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Three MIT researchers were named Marine Microbiology Initiative investigators on Monday by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation — an honor that includes funding for pioneering research in the field...
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Each winter, wide swaths of the Arctic Ocean freeze to form sheets of sea ice that spread over millions of square miles. This ice acts as a massive sun visor for the Earth, reflecting solar radiation...
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Anna Mikusheva receives Elaine Bennett Research PrizePrize recognizes outstanding young women in economics
Anna Mikusheva, the Castle Krob Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, has...
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The MIT Sea Grant College Program announces that nominations are now open for the Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are...
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Photos: M. Scott Brauer and Stuart Darsch
This is part of an occasional series of features profiling academic departments at MIT.
"This is a department with a very long history,” says Andrew...
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PhD Student Wins First Place for 3D Modeling Tools
This past March at the South by Southwest Festival’s Accelerator-Innovative Web Track competition, two MIT students—Tom Milnes, MechE PhD...
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American Bureau of Shipping Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to M.E. Department)
Guangtao Zhang, Yazan Z. AlNahhas
Lockheed Martin Prize (Outstanding Sophomore in Mechanical &...
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We are pleased to introduce two new faculty members, Mark Thomas and Amos Winter. Mechanical Engineering is in an exciting period of faculty renewal, with four faculty searches this year in...
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RJ Scaringe, CEO, Rivian
RJ Scaringe (Photo: Courtesy of Rivian)
When most people first hear that alum RJ Scaringe (SM ‘07, PhD ‘09) has started a new car company, they are stunned. Why focus...
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Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper
Professor Martin Culpepper (Photo credit: Tony Pulsone)
Associate Professor Martin L. Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then...
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“Core engineering principles can be brought to bear to invent and improve manufacturing processes, but the ever-changing commercial demands of manufacturing also create opportunities to expand...
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Most courses don’t end in a death test, but Course 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design isn’t a typical course, even for mechanical engineering.
One of the last undergraduate courses mechanical...
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Professor Nick Fang Explores Etching at the Nanoscale
Using electrochemical and optical processes, programmable metamaterials, composed of functional micro- and nanostructures, are...
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MechE Alum Leads a Revolution in Displays
Clarence Chui (PhD ‘98) (Photo credit: Ken Hansen)
Clarence Chui (PhD ‘98), senior vice president and general manager of Qualcomm’s MEMS Technologies,...
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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...
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An Engineering Mind and a Business Savvy
by Alissa Mallinson
With technological advances pervading almost every aspect of business, we all know by now how important it is for business people to...
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MIT Faculty See Promise in American Manufacturing
Photo Credit: MIT News Office
by Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office
Not long ago, MIT political scientist and faculty member Suzanne...
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The Small Shop Becomes a Virtual Factory
Professor Sanjay Sarma (Photo credit: Tony Pulsone)
Professor Sanjay Sarma has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 1996,...
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Graduating Senior Lays Groundwork for Locating Fresh Water Sources
Photo credit: MIT News Office
by Nancy Adams
Submarine groundwater discharge, or SGD, describes water flowing underground...
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PhD candidate Adam Paxson (left) points to a live display of a condensing surface to Professor Kripa Varanasi (center) and postdoctoral researcher Sushant Anand (right). (Photo credit: Tony...