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PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
engineering and a BS in electrical engineering from MIT. From 2015 to 17, Godart also held a research ... or internal combustion engines to generate electricity, heat, and power for desalination systems. ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsStudent Spotlight: Peter Godart '15, SM '19, PhD Candidate
these small pellets to power desalination and generate electricity to those who need it most – survivors ... generate enough energy to power desalination and generate electricity for natural disaster survivors. ... engineering and Godart’s advisor. “It is inexpensive, robust, efficient, and clean – producing no toxic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-peter-godart-15-sm-19-phd-candidateRefrigerator magnets
Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can envision wireless cooling where you apply a magnetic field to ... Mechanical Engineering head Gang Chen, have published a paper detailing the magnon cooling theory in Physical ... temperature. In many ways, magnons are similar to electrons, which can simultaneously carry electrical charge ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsWind power — even without the wind
Offshore wind could provide abundant electricity — but as with solar energy, this power supply can ... problem, allowing the electricity generated by floating wind farms to be stored and then used, on demand, ... the resulting electricity sent back to shore. One such 25-meter sphere in 400-meter-deep water could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windPowered by the sun
Electric Vehicle Team went on a road-testing trip in Georgia. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric ... Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT), the unveiling was as much a celebration of how far they’ve come and ... I knew I was interested in mechanical engineering, and I was thinking of a way I could apply mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunSolving a mystery of thermoelectrics
into an electric voltage — have been known for decades. But until now there has been no good ... graduate student Sangyeop Lee; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering; and ... converting heat to electricity. But predicting which materials have low conductivity — which is to say, those ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
year — in which the two layers were physically stacked, but each had its own separate electrical ... student Jonathan Mailoa; associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi; Colin Bailie and ... because it looks and operates just like a single silicon cell,” he says, with only a single electrical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedProjects advance naval ship design and capabilities
Taft MEng '19, SM '19, who works with James Kirtley, professor of electrical engineering and ... construction and engineering being conducted at MIT. 2n Program 1024.jpg Students enrolled in the Course 2N ... presentations given by Course 2N (Naval Construction and Engineering) graduate students. These projects serve as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-advance-naval-ship-design-and-capabilitiesShowcasing solutions for land, sea, space — and everywhere in between
an associate professor of mechanical engineering. By understanding how liquids move in zero gravity ... one of the 44 participants in this year’s MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which ... Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Graduate students, postdocs, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/showcasing-solutions-land-sea-space-%E2%80%94-and-everywhere-betweenTackling Greenhouse Gases
faculty members in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are turning to technologies that store, ... professor of mechanical engineering. An expert in heat transfer, Henry has turned to an unlikely class of ... solar power system so it can be used to generate electricity as needed. Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-greenhouse-gasesHow artificial intelligence can help achieve a clean energy future
experts to come together.” She notes that electrical engineers, computer scientists, and energy economists ... electricity grids, increase customer prices and service interruptions, and generally slow the transition to ... facilities. On electric power grids, using AI algorithms to control operations is helping to increase ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-achieve-clean-energy-futureRooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience
panels, batteries, electric vehicles, heat pumps, and water heaters — could restore electricity or relieve ... stress on the grid, MIT engineers say. An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects ... of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers present a blueprint for how grid-edge devices ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceHot New Solar Cell
advance,” says Peter Bermel, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue ... electricity. MIT-Solar-Thermal_1024.jpg While all research in traditional photovoltaics faces the same ... first to heat before generating electrical power. It is the latter method, using devices known as solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellA material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
electrical inputs form the backbone of all of modern electronics. But achieving the same kind of tunable ... forward. They have designed a long-sought device, which they refer to as an “electrical heat valve,” that ... of electrically controllable variation has never been seen in any material before, the researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-willTapping the MIT talent pool for the future of fusion
disciplines — mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aero-astro — are working together to achieve ... MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... physicists and nuclear engineering researchers, she says, but not all. “There are a few of us from other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tapping-mit-talent-pool-future-fusionInflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
commercial neuroprosthetics — highly articulated bionic limbs, engineered to sense a user’s residual muscle ... Neuroprosthetics can cost tens of thousands of dollars and are built around metal skeletons, with electrical motors ... that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlClimate and sustainability classes expand at MIT
time, the only course in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) to tackle ... engineering and advisory chair of the Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee. “As students who ... climate and sustainability that they get in science and engineering. Her work has given Meyers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climate-and-sustainability-classes-expand-mitOcean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle
are in high demand for the manufacturing of batteries, such as for powering electric vehicles and ... of the conjecture,” says study co-author Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. ... Sea Mineral Resources NV (GSR), a Belgian marine engineering contractor that is exploring the CCZ for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-scientists-measure-sediment-plume-stirred-deep-sea-mining-vehicleWhat will happen to sediment plumes associated with deep-sea mining?
production of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, laptops, and mobile phones. As demand for these ... engineering at MIT. “Our study is the first of its kind on these midwater plumes, and can be a major ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-will-happen-sediment-plumes-associated-deep-sea-mining