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An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; and Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering ... received an Eni-sponsored MIT Energy Fellowship during his work on the project. Tuesday, November 30, 2021 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamA New Era in 3D Printing
Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Ideation Laboratory. “It gives you ... professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, ... hundred years later, a new type of printing was invented in the labs of MIT. Emanuel Sachs, professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingHands-on education goes remote
in their decision to study mechanical engineering. The hands-on aspect of MIT MechE’s education ... By its very nature, mechanical engineering is a “hands-on” field. While students studying ... mechanical engineering receive a solid foundation in fundamentals, at some point nearly every Course 2, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hands-education-goes-remoteA technique for more effective multipurpose robots
Institute. Sunday, June 2, 2024 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Researchers including Prof. Russ Tedrake have ... a unique task and environment. MIT-Policy-Comp-01-press.jpg Four photos show, on top level, a simulation of ... multipurpose robots, MIT researchers developed a technique to combine multiple sources of data across domains, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-more-effective-multipurpose-robotsInventing future fabrics
a rising MIT senior double majoring in materials science and engineering and physics; Melanie Wong of ... are the forward-looking concepts presented by a group of three students from MIT and three students ... technologies. AFFOA-FIT-MIT-Workshop_1024.jpg Advanced Fiber workshop participants compare the differences ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventing-future-fabricsMIT continues to advance toward greenhouse gas reduction goals
At MIT, making a better world often starts on campus. That’s why, as the Institute works to find ... solutions to complex global problems, MIT has taken important steps to grow and transform its physical ... like MIT grow, and simultaneously work to lessen its greenhouse gas emissions and contributions to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-continues-advance-toward-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goalsSoft robots that grip with the right amount of force
and Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at CSAIL. “Here we explore regulating ... scientist at Toyota Research Institute; Tao Pang, mechanical engineering PhD student at MIT and CSAIL ... more robustly, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-robots-grip-right-amount-forceMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Environment. Tuesday, September 7, 2021 David L. Chandler | MIT ... Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... research at MIT could open the door to ways of making certain catalysts more active, and thus enhancing the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
. Monday, December 2, 2024 Anne Trafton | MIT News Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Giovanni ... limitation.” The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Karl van Tassel Career ... Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and the Boston University Yawkey Funded Internship Program ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weightFor cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better
professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ... was partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and by a Total Energy Fellowship through the MIT ... Energy Initiative. Saturday, January 25, 2020 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-betterMIT Hyperloop team competes in SpaceX global competition
Freidah/Department of Mechanical Engineering | 3 min, 7 sec Tuesday, January 24, 2017 MIT News Office Collaboration ... Jan. 27-29, followed by a final competition this summer. MIT’s team of 28 students was awarded Best ... The MIT team includes students concentrating in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, electrical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-competes-spacex-global-competition2.007 Robots Battle it Out, Revolutionary-Style
annual competition for Course 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing), MIT’s popular undergraduate course in ... Chu | MIT News Office Culture Education Maker SANGBAE@MIT.EDU Horizontal 2.007 robots battle it out ... before nightfall, a revolution was afoot at MIT. The battleground was set, the munitions were stocked, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2007-robots-battle-it-out-revolutionary-styleBold research visions recognized and rewarded
McCarthy | MIT News correspondent Horizontal ... Since 2013, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has been supporting MIT faculty with big, ... bold, and unconventional research visions. In the latest round of grants, four proposals from six MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bold-research-visions-recognized-and-rewardedMaking RNA vaccines easier to swallow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In ... courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News Oral drug delivery For several years, Langer’s and ... Monday, January 31, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Professors Giovanni ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-rna-vaccines-easier-swallowAdventures in the Pappalardo Lab
calling at MIT's hands-on mechanical engineering space. In about 2010, working as a principal and ... Daniel Braunstein, director of the Pappalardo Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories, found his ... director of mechanical engineering at Continuum, a global innovation firm, Daniel Braunstein says he felt ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adventures-pappalardo-labMicrofluidics from LEGO bricks
EAGER/Cybermanufacturing Program. Monday, January 29, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration Culture Maker ... MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of ... mechanical engineering at MIT. Indeed, LEGO bricks are manufactured so consistently that no matter where in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-lego-bricksDerek Straub: Shaping the future of additive manufacturing
drones, and breath monitors. He earned a master's of engineering in manufacturing degree at MIT ... engineers' minds to AM designs and the functions they can enable. Last year, 39 percent of hardware programs ... by layer, in the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's additive manufacturing (AM) machines. They were also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/derek-straub-shaping-future-additive-manufacturingDesigning off-grid refrigeration technologies for crop storage in Kenya
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the faculty director for research at MIT D-Lab; and Eric Verploegen, ... a research engineer at MIT D-Lab. They are also collaborating with researchers at the University of Nairobi ... them at the best price is a balancing act. If crops aren’t sold early enough, they wilt or ripen too ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-grid-refrigeration-technologies-crop-storage-kenyaHybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half
News Office ghoniem@mit.edu Horizontal Coal-gasification and fuel-cell hybrid system could cut ... a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... emissions for a given amount of power produced. The concept, proposed by MIT doctoral student Katherine Ong ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-system-could-cut-coal-plant-emissions-half