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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ... day. In contrast to other solar-driven desalination designs, the MIT system requires no extra batteries ... MIT-SolarWater-01-Press_0.jpg Jon Bessette sits atop a trailer housing the electrodialysis desalination system at the Brackish ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesWhy boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces
trivial phenomenon has been analyzed and understood for the first time by researchers at MIT — and may ... expected to move much more slowly. But, counterintuitively, the series of experiments at MIT has showed ... loosens the droplet’s attachment to the surface and propels it away. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-boiling-droplets-can-race-across-hot-oily-surfacesEngineering and matters of the heart
Before she had even earned her bachelor’s degree, MIT professor and biomedical engineer Ellen ... my placement and loved it,” says Roche, an associate professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical ... drugs that prevent arteries from becoming occluded. Roche, who earned tenure at MIT in July 2023, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-and-matters-heartChanging the color of 3-D printed objects
case or earrings on demand. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ... changing an object’s color, you don’t have to create a whole new object every time.” MIT CSAIL's ... Stefanie Mueller 1024- credit Jason Dorfman of MIT CSAIL (alternate).jpg MIT professor Stefanie Mueller led ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/changing-color-3-d-printed-objectsHow light can vaporize water without the need for heat
In a series of painstakingly precise experiments, a team of researchers at MIT has demonstrated that ... any source of heat. MIT-Evaporation-Light-01-press_0-1.jpg Researchers at MIT have discovered a new ... Zhang. MIT-Evaporation-Light-02-press.jpg The authors say their study suggests that the photomolecular ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-need-heat3 Questions: Energy studies at MIT and the next generation of energy leaders
Students who engage in energy studies at MIT develop an integrative understanding of energy as ... MIT’s energy community, and how their work connects to energy today. Abigail Ostriker ’16, who majored ... in applied mathematics, is now pursuing a PhD in economics at MIT, where she is conducting research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-energy-studies-mit-and-next-generation-energy-leaders3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on Making the Future Makers
MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them. During the summer of ... 2015, Martin Culpepper surveyed all undergraduate and graduate students at MIT about their activities ... and interests in “making.” “MIT has a strong history and culture of hands-on ‘making’ in every field ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-martin-culpepper-making-future-makersBaran Mensah: Savoring college life in a new country
MIT senior Baran Mensah recalls taking apart his toys as a child, curious to see how every piece ... wasn’t particularly familiar with the culture of MIT while growing up in Ghana. But for the last four ... significant leadership roles in the Chocolate City living group, he has performed with Sakata Afrique, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/baran-mensah-savoring-college-life-new-country3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?
— and shape our understanding of the world. SENSE.nano is an MIT.nano Center of Excellence, with a focus ... on Sept. 30 at MIT, will dive deep into the impact of sensors on two topics: sensing for augmented ... and virtual reality (AR/VR) and sensing for advanced manufacturing. MIT Principal Research Scientist ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-why-sensing-why-now-what-nextMechE Faculty Contact Information
Abeyaratne, Rohan ROHAN@MIT.EDU Ahmed, Faez FAEZ@MIT.EDU Butler, Tyler tjbutler@mit.edu 617-258-5989 Akylas, ... Triantaphyllos R TRAKYLAS@MIT.EDU Canfield, Laura lkampas@mit.edu 617-452-4123 Anand, Lallit ANAND@MIT ... .EDU Eisenbach, Katherine keisenba@mit.edu 617-253-5328 Annaswamy, Anuradha AANNA@MIT.EDU Gaken, Joe ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/meche-faculty-contact-informationFull Steam Ahead
sciences and energy conversion that continues today." A photo from the MIT archives labeled “Steam ... Engine Test” and “MIT Steam and Hydraulic Lab” date unknown. Credit: MIT Museum The Steam Lab was built ... higher steam pressure upon the economy were among the matters investigated.” The 1876 MIT Course Catalog ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/full-steam-ahead3 Questions: Inverting the problem of design
The Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) Lab at MIT instead explores the bounds of what ... is possible. Working with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, the group’s lead, ABS Career Development ... Nobari describe their recent work. 1024mit-linkages-00_0.png: The Linkages framework learns ways to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-inverting-problem-designThree MIT graduate students awarded Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention
MIT graduate students Tyler Clites, Maher Damak, and Guy Satat are among 14 collegiate inventors ... awarded the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, which recognizes young inventors who have designed and built ... consumer devices. The Lemelson-MIT Program awarded a total of $80,000 in prizes this year to six groups ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-graduate-students-awarded-lemelson-mit-student-prize-inventionMIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education
The MIT Jameel World Education Lab has awarded $917,526 in Education Innovation Grants to support ... labs, and centers across MIT. j-wel-grant-recipients-2023_0.jpg J-WEL grant recipients “Our Education ... Innovation Grants support MIT research that can improve learning everywhere,” says Anjali Sastry, faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-win-grants-develop-and-test-14-innovative-ideas-improve-education3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield
a quintessential part of the academic experience at MIT. The program, known as UROP, allows students to be ... “shoulder to shoulder” with faculty, graduate students, and affiliated researchers in MIT’s labs. Given the ... MIT, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and industry partners work together to develop technologies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-bench-battlefieldDepartment News
Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random vibrations and ... Needham, Mass. He was 92 years old. After earning his PhD in mathematics from MIT in 1946, Crandall ... Professor of Engineering in 1975, and an emeritus professor in 1991. While at MIT, Crandall led the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-1Remembering ‘Papa Flash’
The late MIT Professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton enchanted the world with his high-speed flash ... reconnaissance. He also took his cameras underwater. Oceans at MIT remembered Edgerton’s major contributions to ... ocean exploration and marine biology on the 23rd anniversary of his death by pouring through MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/remembering-%E2%80%98papa-flash%E2%80%992N: Graduate Program in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
marine engineering at MIT, Professor Hovgaard was a commander in the Danish Navy when he came to the 2N program. He ... taught several hundred Navy officers during his time at MIT and was the author of several ... school doesn’t have a naval architecture program, so all the naval architects go to MIT. They have all earned ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2n-graduate-program-naval-architecture-and-marine-engineeringGoing with the flow
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ... four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability ... course when currents are pushing it in different directions. Now, MIT researchers have developed sensors ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flowQ&A: Alberto Rodriguez on teaching a robot to find your keys
guide me through the process of trying again.” Rodriguez arrived at MIT as a postdoc in 2013, where he ... in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. 1024Sangwoon-Alberto-MCube.jpg Alberto Rodriguez is ... MIT’s Phillip Isola and Russ Tedrake, one project is focused on training a robot to pick up, move, and ...
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