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Study Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to ... work on other technologies. An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s ... Vladimir Bulović, the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technology and MIT’s associate dean for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
“The behavior is influenced, and often dominated by, the interfaces,” says MIT assistant professor of ... observe experimentally and costly to model computationally. Kolpak’s group at MIT is making progress in ... completed his doctoral studies at MIT with Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics John D. Joannopoulos. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakThe challenges and triumphs of the graduate experience
For many graduate students, the first time they enter MIT’s campus as a student is a momentous ... occasion. Standing among the pillars and domes for the first time as an MIT student elicited a moment of ... a transitory time, which can feel unsettling.” The mechanical engineering faculty and staff at MIT aim to help ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/challenges-and-triumphs-graduate-experienceUS Manufacturing: A Modern-Day Renaissance
Today, MIT continues to lead in manufacturing, spearheading in-depth research and analysis on the subject ... recently expressed his commitment to spark a “renaissance in [US] manufacturing,” he called on MIT ... Jung-Hoon Chun Photo courtesy of Jung-Hoon Chun Professor Jung-Hoon Chun, the director of MIT’s Lab for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/us-manufacturing-modern-day-renaissanceRevolutionizing everyday products with artificial intelligence
a faculty member of the MIT departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. “At ... make decisions based on the highest probability of success. Kim and the much of the faculty at MIT ... by Lillie Paquette / MIT School of Engineering To date, most neural networks have been software-based ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/revolutionizing-everyday-products-artificial-intelligenceDriving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
software platforms central to all Ford models. “So many things I was lucky to be exposed to at MIT,” Doug ... anyone can pull it off, it’s likely to be Field. Ever since his time in MIT’s Leaders for Global ... way they talked about things.” During that time, Field took two years off to enroll in MIT’s LGO ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-innovation-silicon-valley-detroitFaculty Spotlight: C. Forbes Dewey Jr.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biological Engineering C. Forbes Dewey Jr. first came to MIT ... aeronautics from California Institute of Technology. Between his PhD at Caltech and his position at MIT, he ... MIT, including Professor Ascher Shapiro, who believed that bioengineering was a great new field that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-spotlight-c-forbes-dewey-jrEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... assignment he loved, but had to leave after contracting a severe case of malaria. In 1966, he came to MIT at ... November 5, 2013 David L. Chandler, MIT News Office red Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesNew theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet
researchers at MIT have found a way to track the thickness of a droplet’s rim as it splashes up from a variety ... Transmission Laboratory at MIT, says the group’s results can be used to model the physics of sprays, such as ... | MIT News Office Horizontal New theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-describes-intricacies-splashing-droplet“Blind” Cheetah 3 robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered ... associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Vision can be noisy, slightly inaccurate, and ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Culture Education Horizontal The newest version of the Cheetah 3 robot, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-cheetah-3-robot-can-climb-stairs-littered-obstaclesNew battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide ... offers unexpected results, as the authors elegantly demonstrated here,” Kang adds. MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering provided support for the project. Thursday, September 20, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-battery-gobbles-carbon-dioxideSchool of Engineering third quarter 2018 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... Technology) Award on Sept. 25. Michael Strano, of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the MIT Energy ... Initiative, will lead the new Energy Frontier Research Center to be established at MIT on June 29. Russell ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-third-quarter-2018-awardsOceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals
oceanographers at MIT has journeyed to Norway — one of the last remaining regions of the world where cod still ... OAWRS system, an imaging technique developed at MIT by Makris and co-author Purnima Ratilal, which emits ... Research, and the National Science Foundation. Monday, November 5, 2018 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oceanographers-produce-first-ever-images-entire-cod-shoals-0Alumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
provides an easy and adjustable interaction for the mason. “This project was MIT from the very beginning. ... Throughout the design and development process in 2.009, the Rhino team went beyond the walls of MIT and ... exciting because it shows that Rhino is a product that is valuable to a larger audience outside of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-team-tops-collegiate-inventors-competitionAn immersive experience in industry
and aerospace engineering. katie-hahm-nithin-reddy_1024.jpg MIT PhD candidates Katie Hahm (left) and ... within their own academic experience at MIT. Projects are designed to be short term, lasting three to six ... and an academic supervisor from MIT’s mechanical engineering faculty. They also produce a report of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/immersive-experience-industryOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... engineering at MIT. “But it turns out the rules that govern how this material flows are very nuanced.” Kamrin, ... Friday, October 4, 2019 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Education Horizontal Associate Professor Ken Kamrin ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictableEngineers 3D print soft, rubbery brain implants
inflammation and the buildup of scar tissue. MIT engineers are working on developing soft, flexible neural ... Yuk, a graduate student in Zhao’s group at MIT. “They can change the design, run the printing code, and ... Saturday, March 28, 2020 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal Professor Xuanhe Zhao has 3-D-printed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-soft-rubbery-brain-implantsNew design principle could prevent catheter failure in brain shunts
1 million Americans, ranging from infants and older children to seniors. Now, MIT researchers have released ... Department of Mechanical Engineering; Nicholas Kwok, an MD student in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health ... Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Mindy Blodgett | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science Horizontal MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-design-principle-could-prevent-catheter-failure-brain-shuntsThe poster session goes virtual
the wider MIT community. They practice their presenting skills, explaining their research projects as ... eggs," such as a hidden map with MIT’s dome with a police car on top. The team managed to create ... the wider MIT community were able to join the virtual keynote speech delivered by Norman L. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/poster-session-goes-virtualBig data dreams for tiny technologies
small-molecule partners will form nanoparticles among the millions of possible pairings. MIT researchers have ... Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is also a senior author ... Collaboration Horizontal MIT researchers, including Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso, have developed ...
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