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In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

Science and Technology, in Saudi Arabia. Wednesday, March 21, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT News Office ... Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ...

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Heather Beem

partnered with a few other MIT students and applied for the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge program, in ... program, and the MIT Sloan Africa Innovate Business Plan Competition. During the 2017-2018 school year, PEN ... uncover the potential that already exists in these students.” Zach Winn MIT News Office Tuesday, March 8, ...

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Study finds cells take out the trash before they divide

senior author of the paper, which appears today in eLife. MIT biological engineering undergraduates Kevin ... News Office Horizontal MIT researchers, including Professor Scott Manalis, have discovered that before ... MIT researchers have discovered that before cells start to divide, they do a little cleanup, ...

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New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste

Engineering. The study’s co-authors include MIT mechanical engineering undergraduates Trent Lee and ... Monday, January 6, 2025 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal MIT engineers have developed ... environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste. MIT engineers ...

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Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water

origami-inspired hydrogel material, designed by MIT engineers, that swells to absorb water from the air. When water ... Whitaker Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. “It’s a test ... collaborative research program, and the UM6P-MIT collaborative research program. Wednesday, June 11, 2025 ...

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Visual Thinking for Engineers

Video Teaser Image:  Teaser Headline:  Visual Thinking for Engineers Teaser Text:  Professor Maria ... engineering systems. <iframe width="640" height="360" ... valuable strategies and techniques for designing both consumer products and complex engineering systems, ...

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Lifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood

engines. His work with Professor James Fay and Professor James Keck in the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory ... Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... From identifying the source of emissions to analyzing the future of automotive engineering ...

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Researchers produce first laser ultrasound images of humans

Medicine Research Program. Wednesday, December 18, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ... challenge in modern ultrasound imaging. Now, MIT engineers have come up with an alternative to conventional ... research was supported in part by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Biomedical Line Program for the United States ...

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Oobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable

— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... engineering at MIT. “But it turns out the rules that govern how this material flows are very nuanced.” Kamrin, ... Friday, October 4, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Education Horizontal Associate Professor Ken Kamrin ...

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The answer may be blowing in the wind

offshore wind by 2030 — enough to power 10 million homes. At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Spring Symposium, ... Chemical Engineering, in his introduction to the event.  In sessions devoted to technology, deployment and ... R&D advances Moderating a panel on MIT research that is moving the industry forward, Robert Stoner, ...

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Alumni Spotlight: John Wall (SB, SM ’75, ScD ’78) and Jennifer Rumsey (SM ’98)

engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, Leroy returned to his job at Chevron Research in San Francisco,” ... then Vice President of Advanced Heavy Duty Engine Development at engine design and manufacturing ... to be up until his retirement from Cummins just this past October – the MIT educational counselor for ...

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Movable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets

| MIT News Office Horizontal ... friction. A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could offer a new way of making movable parts with ... Physics Letters, co-authored by Daniel Preston, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall ...

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3 Questions: Asegun Henry on five “grand thermal challenges” to stem the tide of global warming

need to be made in order to stem the rise of global warming. MIT News spoke with Asegun Henry, the lead ... a species may not survive Mother Earth’s clapback. Monday, August 10, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... Engineering, about this grand vision. Q: Before we get into the specifics of the five challenges you lay out, ...

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Ocean engineering students set stage for a smarter fleet

The U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class of destroyers consists of 62 active vessels that ... working life. Now, Course 2N (Ocean Engineering) students Travis Anderson, Katie Gerhard and Bart ... operating hours above 28 knots. In his Naval Engineer’s thesis (advised by Professor Franz Hover), Travis ...

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3-D-printed structures shrink when heated

expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal ...

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Rogue Wave Ahead

developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office sapsis@MIT.EDU Horizontal Themis Sapsis developed a new prediction tool that ...

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Three at MIT named 2018 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

MIT President L. Rafael Reif and two engineering faculty members have been named 2018 fellows of ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and ... Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and a MacVicar Fellow at ...

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MIT J-WAFS announces 2022 seed grant recipients

have significant impact on water- and food-related challenges. The only program at MIT that is ... Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is ... Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. Her 2022 J-WAFS seed grant project seeks to effectively remove ...

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Karina Pikhart

2.009: Product Engineering Processes.   Karina Pikhart 1024.jpg   Pikhart was on a 15-member team ... because of it, but it turned out to be the best decision we could have made.”   After graduation, ... to work on the project. While earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford ...

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