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“Solar vapor generator” uses low-tech materials to capture ambient sunlight, concentrate it as heat, and produce steam.

Mathias Kolle

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Cleaner water, better world: MIT MechE aids the crisis-level quest for clean water in India.

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Peter So teams with researcher from MGH to improve the accuracy of epidural needle placement.

Xuanhe Zhao fabricates transparent, gel-based robots that can catch and release live fish.

System could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only light.

Photo Gallery: Visualizing MechE Research: Scientific Photos by Felice Frankel

MechE students seek to solve major food and water security problems.

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Nicholas Fang prints 3-D structures that “remember” their original shapes.

Alexie Kolpak and Amos Winter honored with 2017 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Awards

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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

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Discovering the Micro/Nano World

“Solar vapor generator” uses low-tech materials to capture ambient sunlight, concentrate it as heat, and produce steam.

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Mathias Kolle

Cleaner water, better world: MIT MechE aids the crisis-level quest for clean water in India.

Peter So teams with researcher from MGH to improve the accuracy of epidural needle placement.

Xuanhe Zhao fabricates transparent, gel-based robots that can catch and release live fish.

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System could make it possible to control the way water moves over a surface, using only light.

Photo Gallery: Visualizing MechE Research: Scientific Photos by Felice Frankel

MechE students seek to solve major food and water security problems.

Domitilla Del Vecchio

Roger Kamm

Nicholas Fang prints 3-D structures that “remember” their original shapes.

Xuanhe Zhao is the 2017 recipient of the Young Investigator Medal from the Society of Engineering Science.

Alexie Kolpak and Amos Winter honored with 2017 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Awards

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