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New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste
Lienhard, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and director of ... Engineering. The study’s co-authors include MIT mechanical engineering undergraduates Trent Lee and ... environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste. MIT engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-filter-captures-and-recycles-aluminum-manufacturing-wasteSmart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”
fruition,” says Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering and MIT GEAR Lab ... Knowledge is power for the farmers, and for designers and engineers, too. If an engineer can know a user’s ... 2023 Anne Wilson Yu | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Education Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-irrigation-technology-covers-%E2%80%9Cmore-crop-drop%E2%80%9DToward more flexible and rapid prototyping of electronic devices
Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, and Yoonji Kim, an assistant professor in the College of Art ... designers typically test out their designs on “breadboards,” or thin plastic boards that can hold together ... feedback. The breadboard’s design consists of a thin plastic that connects two pieces of the same material ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/toward-more-flexible-and-rapid-prototyping-electronic-devicesTwo from MIT honored at World Technology Awards
Department of Mechanical Engineering and a fellow in the MIT Tata Center, was named the winner of the ... his advisor, associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, have demonstrated that they ... on India, with support from the Tata Center for Technology and Design. There, most pesticide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-mit-honored-world-technology-awardsGlassy carbon, now with less heat
Center-Center for Materials Science and Engineering (MPC-CMSE) Summer Scholars Ashley L. Kaiser (2016) and ... test the limits.” Crystallite size is strongly tied to hardness, which is a measure of mechanical ... the Center for Materials Science and Engineering’s shared experimental facilities also validated the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatWatering the world
led by Amos Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, plans to further modify the ... poverty.” The team has published its engineering theory on dripper design in PLOS One. The paper’s ... MIT-Drop-Irrigation.JPG Engineers at MIT have found a way to cut the cost of solar-powered drip systems by half, by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watering-worldTackling the world’s challenges in the field
a senior in mechanical engineering, worked on the first 3-D-printed steel bridge in the world. The bridge ... partner Hope Chen (both juniors in biological engineering) developed and field tested prosthetics with ... program, where she worked on designing and building the world's first 3D printed stainless steel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-world%E2%80%99s-challenges-fieldFaculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi
journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, along ... with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at ... Environmental Protection Agency. Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-kripa-varanasiNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ... one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes. MIT-Fast-3D-Printer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsMaterials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium
Boriskina, a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing “smart” ... Engineering (DMSE); Asegun Henry, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and ... Eco-friendly cement, textiles designed for easier recycling, and databases for the prediction of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials%E2%80%99-key-role-addressing-climate-change-focus-materials-day-symposiumDevice that recycles vaporized water from power plants wins MIT $100K
Damak PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate and co-founder of Infinite Cooling, said in the ... requirements,” said co-founder and co-inventor Karim Khalil PhD ’17, a mechanical engineering graduate. During ... professor of mechanical engineering and serial entrepreneur, told MIT News after the competition. Many ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/device-recycles-vaporized-water-power-plants-wins-mit-100kHow strong is your knot?
experienced the greatest stress or pressure. Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, was ... mathematicians and engineers have developed a mathematical model that predicts how stable a knot is, based on ... their results today in the journal Science. Pressure’s color In 2018, Kolle’s group engineered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-strong-your-knotUsing sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... Connects. Friday, July 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... charged with designing a product that solves a real-life problem for course 2.739 (Product Design and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-sensors-and-social-networks-make-slopes-saferInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and graduate student Maher Damak. Photo: Alexi Taylor Ko Infinite ... and Karim Khalil, all from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been fine-tuning their ... enormous water costs.” “We are grateful for the Tata Center for Technology and Design ’s early seed funding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competition“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... material, such as electric fields or differences in temperature. Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical ... engineering at Northwestern University who was not involved in this work, says this research “introduces a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themMIT continues to advance toward greenhouse gas reduction goals
incubator for new ideas. In 2019, MITOS director Julie Newman and professor of mechanical engineering ... high-energy-efficiency design features, including an innovative air filtering process to support clean room standards ... while minimizing energy use. For these sustainable design elements, the facility was recognized with an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-continues-advance-toward-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goalsFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
development and testing for nine years by professor of mechanical engineering Kamal Youcef-Toumi, graduate ... field tests there earlier this year that resulted in some further design improvements to the system, ... period of time,” says Mark Gallager, director of engineering and distribution at the Cambridge, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fixData-driven diabetes management
insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ... on new injection methods in the lab of Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Ian Hunter, ... design decision, there is a wealth of user experience research to back it up,” White says. Planned future ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ... turn that linear shrinking motion into bending typically requires a mechanism such as a pulley and ... the motion without requiring extra mechanical parts. One of the limitations on linear actuators made ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
by Maher Damak PhD ’18 and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Damak and ... A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plants