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Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions

the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-principal investigator Paul Barton, the Lammot du ... Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, aims to produce hydrogen without CO 2 emissions while creating ... center with T. Alan Hatton, the Ralph Landau Professor of Chemical Engineering. “The two projects funded ...

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Ice melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities

Ali as lead instructors were Abdalla Osman, a senior studying mechanical engineering, and Shakes ... member in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, had an opportunity to observe the ... Initiatives International Horizontal Abdalla Osman, a senior studying mechanical engineering, was a lead ...

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Cleaning up industrial filtration

Engineering. Grossman was pursuing research into nanoporous membranes for water desalination. “We thought we ... plans. The company’s first capital investment came from The Engine, a venture firm founded by MIT to ... entrepreneurial ecosystem,” Keller says, noting that The Engine support alone “probably shaved years off our ...

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Processing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions

Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biomass fuels, including wood, peat, ... product. It was 2011, and Kung was at MIT as a biological engineering grad student focused on cancer ... Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who on a long walk-and-talk along the Charles River ...

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Underwater Robot for Port Security

a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... Professor of Engineering Harry Asada. “If this is cheap enough — if I can get this out for $600, say — why ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux

them moving all at once toward separate destinations. But that’s just what a team of engineers led by ... incorporate obstacle-avoidance functions to protect the AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students ...

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Steam from the sun

highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ...

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Rogue Wave Ahead

developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ...

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Water, water everywhere … even in the air

including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... technology,” says Yang Yang, a professor of engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was ...

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In field tests, device harvests water from desert air

Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ... a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not ...

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Getting more heat out of sunlight

Engineering; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering; and five others. The key to ...

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Protecting seafarers and the global supply chain during Covid-19

Covid-19 Task Force. Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering, is a member of the task force, ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas ...

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Products of Progress

engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ... That’s when Wu engineered a solution. “We were building this pedal-powered machine, when really all we ... students in engineering and in the MIT Sloan School of Management, lawyers, and accountants — also showed ...

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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

Engineering; MIT Kavli Institute; the MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology; the MIT Computer Science and ... Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL); the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ... Mechanical Engineering and AeroAstro, respectively), offers future astronauts a rotating plant habitat that ...

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How light can vaporize water without the need for heat

Professor of Power Engineering Gang Chen, postdocs Guangxin Lv and Yaodong Tu, and graduate student James ... says Xiulin Ruan, professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, who was not involved in the ... professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not associated with this work. He adds, “Who ...

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