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  • Talking Shop: Professor Ian W. Hunter
    Dec. 10, 2012
    The Micro Mass Spectrometer   by Alissa Mallinson   Photo credit: Tony Pulsone Professor Ian W. Hunter sat down with us recently to discuss one of his newest inventions, a miniature (“micro”)...
  • Faculty Research: Printing in Reverse
    Aug. 3, 2012
    Professor Nick Fang Explores Etching at the Nanoscale     Using electrochemical and optical processes, programmable metamaterials, composed of functional micro- and nanostructures, are...
  • Iridescent Displays
    Aug. 3, 2012
    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,...
  • LiquiGlide
    Aug. 3, 2012
    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...
  • Master of Engineering in Manufacturing
    Aug. 3, 2012
    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...
  • Production in the Innovation Economy
    Aug. 3, 2012
    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...
  • Talking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma
    Aug. 3, 2012
    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,...
  • US Manufacturing: A Modern-Day Renaissance
    Aug. 3, 2012
      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...
  • Exploring Surfaces of Nanomaterials
    Dec. 5, 2011
      Yang Shao-Horn is tackling the world’s energy problem by exploring — and manipulating — the surfaces of particles only billionths of a meter in diameter. Hundreds of thousands of these particles...
  • MIT Electric Vehicle Team: An Electrifying Start
    Dec. 5, 2011
      Professional motorcycle rider Allan Brew, seated, with, from left, MITEVT team members Mark Jeunnette, Lennon Rodgers, Radu Gogoana, Randall Briggs, and Erick Fuentes.   It was the first...
  • Talking Shop with Associate Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio
    Dec. 5, 2011
      Domitilla Del Vecchio works on intelligent transportation systems that communicate to prevent collisions. What areas does your research focus on? Broadly speaking, my group works in control...

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