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Study suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2

September 5, 2023 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Horizontal Betar Gallant and her team reveal the hidden ... In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ...

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In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat

in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ... October 30, 2023 David L. Chandler | MIT News Horizontal Professor Gang Chen and his team have a newly ...

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“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid

MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... to power the entire grid.” Tuesday, December 4, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office International ... clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ...

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With “Hello!” as its theme, 2.009 returns to the stage

for the final presentations of 2.009, MIT’s popular Product Engineering Processes course. After going ... the team invited onstage MIT Undergraduate Association President Danielle Geathers, who underwent knee ... endeavors. And say hello to a better world.”   Wednesday, December 8, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...

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MIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use

MIT Sea Grant and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with Alfonso Parra Rubio and Neil ... Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship’s hull ... presented at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 2025 Maritime Convention in Norfolk, ...

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Bringing closure to models: Deep learning physics

understanding, and applicability.  Such technology could be a “holy grail for engineers and scientists,” ... according to Pierre Lermusiaux, the Nam Pyo Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean ... Science and Engineering. Applications could include better weather, ocean, earth system, and climate ...

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MIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America

main collaborators — MIT, UVG, and AGEXPORT. AT MIT, the program will be led by Professor Daniel Frey ... of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and from MIT D-Lab, Associate Director for Research ... effort. guatemalan-woman-workshop-1024.jpg MIT D-Lab and the Department of Mechanical Engineering will ...

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Professor Koichi Masubuchi, Leading Expert in Welding Science and Fabrication Technology, Passes Away at 92.

and spent most of his career at Batelle and MIT dedicated to progressing the science and engineering ... Koichi Masubuchi, Professor Emeritus of Ocean Engineering, passed away on April 1, 2016, at the age of 92 ... degree from the University of Tokyo, both in naval architecture, and received a PhD in engineering from ...

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Materials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium

20 held by MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory. About 200 people registered to attend the event in ... Engineering. “To meet the climate targets we set for 2050, all of our new systems must be low- or no-emissions ... the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Department of Architecture who ...

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Talking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis

engineering and principal investigator at MIT’s Stochastic Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics (SAND) lab is ... engineering. After completing my PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, I had a post-doc appointment at NYU’s ... Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I then came back to MIT as a faculty member with the idea of ...

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Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds

artist at MIT Sea Grant Keith Ellenbogen and MIT mechanical engineering PhD student Andreas ... The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific ... Credit: Keith Ellenbogen A new research initiative developing at MIT Sea Grant, called LOBSTgER — short ...

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Burning things to make things

of mechanical engineering, is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion ... John Freidah/MIT MechE Credits: Sili Deng, Doherty Career Development Professor in Ocean ... Utilization and associate professor of mechanical engineering, is leading research to drive the transition from ...

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Capturing the Sun in a box: Thermal battery inventor wins the 2021 Bell Labs Prize

on fossil fuels and cutting CO2 emissions. An Associate Professor at MIT and Director of the ...

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Innovation in Education: MechE Goes Online

a different idea. He founded MIT to think and to do – to teach craftsmen and farmers, as well as engineers and ... The Department of Mechanical Engineering, the second course of study to be offered at MIT, was ... Professor Dick Yue’s idea for the OpenCourseWare program of offering free MIT course materials online, and ...

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J-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture

MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have ... and food systems to MIT’s innovation ecosystem through the J-WAFS Solutions grant program. The program ... provides one-year, renewable, commercialization grants aimed to support MIT principal ...

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Understanding combustion

of mechanical engineering and the Brit (1961) & Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development ... applying to Tsinghua University for undergraduate study. “One day, I was talking about my dream school and ... degree in thermal engineering, she received her master’s and PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton, ...

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