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by Alissa Mallinson
It sounds too simple to be true, but Meg O’Neill credits much of her career success – and personal satisfaction – to her willingness to say one three-letter word.
Meg O’...
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by Alissa Mallinson
Vice Admiral Paul Sullivan
For Vice Admiral Paul Sullivan, USN (Retired) (SM ‘80), a graduate and later an Associate Professor of Naval Architecture of what is today MechE’s 2N...
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New Methods and Software Can Predict Optimal Paths for Automated Underwater Vehicles
By David Chandler, MIT News Office
Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer
Sometimes the fastest...
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Large-Scale Tests in the Lab and the South China Sea Reveal the Origins of Underwater Waves that Can Tower Hundreds of Feet
By David Chandler, MIT News Office
Their effect on the surface of the ...
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The Sherlock Holmes of the Seas
by Alissa Mallinson
Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram Photo courtesy of the MIT Museum
He refers to himself as a seagoing Sherlock Holmes.
Known for many things,...
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Engineering and the Ocean Environment: Challenge and Opportunity
by Alissa Mallinson
Vast and seemingly impenetrable, the ocean inspires endless fascination. It is the topic of countless tales...
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Lallit Anand, the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2014 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. Established by the Applied Mechanics Division of the...
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The MIT School of Engineering recently honored outstanding faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students, with the following awards:
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching — given to a faculty...
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The paleoclimate record for the last ice age — a time 21,000 years ago called the “Last Glacial Maximum” (LGM) — tells of a cold Earth whose northern continents were covered by vast ice sheets....
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You can quickly run out of fingers and toes counting the many ways we waste energy. Take our sewage systems, for example: The energetic content of wastewater is about 10 times the amount of energy it...
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Graphene’s promise as a material for new kinds of electronic devices, among other uses, has led researchers around the world to study the material in search of new applications. But one of the...
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“It’s all about the process,” says Warren Seering, a professor of mechanical engineering. He's referring to his spring class, Course 2.739 (Product Design and Development).
“We want 2.739 students to...
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Vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants; researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy....
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Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to propel objects. In the natural world, the mechanism may influence the motion of icebergs floating on the...
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Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision Engineering Group, teaches and conducts research in the area of precision machine design. Precision...
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The School of Engineering is proud to announce that eight members of its faculty have been granted tenure by MIT.
“Each of these faculty members exemplify the best of MIT,” says Ian A. Waitz, dean of...
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Researchers at MIT's School of Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are harvesting potable water from the coastal fog that forms on the edge of one...
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This year’s arena for the annual robotics competition that caps the mechanical engineering class called 2.007 (Learning by Design) was based on a Winter Olympics theme, with dauntingly steep slopes...
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MIT has received a major gift from alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel '78 aimed at ensuring the world's food and water supply for the 21st century.
The gift establishes the Abdul Latif Jameel World...
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Materials that can be used for thermoelectric devices — those that turn a temperature difference into an electric voltage — have been known for decades. But until now there has been no good...