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New 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-moistureStudy: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping
Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and others ... marine scrubber is a huge, metal, vertical tank installed in a ship’s exhaust stack, above the engines ... exhaust gases as they exit the engines. The seawater interacts with sulfur dioxide in the exhaust, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-burning-heavy-fuel-oil-scrubbers-best-available-option-bulk-maritime-shippingQ&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
grow millions of times faster than plants and dozens of times faster than microalgae. Engineering these ... Sciences; Architecture and Planning; Engineering; and Science; plus the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, ... Desiree Plata, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasData-Driven Modeling of 4D Ocean and Coastal Acidification in the Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays
team, including MIT Mechanical Engineering graduate student Bianca Champenois, MIT Sea Grant research ... scientist Carolina Bastidas, Northeastern University student Beck LaBash, and MIT Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-modeling-4d-ocean-and-coastal-acidification-massachusetts-and-cape-cod-baysThe Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown
Engineering and the Ocean Environment: Challenge and Opportunity by Alissa Mallinson Vast ... unsinkable Titanic. The mysteries of the oceans’ depths and what lies beneath offer exciting challenges for engineers ... Professor of Marine Technology and Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering Professor Michael ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-and-potential-oceans-unknownPhD student recognized by International Desalination Association
engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-student-recognized-international-desalination-associationAutonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for ... Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ... International Journal of Robotics Research. Seeing a shape in the dots The engineering of such an inspection is ...
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