of MIT campus for the first-ever MIT Mini Maker Faire. A celebration ... than half of these were MIT affiliates, while the rest were local makers. Known for its passion for ... and host this coming together of creators, technologists, scientists, engineers, and artists. “At MIT ...

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Yo-yo champion pursues his passions at MIT

professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s Maker Czar. Culpepper helped Hattori find the makerspaces and ... Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ... not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering, ...

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MIT launches MITx MicroMasters in Principles of Manufacturing

uncertainty,” says David Hardt, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “All too often, people fail to get ... MIT today announced the launch of the Institute’s third MITx MicroMasters program, in principles ... Manufacturing and Design, originally established at MIT in 2001 through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research ...

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A lasting — and valuable — legacy

Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ... a professor at MIT means she has “a queue of things to think about,” but she sometimes gets awarded with ... experiments in the basement. Betar Gallant_05.jpeg Associate Professor Betar Gallant (left) and her team study ...

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MIT Motorsports unveils their 2019 electric race car

Grown-Haeberli; J. Kim Vandiver, mechanical engineering professor and Forbes director of the MIT Edgerton Center; ... In an event attended by more than 100 members of the MIT community — friends, family, faculty, ... staff, students, and sponsors — the MIT Motorsports team unveiled their 2019 electric race car in Lobby ...

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MIT robot may accelerate trials for stroke medications

says Hermano Igo Krebs, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. ... Krebs and his colleagues explored the robot MIT-Manus as a tool for evaluating patient improvement over ... time. The robot, developed by the team at MIT’s Newman Laboratory for Biomechanics and Human ...

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Water-shedding surfaces can be made to last

Materials by MIT professors Karen Gleason and Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Adam Paxson and postdoc Jose ... researchers at MIT says they have found a way to do just that. It has been known for years that making ... overcome that problem, the MIT researchers say. The findings are reported this week in the journal Advanced ...

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Quick Test for Ebola

Hamad-Schifferli and Lee Gehrke, the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Professor in MIT’s Institute for Medical ... treatment and isolation. A new test from MIT researchers could change that: The device, a simple paper strip ... symptoms and it’s not clear what they have,” says Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, a visiting scientist in MIT ...

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