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With Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ... of the drink warmer during a class exercise in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Usually, the ... testing our engineering skills,” says Alba. “Can we take something from the beginning of an idea to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchIntelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research
vibrations (VIVs). Important for engineering offshore ocean structures like marine drilling risers that ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, École Normale Supérieure de Rennes, and Brown University, reveal ... objectives, like reduced drag. Earlier this year, Fan was awarded an MIT Mechanical Engineering de Florez ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/intelligent-towing-tank-propels-human-robot-computer-research-0The MIT Bike Lab: A place for community, hands-on learning
love of bikes really materialized when she was in college. Champenois studied mechanical engineering ... engineering graduate student Matthew Goss and materials science and engineering grad student Gavin Winter, and ... Champenois is a graduate student in the joint Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science/Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-bike-lab-place-community-hands-learningBringing closure to models: Deep learning physics
understanding, and applicability. Such technology could be a “holy grail for engineers and scientists,” ... according to Pierre Lermusiaux, the Nam Pyo Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean ... Science and Engineering. Applications could include better weather, ocean, earth system, and climate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-closure-models-deep-learning-physicsUnlocking ammonia as a fuel source for heavy industry
and specialized engines. MIT-Amogy-01-press_1024.jpg Because of the power density advantages of ... catalysts as well as modular systems including fuel cells and engines to convert ammonia directly to power. ... a pilot deployment of its catalyst with the global engineering firm JGC Holdings Corporation. Now, with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-ammonia-fuel-source-heavy-industryNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... Engineering. “So you could filter how much solar radiation you want coming in, and also shed raindrops. This is ... Materials. The paper’s co-authors are Evelyn Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. Now engineers at ... extreme events occur,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsExpanding the conversation about sustainability
a disproportionately heavy environmental burden. At MIT, she chose a double major in mechanical engineering with ... Godfreey-Igwe worked under a lab in Stanford University’s civil and environmental engineering department to ... and received a presentation award during the MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition. This past ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-conversation-about-sustainabilityA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
optical structures may serve as a design guide for engineering color-selective, controllable, transparent ... co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ... engineering bioinspired, optical materials — including color-changing, deformable fibers — started looking ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeHidden ocean waves
time, ocean engineers and scientists from MIT, the University of Minnesota at Duluth (UMD), and the ... MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ... science and engineering at MIT; Tim Duda, a senior scientist at WHOI; and Patrick Haley, a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hidden-ocean-wavesFundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
engineers have now developed systems of mathematical equations that forecast the most informative data to ... Engineering. “Our criteria … allow the autonomous machines to pinpoint sensor locations and sampling times ... marine robots are our scouts, braving the rough seas to collect data for us,” says mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0Albatross robot takes flight
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ... professor of mechanical engineering and information sciences and of brain sciences; and Michael ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... material-engineering technique. Her MIT co-authors are Luis Marcelo Lozano, Seongdon Hong, Yi Huang, Hadi Zandavi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyMaintaining the equipment that powers our world
— who recently completed his PhD program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be ... undergraduates, they took a few of the same courses, with Vega-Brown double majoring in mechanical engineering and ... like jet engines were leased by customers — in this case airlines — rather than purchased, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maintaining-equipment-powers-our-worldMIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering, and then-graduate student Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 ... professor of mechanical engineering, and then-graduate student Divya Panchanathan SM '15, PhD '18. ... Henry Keenan, professor and one-time department head of mechanical engineering at MIT. To join Keenan as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-research-seawater-surface-tension-becomes-international-guidelineEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ... engineer other heat-resistant, water-absorbing materials. The group envisions such materials could one day ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moisture