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The MechE Postdoc Community

MechE postdoctoral scholars are part of a large network of more than 1,400 postdocs across the entire Institute. Postdocs hold doctoral degrees and pursue a program of research and training under the direction of an MIT faculty member.

Postdoctoral scholars are a very important part of the research community here in MechE, adding insight and energy, expertise and a fresh perspective to our many research endeavors. We hope that, in exchange, postdocs receive one final spark that comes from working side-by-side with a MechE faculty member before shooting out on their own to begin what I know will be careers marked by excellence.

- Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering

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A Cleaner Burn

Millions of people die each year as a result of soot or smoke inhalation from these wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in Uganda manufacture charcoal briquettes that produce a cleaner burn, minimizing these health risks.

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Engineers develop a vibrating, ingestible capsule that might help treat obesity

Professor Giovanni Traverso and his team designed an ingestible capsule that vibrates within the stomach, creating an illusory sense of fullness and reducing appetite. The pill could help treat obesity.

Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries

Professor Amos Winter, PhD student Jonathan Bessette, and team have demonstrated a solar-powered desalination technology that requires no extra batteries for energy storage, nor a supplemental power supply.