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MechE announces three new appointments
provide oversight of its machine shops. Hosoi joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2002 as ... interests, and her sense of camaraderie. Leonard is a professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the ... Culpepper received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, then became a professor here in 2001. He has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-announces-three-new-appointmentsTapping the hidden value of farm waste, while reducing harmful burn off
the poverty line? Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ... MIT, and Kevin Kung, a PhD student in biological engineering and fellow in the MIT Tata Center for ... cooking and heating fuel in India and other developing countries. That’s where the torrefaction reactor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tapping-hidden-value-farm-waste-while-reducing-harmful-burnOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
with this stuff know it as “oobleck,” named after a sticky green goo in Dr. Seuss’ “Bartholomew and the ... into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ... along with graduate student Aaron Baumgarten, have published their results today in the Proceedings of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictableAlumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
production facility in the world. Antora’s thermal battery manufacturing facilities and demonstration unit ... what you see today in California or Texas or Kansas, with significant periods of renewable ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuelsOn a quest for a better football helmet
class at MIT, 2.009 (Product Engineering Process). In the process of building prototypes, students in ... an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... Brush as part of his work with the sports equipment manufacturer LIGHT Helmets. In safety tests by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/quest-better-football-helmetKodiak Brush
class at MIT, 2.009 (Product Engineering Process). In the process of building prototypes, students in ... an MIT alumnus. For the last year, former MIT middle linebacker and mechanical engineer Kodiak Brush ... Brush as part of his work with the sports equipment manufacturer LIGHT Helmets. In safety tests by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/kodiak-brushA climate window in the Southern Ocean
be a touchstone for future developments in the field.” Marshall and Speer are now working with ... Filling in this missing piece of the circulation, and developing theories and models that capture it, may ... planet. This global system plays a key role in climate change, storing and releasing heat throughout the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climate-window-southern-oceanDepartmental News & Awards- Summer 2019
Competition for Rhino, a product they developed in class 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, that makes ... mechanical engineering department in the world by both US News & World Report and QS World University ... Departmental News- MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering has been named the number one ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/departmental-news-awards-summer-2019Explained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ... development of perovskites has been impressive and encouraging, he says. With just a few years of work, it has ... contenders in the photovoltaic realm, but to a whole family of compounds. The perovskite family of solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heightsPrintable electronics
flexible surfaces. A. John Hart, the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor in Contemporary ... Technology and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says the team’s stamping process should be able to print ... Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, is the lead author, and Hart is the senior author. Their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-electronicsIntroducing the Innovation Mentors
a senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in product development. Alli is ... of interviews, four students representing mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer ... help others access those resources. Marla Odell is a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/introducing-innovation-mentorsUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
and mechanical robustness. The team tested the material’s resilience by shooting it with ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ... Julia R. Greer, a professor of materials science, mechanics, and medical engineering at Caltech, whose ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsMIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape
drop-in fuels — fuels that are largely compatible with existing engines — “could eliminate potentially ... that,” said Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Climate and Energy in ... at Eni, in a shared keynote address. “We cannot develop innovation just focusing on ourselves and our ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-conference-spotlights-research-priorities-amidst-changing-energyJ-WEL names spring 2018 grant recipients
Interventions" — David Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering, and Larissa Nietner, postdoc in the ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. To increase their participation in STEM, girls need to experience STEM ... mechanical engineering. Frey, PhD student Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and their team will develop an Independent ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wel-names-spring-2018-grant-recipientsFirst-year students take center stage on Killian Court
“PLAYsentations” — demonstrating the toys they created this semester in mechanical engineering class 2.00b (Toy ... Product Design). For the 150 students in the class, presenting in front of a large audience and in such an ... Presenting in front of the dome with the Boston skyline as our backdrop. It’s one of those moments where you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-year-students-take-center-stage-killian-courtCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
d'Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and four other authors. The new, ... crumpled graphene paper, a sheet of the material was placed in a mechanical device that first compressed it ... — with an insulating layer in between, which in this demonstration was made from a hydrogel material. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang. Robot recipe For the past five years, Zhao’s group has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishPitching transformative design
majoring in mechanical engineering, said that, according to the team's research, if implemented ... majoring in Course 22. With four classmates and a mockup of a fast fission nuclear reactor, Wilson was ... long-term energy for a mining operation deep in the solar system. “We see a hard engineering problem that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pitching-transformative-designTalking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis
engineering. After completing my PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, I had a post-doc appointment at NYU’s ... solving problems in ocean engineering by developing or utilizing new mathematical methods One area my lab ... flows — such as bubbles in water. You began your academic career with a degree in naval architecture. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-themistoklis-sapsis