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New surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
away with them. Now, researchers at MIT have made significant progress in promoting droplet formation ... professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor of chemical engineering and Associate Provost ... developed at MIT by Gleason and is now widely used. The authors optimized the iCVD process by tuning the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencySteam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunSolving a mystery of thermoelectrics
researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... which could lead to the discovery of new, improved thermoelectric materials. The findings — by MIT ... graduate student Sangyeop Lee; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering; and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsWith “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 ... of what engineers in a product development firm might go through to design a new product. Students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Chello%E2%80%9D-its-theme-2009-returns-stageProfessor Emeritus Igor Paul, an expert in product design and safety, dies at 87
(43).jpg: Igor Paul was a member of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty from 1964 to 2003. ... working with students. “Igor believed that the best way for students to learn engineering skills was for ... admission to MIT, he earned all three of his degrees in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-igor-paul-expert-product-design-and-safety-dies-87Internet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other
Engineering at MIT, “was to track everything in the supply chain.” Some companies knew they had too much ... | MIT Industrial Liaison Program Culture International sesarma@mit.edu Horizontal Sanjay Sarma promotes ... lost in the supply chain. So, Sarma, along with research scientist David Brock of MIT and Kevin Ashton, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/internet-things-let-avatars-talk-each-otherKeeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19
the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. “Indoor ventilation is still critical,” ... Engineering, and at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “However, we find that ... We know proper indoor ventilation is key to reducing the spread of Covid-19. Now, a study by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/keeping-indoor-humidity-levels-%E2%80%9Csweet-spot%E2%80%9D-may-reduce-spread-covid-19Rooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience
stress on the grid, MIT engineers say. An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can harness our smart dishwashers, ... of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers present a blueprint for how grid-edge devices ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceIlluminating a complex disease
Beste, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering. A complicated disease Endometriosis is ... Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s biological engineering and ... infertility, but very little is known about how it arises. In 2009, biological engineer Linda Griffith launched ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/illuminating-complex-diseaseRJ Scaringe
federal tax rebates. The company is planning to release lower-priced cars in the future. MIT past helps ... change the future Scaringe studied mechanical engineering for his master’s and PhD in the Sloan ... be difficult, but he believes his time at MIT helped him persevere in the face of the major ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/rj-scaringeAlumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems
undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity. Together with technical ... engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company ... and Pete Wurman (SB ‘87) by Alissa Mallinson Courtesy of Kiva Systems When a handful of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kiva-systemsProfessor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91
then the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson joined MIT’s faculty in 1966. He ... released the first edition of "Bicycling Science." It became MIT Press' best-selling book ... David Gordon Wilson, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away on May 2 at the age ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilson-expert-human-powered-transport-and-gas-turbinesHarnessing the Full Potential of the Sun
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P8-8FveMieM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT have developed ... gap. Energy Science and Engineering Micro and Nanotechnology Energy Security Impact Home Research Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-full-potential-sun-0Mapping the effects of crystal defects
MIT has been able to learn important details about how those interactions work, which could inform ... Engineering head Professor Gang Chen, the late Institute Professor Emerita Mildred Dresselhaus, and five ... unsolved. Now, the MIT team has found a new mathematical approach to analyzing such systems, using a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-effects-crystal-defectsGetting a charge out of water droplets
Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ... devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ... mechanical engineering at Boston University who was not involved in this research, says, “This work provides ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsTurning emissions into fuel
MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power ... chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. The new membrane-based system was developed by MIT ... postdoc Xiao-Yu Wu and Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuelA new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water
Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... abundant components. The family of materials allows engineers to precisely tune the catalyst’s structure ... Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-inexpensive-catalyst-speeds-production-oxygen-waterThe 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, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/answer-may-be-blowing-windResearchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid
Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and MIT Professor Ruben Juanes. The key to ... typically a much more random process. Now, a study by researchers at MIT and Princeton University shows that ... a paper by MIT graduate Amir Pahlavan PhD ’18, Professor Howard Stone of Princeton, MIT School of ...
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