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Schmidt, Henrik Professor Emeritus

Phillip Daniel

in engineering, and he went on to earn three mechanical engineering degrees at MIT. He felt at home ... As a mechanical engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Phillip Daniel ’13, SM ’15, PhD ’22, conducts ... exploration for commercial industry and national defense. Daniel also specializes in magnetic navigation, ...

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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 ... completely absent from the South China Sea during the winter months. But with equipment in place to reliably ... Region of world’s strongest “internal waves” is analyzed in detail; work could help refine climate ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-unravel-secrets-hidden-waves

How cormorants emerge dry after deep dives

Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ... oil, and then recoated them with hydrophobic material, preventing variations in oil composition from ... process only works with water. If a feather is immersed in oil, as after an oil spill, the feathers are ...

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Professors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring

impact in the lives of graduate students. Ahmed Ghoniem_students_1024.jpg Ahmed Ghoniem, center, with ... Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Center for Energy and ... interests, he gives them “freedom to chart their own courses in grad school and develop into well-rounded ...

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Jani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Adcock from Seattle, Washington, is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in computer ... Society of Women Engineers. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Adcock will pursue a PhD in computational and ... a senior pursuing a double major in physics and electrical engineering and computer science. At MIT, Bent ...

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Steam from the sun

highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ... systems, and sterilization,” says Ghasemi, who led the development of the structure. “Especially in remote ...

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Center to advance predictive simulation research established at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Understanding the degradation of materials in extreme environments is a scientific problem with ... renamed from the Center of Computational Engineering in January to reflect its strengthening engagement ... tools that make development and holistic performance engineering of the associated software stack as ...

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MechE Connects Spring 2024: News and Awards

QS World University Rankings honored MIT with a number one ranking in the subject area of Mechanical ... graduate program and undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering for 2022–2023. Women’s Technology ... mechanical device engineering, biomedical engineering, and  materials science with pharmaceutical and ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-connects-spring-2024-news-and-awards

Adhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater

research was funded, in part, by the Gates Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ... The mechanical system could be used to deliver drugs in the GI tract or monitor aquatic ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an associate member of ...

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Advancing the energy transition amidst global crises

challenges of the energy transition look quite different in the developing world. In conversation with Robert ... a problem to where it’s safer. Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, described ... developing molten salt material to capture carbon for long-term storage or for use in generating electricity. ...

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Cocktail novelties inspired by nature’s designs

the chef with ideas from his work in fluid mechanics. The concept attracted Andrés, and the two began ... cocktail boats, Lisa Burton and Nadia Cheng — at the time, graduate students in mechanical engineering ... About the size of a raisin, the boat is filled with alcohol of a higher proof than the drink in which it ...

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3-D Printing 101

the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor in Contemporary Technology and Mechanical ... innovation in design and manufacturing.” When the students have familiarized themselves with the principles ... along with labs in which students can experiment with desktop printers. As the first lab assignment, the ...

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Stick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate

mechanics involved when droplets come in contact with surfaces. Pictured here is a microscopic top view of ... involved when droplets come in contact with surfaces. While most research has focused on the hydrophobic ... professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Jolet de Ruiter, and postdoc Dan Soto. ...

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Gibson, Lorna J. Professor

Erik Ballesteros

a master’s program in mechanical engineering. In interviewing with potential advisors, he immediately hit it ... is a PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, and has already made good on his childhood goal. ... an astronaut inspects or makes repairs. Ballesteros is collaborating with engineers at the NASA Jet ...

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Ioannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

Mechanical Engineering, was recognized as one of the highest achievers in his field last week when the ... postdoctoral fellows, and residents, with products to treat defects in skin, peripheral nerves, the meniscus of ... skin" Ioannis V. Yannas, professor of polymer science and engineering in the MIT Department of ...

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Lobster’s underbelly is as tough as industrial rubber

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “If you could make armor out of these types of ... a natural ocean environment. With some of these samples, they performed mechanical tests, placing each ... equally far. If you did this with rubber composites, they would break.” The researchers then zoomed in on ...

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Soft materials hold onto “memories” of their past, for longer than previously thought

to do with the goop’s “mechanical memory.” Soft gels and lotions are made by mixing ingredients until ... and slide back into its former, premixed state. Mechanical memory is, in part, why hand lotion ... researchers Credits: Now, an MIT engineer has devised a simple way to measure the degree of residual stress in ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/soft-materials-hold-%E2%80%9Cmemories%E2%80%9D-their-past-longer-previously-thought

Tiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens

cases, the wait time has to do with time-consuming steps in sample processing and analysis. Now, MIT ... engineers have identified a new optical signature in a widely used class of magnetic beads, which could be ... (grey spheres) interacting with Salmonella bacterium (in green). The inset shows the Y-shaped antibodies ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tiny-magnetic-beads-produce-optical-signal-could-be-used-quickly-detect-pathogens

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