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LIVE FROM KILLIAN COURT: It's PLAYsentations!

Court was transformed into one big party celebrating mechanical engineering, design, and most ... – or PLAYsentations – demonstrating the toys they designed this semester in class 2.00b, Toy Product ... Design. ...

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Wind Energy Reaches Greater Heights

Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... that, but on a far, far grander scale.” Behind Keystone Smith, who studied mechanical engineering and ... a team of engineers, including Daniel Bridgers SM ’12 and Dan Ainge ’12 — Keystone’s system allows the ...

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Products of Progress

small-scale farmers an innovative product she designed in MIT’s D-Lab: a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily ... a technology problem in the field; we’re facing a distribution problem,” says Wu, who studied mechanical ... engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ...

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With Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch

to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ... venture they are also involved in, whose difficult and long-term goal is designing a miniature jet engine ... of the drink warmer during a class exercise in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Usually, the ...

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Bubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam

graduate Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18, visiting student Theo Emmerich, and professor of mechanical engineering ... away, and that understanding drove the design process.” The team came up with a flat device that has ... a set of carefully designed surface textures at a variety of size scales. The surface was tuned so that ...

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Air pollution can put a dent in solar power

instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ... are under-designed because of a failure to take hazes into account, that could also affect overall ...

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Unlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence

| Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education International Horizontal Students taking ... engineering. “The way I look at it, we are trying to clone the oceanographer and put our understanding of how ... engineering expertise. Schmidt and Benjamin have structured 2.680 to ensure students have a working knowledge ...

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Turning desalination waste into a useful resource

other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ...

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New Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed

student Jonathan Mailoa; associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi; Colin Bailie and ...

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No more blackouts?

reason, engineers have typically designed microgrids in simple, centralized configurations with thick ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “In the end, it is a step toward lower-cost microgrids that can ... — a conservative measure that increases a microgrid’s reliability but comes with a significant cost. Now engineers ...

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A new way to provide cooling without power

professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, professor of physics Marin Soljačić, ... versions of the device designed by MIT researchers, using a strip of metal to block direct sunlight, were ... and six others at MIT. In theory, the system they designed could provide cooling of as much as 20 ...

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Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?

adoption as a wearable textile. Now, MIT engineers have spun polyethylene into fibers and yarns designed to ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina and her colleagues have ... researchers design a new kind of sustainable textile from polyethylene fibers that may help humans adapt to ...

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The Quest for Clean Water

Mechanical Engineering. “They don’t map over, because when you start looking into the requirements, they ... rural Indian villages, Amos Winter, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International awinter@mit.edu Vertical Cleaner water, ...

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MIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition

innovations that have come out of his lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Lienhard Research ... dedicated to the distribution of practical knowledge for water system operators, wastewater engineers, and ... Environmental Engineering, and the technology that emerged grew into the city-scale wireless sensor network now ...

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Researchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells

Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ...

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MIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education

Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering Implicit knowledge is know-how that an ... Department of Mechanical Engineering While the scarcity of medical equipment in much of Africa is recognized, ... investigator of the Learning Engineering and Practice Group, lecturer in the Department of Mechanical ...

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Engineering Better Sleep During Menopause

waking in a sweat due to hot flashes. A new MIT startup is working to change that last one. Engineering ...

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Faculty Spotlight: Professor Ioannis V. Yannas

Burke approached him with a request for help in treating burns A Lifetime of Biomaterials Engineering ... in chemical engineering from MIT, a second master’s degree in physical chemistry from Princeton ... mission. Weaving together their collective expertise in engineered polymers and biology, the two teamed up ...

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