The MIT Master of Engineering in Manufacturing team worked on productivity and operational improvement projects with Konarka Technologies, Inc., a world-leading organic photovoltaic panel manufacturing facility that is in ...

After the market boom of 2000 in the semiconductor industry changed significantly. The changes included stricter limits on capital cost spending, and the increased propensity of the industry to outsource the manufacturing ...

The ability to monitor an immune response in the course of vaccination or disease progression is highly desirable. Currently, no technique is able to generate a comprehensive profile of the individual cells involved and ...

Cracks in ships have been of great concern to the maritime industry for a very long time. The problem is controlled by improving design, minimizing operating stresses and through regular inspections and repairs. The big ...

We have designed, built, and tested three novel devices that use low-Reynolds number flows for self propulsion. The three-link swimmer is designed to swim through in a free viscous fluid using cyclic flipping motion of two ...

In this thesis, I consider the problem of collision avoidance between two vehicles approaching an intersection. These vehicles are human driven and one or both are equipped with an on-board driver assist system that provides ...

In this thesis, we give a pseudo-polynomial time O(log² n)-approximation algorithm for a variant of the art gallery problem the point-guard problem. The point-guard problem involves finding the minimum number of points and ...

The CSC department of IBM Singapore has been established two years ago. It provides a variety of hardware and software services for its customers. Due to the complex mix of products and the different ways of completing the ...