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Design could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering. “The electrolyte also enables ... MIT_Lithium-Metal-Batteries1024.jpg X-ray tomography images taken at Brookhaven National Lab show cracking of a particle in one ... of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found a novel electrolyte that overcomes these problems and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteriesWaves in the Deep
a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ... a research oceanographer at the University of California at San Diego, says a striking contribution from ... depths of hundreds or thousands of meters below the ocean surface, transferring energy from the upper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepNikayah Etienne
Nikayah Etienne’s mother, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Dominica, was passionate about ... engineering. That’s when Etienne started looking into MIT. After her junior year of high school, she ... to earn a bachelor’s degree. Senior Nikayah Etienne is majoring in mechanical engineering with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nikayah-etienne“You’re surrounded by a community that cares about you”
Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, offered tips for students to ... Wang ’00, the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and ... in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, he realized that “my heart ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cyou%E2%80%99re-surrounded-community-cares-about-you%E2%80%9DSixteen grad students named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2020
Sixteen MIT graduate students are among the 2020 cohort of Siebel Scholars hailing from the ... Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, told the students. “Your department heads ... a community of more than 1,400 past Siebel Scholars, including about 260 from MIT, who serve as advisors to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sixteen-grad-students-named-siebel-scholars-class-2020MechE researchers pioneer human motor control theory through global collaboration at TU Munich
immersed in cross-cultural collaboration at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Funded by a grant ... from the TUM Global Incentive Fund, the program strives to “support the initiation and deepening of ... studies. Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Kimberly Tecce | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-researchers-pioneer-human-motor-control-theory-through-global-collaboration-tuIngestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
applications,” says Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for ... assistant professor at the University of Utah, is the paper’s lead author. Wireless communication For the ... transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s smartphone. MIT-Wireless-Pill 1024.jpg ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ingestible-capsule-can-be-controlled-wirelesslyTwo MechE Faculty Win Prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards
Those from MIT who were honored were: Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor in the Department of ... Development Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; William Tisdale, assistant professor and the ... engineers. On Thursday, United States President Barack Obama named four MIT faculty among 105 recipients of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-meche-faculty-win-prestigious-presidential-early-career-awardsAnnMarie Thomas
ocean engineering (now a part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering) while at MIT. “He had an ... University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Thomas is an associate professor. The OK Go Sandbox is ... MIT education, especially Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers SM ’68, SM ’71, PhD ’73. “Woodie Flowers’ ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/annmarie-thomasRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Themis Sapsis, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadEducating future naval leaders
Commander Douglas Jonart Eng ’14, SM ’14, PhD ’16, associate professor of the practice at MIT and Course 2N ... Construction and Engineering program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering educates active duty officers ... both from MIT’s perspective and the Navy’s perspective. We have access to the greatest engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/educating-future-naval-leadersBefore the wreckage comes ashore
change over time. Oceanographers around the world, with MIT mechanical engineering associate professor ... satellites. They are increasingly benefiting from a strengthening infrastructure of high frequency radar ... Haller, professor of nonlinear dynamics at ETH Zurich, who forged this dynamical systems theory approach ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wreckage-comes-ashoreArtificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost
author Ritu Raman, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering (MechE) at MIT. “Such modularity ... limited in the amount of motion and power they can produce. Now, MIT engineers are aiming to give bio-bots ... a wide range of biohybrid robot designs, much like a universal engineering element. “We are introducing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-tendons-give-muscle-powered-robots-boostSquishy robots
the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ... damaging any of the organs or vessels along the way. Robots built from the material, which is described in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsNick Schwartz
Schwartz’s confidence to pursue his goals comes from the encouragement of MIT professors and staff, starting ... of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzBubble findings could unlock better electrode and electrolyzer designs
graduate student Simon Rufer, professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, research scientist Ben ... David L. Chandler | MIT News Horizontal Professor Kripa Varanasi published a new study of bubbles on ... available for the active reaction. Such blockage reduces the performance of the electrodes by anywhere from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-findings-could-unlock-better-electrode-and-electrolyzer-designsDesigning cleaner vehicles
intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering. MIT-Aditya Mehrotra-01-press_0-1.jpg: MIT graduate ... and help them build. I knew of MIT as one of the best mechanical engineering departments in the world. ... professor of mechanical engineering Sangbae Kim’s Biomimetic Robotics lab as a junior, which further ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesJ-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 ... — Richard Larson, the Mitsui Professor of Data, Systems, and Society, and Dan Frey, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wel-names-spring-2018-grant-recipientsJ-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
see that over 10 percent of the MIT faculty have benefited from J-WAFS funding,” observes J-WAFS ... explains. Similarly, Professor Otto Cordero of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) ... supply chains affect food safety, with a team of faculty spanning the MIT schools Engineering and Science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-supporting-food-and-water-research-across-mit