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Understanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... Andrei Fedorov, a professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not involved in this work. ... flows from laminar to transition to turbulent.” Robert Mahan, emeritus professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesGraduate students win first place in 2019 Patagonia Case Competition
and Ty Christoff-Tempesta. A group of six MIT PhD and MBA students collaborated to develop and hone ... Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering, as well as from the MIT Sloan Sustainability ... Christoff-Tempesta, a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering; Cherry Gao, a PhD candidate in biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-students-win-first-place-2019-patagonia-case-competitionImaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ... author along with mechanical engineering professor Peter So and principal research scientist Brian ... a 0.7-milimeter-thick slice of mouse brain tissue. In fact, says co-lead author and mechanical engineering postdoc W. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-tech-promises-deepest-looks-yet-living-brain-tissue-single-cell-resolutionA new way to make droplets bounce away
and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The key to the process, they explain, is ... In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ... with surfaces they fall onto. Whether the goal is keeping ice from building up on an airplane wing or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awayPhysicists embark on a hunt for a long-sought quantum glow
study co-author Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who is designing ... For “Star Wars” fans, the streaking stars seen from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon as it ... either enormous accelerations or vast amounts of observation time. But researchers at MIT and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-embark-hunt-long-sought-quantum-glowDan Frey Named D-Lab Faculty Director
classrooms from in the U.S. and around the world. Dan holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT, an MS ... in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado, and a BS in aeronautical engineering from ... Professor of mechanical engineering brings a long association with D-Lab and a commitment to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dan-frey-named-d-lab-faculty-directorStick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Jolet de Ruiter, and postdoc Dan Soto. ... mechanics involved when droplets come in contact with surfaces. Pictured here is a microscopic top view of ... a droplet. Image: Varanasi Group/MIT Now, MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the mechanics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-peel-or-bounce-controlling-freezing-droplet%E2%80%99s-fateCell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... a particular drug. This can lead to months of treatment with a drug that isn’t working. Researchers at MIT have ... a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. “For infectious diseases, antibiotic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsLEGO Group COO discusses the production network that enables the builders of tomorrow
Thursday, March 27, 2025 Maeve Rich | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal The LEGO Group COO ... stranger to many members of the MIT community. Faculty, staff, and students, alike, have developed a love ... of building and mechanics while playing with the familiar plastic bricks. In just a few hours, a heap ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lego-group-coo-discusses-production-network-enables-builders-tomorrowFlora Klise
quickly found an opportunity in the lab of John Lienhard, professor of mechanical engineering. Her project ... different in every part of the world,” says Klise, currently a senior studying mechanical engineering ... sought the advice of her advisor, Warren Seering, the Weber-Shaughness Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/flora-kliseLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT's departments of Aeronautics ... [other experiments] come from researchers across the MIT campus from a record number of MIT departments, ... AgriFuge, from Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei Chan (graduate students in MIT's departments of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityHow to make hydrogels more injectable
a clinical application standpoint,” says Ellen Roche, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ... materials, which are made from microscale building blocks akin to squishy LEGOs, MIT and Harvard University ... a member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “More broadly, it’s a nice example of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-hydrogels-more-injectableDavid Hu
This is a question that David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ‘06), a professor of mechanical engineering and biology ... Director of the Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals at MIT – read Professor Hu’s article in the New ... science and engineering. Professor Larson is the co-founder and principal investigator of the MIT BLOSSOMS ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-huStudy shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable
systems.” The study’s MIT co-authors are Brooke Bao, Enoch Ellis, and professor of mechanical engineering ... ballpark of green hydrogen,” says lead author Aly Kombargi PhD ’25, who graduated this spring from MIT with ... fuels, making hydrogen less of a “green” fuel over its entire life cycle. A new process developed by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-shows-making-hydrogen-soda-cans-and-seawater-scalable-and-sustainableMorris Chang
left the country in the late 1940s, and earned his BS and MS in mechanical engineering from MIT. He ... later received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Chang entered the semiconductor ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Political Science, Leaders for Global Operations, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/morris-changNew scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
the researchers Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the scaling law ... When engineers design a new aircraft, they carry out much of the initial testing not on full-sized ... engineers at MIT have come up with a similar scaling law to describe how objects move through sand. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-scaling-law-predicts-how-wheels-drive-over-sandHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
in agricultural runoff. MIT engineers have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into a deep ... a drop of milk in mid-splash, taken by the late MIT professor Harold “Doc” Edgerton, who invented ... ubiquitous,” says study author Lydia Bourouiba, a professor in the MIT departments of Civil and Environmental ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolJana Saadi
process behind product design. Now, she’s pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, researching how ... advised by Maria Yang, a professor in mechanical engineering at MIT and the MIT D-Lab faculty academic ... Uganda. For this project, she is working with Yang, Dan Sweeney at MIT D-Lab and Sili Deng, a professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jana-saadiPhysicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
says Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who directed the project. ... of mechanical engineering Vivishek Sudhir. Precision pushback All objects embody some sort of motion ... optics technicians examining one of LIGO’s mirrors. Image Courtesy of Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab In the last ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateAlumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ... Bierman SM ’14, PhD ’17, is addressing the intermittent nature of wind and solar with a low-cost, highly ... scales, and are some of the cheapest materials on Earth. When you need to pull energy from the battery, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuels