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Getting more heat out of sunlight

Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering; and five others. The key to ...

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Learning Machines and Physical Systems

physical and artificial machines by combining mechanical design and modeling with artificial intelligence, ... Manufacturing II 2.72 Elements of Mechanical Design 2.79[J] Biomaterials, Tissue Interactions 2.813 Energy, ... design, functioning, and usage.  Recommended REST subjects:  6.00 Note: You may only include one ...

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Getting the Salt Out

well, but pure water does not. McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and ...

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Waves in the Deep

a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ...

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Researchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves

these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ...

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A new way to remove ice buildup without power or chemicals

of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi and postdocs Susmita Dash and Jolet de Ruiter. “Icing is ...

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For cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better

professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ...

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Alumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition

pose in Killian Court. This group of mechanical engineering seniors designed and developed a working ... professor of mechanical engineering, a massive team of faculty, staff, alumni, and Boston area design ... On a Friday in mid-November, recent mechanical engineering alumna Elizabeth Bianchini ’18 found ...

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Before the wreckage comes ashore

change over time. Oceanographers around the world, with MIT mechanical engineering associate professor ...

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Researchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid

Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and MIT Professor Ruben Juanes. The key to ... a joint appointment in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth, Atmospheric and ...

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A new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water

abundant components. The family of materials allows engineers to precisely tune the catalyst’s structure ...

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MIT Energy Initiative awards nine Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research

a better grid: Batteries and economics Betar Gallant, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, won ... Kolpak of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; "Deep learning of contracted basis sets for ... of Mechanical Engineering and Bilge Yildiz of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering ...

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How light can vaporize water without the need for heat

says Xiulin Ruan, professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, who was not involved in the ... professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not associated with this work. He adds, “Who ... a lab device designed to measure the “photomolecular effect,” using laser beams. Photo: Bryce Vickmark ...

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Novel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surface

associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “There’s a lot of controversy, and there’s no easy way ... Karnik and his colleagues — Jongho Lee, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Tahar ... a liquid surface at the nanoscale. The results, published in Nature Nanotechnology, could help in designing ...

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Welcome to the “most wicked” apprentice program on campus

skills,” says Daniel Braunstein, senior lecturer in mechanical engineering (MechE) and director of the ... engine that converts thermal energy into mechanical work), while returning senior apprentices take on ... Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Education Horizontal Welcome to the “most wicked” ...

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Turning any room into an operating room

thesis. “The first thing I did was assess the design they already had, but use my mechanical engineering ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, where she also received her bachelors, Miller connected with Daniel ... Frey, professor of mechanical engineering and faculty research director of MIT’s D-Lab. Frey had been ...

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