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A new way to irrigate crops year-round
want to make that happen at greater scales.” Thursday, January 9, 2020 Zach Winn | MIT News Office ... lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundProducts of Progress
engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ... students in engineering and in the MIT Sloan School of Management, lawyers, and accountants — also showed ... the people we work with,” she says. Thursday, January 8, 2015 Rob Matheson | MIT News Office blue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/products-progressStudy: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions
Chandler | MIT News Office Collaboration Horizontal Finding may help researchers fine-tune metal-oxide ... of these observed catalytic activities is not well-understood. Now, a team at MIT has shown that in ... are being reported this week in the journal Nature Chemistry, in a paper by recent MIT graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-some-catalysts-contribute-their-own-oxygen-reactionsSimple, solar-powered water desalination
| MIT News Office Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship International Horizontal A passive ... A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ... efficient, low-cost water source. MIT-Portable-Desalination-1024.jpg Tests on an MIT building rooftop showed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ... Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Thursday, February 26, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office orange ... a limpet’s shell can flash brilliantly even in murky water. MIT-Shell-Design-02.jpg Scientists at MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeWaves in the Deep
a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ... transport could be ubiquitous.” Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office blue ... wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... particular, and potentially save lives.” Monday, February 29, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process while ... to capture large amounts of energy.” Thursday, November 6, 2014 Rob Matheson | MIT News Office red ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsMechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award
for MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), attended the black tie affair where he ... Health/Science Program/Special category for the film “ Water is Life,” which chronicles PhD student Natasha ... Interested in highlighting the important work done in Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-film-water-life-wins-new-england-emmy-awardA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
Zach Winn | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Alsym Energy, a company co-founded by Prof. Kripa ... and its electrolyte is primarily water with some nontoxic add-ons. MIT ... be able to make these batteries anywhere at low cost,” says Alsym co-founder and MIT Professor Kripa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futureThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
support from the MIT Energy Initiative, the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science, and the MIT Edgerton Center. Initial tests were conducted on a dynamometer, ... MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenNew design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Nicholas Kwok, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Mindy Blodgett | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Horizontal MIT ... 1 million Americans, ranging from infants and older children to seniors. Now, MIT researchers have released ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-design-principle-could-prevent-catheter-failure-brain-shuntsWhere the wind blows
Conserve, conserve, conserve " Tuesday, October 25, 2011 David L. Chandler, MIT News Office ... world's total energy usage over the next half-century? As the MIT Energy Initiative approaches its fifth ... cost-competitive today: A 2006 report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration put the total cost for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-wind-blowsHybrid drones carry heavier payloads for greater distances
late 2000s, when Phan was recalled to MIT twice to solve different engineering problems — both times ... Phan founded the startup in 2014, along with Sarma and other MIT engineers, and set up operations in ... ,” Phan says. “That’s our next challenge.” Thursday, August 3, 2017 Rob Matheson | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-drones-carry-heavier-payloads-greater-distancesMaking waves
engineering undergraduate in Belgium, introduces each chapter with a quote from the fictional sleuth ... to decide on a path after graduating with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from ... Harvard, he accepted a faculty position at MIT. Based in the ocean science and engineering section of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-wavesTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... land-based mining activities. To get my project started, I received a seed grant from the MIT Environmental ... Solutions Initiative, and I have also received a great deal of support from the MIT International Policy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockA smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
Credit: MIT News; iStock To address this, MIT researchers developed a smarter way to allocate ... MIT-Amazon Science Hub, the MIT-Google Program for Computing Innovation, and MathWorks. Wednesday, December ... 3, 2025 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal A smarter way for large language models to think about hard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smarter-way-large-language-models-think-about-hard-problemsTechnique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
a grant from the U.S. Army. Thursday, January 10, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Associate ... laboratory conditions. Now MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic technique that can quickly process ... do,” says Qianru Wang, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “There is recent work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-identifies-electricity-producing-bacteriaElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ... Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
March 24, 2015 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office red Collaboration International buonassi@mit ... sunlight. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines ... in solar-power installations, the researchers say. MIT-Tandem-Solar 1024-.jpg Photo by Felice Frankel ...
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