School of Engineering awards for 2015
Awards were given to outstanding faculty, and graduate, and undergraduate students.
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Electrical engineering and computer science (EECS)
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Amplifying small motions in large motions
Video-processing algorithm magnifies motions indiscernible to naked eye, even in moving objects.
Centimeter-long origami robot
Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight.
Robotics competition generated groundbreaking research
MIT team based robotic control algorithms on cutting-edge theory.
Longstanding problem put to rest
Proof that a 40-year-old algorithm is the best possible will come as a relief to computer scientists.
Metcalfe to serve as visiting innovation fellow for 2015-16 academic year
Ethernet co-inventor and 3Com founder will shape Start6, EECS’s innovation and entrepreneurship workshop.
Bringing microgrids to rural villages
MIT team, working with villagers in India, designs peer-to-peer system to enable local power sharing.
Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
Thin coating on condensers could make power plants more efficient
Graphene layer one atom thick could quadruple rate of condensation heat transfer in generating plants.
Helping robots put it all together
New algorithm lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly.
SuperUROP class of 2015 graduates with high accomplishment and promise
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart thanks SuperUROP students for their research and innovation contributions; praises program's quintessential "MIT-ness."
Gauging materials’ physical properties from video
“Visual microphone” technology could lead to noninvasive identification of objects’ structural defects.
Voltage: A new community of electrical engineers
MIT students organize a new group aimed at building a network of peers in electrical engineering.