Search Results
Showing Results for: “ch alpha how to use”
How to float your coffee creamer
syringe to the time at which it mixed thoroughly with the bath. She performed this experiment using ... able to characterize how that parcel of liquid mixed with the colder portions of the droplet, warming ... observed in our experiments,” Geri says. Bush says that their results can be used to characterize the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-float-your-coffee-creamerHow to prevent biofilms in space
to use surfaces coated with certain metals or oxides that kill microbes, but this approach can fail ... specific surface used was made of silicon that was etched to produce a nanoscale forest of pillars. This ... same as after the first and second days. “We don’t know for how long it will be able to keep up this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-space3Q: Leon Glicksman and John Lienhard on how to teach the unteachable
neglected skill set: the ability to think in physical terms. To this end, the authors focus on how modeling ... and synthesis can be carried out in practice. This is about thinking the big picture: how to get ... started, how to identify key physical variables in a problem, how to focus your attention toward what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3q-leon-glicksman-and-john-lienhard-how-teach-unteachableHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
New system aims to harness the full spectrum of available solar radiation. The key to creating ... a material that would be ideal for converting solar energy to heat is tuning the material’s spectrum of ... reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberHow cytoplasm “feels” to a cell’s components
use the group’s phase diagram to characterize other cellular components, to understand how they see ... something that is 500 nanometers wide,” Guo says. “This can be a guide to understanding how a drug is ... using optical tweezers, a technique that employs a highly focused laser beam to physically move ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cytoplasm-%E2%80%9Cfeels%E2%80%9D-cell%E2%80%99s-componentsHow to assess new solar technologies
question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... to figure out the best type of solar panel for a given location and type of installation. The costs ... of solar cells continue to plummet, while the costs of installation and the associated equipment ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesReducing pesticide use while increasing effectiveness
RealCoverage tells operators how to optimize everything on their sprayer, from which nozzle to use, to how fast ... farmers to rely on personal experience and rules of thumb to decide how to apply these chemicals. As ... exactly how much of the sprayed chemicals adheres to plants, in real time, as the sprayer drives through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/reducing-pesticide-use-while-increasing-effectiveness3 Questions: How to control biofilms in space
project is to study how biofilms grow in space. Why do they get all these different morphologies? ... want to think about remediation approaches. How could you solve this problem? In our current ... the principal investigator. So now instead of just looking at how bacteria respond to microgravity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-how-control-biofilms-spaceAlumni Spotlight
graduate work have proven to be extremely useful with starting Rivian. The process-oriented thinking and ... MechE Connects had a chance to speak with Scaringe about his innovative new car design and reasons for ... taking on such a challenge. With the auto industry at such a low and mature state, why did you decide to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlightAlumni Spotlight: Elliot Avila (SB ’14)
creativity. You have to spend a lot of time understanding how your product or technology fits within the ... it’s especially difficult to reach them. Some really outstanding organizations have figured out how to ... to it? The WeCycler is simply a large cargo tricycle, used to transport recyclable waste in Lagos, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-elliot-avila-sb-14Elliot Avila
now we’re primarily investigating the use of a screw press and trying to figure out how we can make ... also really driven by how my work could have an impact on other people. I want people to have the same ... to reach them. Some really outstanding organizations have figured out how to do this kind of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/elliot-avilaTalking Shop: Professor Sanjay E. Sarma
We also need a better supply chain. What are your ideas about how to connect these small shops and ... was thought to work! How would this kind of setup affect factory employment? I think education is ... thing about America is how adaptive we are. And education is the key to all of this. I think there will ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-sanjay-e-sarmaInspired by hands-on learning, MechE junior creates Haiti’s first of its kind open-use Makerspace
“Our goal is to train about 1500 students a year on how to maneuver the tools, and potentially build ... Inspired by MIT’s hands-on approach to learning, Junior MechE student Wilhem Hector spent the ... characterized as the country’s first-of-its-kind open-use makerspace. “I got inspired while taking 2.00A, my ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspired-hands-learning-meche-junior-creates-haiti%E2%80%99s-first-its-kind-open-use-makerspaceAn assisted step forward: Max Burns talks about the process, and teamwork, of invention
using linear regression. After finding success with the validation subjects, we moved on to working with ... his kite; Edison and his lightbulb. But Max Burns would like you to picture something else: a team. ... We sat down with him to learn more. Burns-in-landscape-by-Garnick-2048x1365.jpg Max Burns holds his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/assisted-step-forward-max-burns-talks-about-process-and-teamwork-inventionMIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
economical ways to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into useful products, such as transportation fuels, ... CO2 problem is a big challenge for our times, and we are using all kinds of levers to solve and ... elegant in its simplicity. They used a plastic material, PTFE (essentially Teflon), that has been known to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-make-converting-co2-useful-products-more-practicalD-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries
brooder box using beeswax. Courtesy of D-Lab “The big challenge was how to get heat,” says D-Lab Research ... Celsius, or 91 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, depending on age). After the cost of feed, firewood used to heat ... inexpensive, renewable, and locally available beeswax — a phase-change material used to make thermal batteries. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/d-lab-grid-brooder-saves-chicks-and-money-using-locally-manufactured-thermal-batteriesMIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each day
When it comes to water use, most of us think of the water we drink. But industrial uses for things ... also created a digital system that uses AI to measure, predict, and control water treatment facilities. ... how to do cutting-edge technology development, and we never let go of that.” The founders compare ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-gradiant-reduces-companies%E2%80%99-water-use-and-waste-billions-gallons-each-dayHow artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future
iStock-1151571867_1024.jpg Researchers at MIT and elsewhere are investigating how AI can be harnessed to support the clean ... facilities. On electric power grids, using AI algorithms to control operations is helping to increase ... “figuring out how to architect this new power grid with these AI components will require many different ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-achieve-clean-energy-futureFIREFLI uses light to sense poor blood supply in body tissue, can provide earlier diagnosis for Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
provides a noninvasive, real-time diagnostic solution. FIREFLI uses light to sense poor blood supply in ... capsule, dubbed FIREFLI (Finding Ischemia via Reflectance of LIght), uses light to sense tissue with ... 2, 2025 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal FIREFLI uses light to sense ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/firefli-uses-light-sense-poor-blood-supply-body-tissue-can-provide-earlier-diagnosisFarmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half
how to make droplets stick to, or bounce off, solids in various applications. Varanasi had just come ... a way to use a plant-based oil to achieve the same thing?” It turned out they could. By including ... conditions—different tractor speeds, pesticide concentration, and droplet size. “We wanted to look at could we use less ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/farmers-use-60-billion-pesticides-each-year-2-mit-scientists-have-developed-new