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High-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ... engineering at MIT. “All that force has to be created close to the surface, at a near standstill. That’s what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchMIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition
dedicated to the distribution of practical knowledge for water system operators, wastewater engineers, and ... innovations that have come out of his lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Lienhard Research ... Environmental Engineering, and the technology that emerged grew into the city-scale wireless sensor network now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-growing-global-leadership-water-achieves-industry-recognitionSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... Andrejevic, a PhD student in materials science and engineering. “We can think of these atoms as spheres ... Chen, a mechanical engineering PhD student. “But those calculations scale with the fourth order of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysFrom entrepreneur to climate policy advocate
solutions.” Wahnschafft arrived at MIT with the desire to continue pursuing product engineering for social ... entrepreneurship. She experimented with mechanical engineering classes through MIT D-Lab, a program focused on ... of the challenge. While her engineering work focused on improving sanitation conditions, she learned ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/entrepreneur-climate-policy-advocateUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsWiggling toward bio-inspired machine intelligence
Center (SSRC), and is now advised by Ali Jadbabaie, the JR East Professor of Engineering and head of the ... Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and School of Engineering Associate Dean Anette “Peko” ... Hosoi, who is the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering as well as an applied math ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wiggling-toward-bio-inspired-machine-intelligenceNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
of millions of chemical formulations. In tandem, engineers are building machines that can print ... pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ... engineering Tonio Buonassisi, along with former visiting professor Hamide Kavak of Cukurova University and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materialsHigh-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
in agricultural runoff. MIT engineers have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into a deep ... Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and a core member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolTonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive
Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical Engineering in 2007, where he established the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tonio-buonassisi-seeks-make-solar-cells-competitive3-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... Spadaccini, who is the director of LLNL’s Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing. “It has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedStudy: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions
appointments in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and is ... research scientist Livia Giordano in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kelsey Stoerzinger PhD ’16, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-some-catalysts-contribute-their-own-oxygen-reactionsUnlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence
engineering. “The way I look at it, we are trying to clone the oceanographer and put our understanding of how ... engineering expertise. Schmidt and Benjamin have structured 2.680 to ensure students have a working knowledge ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education International Horizontal Students taking ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-marine-mysteries-artificial-intelligenceResearchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
electronic devices. MIT-Graphene-Wafers-01-1024.jpg Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT have developed a technique to harvest 2-inch ... materials, according to Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-quickly-harvest-2-d-materials-bringing-them-closer-commercializationNew surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor of chemical engineering and Associate Provost ... says Jonathan Boreyko, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencyPhonon catalysis could lead to a new field
just like it's very hot,” says Asegun Henry, professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of ... temperatures engineers could use cheaper materials to build them. This would lower the cost of fuel cells and ... Materials Science and Engineering Collaboration Horizontal By selectively heating specific phonons without ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phonon-catalysis-could-lead-new-fieldSaving seaweed with machine learning
Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT. ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... combine my passion for food, my technical expertise in ocean engineering, and my interest in sustainably ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-seaweed-machine-learningComputing for ocean environments
exploring the many ocean creatures we haven’t discovered yet.” Ocean engineers and mechanical engineers ... underwater devices. This tool could help engineers and designers develop, for example, robotic fins and ... Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Ocean and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/computing-ocean-environmentsJ-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
a 2015 J-WAFS Solutions grant which has since been supported by The Engine, has received numerous ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a solution. He and his team have been awarded ... Mechanical Engineering “ Manufacturing and Marketing E. coli Test Kits to Promote Safely Managed Drinking ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-2018-solutions-grants-commercialization-mit-food-and-water-technologiesStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
Kong and Kuan Qiao Now MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting ... Development Associate Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and ... Engineering. Kim envisions the technique can be used to manufacture low-cost, high-performance devices such as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materials