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“Electroadhesive” stamp picks up and puts down microscopic structures
similar to or smaller than grains of flour,” says Sanha Kim, a former MIT postdoc and research scientist ... brush. MIT-Electro-Adhesion-1024.jpg Optical image of a pattern of silicon dioxide particles, each ... If you were to pry open your smartphone, you would see an array of electronic chips and components ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Celectroadhesive%E2%80%9D-stamp-picks-and-puts-down-microscopic-structuresJ-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
2015, grants have provided instrumental support in creating a number of key MIT startups that focus on ... 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-technologiesHow to push, wiggle, or drill an object through sand
options as fast as possible,” says Ken Kamrin, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “This is ... processes is a huge computational challenge that often takes days to weeks to solve. Now, engineers at MIT ... through granular material in real-time. The method can apply to objects and grains of any size and shape, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-push-wiggle-or-drill-object-through-sandHow to assess new solar technologies
question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ... by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesFour researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships
Photo courtesy of MIT News. Álvaro Fernández Galiana is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering. As ... a member of MIT’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory, he has focused on ... I have gained at MIT at the interface of physics and engineering to a new discipline.” In her doctoral ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-earn-interdisciplinary-schmidt-science-fellowshipsMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
research at MIT could open the door to ways of making certain catalysts more active, and thus enhancing the ... Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... to form water at an enhanced rate through this process. Courtesy of the Researchers and edited by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsA new way to make droplets bounce away
In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ... the amount of contact with the surface can be key to keeping systems functioning properly. ... MIT-Bouncing-Droplets-01-1024.jpg Droplets that land on a specially prepared surface with tiny ring-shaped patterns splash upward in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayPing pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision
a co-author of the new study, along with MIT graduate student Kendrick Cancio and Sangbae Kim, associate ... professor of mechanical engineering and head of the MIT Biomimetics Robotics Lab. The researchers will ... the MIT Humanoid — a bipedal, two-armed robot that is about the size of a small child. The group is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ping-pong-bot-returns-shots-high-speed-precisionENDLab develops and demonstrates new abyssal ocean sensor to inform deep-sea mining
Carlos Muñoz-Royo and Raphael Ouillon of MIT; Matthew Alford of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; ... in high-demand. Developing an understanding of the potential environmental impacts and effects ... associated with collection of these nodules through seabed mining activities is a high priority for society, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/endlab-develops-and-demonstrates-new-abyssal-ocean-sensor-inform-deep-sea-miningCleaning up industrial filtration
MITEI Seed Grant The story of Via Separations begins in 2012, when the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) ... Family Professor in Environmental Systems and head of MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ... in 2017 — with a lot of help from MIT. After the seed grant, in 2015, the founders received a year of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-industrial-filtrationSylas Horowitz
MIT senior Sylas Horowitz kneeled at the edge of a marsh, tinkering with a blue-and-black robot ... collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... Coalition leader and one of the first members of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative’s Rapid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sylas-horowitzIntroducing the MIT-GE Vernova Climate and Energy Alliance
Lobby 13. Credit: Gretchen Ertl “MIT has a long history of impactful collaborations with industry, and ... the collaboration between MIT and GE Vernova is a shining example of that legacy,” said Chandrakasan ... through interdisciplinary research and diverse perspectives, while providing MIT students the benefit of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-mit-ge-vernova-climate-and-energy-allianceCompeting Mechanisms Influence Tumor Cell Migration
Singapore Research Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and Mechanical Engineering ... flowing past a cell leads to the activation of a class of receptors called integrins, ultimately prompting ... Color map showing the distribution of pressure across the gel region (between the two rows of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/competing-mechanisms-influence-tumor-cell-migrationPrivacy Statement
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT is committed to protecting the individual privacy ... of applicants, students, faculty, and staff by restricting the use of all collected information as ... applications may be used by MIT officials only for appropriate administrative and research purposes. We use web ...
https://meche.mit.edu/privacyFour researchers with MIT ties earn Schmidt Science Fellowships
Sandya Subramanian, a 2021 PhD graduate of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology ... Four researchers with MIT ties — Juncal Arbelaiz, Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Sandya Subramanian, and ... challenges.” The four MIT-affiliated researchers are among 29 Schmidt Science Fellows from around the world who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-researchers-mit-ties-earn-schmidt-science-fellowshipsNavigating beneath the Arctic ice
global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below the ice cover. A team of MIT engineers ... Arctic Submarine Lab’s ice camp last spring, the research team deployed a number of ... ICEX will serve to help the Navy in that mission.” ICEXCollageStory.jpg A team of MIT engineers working ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-beneath-arctic-ice-0Celebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019
Pulsone Keating received his master’s degree and PhD in mechanical engineering and was a member of the MIT ... alongside a degree in film and media. In 2010, Keating fulfilled his lifelong dream of attending MIT and ... design classes made an enduring impact.” Four years into his graduate studies at MIT, Keating’s world was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-curious-mind-steven-keating-1988-2019Drive-by monitoring for urban streetlights
generate its street views. Illustration by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT There must be a better way, a team of ... researchers at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering thought. And after several iterations of software ... systems The MIT team came up with the idea of replacing manual inspections with a set of cameras and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drive-monitoring-urban-streetlightsTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... irrigation. Amazing things are being done at MIT in all of these areas, and the Department of Mechanical ... wastewater treatment. We’ve developed a number of technologies, and in the last few years my former students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Sili Deng
Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ... Understanding combustion Much of the conversation about energy sustainability is dominated by ... clean energy technologies like wind, solar, and thermal. However, with roughly 80% of energy use in the ...
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