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Rooftop 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 ... their participation. The team illustrated this new framework through a number of grid attack scenarios, ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can harness our smart dishwashers, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceStudents launch products that help users harness their superpowers
professor of mechanical engineering David Wallace has been at the helm of the class, which serves as ... and support staff to ensure students leave this class with an understanding of how products are ... demonstration of their product, Coordinate. Students from the green team invited MIT Office of Government ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersEngineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics
depending on the type of material it’s made from. In this way, the team can copy and peel away any number of ... functionality, in one flexible chip,” says Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Jackson Bauer, and Caroline Ross from MIT, along with collaborators from the University of Wisconsin at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-mix-and-match-materials-make-new-stretchy-electronicsMIT’s solar car team wins 2022 American Solar Challenge for the second year in a row
Collaboration Culture Maker Horizontal The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team, which includes a number of MechE ... best speed to travel. “The most recent iteration took all of last year to develop,” strategy lead MIT ... Many feel a lift when the sun comes out, but most won’t break out in song and dance — unless, of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-solar-car-team-wins-2022-american-solar-challenge-second-year-rowResearch update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces
Researchers at MIT have followed up on their discovery that droplets of water acquire an electric ... reported in the journal ACS Nano by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical ... have a number of applications, Miljkovic suggests, including in prevention of ice buildup on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-update-electric-fields-can-push-droplets-surfacesLetter from the Department Head
Department Head Dear Friends, The Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT has been at the forefront of ... students by changing the focus of class time from lecturing to more meaningful hands-on education. In this ... MIT. Sincerely, Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department Head ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-1Mobilizing across borders to address global challenges
were met with a large number of excited applicants. Over 70 percent of all MIT faculty members have ... GSF is comprised of a general fund, open to any country, and a number of country-, region-, or ... fund recipient and MIT professor of architectural history and theory Mark Jarzombek. “The insights and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobilizing-across-borders-address-global-challengesStephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92
Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random ... in mathematics from MIT in 1946, he transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, ... clarity of his lectures: He spoke slowly, but managed to cover plenty of material. While at MIT, he led ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stephen-h-crandall-professor-emeritus-meche-dies-92Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications
a team of MIT-led engineers reports a simple, inexpensive way to strengthen one of the key materials used ... Amherst, and Emre Tekoğlu and Alexander O’Brien, both of MIT. Li, who is also affiliated with the Materials ... the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Professor A. John Hart of the MIT Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-uses-3d-printing-strengthen-key-material-aerospace-energy-generation-applicationsHow 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 ... It’s the most fundamental of processes — the evaporation of water from the surfaces of oceans and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-need-heatQ&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
This is the second article in a four-part interview series highlighting the work of the 27 MIT ... climate solutions. In the following conversations prepared for MIT News, faculty from three of the teams ... MIT-CGC-Greenhouse-1-24jpg.jpg Faculty leaders of three research teams explain how they are drawing upon geological, biological, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasFour MIT students named Schwarzman Scholars
They are among the 129 members of the program’s class of 2018, who will pursue a year of study and ... a wide range of international leadership experiences. She has raced the MIT solar car across Australia, ... was the content director of the 2016 MIT Energy Conference. As a Schwarzman Scholar, she hopes to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-students-named-schwarzman-scholarsSENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing
and advanced manufacturing systems. A center of excellence powered by MIT.nano, SENSE.nano received ... the breadth and depth of sensing research at MIT," says Brian Anthony, co-leader of SENSE.nano, ... associate director of MIT.nano, and a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensenano-awards-seed-grants-optoelectronics-interactive-manufacturingSmart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”
fruition,” says Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering and MIT GEAR Lab ... be automated to meet crop needs, and a host of other systems and devices make farms more efficient, ... resource-conscious, and profitable. The use of precision agriculture, as these technologies are collectively known, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-irrigation-technology-covers-%E2%80%9Cmore-crop-drop%E2%80%9DFour MIT students named 2017 Marshall Scholars
named an alternate. The newest Marshall Scholars come from the MIT departments of Mechanical ... Matthew Cavuto is one of four MIT student winners of the 2016 Marshall Scholarship competition. Photo by ... nominated MIT students through the Marshall Scholarship process,” says Kim Benard, assistant dean of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-students-named-2017-marshall-scholarsMIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
dozens of collaborators from MIT and across the globe. seawater_1024.jpg Research by John Lienhard and ... Henry Keenan, professor and one-time department head of mechanical engineering at MIT. To join Keenan as ... Nayar, Panchanathan, McKinley, and Lienhard reported back in 2014 are broadly applicable to a number of ...
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