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The race to build the Navy’s next fleet of ships
engineering and director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, along with a number of naval construction and ... students the finished product of a shipbuilding project,” says Harbour. Goddard’s involvement in ... engineering duty officer for the Navy. It was then he was given the opportunity to enroll in MIT’s naval ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/race-build-navy%E2%80%99s-next-fleet-ships-0Supporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work
Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering. A common theme in her work is the ... innovation. Established in MIT’s School of Engineering and now in its third year, the MIT and Accenture ... progress in meeting complex societal needs through new business convergence insights in technology and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/supporting-sustainability-digital-health-and-future-workSeparating finely mixed oil and water
emulsion, with very tiny droplets of oil stabilized in a water background, or water in an oil background. ... developed by Varanasi’s group uses membranes with hierarchical pore structures. The membranes combine a very ... flow, as well as nanoscale holes on the other surface, in contact with the emulsion to be separated. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-finely-mixed-oil-and-waterHyunwoo Yuk
In November, mechanical engineering PhD candidate Hyunwoo Yuk earned the top prize at the ... sealing wet tissues. Together with Ellen Roche, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and ... surgery. 1024_Hyunwoo Yuk_04.jpg Mechanical engineering graduate student Hyunwoo Yuk has used his expertise ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hyunwoo-yukBio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT and one of the senior ... working to address this problem for several years. In 2019, his team developed a double-sided tissue tape ... Inspired by the sticky substance that barnacles use to cling to rocks, MIT engineers have designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bio-inspired-blood-repelling-tissue-glue-could-seal-wounds-quickly3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
heated. Only in very rare instances do certain materials buck this thermodynamic trend and shrink with ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... not expand when heated. In addition to their experiments, the researchers developed a computational ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedHow to clean solar panels without water
graduate student Sreedath Panat and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Despite concerted ... of that is likely to be located in desert areas, where sunlight is abundant. But the accumulation of ... photovoltaic panels by as much as 30 percent in just one month — so regular cleaning is essential for such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-clean-solar-panels-without-waterNew kind of supercapacitor made without carbon
Energy storage devices called supercapacitors have become a hot area of research, in part because ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive ... off-the-shelf hand-crank flashlight (the red parts at each side) by cutting it in half and installing a small ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-supercapacitor-made-without-carbonDan Frey Named D-Lab Faculty Director
Professor of mechanical engineering brings a long association with D-Lab and a commitment to ... interest in design with a desire to strengthen research, which will have positive impact in the developing ... part of Frey’s job is working with students on products intended for the developing world. “One example ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dan-frey-named-d-lab-faculty-directorDesign’s new frontier
Mechanical Engineering are utilizing these technologies to reimagine how the products, systems, and ... develops could lead to “design democratization,” putting more power in the hands of the end user. “With ... professor in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) and mechanical engineering. Personal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design%E2%80%99s-new-frontierStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT, Portal Instruments developed a jet-injection device that ... Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics at MIT, the startup developed ... and ulcerative colitis,” says CEO Patrick Anquetil PhD ’04, who co-founded Portal with Hunter in 2012. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not involved in ... processes developed for the production of electronic chips and devices. They’ve found a wide variety of ... friction. A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could offer a new way of making movable parts with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-dropletsA 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 ... prevent frost formation, but with two limitations: It would only work in the areas directly in sunlight, ... environmentally harmful. Now, MIT researchers have developed a completely passive, solar-powered way of combating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-remove-ice-buildup-without-power-or-chemicalsResponsive design meets responsibility for the planet’s future
“Of course, something must always go wrong,” Horowitz, a mechanical engineering major with minors in ... collaboration between MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute ... energy, climate justice, and sustainable development. In addition to the ROV, Horowitz has tackled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/responsive-design-meets-responsibility-planet%E2%80%99s-future2025 Faculty Search Candidates
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Website February 10- 11 Advances in Soft-Fracture Mechanics: Multiphysics, ... Sideways Cracks, and Configurational Mechanics February 10, 4:00-5:00 PM in 3-370 Live stream/recording ... Scaling: A Tour Through Nonlinear Mechanics February 24, 4:00-5:00 PM in 3-370 Live stream/recording ...
https://meche.mit.edu/2025-faculty-search-candidatesNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... level experimentally is the team’s next goal. Sevilla, a doctoral student in the mechanical engineering ... also improving safety, with little or no increase in cost. The new findings, which involve substituting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesPesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition
while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... over the years. He and his team have developed solutions for everything from consumer product packaging ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pesticide-innovation-takes-top-prize-collegiate-inventors-competitionAlumni Spotlight: 6dot Innovations
focusing on idea generation and product development. “The spaces we’re working in now, called blind/low ... the fall 2008 offering of Professor David Wallace’s popular course 2.009: Product Engineering ... was split into two groups that competed with each other to develop the most promising prototype for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-6dot-innovationsKarina Pikhart
to work on the project. While earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford ... later, she recruited Robert Liebert, a graduate from Duke University with degrees in engineering and ... product development. “The spaces we’re working in now, called blind/low vision (B/LV) and augmentative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/karina-pikhart