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Harvesting fresh water from fog
surface chemistry, the team — which includes MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gareth McKinley and ... Initiatives.) Tuesday, May 13, 2014 John Freidah | Department of Mechanical Engineering blue International ... School of Engineering, working with colleagues at the Pontificial University of Chile in Santiago, are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fogThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... mechanisms in the design of materials, such as a crumpled form of graphene that could be useful in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingThree graduate students honored for hydrofoil research
Stefano Brizzolara, a research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director ... of Mechanical Engineering ... of the newly established Innovative Ship Design Lab (i-Ship), led three Naval Construction and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-graduate-students-honored-hydrofoil-researchNew scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized ... the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ... engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-scaling-law-predicts-how-wheels-drive-over-sandThis touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
MIT-Touchy-Glove-02-PRESS.jpg An MIT team of engineers has designed a new touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other ... tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ... by the Joint Center for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech.. Wednesday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuli3 Questions: Peko Hosoi on the data-driven reasoning behind MIT’s Covid-19 policies for the fall
Anette “Peko” Hosoi, the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate dean ... Anette “Peko” Hosoi, right, the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and ... in the School of Engineering. The group, which is organized through MIT’s Institute for Data, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-peko-hosoi-data-driven-reasoning-behind-mit%E2%80%99s-covid-19-policies-fallTalking Shop: Professor Themis Sapsis
marine engineering in 2005. He began his graduate studies at MIT in 2006, earning his PhD in mechanical engineering ... engineering, including uncertainty quantification of turbulent fluid flows, passive protection configurations ... these events? The mechanism we have discovered is related to a critical length-scale associated with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-themis-sapsisA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... management in high-performance devices.” Chang-Jin Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering ... with a specially designed shape. Images by Kyle Wilke Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesMIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders
team’s Small Combatant as part of 2.702 (Systems Engineering and Ship Design). In the class, students ... the discipline. The Department of Mechanical Engineering first offered a program in marine engineering ... Gillespy says. “We’ve had students working in electrical engineering on power systems, in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-graduate-programs-empower-next-generation-naval-leadersHow to float your coffee creamer
able to sustain,” says Michela Geri, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Mechanics, offer a detailed, mathematical understanding of drop coalescence, which can be observed in everday ... rain or other sprays in nature. They could also serve as a guide for droplet-based designs, such as in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerPalladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Kim and his colleagues report details of the new membrane in ... Persad, a former MIT research scientist in mechanical engineering who is now an assistant professor at the ... around 800 kelvins, they can break down. Now, MIT engineers have developed a new palladium membrane that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/palladium-filters-could-enable-cheaper-more-efficient-generation-hydrogen-fuelNews & Awards: Winter 2019
Research Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her leadership ... A group of alumni gathered in the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Undergraduate Office on September ... from the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop in October. Credit: Tony Pulsone Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-winter-2019New MIT program to train military leaders for the AI age
MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering (Course 2, MechE) and Electrical Engineering and Computer ... mechanical engineering with an accompanying AI certificate awarded by the MIT Schwarzman College of ... Department of Mechanical Engineering in launching this important collaboration with the U.S. Navy. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-mit-program-train-military-leaders-ai-age-0Magnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, says the group’s design can enable a range of fast, ... Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchSuper-strong surgical tape detaches on demand
organs,” says Xuanhe Zhao, professor of mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering ... Last year, MIT engineers developed a double-sided adhesive that could quickly and firmly stick ... on-demand, without pain.” The team’s new design is detailed in a paper published today in the Proceedings of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/super-strong-surgical-tape-detaches-demand