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A gold medal in oceanography
development of the MIT General Circulation Model (MITgcm), which Marshall’s group first used to simulate deep ... convection fluid dynamics at high resolution. The algorithms used to represent convection drive the ... modern-day MITgcm, one of the most widely used global ocean models in the world. To gain a broader ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gold-medal-oceanographyA Letter from Department Head Gang Chen
faculty. From squash to sailing and everything in between, research on how to improve athletic performance ... exciting research is not done in a vacuum. Thanks to the newly minted MIT 3-Sigma Sports (formerly the ... playing field. In this issue, we hear from faculty members, students, and alumni about how they apply the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-gang-chenAir pollution can put a dent in solar power
published from a years-long project trying to quantify just how urban-based solar installations are affected ... output of solar panels in the area. That led to a years-long project to try to quantify just how ... concentrated by unusual wind patterns, lasted two weeks, quickly causing stores to run out of face masks as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/air-pollution-can-put-dent-solar-powerScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
waste from blood, scientists use dialysis to purify drugs, remove residue from chemical solutions, and ... electrical engineering. Plugging graphene To make the graphene membrane, the researchers first used a common ... you want to make defects of the right size. It goes to show the end use of the technology dictates ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneClosing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
about their routine conducting research to demonstrate just how “distracting” they are. Months later, ... Abeyaratne, who was also interviewed for the study, realize just how important it is to have women in ... male colleagues in the lab immediately led to backlash across social media. Women shared selfies going ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-gender-gap-mechanical-engineeringNominations now open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
promising, non-tenured professors to undertake marine-related research that will further innovative uses of ... environmental effects of the demulsifiers used to break down oil in the Macondo oil well blowout are unknown. ... The person appointed to the chair will receive $25,000 per year for two years, beginning July 1, 2012. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nominations-now-open-doherty-professorship-ocean-utilizationNews & Research
Air The Nature of Sand Water is Life Engineering Fluids at the Nanoscale MIT Robot Learns How to Play ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-researchProfessional Education
additional resources to help them succeed; and independent learners enrich their lives and use the content to ... Professional Education Programs MIT Professional Education offers two separate programs to further ... professionals in industry or government looking to advance their knowledge and career. Graduates earn MIT credit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/professionalDragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
least in how you walk. There’s plenty of evidence to show sleep, and how much we get of it, can affect ... students were given no instruction on how much to sleep, so that the researchers could record their natural ... Good sleep can be hard to come by. But a new study finds that if you can make up for lost sleep, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dragging-your-feet-lack-sleep-affects-your-walk-new-study-findsMIT students hack assistive technology solutions for local clients
were very useful to the ATHack clients," says Vivilecchia. "At the end of the hack, the piles ... scheduled to open within the next year, Narain hopes to use both the current and new spaces to accommodate ... communication devices, to address problems resulting from their disabilities. However, currently 90 percent of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-students-hack-assistive-technology-solutions-local-clientsForging ahead with care and compassion
spend “much more time sharing stories about how we are all adapting to this new normal and discussing ... a number of MIT professors are forging thoughtful ways to support students’ well-being and scholarly ... development. Several Committed to Caring honorees shared their approaches for being proactive and including ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/forging-ahead-care-and-compassionAnette “Peko” Hosoi named associate dean of engineering
the School of Engineering is poised to make some significant changes in how the Institute trains its ... bring the same rigor to how we think about education.” NEET, which Hosoi co-leads with Ford Professor of ... Engineering. Peko_Asiss Dean 1024.jpg Image: Lillie Paquette/MIT SoE “I am thrilled that Peko has agreed to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/anette-%E2%80%9Cpeko%E2%80%9D-hosoi-named-associate-dean-engineeringMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
energy produced by solar panels or windmills, and allow it to be used whenever it’s needed. Courtesy of ... store a day’s worth of energy produced by solar panels or windmills and allow it to be used whenever ... After a series of tests used to determine the most effective ratios of cement, carbon black, and water, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsJani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
use their combined MIT and Stanford educations to improve the world through renewable energy and ... 3,600 college seniors and recent graduates from around the world applied to this new program; 49 ... scholars from 20 countries were selected. Knight-Hennessy Scholars aims to develop a community of future ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/jani-adcock-and-drew-bent-named-knight-hennessy-scholarsAlumni Spotlight: Professor David Hu (SB ’01, PhD ’06)
York Times about how mosquitos fly through raindrops, he recognized its potential to teach kids about ... down university research to a high-school level,” says Professor Hu, “but the question of how mosquitos ... Have you ever wondered how flying insects survive in the rain? With a weight approximately 50 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-professor-david-hu-sb-%E2%80%9901-phd-%E2%80%9906David Hu
York Times about how mosquitos fly through raindrops, he recognized its potential to teach kids about ... boil down university research to a high-school level,” says Professor Hu, “but the question of how ... Have you ever wondered how flying insects survive in the rain? With a weight approximately 50 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-huHoming in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells
what they describe as a data fusion approach. This iterative method uses an automated system to guide ... the production and testing of a variety of formulations, then uses machine learning to go through the ... the different sets of tools” used to find the new formulation, says Sun, who coordinated the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/homing-longer-lasting-perovskite-solar-cells