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Bubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch
Researchers find a way to control the bubbles of boiling water using a small electric charge. ... developed to control boiling using electric fields, but these have required special fluids rather than ... Boiling water, with its commotion of bubbles that rise from a surface as water comes to a boil, is central ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble-flick-switchSchool of Engineering welcomes new faculty
nanostructures using transmission electron microscopes (TEM) that allow researchers to see, in real time, how ... nanostructures form, and then to see how the growth process is affected by changes in temperature, environment, ... The School of Engineering is welcoming 11 new faculty members to its departments, institutes, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-welcomes-new-faculty-1Hear from our Students
Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing MIT Hyperloop A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students How to Succeed at MIT Living ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hear-our-studentsResearch update: Electric fields can push droplets from surfaces
charge when jumping from certain condenser surfaces by finding a way to make use of that effect: They ... easier to add to existing condenser designs. While the laboratory tests used for this research involved ... In addition to enhancing heat transfer, the process could also be used to enhance the performance of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-update-electric-fields-can-push-droplets-surfacesA bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract
Inspired by the way that squids use jets to propel themselves through the ocean and shoot ink ... other large proteins, including antibodies. This needle-free strategy could also be used to deliver RNA, ... distract predators. The researchers came up with two ways to mimic this jetting action, using compressed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bioinspired-capsule-can-pump-drugs-directly-walls-gi-tractFaculty Promotions
mathematicians, as well as engineers, and is used to guide the engineering design of robotic swimmers, crawlers, ... practicing designers, providing new tools to enable design of next-generation precision systems. Professor ... a foundational framework, considered by many to be a breakthrough in the field, for the design of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotionsRobotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
fingertips to be identified, which can take multiple grasps. Other designs use lower-resolution sensors ... use a camera and LEDs to gather visual information about an object’s shape, provide continuous sensing ... especially useful in an at-home-care robot designed to interact with an elderly individual. The robot could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-hand-can-identify-objects-just-one-graspNew parameters in graduate mentoring
Engineering, “and I’m constantly trying to figure out how to be more available for the people I mentor.” ... be worried about getting tenure, Justin spends his time strategizing about how to protect our ... international students in a time of significant threat, about how to create safer environments for all students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-parameters-graduate-mentoringA graphene roll-out
colleagues believe that if graphene membranes are ever to be used commercially they will have to be produced ... making just pieces. And membranes that are used commercially need to be fairly big — some so big that ... the researchers produced graphene using their roll-to-roll method, they unwound the foil from the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-roll-outResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
roughly 30% of the energy used to heat and cool buildings. Researchers are developing a variety of window ... receiver. More recently, they have developed polymers that could be used in windows or building facades to ... trying to pursue.” Using a mix of polyethylene and a solvent, Chen and Boriskina added various ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windows2.75: Precision Machine Design
the lines of ‘Here’s what the customer wants, now figure out how to do it.’” Each team of students has ... that melded the engineering science with practical application. We needed to teach students how to ... excitement in his students while imbuing them with the confidence (and intellectual and practical tools) to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/275-precision-machine-designGraduate students win first place in 2019 Patagonia Case Competition
sustainability. This year, teams were asked to propose environmentally-benign alternatives to single-use plastic ... a platform for graduate students across the country to solve pressing challenges in environmental ... packaging for apparel and food products that can be implemented at scale by 2025. The pervasive use of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graduate-students-win-first-place-2019-patagonia-case-competitionOn a Mission to Measure
Image Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: On a mission to measure Teaser Text: On a mission to ... Prospective Student Home Prospective Undergrad Home https://youtu.be/BpUasPfkLJs From heart rates to exploding ... Mechanical engineering students at MIT get hands-on experience conducting a research study from start to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-measure-0Four MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2020
Four MIT researchers are among the 87 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to ... the National Academy of Engineering for 2020. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the ... highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-researchers-elected-national-academy-engineering-2020Six MIT researchers elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2019
Six MIT researchers are among the 86 new members and 18 foreign associates elected to the National ... Academy of Engineering. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional ... distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-researchers-elected-national-academy-engineering-2019Mobilizing across borders to address global challenges
For the most creative minds to work together to solve the world’s greatest challenges, it is ... essential for global collaboration to be unencumbered by distance. The MIT International Science and ... Technology Initiatives (MISTI) Global Seed Funds (GSF) program enables participating faculty teams to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mobilizing-across-borders-address-global-challengesFour MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2018
Four MIT faculty are among the 83 new members and 16 foreign associates elected to the National ... Academy of Engineering. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional ... distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-faculty-elected-national-academy-engineering-2018Focusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges
all-virtual event. The organizing team did not take this as a setback, and instead embraced the opportunity to ... reach out to a wider audience than ever before, inviting hackers from all over the world to participate. ... Guided by principles of engagement, impact, and innovation, “the goal of MIT EnergyHack 2020 was to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/focusing-innovative-solutions-world%E2%80%99s-energy-challengesCenter to advance predictive simulation research established at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
major technological applications, ranging from spaceflight to industrial and nuclear safety. Yet it ... consequently become indispensable tools in helping to predict the behavior of complex materials across a range ... of strenuous conditions At MIT, a new research effort aims to advance the state-of-the-art in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/center-advance-predictive-simulation-research-established-mit-schwarzman-collegeThree from MIT Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Professor Ely Sachs named for his contributions to the development of 3D printing and ... — are among the 80 new members and 22 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering. ... Election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is among the highest professional distinctions ...
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