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Turning desalination waste into a useful resource
systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ... other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... is such a ubiquitous chemical that “every lab at MIT has some,” he says, so finding markets for it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resourceAn all-in-one approach to diabetes treatment
stick with their treatment regimen. A team of MIT researchers has now come up with a new approach to ... the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... same needle. This could eventually make the process of managing diabetes even more streamlined. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/all-one-approach-diabetes-treatmentProfessor Emeritus Peter Griffith, a pioneer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, dies at 94
Peter "Pete" Griffith ScD ’56, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at MIT and ... a teaching fellow until that time. That same year, Griffith came to MIT and worked as a research assistant ... until 1954, when he became an instructor. In 1956, Griffith earned his ScD from MIT, where he then ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-peter-griffith-pioneer-heat-transfer-and-fluid-mechanics-dies-94Ingestible electronic device detects breathing depression in patients
a sleep lab, hooked up to a variety of sensors and monitors. Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and ... Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at ... tract. Traverso is one of the senior authors of the study, along with Robert Langer, an MIT Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-electronic-device-detects-breathing-depression-patientsPanel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future
Five speakers at a recent public panel discussion hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and ... engineering at MIT, moderated the panel discussion. She said that achieving the ambitious net-zero goal “has ... these needs, she said the five topics chosen for the panel discussion were “places where MIT has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/panel-addresses-technologies-needed-net-zero-futureArtificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
direction, limiting any robot’s range of motion. MIT engineers grew an artificial, muscle-powered structure ... constrict the pupil. Image: Courtesy of the researchers Now MIT engineers have developed a method to grow ... Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team says the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-muscle-flexes-multiple-directions-offering-path-soft-wiggly-robots2.009 mechanical engineering students embrace “cycles”
Six MIT student teams pitched products during the annual capstone course prototype launch event. ... MIT’s senior capstone course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), an iconic class known colloquially ... performances by MIT Ridonkulous, MIT Ohms, and MIT Live, and short animated films created by the 2.009 team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2009-mechanical-engineering-students-embrace-%E2%80%9Ccycles%E2%80%9D2.007 Forever!
On Tuesday evening, fans of all ages came to MIT’s Johnson Athletics Center to cheer on their ... designed by undergraduates in MIT’s mechanical engineering course, 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I). Each ... which were filmed on and around the MIT campus. Putting an MIT spin on the theme, the instructors billed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-foreverSteam from the sun
A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ... highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... at MIT, report on the details of the new steam-generating structure in the journal Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... MIT’s Nicholas Fang; former postdoc Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; ... at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedA New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
difficulties in transferring the graphene from the foil to useful substrates. Now researchers at MIT and the ... led by A. John Hart of MIT. Lead authors of the paper are Dan McNerny, a former Michigan postdoc, and ... Viswanath Balakrishnan, a former MIT postdoc who is now at the Indian Institute of Technology. Currently, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneNew method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... discover new things.” In addition to Peacock, the work was carried out by former MIT postdoc Matthieu ... Mercier, now at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse in France; MIT affiliates Brian Doyle and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
China Sea, are produced. The new findings come from a team effort involving MIT and several other ... Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... la Recherche in France, and the MIT-France Program. Tuesday, January 7, 2014 David L. Chandler, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-powerSolving the polar climate conundrum
may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better understanding of the elemental ... the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT, and his group investigated this phenomenon ... explain why the Arctic has warmed faster than the Antarctic. In MIT computer simulations of the ocean and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-polar-climate-conundrumBroadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ... founding SCOPE investigators, along with others at MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the ... of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the past 10 years, recently ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/broadening-scope-microbial-oceanographyJ-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
managed by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, is in its second year. Like direct ... Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Professor, says that MIT faculty continue to devise ... “Commercializing effective technologies with sound business models is one of MIT’s most effective mechanisms to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsMethod may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ... which require patients to travel long distances,” says former MIT postdoc Mohammad Qasaimeh. “Capturing ... co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... explored for applications in electronics, Piran Kidambi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... reporting the technology, published today in Advanced Materials. Six co-authors are from MIT, including ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
is reported in the journal Scientific Reports by MIT’s Xuanhe Zhao, the Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) ... National 1000 Talents Program of China. Friday, October 3, 2014 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red ... zhaox@mit.edu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageLetter from the Department Head
Department Head Dear Friends, The Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT has been at the forefront of ... at MIT. Our faculty members are award-winning educators and mentors, as well as leading researchers, ... MIT. Sincerely, Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-1