Welcome and Overview
Welcome and Overview
* Susan Hockfield, President of MIT * The Honorable Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts * Video: Andrew Liveris, Chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company
Varanasi Group: New Efficiencies in Thermal Desalination.
Varanasi Group: New Efficiencies in Thermal Desalination.
Kripa K. VaranasiDoherty Chair in Ocean UtilizationAssociate Professor of Mechanical EngineeringRead more: http://varanasi.mit.edu
Varanasi Group: Industry Applications for Nano-engineered ...
Varanasi Group: Industry Applications for Nano-engineered Surfaces-Coatings
Kripa K. VaranasiDoherty Chair in Ocean UtilizationAssociate Professor of Mechanical EngineeringRead more: http://varanasi.mit.edu
Varanasi Group: Achieving New Efficiencies in Existing ...
Varanasi Group: Achieving New Efficiencies in Existing Technologies
Kripa K. VaranasiDoherty Chair in Ocean UtilizationAssociate Professor of Mechanical EngineeringRead more: http://varanasi.mit.edu
The Future of Localized Manufacturing
The Future of Localized Manufacturing
Neil Gershenfeld, director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, and Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, discuss the potential role of localized 3-D printing in manufacturing.
The Future Automotive System: The World That Changed The ...
The Future Automotive System: The World That Changed The Machine
04/05/2011 4:00 PM Daniel Roos, '61, SM '63, PhD '66, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Description: The world economic order has shifted considerably since 1990, when Daniel Roos and his coauthors wrote The Machine that Changed ...
The Clean Energy Revolution
The Clean Energy Revolution
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
The Best Photon Detector Yet
The Best Photon Detector Yet
Mario Paniccia, director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab, describes the company's new silicon-based avalanche photodetector and explains the technical challenges involved in making it.
Tech Day 2012, Pt. 2: American Transformations--The Next ...
Tech Day 2012, Pt. 2: American Transformations--The Next Industrial ...
MIT professors and alumni shed light on advanced manufacturing and the promise it holds to inject new vitality into sectors of the economy thought to be in decline and to position America again as a world leader in manufacturing. Part two includes: Marcie Black '94, ...
Tech Day 2012, Pt. 1: American Transformations--The Next ...
Tech Day 2012, Pt. 1: American Transformations--The Next Industrial ...
MIT professors and alumni shed light on advanced manufacturing and the promise it holds to inject new vitality into sectors of the economy thought to be in decline and to position America again as a world leader in manufacturing. Part one includes: Remarks by Brian ...
Tatiana Bonnefoi, LGO '12, on "the perfect example of an ...
Tatiana Bonnefoi, LGO '12, on "the perfect example of an MIT class": ...
Tatiana Bonnefoi, a 2012 graduate of the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program, talks about "the perfect example of an MIT class": Course 2.810, Manufacturing Processes and Systems. She talks about the balance of theory and practical lab experience that students ...
Supply Chain Innovation Conference - Opening Remarks
Supply Chain Innovation Conference - Opening Remarks
Prof. David Simchi-levi, Leslie Sheppard, MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation
Shifting sands
Shifting sands
Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model. Ken Kamrin of MIT MechE has come up with a model that predicts the flow of granular materials under a variety of conditions.
Schmidt: Advanced Manufacturing
Schmidt: Advanced Manufacturing
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Associate Provost Martin A. Schmidt
Sarma: RFID, SENSEable Cities and City Scanning
Sarma: RFID, SENSEable Cities and City Scanning
Sanjay E. Sarma Professor of Mechanical EngineeringDorector, MIT/SUTD Collaboration OfficeFormer Chairman of Research and Co-Founder of The Auto-ID Center at MITDr. Sarma is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He graduated from the Indian Institute of ...
Sarma: Enabling Device-Level RFID with "the Cloud"
Sarma: Enabling Device-Level RFID with "the Cloud"
Sanjay E. Sarma Professor of Mechanical EngineeringDorector, MIT/SUTD Collaboration OfficeFormer Chairman of Research and Co-Founder of The Auto-ID Center at MIT Dr. Sarma is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He graduated from the Indian Institute ...
Rodney Brooks: "Will Our Consumer Goods Always Be ...
Rodney Brooks: "Will Our Consumer Goods Always Be Manufactured By Hand?"
Rodney Brooks, Chairman and CTO of Heartland Robotics; Panasonic Professor of Robotics Emeritus, MIT CSAIL Keynote speaker at MIT LGO conference on "The Future of Manufacturing in the U.S." (May 8, 2012) Recent economics have dictated that our lowest-cost goods ...