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More than a meal
Grace Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering. Rob Vincent, assistant director for advisory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-mealBetter batteries through biology?
Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a much greater driving range. But bringing that promise t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/better-batteries-through-biologyGreen Eelgrass, Blue Carbon
MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts. By understanding the role that eelgrass ecosystems play in preparing for and mitigating the effects of climate change we can better make the c ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/green-eelgrass-blue-carbonHybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half
Combining gasification with fuel-cell technology could boost efficiency of coal-powered plants. Most of the world’s nations have agreed to make substantial reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions, but achieving these goals is still a considerable tec ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-system-could-cut-coal-plant-emissions-halfSea Grant, DOE, NOAA Fisheries partner to invest $1M+ to support research for the co-existence of ocean energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities
MIT Sea Grant will coordinate an ocean renewable energy research effort with the Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, leveraging a diversity of federal partners. The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Ene ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sea-grant-doe-noaa-fisheries-partner-invest-1m-support-research-co-existence-ocean-energyCapturing the Sun in a box: Thermal battery inventor wins the 2021 Bell Labs Prize
The winner of the 2021 Nokia Bell Labs Prize is proposing a remarkable new use for carbon, the primary source of global greenhouse gas. Instead of burning carbon in the form of coal and other fossil fuels to produce energy, Asegun Henry wants to use car ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/capturing-sun-box-thermal-battery-inventor-wins-2021-bell-labs-prizeMIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each day
When it comes to water use, most of us think of the water we drink. But industrial uses for things like manufacturing account for billions of gallons of water each day. For instance, making a single iPhone, by one estimate, requires more than 3,000 gallon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-gradiant-reduces-companies%E2%80%99-water-use-and-waste-billions-gallons-each-dayHuman-machine teaming dives underwater
Researchers are developing hardware and algorithms to improve collaboration between divers and autonomous underwater vehicles engaged in maritime missions. The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pull ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/human-machine-teaming-dives-underwaterDeveloping tech for, and with, people with disabilities
(center) and Naroa Coretti (right) consult with co-designer Ellen. Photo courtesy of the MIT Assistive ... with the freedom to move was an unnecessary choice predicated on poor design," she says. Brugnaro ... was one of the co-designers at the sixth annual Assistive Technologies Hackathon, or ATHack. The event ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/developing-tech-and-people-disabilitiesMIT-Takeda program launches
Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of digital learning; and ... Mechanical Engineering. "Automating adverse effect assessments and scientific literature review": ... Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of digital learning; and Brian Subirana, research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-takeda-program-launchesProfessor Alberto Rodriguez presents work on robotic extrinsic dexterity
Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and incoming graduate student ... robotic hands. Friday, July 11, 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering blue ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-alberto-rodriguez-presents-work-robotic-extrinsic-dexterityEvelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as director of the Department of ... professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been appointed as director of the ... Mechanical Engineering. As director of ARPA-E, Wang will advance the agency’s mission to fund and support ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-appointed-director-us-department-energy%E2%80%99s-advanced-research-projects-agencyA robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
got its start at MIT. Bluefin Robotics, founded in 1997 by a core group of engineers from the MIT ... teenagers will design and build an AUV at MIT this summer. Thursday, April 17, 2014 Nicole Estvanik Taylor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-dives-search-malaysian-airlines-flightDiagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test
devices that can help many people at a time,” says Al-Sulaiman. “I realized I could use engineering and ... shift to bioengineering took her to the UK for a master's in biomedical engineering from Imperial ... Joining Professor Patrick Doyle’s lab in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering gave Al-Sulaiman the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/diagnosing-cancer-barcode-inspired-testPedro Reis receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation
Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Work in his research lab — the Elasticity, Geometry ... work in a short video made by John Freidah of mechanical engineering.) With the Early Career Award, ... Career Award from the NSF’s Structural Mechanics and Materials program for his project, “Smart Morphable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pedro-reis-receives-early-career-award-national-science-foundationRemembering Dr. Victor Wong
With great sadness, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering shares the news that our colleague ... Sunday, July 12, 2020 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal ... heavy-duty engine exhaust treatments and engine lubrication, were responsible for much of the Sloan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/remembering-dr-victor-wongRetirements
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Medicine, and the National ... Faculty Fellow in 2000. He recently retired from his position as Professor of Mechanical Engineering in ... Mechanical Engineering for 7 years. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the ASME Heat ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/retirementsSixteen grad students named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2020
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graham Leverick, Department of Mechanical ... students to receive this honor,” Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, told the students. “Your department heads ...
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