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How to make oxygen on the moon
Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal ... everything we can on Earth now,” says Brant White, a program manager at Sierra Space, a private company. “The ... a real problem for some oxygen-extracting technologies unless engineers design for it, says Paul Burke at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-oxygen-moonThis flat structure morphs into shape of a human face when temperature changes
lenses in telescopes. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, also sees ... Sunday, September 29, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal A team of researchers including ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have designed 3-D printed mesh-like structures that morph from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/flat-structure-morphs-shape-human-face-when-temperature-changesHow to prevent biofilms in space
September 6, 2023 David L. Chandler | MIT News Collaboration Horizontal Microbial or fungal biofilms on ... a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceAUVs: From Idea to Implementation
director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program, the Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering and ... founded the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory within the MIT Sea Grant College Program, and he and ... Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/auvs-idea-implementationEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... November 5, 2013 David L. Chandler, MIT News Office red Culture ... British Columbia’s system was “the best in the world.” Public policy and economics were not Wilson’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesSensing the world around us
“Sensing is all around you,” said MIT.nano Associate Director Brian W. Anthony at Ambient Sensing, ... a half-day symposium presented in May by the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. Featuring MIT faculty and researchers ... magnificent.” Minchew’s group is working with other researchers at MIT to build a drone capable of flying for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usMechE Milestones
engineering at MIT dates back to the founding of the Institute in 1861. In fact, when the first students ... Engineering at MIT in a playful numeric nod at MIT’s course numbering system, kicked off with The R.B. Wallace ... MIT celebrates the 150-year anniversary of its first lab opening and its designation as Course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-milestonesTa Corrales
she says. Back at MIT, Corrales switched her major to engineering. She was only a few classes shy of ... long housed the MIT Museum. The rooms look more like a handyperson’s workshop than a scientist’s lab. ... “D-Lab derails students,” she says, “and that was me, too.” Corrales was a first-year undergraduate from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/ta-corralesMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ... science discovery program launched by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Provided over four years, the ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityMIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day
poised to have that impact.” Sunday, April 30, 2023 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Collaboration ... Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president, ... members of the MIT community gathered to welcome Kornbluth with an academic symposium exploring the theme ...
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https://meche.mit.edu/news-mediaFaculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock
Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office Their effect on the surface of ... Recherche Scientifique and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche in France, and the MIT France Program ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-thomas-peacockModerating Extremes in Building Design
Program orange Collaboration glicks@mit.edu Horizontal Leon Glicksman has developed a fire-resistant ... and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ... mechanical engineering says that both will be needed in the retrofitting of existing buildings and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moderating-extremes-building-design‘Anklebot’ helps determine ankle stiffness
rehabilitation, using the Anklebot to train patients to walk. Thursday, October 24, 2013 Jennifer Chu, MIT News ... bunch of elastic bands around them,” says Neville Hogan, the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... at MIT. “That’s pretty much a description of what the ankle is. It’s nowhere near a simple joint from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%98anklebot%E2%80%99-helps-determine-ankle-stiffness