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ENERGY: PROVIDING CLEANER, MORE EFFICIENT ENERGY

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Director, J-WAFS / Professor

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Covid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output

Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat

Understanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces

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

Projects led by Asegun Henry to receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions

With campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT

Professor Gareth McKinley has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society

Meet Some of Our Faculty Making an Impact in Energy

Paul Sclavounos

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Pierre Lermusiaux

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Douglas Hart

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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.

Mechanics

Design + Manufacturing

Controls, Instrumentation + Robotics

Energy Science + Engineering

Ocean Science + Engineering

Bioengineering

Micro + Nano Engineering

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Covid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output

Boosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems

Yang Shao-Horn

Rohit Karnik

The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants