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J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
Solutions grant recipients. The J-WAFS Solutions program aims to propel MIT water- and food-related research ... for research at MIT D-Lab and professor of mechanical engineering, has pioneered a new approach to ... Eric Verploegen, a research engineer in MIT D-Lab. Instead of relying on traditional refrigeration with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-2021-solutions-grants-commercializing-water-and-food-technologiesA. Michael West: Advancing human-robot interactions in health care
health-care robotics has been shaped by programs including the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), the ... MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology. Photo: ... Yale, West was selected to participate in the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP). The program identifies ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/michael-west-advancing-human-robot-interactions-health-careFive MIT PhD students awarded 2022 J-WAFS fellowships for water and food solutions
and family. Aditya Ghodgaonkar is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... industry. James Zhang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he has ... then received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT. In addition to working in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-phd-students-awarded-2022-j-wafs-fellowships-water-and-food-solutionsAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; and Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering ... solve a critical piece of the decarbonization puzzle. An interdisciplinary team from MIT has found that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamMIT’s “Yo-Yo Class”
Video In class 2.008, Design and Manufacturing II, mechanical engineering students at MIT learn ... Manufacturing Innovation Environment Culture Home Undergraduate Graduate Course 2-A Prospective Student Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cyo-yo-class%E2%80%9DNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairLife as a Teaching Tool
allowfullscreen></iframe> MIT Mechanical Engineering Professor Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi finds inspiration while downhill biking ... at Highland Mountain Bike Park in New Hampshire. Home Page Culture Home Education Home Undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-teaching-toolLifetime 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodHybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half
a growing and increasingly industrialized world population. Now, researchers at MIT have come up with a plan ... emissions for a given amount of power produced. The concept, proposed by MIT doctoral student Katherine Ong ... system proposed by MIT researchers. At the bottom, steam (pink arrows) passes through pulverized coal, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-system-could-cut-coal-plant-emissions-halfJennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”
at MIT; Jennifer Lewis PhD ’91, the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at ... Assistant Professor of Tissue Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Jared ... that they can do it, too.” Lewis, who arrived at MIT as a materials science and engineering graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jennifer-lewis-scd-%E2%80%9991-%E2%80%9Ccan-we-make-tissues-are-made-you-you%E2%80%9DA new way to harness waste heat
Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... researchers at MIT and Stanford University have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat ... published in the journal Nature Communications by postdoc Yuan Yang and professor Gang Chen at MIT, postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatSweat-proof “smart skin” takes reliable vitals, even during workouts and spicy meals
MIT engineers and researchers in South Korea have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” ... sensors. MIT-E-Skin-01-1024.jpg Engineers have developed a sweat-proof “electronic skin” — a conformable, ... Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We can provide wearable sensors that can do ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sweat-proof-%E2%80%9Csmart-skin%E2%80%9D-takes-reliable-vitals-even-during-workouts-and-spicy-mealsMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
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 ... Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and five others. Preston explains that the new system could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-dropletsAchieving advisory equilibrium
Committed to Caring (C2C) program. Cappellaro notes that the “best strategy [as an advisor is] to foster ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems at MIT. His work has focused on dynamic systems ... Cappellaro is a professor of nuclear science and engineering. She leads the Quantum Engineering Group at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/achieving-advisory-equilibrium3-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 ... include former MIT postdoc Qi Ge, along with lead author Qiming Wang of the University of Southern ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedUnderwater Robot for Port Security
contraband. Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MIT researchers ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... Professor of Engineering Harry Asada. “If this is cheap enough — if I can get this out for $600, say — why ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securityRogue 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadWater vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... to mechanical engineering, Shao-Horn holds joint appointments with the Department of Materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutter