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Building an HMCo. Steam Engine: Introduction
As a sailor and mechanical engineer with a proclivity for antique machinery, nautical-based projects ... Apprenticeship Shirley was one of approximately a dozen mechanical engineering students taking a course I teach ... fabricate Stirling engines, while returning fourth year senior apprentices participate in larger group ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-hmco-steam-engine-introductionNew gel coatings may lead to better catheters and condoms
Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, bonded layers ... widely used elastomer product: condoms. In addition to enhancing the comfort of existing latex condoms by ... managing a wide range of diseases. But a patient’s experience with such devices is rarely a comfortable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-gel-coatings-may-lead-better-catheters-and-condomsPhotovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”
Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Combining two low-cost technologies In recent attempts to ... onto a single RFID tag. “In the future, there could be billions of sensors all around us. With that ... buildings and homes. Joining Kantareddy on the papers are: Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/photovoltaic-powered-sensors-%E2%80%9Cinternet-things%E2%80%9DNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... published their results in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Adjusting for the real world For the most part, ... lightning-quick currents can sweep up water, nutrients, salts, and any other particles in their wake, at any water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ... A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ... found that when the aluminum in soda cans is exposed in its pure form and mixed with seawater, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineHow to get conductive gels to stick when wet
Baoyang Lu, and professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao. Most electrodes used for biomedical ... require significant investment in new production equipment. These changes would be for a market that is ... possible, to ensure compatibility with existing production methods, and making the method applicable to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-conductive-gels-stick-when-wetCooling buildings worldwide
mechanical engineering graduate students: Tianyi Chen, who was working with Norford on the impacts of outdoor ... a strong tendency to adsorb water and are often packed with consumer products to keep them dry. In air ... — especially in hot, humid regions of the developing world — the level of cooling and dehumidification needed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-buildings-worldwideUsing combustion to make better batteries
combustion. Now an assistant professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Class of 1954 ... of Mechanical Engineering. This article appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Energy Futures, the ... ingredients, with the atoms arranged in the specific crystalline structure that will deliver the best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-combustion-make-better-batteriesMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
nanostructured catalysts with minute precious metals developed in the Roman lab, Roman and Shao-Horn will develop ... particles charge and discharge in real time, in good agreement with his theoretical predictions, Bazant will ... Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Sra ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and 11 others. Silicon, which forms the basis of most ... A laser-doping method developed by Tonio Buonassisi and others could enable new infrared imaging ... to develop detectors that are responsive to a broad range of infrared light — which could form ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightKirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale
journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X Fang and five ... thin metal foil; the result resembles pinwheel blades, with a twist in one direction that selects the ... Fang says. “So you end up with this metal ribbon that is wrinkling up” in the precisely planned ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-nanoscaleMeet the Oystamaran
— composed of six students in mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, and electrical engineering and ... “Oystamaran,” a catamaran with a flipping mechanism between its two hulls, was born. Ward’s involvement in the ... mechanical and ocean engineering to make the world a better place. Luckily, she found the perfect senior ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-oystamaran-0Nick Schwartz
committed to engineering until he took 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I), with Rohan Abeyaratne, the Quentin ... of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... problems,” Schwartz says. “What I love about mechanical engineering is that you create things that you can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... a postdoc in RLE; Yirui Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and five ... only form a single bond with the intermediate material, it became possible to study the reactions in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsThree professors named 2017 MacVicar Fellows
mechanical engineering. Now in its 25th year, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program was created to honor the ... engineering in 1991. She went on to earn a MS in 1994 and PhD in 2000 in the mechanical engineering design ... professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in the Engineering Systems Division. Yang was the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-professors-named-2017-macvicar-fellowsFormer MIT president Charles M. Vest dies at 72
major innovations in both areas; developed strong ties with academic, government, and industry partners ... earned a BS in mechanical engineering from West Virginia University in 1963, and MS and PhD degrees in ... mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1964 and 1967, respectively. Vest joined the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/former-mit-president-charles-m-vest-dies-72Underwater Robot for Port Security
a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... and unique propulsion mechanism — which leaves no visible wake — the robots could, in theory, be ... printer in Asada’s lab. Half of the robot — the half with the flattened panel — is waterproof and houses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securityNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... A model developed by MIT engineers predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Pictured ... range of properties than with just a regular slab of foam,” says Sarah Fay, a postdoc in MIT’s Sports ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performanceBubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch
processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate ... developed to control boiling using electric fields, but these have required special fluids rather than ... engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology, who was not involved in this research. “Such control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble-flick-switch