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Unleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells
MIT-Perovskite-Efficiency-1024.jpg Solar cells made of perovskite have great promise, in part because they can easily be made on ... and 18 others at MIT, the University of California at San Diego, and other institutions. Perovskites ... a number of different elements or compounds — leading to a very broad range of possible formulations. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-perovskites%E2%80%99-potential-solar-cellsMIT MechE DEI Vision Statement
providing a world-class engineering education, our curriculum includes a robust examination of the ... training as well as detailed knowledge of the many support resources available at MIT. These aspects of our ... orientation. 2 Despite this goal, there is a lack of diversity at MIT and in MechE. The above vision statement ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/mit-meche-dei-vision-statementMIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently
Youngsup Song PhD ’21, Ford Professor of Engineering Evelyn Wang, and four others at MIT. The researchers ... Berkeley National Laboratory, carried out much of the research as part of his doctoral thesis work at MIT ... MIT-better-boiling-01-press_0.gif High-speed video of the researchers’ test setup shows water boiling on a specially treated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-design-surfaces-make-water-boil-more-efficientlyGuided discovery in teaching structural mechanics
MIT AeroAstro, where some of these same discoveries are used in class 16.001 (Unified Engineering: ... Over the course of their education at MIT, mechanical engineering undergraduate students have many ... students need to design, build, make, and create. “This is one of the very first classes that students take ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/guided-discovery-teaching-structural-mechanicsPushing material boundaries for better electronics
faculty member in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Kim ... graphite and ink — on a shelf nearest to his MIT desk, close at hand. He references them in his own class ... totally new — is the most important thing. And the people at MIT are very talented and curious of all the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-material-boundaries-better-electronicsA robot that finds lost items
associate Mergen Nachin; and Alberto Rodriguez, the Class of 1957 Associate Professor in the Department of ... the case of RFusion, the optimization algorithm was rewarded when it limited the number of moves it ... any number of household tasks, Boroushaki says. “Every year, billions of RFID tags are used to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-finds-lost-itemsAccelerating particle size distribution estimation
based on pupil engineering, that reduces the number of frames needed for analysis. “Our learning-based ... Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is the article’s senior author. The paper, ... issue of monitoring the characteristics of a drying mixture, a critical step in the production of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-particle-size-distribution-estimationPrintable electronics
MIT-Printed-Electronics-1-1024.jpg MIT researchers have fabricated a stamp made from forests of carbon nanotubes that is able to ... optically functional surfaces, and ubiquitous sensors.” Sanha Kim, a postdoc in MIT’s departments of ... professor of chemical engineering and MIT’s associate provost. A stamp from tiny pen quills There have been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-electronicsD-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries
the MIT D-Lab class 2.652/EC.712 (Applications of Energy in Global Development), with mentors and ... MIT D-Lab students and instructors are improving the efficacy and economics of a brooder ... CDAS-BC), and an intern. Photo courtesy of MIT D-Lab. Developed through participatory design with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/d-lab-grid-brooder-saves-chicks-and-money-using-locally-manufactured-thermal-batteriesElliot Avila
Elliot Avila (SB ’14) is a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering who has ... Tanzania, and his senior thesis focused on optimizing the frame of a large cargo tricycle for use as ... oil extraction for income generation in Tanzania as part of an International Development Innovation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/elliot-avilaQuantum Physics Meets Genetic Engineering
microchips — but by using genetically engineered viruses. MIT-Enhanced-Excitonics_ 1024.jpg Rendering of ... research and genetic manipulation, described this week in the journal Nature Materials, was the work of MIT ... 14 collaborators at MIT and in Italy. Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering, explains that in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quantum-physics-meets-genetic-engineeringWith “MIT Fundamentos Electrónicos,” MechE Grad Student Brings Electronics Workshops to Students in Mexico
(IAP) are both prime time for MIT students to engage in learning and research outside of the regular ... scheduled classes,’ is meant to be a time for exploration of a variety of academic and non-academic ... Working with MIT’s Global Teaching Labs (GTL), MechE Graduate Student Savannah Gordon SB ’24, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cmit-fundamentos-electr%C3%B3nicos%E2%80%9D-meche-grad-student-brings-electronics-workshops-studentsA smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
instance-adaptive scaling, dynamically adjusts the number of potential solutions or reasoning steps based on how ... reduce the number of potential solutions or reasoning trajectories to pursue, saving computational ... LLMs this capability set a fixed computational budget for every problem, regardless of how complex it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smarter-way-large-language-models-think-about-hard-problemsThomas Ober
application of Gene Haas, founder of Haas Automation and co-owner of the Stewart-Haas NASCAR racing team, was ... fan in high school and a member of the FSAE team at Cornell University, Ober has always been ... Haas Formula 1 during his job search, it quickly rose to the top of his list. He got the job. Thomas ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/thomas-oberCell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade
Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have tracked the evolution of individual cells within an initially ... infused the growing number of cells with plastic particles. They then probed each individual cell’s ... benign tumor, showing how the physical properties of those cells drive the tumor to become invasive, or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-stiffness-may-indicate-whether-tumors-will-invadeA safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors
area. MIT engineers have now devised a way to make this kind of deployment safer, by encasing bacterial ... wild-type microbes,” says MIT graduate student Tzu-Chieh Tang, one of the lead authors of the new study. ... also help to protect the sensors from environmental damage. Timothy Lu, an MIT associate professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/safer-way-deploy-bacteria-environmental-sensorsMoving water and earth
too unwieldy: How do you quantify a pebble’s contours? The MIT researchers found that instead of ... Qiong Zhang, Ken Kamrin, and Taylor Perron of MIT, and Jeremy Venditti and Ryan Bradley of Simon Fraser ... these very scary degrees of freedom,” says Kamrin, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Shape ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthOrisa Coombs
senior Orisa Coombs outside the Stata Center at MIT. Photo Credit: John Freidah “At 15, the intense pain and sense of ... Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that improved the lives of others. Her work on ... says Coombs. “Water research sits at the intersection of technology and class-based struggles, while ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/orisa-coombsJulien Barber
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... trying to change the game.” Barber is passionate about contributing to this change. A member of the MIT ... “Where I grew up, it is below 0 degrees Celsius five months of the year.” Julien Barber, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/julien-barber