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Aug 2019
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MIT’s New Head of Mechanical Engineering...

Mechanical Engineering Mag
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This week we speak with Evelyn Wang, who was recently named the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. We talk about some of the new educational models and grand research challenges she’s implementing into the curriculum. 

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