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Why have solar energy costs fallen?
engineering; and David Hs, assistant professor in urban studies and planning — all of whom are also faculty ... for policymakers, engineers, and other stakeholders to inform their research and development investments and policy ... technologies improve and how engineering design and policy can support that process.” “The method we are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-have-solar-energy-costs-fallenMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
of the platform can be controlled electrically, through a system that can alter the dimensions of the ... Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and five others. Preston explains that the new system could ... mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not involved in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-dropletsMIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt
Mechanical Engineering, and Daniel Frey, a professor of mechanical engineering and the faculty research ... of generating 42 percent of its electricity using renewable energy by 2025. The MIT team plans to ... Cairo. The Center will be led mechanical engineering professors by Ahmed Ghoniem and Daniel Frey. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-30-million-help-address-energy-challenges-egyptPowering Desalination with the Sun
graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ... system, which uses a difference in electric potential to pull salt out of water. This type of desalination ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sunWater vapor sets some oxides aflutter
a surface reaction, she says. The water molecules, which become ionized (electrically charged) by the ... to mechanical engineering, Shao-Horn holds joint appointments with the Department of Materials ... Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutterResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
David H. Koch Professor in Engineering and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering; Michal ... lithium ions are of great interest because they could enable electric vehicles of much greater range. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ... other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... process. “One big challenge is cost — both electricity cost and equipment cost,” at this stage, Kumar says. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resourceFaculty Research: Professor Tonio Buonassisi
Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... effects on silicon’s electrical performance; only work at very low temperatures; or only make silicon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-tonio-buonassisiMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and 11 others. Silicon, which forms the basis of most ... methods have significant negative effects on silicon’s electrical performance; only work at very low ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightTurning emissions into fuel
postdoc Xiao-Yu Wu and Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and is ... would be burned to generate electricity while producing a pure stream of carbon dioxide, while the other ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuelHow to assess new solar technologies
by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ... the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), a measure that incorporates all the costs and revenues over ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesEnergy storage from a chemistry perspective
The transition toward a more sustainable, environmentally sound electrical grid has driven an ... Engineering and Tim Swager of the Department of Chemistry are longstanding MIT professors considered ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-chemistry-perspectiveOvercoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion
Soto, graduate student Jack Lake, and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. ... a metal catalytic surface that is electrically charged. But as the carbon dioxide gets converted, it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-bottleneck-carbon-dioxide-conversionA new way to find better battery materials
– electrically charged atoms or molecules – could travel through the solid material, and therefore how they would ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-find-better-battery-materialsStartup’s needle-free drug injector gets commercialization deal
biologics range from around 40 to 70 percent. PRIME is about the size of an electric razor. Drugs are loaded ... system was published in 2012 in the journal Medical Engineering and Physics. The device can also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup%E2%80%99s-needle-free-drug-injector-gets-commercialization-dealAlumni Profile: RJ Scaringe SM ’07, PhD ‘09
Building the world’s first all-electric adventure vehicle Last November, much of the buzz at the ... electric and powered by a battery that lasts 400 driving miles when fully charged. Since unveiling these ... Automotive. This fall, they also announced a plan to manufacture 100,000 electric delivery vehicles for Amazon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-profile-rj-scaringe-sm-%E2%80%9907-phd-%E2%80%9809MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT ... the practice in electrical engineering and computer science, and Kripa Varanasi, professor of ... related to systems and circuits. He holds an MS in electrical engineering from Imperial College London and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-community-members-elected-national-academy-inventors-2025Student Awards
Undergraduate Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in ... Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Jacqueline Sly, Grace Young AMP Inc. Award (Outstanding Performance ... Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering) Edward Burnell, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awards-0Technique quickly identifies extreme event statistics
research by MIT scientists may help engineers design more resilient offshore platforms. Courtesy of the ... researchers Now engineers at MIT have developed an algorithm that quickly pinpoints the types of extreme ... structure,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You can ...
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