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Products of Progress

small-scale farmers an innovative product she designed in MIT’s D-Lab: a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily ... engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ... kernels by hand — both of which could take weeks.   MIT-Global-Cycle-Solutions1024.jpg An employee of ...

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2.007 Forever!

On Tuesday evening, fans of all ages came to MIT’s Johnson Athletics Center to cheer on their ... designed by undergraduates in MIT’s mechanical engineering course, 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). Each ... which were filmed on and around the MIT campus. Putting an MIT spin on the theme, the instructors billed ...

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A factory for FrEDs at MIT

MIT is famous as a factory of ideas. You could also call MIT a factory for learning. But for one ... group of students over the past year MIT has been, in fact, a factory. The team of graduate students ... designed and built — entirely within an MIT lab — an assembly factory for a low-cost, reconfigurable ...

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Tonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive

tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... industry, taking a research position at Evergreen Solar, a solar-cell company spun out of MIT. But ...

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A new way to detect leaks in pipes

pipes, and should be effective in gas, water, and oil pipes. MIT mechanical engineering professor Kamal ... altogether. Now researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi Arabia ... mechanical engineering at MIT and lead author of the research papers. “We’ve proved that the concept works.” ...

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Combined energy and water system could provide for millions

Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. "There was not the extreme ... efficiently using clean-energy resources, a team of researchers from MIT and the University of Hawaii has ... Murakami, a professor of synthetic chemistry and biological chemistry, but was never developed in detail. ...

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J-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture

MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have ... and food systems to MIT’s innovation ecosystem through the J-WAFS Solutions grant program. The program ... provides one-year, renewable, commercialization grants aimed to support MIT principal ...

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Synthetic coating for the GI tract could deliver drugs or aid in digestion

Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham ... Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT engineers led by Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso ... By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply ...

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What drives ecosystems to instability?

a professor of physics at MIT. “We can trace out a boundary that predicts the loss of stability and the onset ... communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have now shown that the behavior of these ... Science. Jiliang Hu, an MIT graduate student, is the lead author of the paper. Other authors include Daniel ...

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“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"

engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... Dhawan Willeman, an MIT graduate student studying maritime shipping and innovation. “A ship is so huge ... shipbuilding at MIT starting in 1971. With support from the American Bureau of Shipping, Willeman and Marcus ...

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Ana Pantelic appointed executive director of MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab recently welcomed new Executive Director Ana Pantelic to its team. Pantelic has worked ... broaden D-Lab's impact at MIT and in the world,” says D-Lab Founding Director Amy Smith. “Her ... Pantelic. “D-Lab is steering brilliant minds — at MIT and around the world — toward the challenges of global ...

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MIT team races to second in electric car competition

is what the MIT Motorsports team did when they snagged a Second Place Overall Spirit of Excellence ... Nebraska. MIT-Motorsports-team-with-2017-Formula-SAE-Electric-102400_0.jpg The MIT Motorsports team is all ... Electric competition in Lincoln, Nebraska. SMechE senior Will Harvey was the MIT Motorsports team driver. ...

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Enrolling Once Admitted

place to live. Students who need a hand finding a home in the Cambridge area can contact the MIT Housing ... Office for assistance. Health Upon enrollment at MIT, students are automatically enrolled in the MIT ... the Student Requirements page on the MIT Medical web site. Tuition Support Any student who receives ...

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MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge

After three years of hard work, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team took first place at the 2021 ... the University of Kentucky, by over 100 miles. mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-asc-champs-00.jpeg The ... MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team poses with Nimbus, their solar car, after winning the 2021 American ...

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The best semiconductor of them all?

a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... computers. Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions has carried ... uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ...

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Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air

Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ... source. The system, which builds on a design initially developed three years ago at MIT by members of the ...

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Ingestible “electroceutical” capsule stimulates hunger-regulating hormone

Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and ... hunger, nausea, and feelings of fullness. MIT engineers have now shown that they can stimulate these ... Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology who is now ...

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Engineers turn the body’s goo into new glue

When Degen came to MIT, he worked with both McKinley, a professor of mechanical engineering and an ... recent years to design similar bioinspired, waterproof adhesives. Now engineers from MIT and Freie ... fibers (blue strand) from mucin and mussel-inspired polymers, MIT researchers have created a new glue ...

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“It’s Okay if it Breaks and Blows Up”

MIT’s thriving maker culture is on display in ABC network’s “BattleBots” competition. A robot that ... arms to grab and hoist other machines: These are some of the robots developed by MIT-affiliated teams ... teams of MIT students, research staff, and alumni worked to design, construct, and test combat robots ...

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From entrepreneur to climate policy advocate

ultimately patenting the product and winning several competitions. MIT-Wahnschafft-Kiara-1024.jpg Applying my ... solutions.” Wahnschafft arrived at MIT with the desire to continue pursuing product engineering for social ... entrepreneurship. She experimented with mechanical engineering classes through MIT D-Lab, a program focused on ...

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