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A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ... hydrogen fuel; and Douglas Hart, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. Shields up The MIT team, led by ... A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineA portable light system that can digitize everyday objects
MIT PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, affiliate of CSAIL, and lead author on ... This process created a health visualization on the back of the user’s shirt. In a similar showing, MIT ... Tang; MIT undergraduate student Luca Musk; University of Michigan Assistant Professor Junyi Zhu SM ’19, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/portable-light-system-can-digitize-everyday-objectsModerating Extremes in Building Design
and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ... panels to improve insulation and software packages to guide architects. The professor of architecture and ... 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-designAlumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems
and Pete Wurman (SB ‘87) by Alissa Mallinson Courtesy of Kiva Systems When a handful of MIT ... undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity. Together with technical ... robotics and a highly adaptive algorithm-intensive enterprise software application. Soon thereafter, VP of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kiva-systemsNew method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... propel objects. In the natural world, the mechanism may influence the motion of icebergs floating on the ... journal Physical Review Letters by associate professor of mechanical engineering Thomas Peacock and four ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsToday's Annoyances, Tomorrow's Technology
engineering and civil and environmental engineering and recently named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant ... Ten,” explores the mechanics and physics underlying natural and manufactured structures with the goal of ... shells — Reis pursues “curiosity-based research” at the interface of science and engineering. “The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/todays-annoyances-tomorrows-technologyCommunicating Engineering Research at MERE Showcase
impressed by the breadth of research being done by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering,” says one ... students. On a hot fall day this September, Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) graduate students ... were carefully hanging up posters along the perimeter of Walker Memorial’s main room. More than 125 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/communicating-engineering-research-mere-showcaseMechE Spinoff Launches All-Terrain Wheelchair in US
designed for US and European markets. Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT), an MIT MechE ... debut of their founding technology, the Freedom Chair. GRIT is a social-enterprise startup that relies ... which was originally developed for emerging markets, is the basis of the new Freedom Chair, which was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-spinoff-launches-all-terrain-wheelchair-usFaculty Research: Professor Harry Asada
terrain like cheetahs. Photo credit: MIT News Office Now, scientists at MIT and the University of ... Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the group’s design ... Engineering Light-Activated Muscles by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Many robotic designs take ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-harry-asadaGoing local in the "Coral Triangle"
of tourists, and if littering and pollution pose threats. As a PhD student in MIT's Department ... of Urban Studies and Planning working in the Science Impact Collaborative, Heber performs her ... “postblast” coral reefs now attract thousands of tourists a year, generating the main source of income for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-local-coral-triangleBlooming ocean fronts
in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “It’s like going into a desert. And ... Each spring, huge patches of phytoplankton bloom in the oceans, turning cold, blue waters into ... teeming green pools of microbial life. This ocean “greening,” which can be seen from space, mirrors the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blooming-ocean-frontsOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
vehicle, using similar technologies he worked with as a graduate student at MIT. But instead of mapping ... Ryan Eustice’s interest in self-driving cars began 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic. ... As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-build-uncrashable-carSelf-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy
Courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News In the paper, which appeared as the featured article in the ... Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Adam Zewe | MIT News Horizontal Professor Steven Leeb and a team of researchers ... MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/self-powered-sensor-automatically-harvests-magnetic-energyMick Mountz
When a handful of MIT graduates get together to solve a problem, amazing things can happen – in ... were roommates as MechE undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) ... its success,” says Mountz. “I used the MIT network to get everybody I could think of to help us build ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mick-mountzJennifer Lewis ScD ’91: “Can we make tissues that are made from you, for you?”
right: MIT.nano Director Vladimir Bulović, the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technologies ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jennifer-lewis-scd-%E2%80%9991-%E2%80%9Ccan-we-make-tissues-are-made-you-you%E2%80%9DNeed a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering in MIT’s departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of ... says Buehler. “At MIT, we do that by having a bunch of people with different backgrounds working ... can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/need-research-hypothesis-ask-aiCooling when there’s too much heat
a thin layer of vapor and then bouncing along it — just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... reported this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters. “Our new understanding of the physics involved ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatColoring outside the lines
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “MIT struck me as exciting,” Kolle says. “MIT’s gung-ho attitude of ... For Mathias Kolle, the wings of a butterfly are a window into a better material world. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coloring-outside-linesAlumni Spotlight: Danielle Zurovcik (SM ’07, PhD ‘11)
degree research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to ... of our protocol,” she explains. When she returned to MIT that fall, she was able to finalize her best ... CEO and Founder, WiCare by Alissa Mallinson Photo courtesy of Danielle Zurovcik Danielle ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-danielle-zurovcik-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9811Researchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
have been prevented. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent ... 2010, leading to the worst oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, the well’s operators ... mixture of frozen water and methane, called a methane clathrate. Because of the low temperatures and high ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-clogging