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Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... accumulation,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical ... a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston, who was not associated with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationAdvancing the energy transition amidst global crises
a problem to where it’s safer. Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, described ... power than CO 2 from the point of emission,” said Desirée L. Plata, MIT associate professor of civil and ... (MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th Annual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-energy-transition-amidst-global-crisesMIT Hyperloop team competes in SpaceX global competition
Freidah/Department of Mechanical Engineering | 3 min, 7 sec Tuesday, January 24, 2017 MIT News Office Collaboration ... The MIT team includes students concentrating in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, electrical ... A team of MIT student designers is heading to California with a concept pod, a vision for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-competes-spacex-global-competitionNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ... a professor at the University of Wollongong in Australia, who was not connected with this research. “This is ... Taberner, an associate professor of bioengineering at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, who also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesMIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle, and associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart. Out of ... MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, ... MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “That’s what we’re doing at the nanoscale.” The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-3-d-print-colloidal-crystalsNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO ... Professor of Materials Science and Engineering W. Craig Carter, as well as postdoc Xinwei Chen, graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downCoatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces
professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant ... research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation, ... Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesAdhesive coatings can prevent scarring around medical implants
for a drug, no need for a special polymer,” says Xuanhe Zhao, an MIT professor of mechanical ... that kind of device failure, MIT engineers have found a simple and general way to eliminate fibrosis by ... MIT engineers found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/adhesive-coatings-can-prevent-scarring-around-medical-implantsStretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... within the human body,” says Fiorenzo Omenetto, a professor of biological engineering at Tufts ... Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchy-optical-fibers-implanting-body“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"
engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... shipbuilding at MIT starting in 1971. With support from the American Bureau of Shipping, Willeman and Marcus ... much of his MIT career. The program offered master’s and doctoral degrees to engineering students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-whosoever-commands-sea-commands-tradeElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
Professor in Power Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Alexei Maznev, ... MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsIngestible medical devices can be broken down with light
requirement for a major procedure,” says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ... who is now a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado at ... done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-medical-devices-can-be-broken-down-lightMIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve education
Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering Implicit knowledge is know-how that an ... benefit from high-quality education.” Since 2017, the Jameel World Education Lab, part of MIT Open ... years, grants have supported educational innovations across a rich variety of MIT fields: mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-win-grants-develop-and-test-14-innovative-ideas-improve-education2021-22 Takeda Fellows: Leaning on AI to advance medicine for humans
hamster ovary cells to these surfaces. McCue earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of ... from the University of Cambridge in England. Caroline McCue Caroline McCue is a PhD student in ... engineering from Stanford University and her SM in media arts and sciences from MIT. Lagnajit Pattanaik ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/2021-22-takeda-fellows-leaning-ai-advance-medicine-humansBubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double
by mechanical engineering postdoc Navdeep Singh Dhillon, professor of nuclear science and engineering ... Jacopo Buongiorno, and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. “Roughly 85 percent ... existence of an optimal surface geometry,” says Matthew McCarthy, an assistant professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble%E2%80%A6boiling-doubleNew laser setup probes metamaterial structures with ultrafast pulses
Metamaterials are products of engineering wizardry. They are made from everyday polymers, ... Courtesy of the researchers The technique, developed by MIT engineers, probes metamaterials with a system ... Engineering at MIT. “With this approach, we can accelerate the discovery of optimal materials, depending on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-laser-setup-probes-metamaterial-structures-ultrafast-pulsesHyunwoo Yuk
accepted into MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, Yuk received an email from a new faculty ... member, Xuanhe Zhao, now professor of mechanical engineering and George N. Hatsopoulos (1949) Faculty ... sealing wet tissues. Together with Ellen Roche, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/hyunwoo-yukMotion-Induced Quicksand
MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... deposited, they form a relatively stable mound, much like a solid. Ken Kamrin, an assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandStamp-sized graphene sheets riddled with holes could be boon for molecular separation
Kidambi’s MIT co-authors are Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Jing Kong, ... professor of electrical engineering and computer science, along with researchers from Oxford University, the ... graphene in a more direct fashion. As a PhD student at Cambridge University, Kidambi spent much of his time ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stamp-sized-graphene-sheets-riddled-holes-could-be-boon-molecular-separation