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Tapping 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-fusionOcean 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-miningInflatable 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-controlDesigning cleaner vehicles
intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering. MIT-Aditya Mehrotra-01-press_0-1.jpg: MIT graduate ... electrical engineering and computer science. However, he says, “I realized pretty quickly that I don’t like ... 2022. During his first four years at the Institute, he was a critical member of the Solar Electric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesVapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
electricity from fossil fuels or nuclear power. Over 65 percent of these plants use evaporative cooling, ... The technology was originally envisioned by professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi to ... droplets of water with a beam of electrically charged particles, or ions, to give each droplet a slight ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-airCaroline Sorensen
a growing fusion ecosystem in which researchers across disciplines — mechanical engineering, electrical ... MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) are plasma physicists and nuclear engineering researchers, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensenBold research visions recognized and rewarded
departments of Biological Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, propose a new ... a nanofabrication and electrical engineering scientist, to explore new technologies for combining proteins with ... engineering and materials science and engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bold-research-visions-recognized-and-rewardedSelf-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy
easy to install,” says Steve Leeb, the Emanuel E. Landsman Professor of Electrical Engineering and ... electrical and computer engineering at Florida State University College of Engineering who was not involved ... workings of a ship’s engine. There, it could automatically gather data on the machine’s power consumption ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/self-powered-sensor-automatically-harvests-magnetic-energyHow to clean solar panels without water
an electrical charge to the dust particles, which are then repelled by a charge applied to the panel ... itself. The system can be operated automatically using a simple electric motor and guide rails along the ... graduate student Sreedath Panat and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Despite concerted ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-clean-solar-panels-without-waterCapturing the Sun in a box: Thermal battery inventor wins the 2021 Bell Labs Prize
the form of intense heat. This would make it a cheap alternative to traditional electricity storage ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/capturing-sun-box-thermal-battery-inventor-wins-2021-bell-labs-prizeOffice of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners
store. Innovations may come from facilities management, electrical engineering, or chemical engineering ... Systems, and Society, and Professor Douglas Hart, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Trancik ... This year, undergraduate students taking 2.013 (Engineering Systems Design) and 2.014 (Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/office-sustainability-names-2018-grant-winnersBeyond low-hanging fruit
Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... Engineering Group, teaches and conducts research in the area of precision machine design. Precision, he says, ... fruit.” That, he says, is normal engineering. Precision engineering is about going for the low-hanging ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/beyond-low-hanging-fruitTeam creates map for production of eco-friendly metals
metal-air batteries, cousins of the lithium-ion batteries used in today’s electric vehicles. Most of the ... zapped with electricity to create pure metal with oxygen as the byproduct. That is the reaction explored ... journal Chemistry of Materials. Donald Siegel is Department Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-creates-map-production-eco-friendly-metalsGetting a charge out of water droplets
superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation, they can gain electric charge in the process. Now, the same team has ... demonstrated that this process can generate small amounts of electricity that might be used to power electronic ... devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
Steam condensation is key to the worldwide production of electricity and clean water: It is part ... of the power cycle that drives 85 percent of all electricity-generating plants and about half of all ... Engineering, “people have always searched for a durable surface treatment” to make condensers hydrophobic. With ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-lastA Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?
fluorescent and LED bulbs,” says Alejandro Rodriguez, assistant professor of electrical engineering at ... Engineering — as well as MIT principal research scientist Ivan Celanovic, postdoc Ognjen Ilic, and Purdue ... a dramatic difference in how efficiently the system converts electricity into light. One quantity that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanophotonic-comeback-incandescent-bulbsSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ... connected to real groundwater, water tanks, and solar panels. Photo: Shane Pratt The engineers tested ... conditions and water types. The system harnessed on average over 94 percent of the electrical energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteries