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System provides cooling with no electricity
a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ... E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. But this is a different issue that has received much ... engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and seven others at MIT and at the Pontifical Catholic University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityProcessing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biomass fuels, including wood, peat, ... Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who on a long walk-and-talk along the Charles River ... oxygen-lean torrefaction. The technology emerged from Kung’s PhD project in the lab of Ahmed Ghoniem, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsBatteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
joined 2.013/2.014 (Engineering System Design/Development) taught by MIT professor of mechanical ... Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. There, they began developing electrolytes and ... exhaust of terrestrial engines.” With the aluminum-based power system, UUVs can launch from shore and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batteries-%E2%80%9Cdrink%E2%80%9D-seawater-could-power-long-range-underwater-vehicles-0This touchy-feely glove senses and maps tactile stimuli
tactile dysfunction,” says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Fang and his ... August 4, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Maker Horizontal A team of engineers led by Professor ... MIT-Touchy-Glove-02-PRESS.jpg An MIT team of engineers has designed a new touch-sensing glove that can “feel” pressure and other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/touchy-feely-glove-senses-and-maps-tactile-stimuliFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
development and testing for nine years by professor of mechanical engineering Kamal Youcef-Toumi, graduate ... plants, some 33 percent is lost through leakage. That’s why that desert nation’s King Fahd University of ... Petroleum and Minerals has sponsored and collaborated on much of the MIT team’s work, including successful ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fix3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... include former MIT postdoc Qi Ge, along with lead author Qiming Wang of the University of Southern ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedStudent Awards
Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering) Jad El Khoury, Rohun Kulkarni, Jacqueline ... Michael Stern Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Lockheed Martin Prize (Outstanding Sophomore in Mechanical and Systems Engineering) Nicholas Kwok Louis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awardsAn Eye for Design
freely? Maria Yang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, believes the ways in which people formulate ideas ... a master’s and PhD from the mechanical engineering department’s design division. During graduate school, she ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eye-designChecking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Now, a new AI tool developed by MIT engineers could help clear the ... simple, and cheap modality,” says study co-author Loza Tadesse, assistant professor of mechanical ... development and distribution of new technologies. MIT-SpectroGen-01-press_1024.jpg The circle with the chip ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/checking-quality-materials-just-got-easier-new-ai-toolFinding love in the lab
with David Hardt, professor of mechanical engineering. “Scott and Larissa are two of the most ... Wallace, professor of mechanical engineering, on an idea she had developed with Nill: increasing STEM ... married to someone who has been through the MIT PhD program is you have an immense amount of understanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-love-labStartup aims to flush away the problem of icky toilet seats
’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and germs were top-of-mind for everyone. In 2020, Li connected with ... MIT-Cleana-01-press_0.jpg MIT has purchased several of Cleana’s self-raising sensations for use on campus. Image: Courtesy ... of Cleana; edited by MIT News Cleana, co-founded by CTO Richard Li SM '24, has developed an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-aims-flush-away-problem-icky-toilet-seatsKripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... earned tenure as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He met his wife ... launched another startup company, in partnership with MIT professor of chemical engineering and Associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesA bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Laboratory for Translational Engineering and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... Council of Canada, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the ... intravascular infusions,” says Omid Veiseh, a professor of bioengineering at Rice University, who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractVapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
The technology was originally envisioned by professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi to ... ’18, with funding from the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design, to improve the efficiency of ... installation on one of the cooling towers of MIT’s natural-gas-powered Central Utility Plant, with funding from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-airHigh-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
Giants. That’s the motivation behind a new study by engineers at MIT and the University of Twente in the ... affiliate at MIT and professor at the University of Twente. “With these experiments, we are getting all this ... famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple, pioneered by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-camera-captures-water-jet%E2%80%99s-splashy-impact-it-pierces-dropletSaving seaweed with machine learning
announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT ... research. Under the guidance of Professor Allan Adams and Professor Joseph Paradiso in the MIT Media Lab, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-seaweed-machine-learningMIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to ... MIT-Ventilator-Project-1024.jpg This shows the setup used for preliminary testing of an earlier version of the low-cost prototype ... courtesy of the researchers The team, called MIT E-Vent (for emergency ventilator), was formed on March ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-based-team-works-rapid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-ventilatorWater vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... to mechanical engineering, Shao-Horn holds joint appointments with the Department of Materials ... see oscillations coming from very deep,” she says. This experiment used the unique capabilities of an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutterDragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
of Mechanical Engineering. “We also find that compensating for sleep could be an important strategy. ... students from the University of São Paulo to take part in an experiment focused on the effects of sleep ... and the University of São Paulo in Brazil, reports that walking — and specifically, how well we can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dragging-your-feet-lack-sleep-affects-your-walk-new-study-finds