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Researchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
David H. Koch Professor in Engineering and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering; Michal ... with air that flows in and out of the battery; a weightless substance is thus substituted for one of ... promotes the formation of LiOH in these batteries and interferes with the charging process. These ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialScaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
the whole process,” says Danielle Gleason, a senior studying mechanical engineering. “In order to ... 2.652/EC.712 (Applications of Energy in Global Development), she worked with a team of students on various ... with Ikalany in the coming months, Gleason hopes to continue working on solutions in the developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstovesSix MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2019
of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing ... Mechanical Engineering, for contributions in rheology, understanding of complex fluid dynamical ... contributions to the engineering literature," and to "the pioneering of new and developing fields ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-researchers-elected-national-academy-engineering-2019How artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future
Annaswamy, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of MIT’s ... But with more installation of solar and wind farms — both of which provide power in smaller amounts, ... specially designated units would start up as needed to make up the shortfall. Today and in the future, that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-achieve-clean-energy-futureThree at MIT named 2018 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
with donor cells to create tissue-engineered cartilage in the shape of a human ear. The 3-D printing ... Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and a MacVicar Fellow at ... launched The Engine, an accelerator specially geared to help “tough tech” ventures deliver innovations that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-named-2018-fellows-national-academy-inventorsFour MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2020
developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering ... , or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.” The four elected this year include: Joel Emer, ... professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, for quantitative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-researchers-elected-national-academy-engineering-2020Accelerating 3-D printing
down current 3-D printers, Hart teamed up with Jamison Go SM ’15, who now a mechanical engineer at ... Sebastian Pattinson, a former postdoc in mechanical engineering who is now a lecturer at the University of ... material with unprecedented speed, creating a complex handheld object in a few minutes rather than the hour ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/accelerating-3-d-printingMIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering, and then-graduate student Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 ... professor of mechanical engineering, and then-graduate student Divya Panchanathan SM '15, PhD '18. ... a special lid for the beaker to keep vapor in. “The little lid Kishor built had accurately cut doors that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-research-seawater-surface-tension-becomes-international-guidelineTalking Shop: Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson
collaboration with the journal Engineering, for the best design in human-powered land transport. To my amazement ... engineering. Over the course of six decades, Wilson’s career has been peppered with many achievements, ... including inventing the progressive fee-plus-rebate policy in 1973 and designing jet engines. But wherever ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-emeritus-david-gordon-wilsonA new era for cell therapies
that is growing and being developed in which clinicians would like to take your cells and re-engineer ... Genetic engineering and personalized cell therapies could transform healthcare. In recent years, ... genetically engineered cells. MechE Connects spoke with Buie to discuss how Kytopen has grown since its ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-cell-therapiesStephen H. Crandall, professor emeritus in MechE, dies at 92
Graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in the early days of ... vibrations and rotordynamics, and a leader in transforming mechanics into an engineering science, passed away ... in mathematics from MIT in 1946, he transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering. There, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stephen-h-crandall-professor-emeritus-meche-dies-92Hot flash relief during menopause
a degree in mechanical engineering offered. Her experience in the Course 2 capstone class 2.009, Product ... shatter the taboo, and provide menopausal individuals with much-needed relief in the process. “Four out of ... Engineering Processes, led her down the path of entrepreneurship. In December2019, she and her teammates ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-flash-relief-during-menopauseThe best semiconductor of them all?
uniform. The researchers had to use special methods originally developed by former MIT postdoc Bai Song to ... a paper by MIT postdoc Jungwoo Shin and MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen; Zhifeng Ren at ... Silicon is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, and in its pure form the material has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/best-semiconductor-them-allBefore the wreckage comes ashore
change over time. Oceanographers around the world, with MIT mechanical engineering associate professor ... product. She estimates that with all necessary funding, the product could be ready in two years. If there ... results, researchers confirm their transport barrier predictions with a blob of tracer in water, capturing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wreckage-comes-ashoreFour MIT seniors win Marshall Scholarships
Angeles, is graduating this spring with a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering. She ... will pursue an MSc in biomedical engineering with biomaterials, followed by a master’s degree in ... Career Development Assistant Professor in Materials Engineering at MIT, developing methods for remote ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-seniors-win-marshall-scholarshipsWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... with Rosalind Takata ’01, SM ’06 to further develop the system in Somerville, Mass. The company has ... conducting structural validation of towers created by its system in collaboration with structural engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsHow to prevent biofilms in space
station, starting in 2019. The results show that textured surfaces impregnated with a lubricant were highly ... was not the case with the liquid-infused surface that performed well in the ISS experiments: Rather ... spiky surface is then infused with a silicon oil, which is drawn into the texture and held in place by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
progress this way in dealing with the current drought. In other places, the challenge is a lack of ... problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... irrigation. Amazing things are being done at MIT in all of these areas, and the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vNew 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 ... environmental impacts, including any pollutants that are released with its manufacturing waste. MIT engineers ... aluminum ions in these solutions. If scaled up and implemented in existing production facilities, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-filter-captures-and-recycles-aluminum-manufacturing-wasteFinding a nanoscale solution to safer spaceflight
Using boron nitride nanotubes, mechanical engineering doctoral student Palak Patel develops ... remember,” says Palak Patel, a sixth-year doctoral student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Research Center, also made a big impression on her. Now, Patel specializes in developing advanced materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-nanoscale-solution-safer-spaceflight