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Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
Sciences; Architecture and Planning; Engineering; and Science; plus the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, ... This is the second article in a four-part interview series highlighting the work of the 27 MIT ... dioxide emissions by midcentury is complex and demands new ideas and novel approaches. The first-ever MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasFrom electric racecars to prosthetic feet – students present their research at annual exhibition
At the 4th Annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition, students hone their communication ... inside the Johnson Ice Rink, mechanical engineering graduate student Sydney Sroka had a different ... improving hurricane intensity forecasts. “The overwhelming majority of energy in a hurricane comes from warm ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electric-racecars-prosthetic-feet-%E2%80%93-students-present-their-research-annual-exhibitionA new way to irrigate crops year-round
lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... Khethworks system includes a submersible centrifugal solar pump, a controller, and two solar panels. To get ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundBurning things to make things
research in battery deactivation and energy system analysis with Associate Professor Sili Deng. Credit: ... of mechanical engineering, is driving research into sustainable and efficient combustion ... technologies. Around 80 percent of global energy production today comes from the combustion of fossil fuels. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/burning-things-make-thingsNo more blackouts?
electricity. Microgrids are small-scale power systems that supply local energy, typically in the form of solar ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “In the end, it is a step toward lower-cost microgrids that can ... that characterizes the dynamics of the flow of energy within a system comprising various physical and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/no-more-blackoutsSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... Energy. Sunday, August 21, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal “Solar vapor generator” uses ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightMechE Students Win 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Technology, $10,000 Lemelson-MIT “Eat it!” Undergraduate Team Winner. Mechanical engineering students Rogers, ... automated kitchen. The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced the winners of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, ... a nationwide search for the most inventive college students. The Lemelson-MIT Program awarded $90,000 in prizes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-students-win-2016-lemelson-mit-student-prizeProcessing 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 ... science and technology at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and founding director of MITEI’s Tata Center ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsMIT engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water
co-authors are lead author Krithika Ramchander and Luda Wang of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... engineers, including researchers in the MIT D-Lab, worked in mountain and urban regions, facilitated by local ... Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT and the MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design. Thursday, March 25, 2021 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-make-filters-tree-branches-purify-drinking-waterMIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards
Co-founders Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and postdocs Maher Damak PhD ’18 ... MIT_Infininte_Cooling_Awards_1024.jpg The Infinite Cooling team accepts the $100K Diamond Winner Award at the MassChallenge Awards on ... for the technology and solve a major problem at the Energy-Water nexus,” adds Varanasi. The technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinoff-takes-top-honor-masschallenge-awardsResearchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ... MIT Energy Initiative, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Wednesday, February ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere outlines a roadmap for how this promising technology could move from the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cellsA material’s insulating properties can be tuned at will
MIT-Thermal-Conductivity-1024.jpg Researchers found that strontium cobalt oxide (SCO) naturally occurs in an atomic configuration ... conductive. Image: courtesy of the researchers Now, a team of researchers at MIT have made a major leap ... even new ways of harvesting the energy of waste heat. The findings are reported today in the journal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/material%E2%80%99s-insulating-properties-can-be-tuned-willLinda Griffith and Douglas Lauffenburger honored for contributions to biological engineering education
Lauffenburger spearheaded the establishment of the biological engineering discipline at MIT, which revolves ... engineering,” says Anantha P. Chandrakasan, dean of the MIT School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush ... and shaping the biological engineering curriculum at MIT, and continue to inspire current and former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/linda-griffith-and-douglas-lauffenburger-honored-contributions-biological-engineeringCell stiffness may indicate whether tumors will invade
Engineers at MIT and elsewhere have tracked the evolution of individual cells within an initially ... engineering at MIT. “When they grow, they build up compressive stresses inside the tumor, and that will ... “invasive tips” that eventually broke away to spread elsewhere. MIT-Tumor-Invasion-1024.jpg A tumor’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-stiffness-may-indicate-whether-tumors-will-invade"Biomedical lab in a box" empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries
Wilson, Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal A team from MIT has created ... of us who have investigated healthcare systems in LMICs are familiar with so-called ‘equipment ... graveyards,’” says Nevan Hanumara, SM ‘06, PhD ‘12, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/biomedical-lab-box-empowers-engineers-low-and-middle-income-countriesStudent Awards
Lockheed Martin Prize (Outstanding Sophomore in Mechanical and Systems Engineering) Nicholas Kwok Louis ... Undergraduate Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in ... Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Beckett Colson, Lampros Tsontzos AMP Inc. Award ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awardsMatthew Cavuto: Getting a leg up on engineering
Matthew Cavuto, now a senior in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, embarked on his career ... countries. Working with MIT’s GEAR (Global Engineering and Research) Lab, under the guidance of Amos Winter, ... path partly as a result of a talk he heard in high school by MIT Professor Hugh Herr, a double amputee ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/matthew-cavuto-getting-leg-engineeringEngineers develop a better way to deliver long-lasting drugs
MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by ... MIT_Injectable-Microcrystals 1024.png MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less ... mechanical engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), an associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-develop-better-way-deliver-long-lasting-drugsDomitilla Del Vecchio Bridges Math, Engineering, and Biology
research since she came to MIT as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in 2010. Attracted by ... “the strong program here in synthetic biology and biological engineering,” and by MIT’s encouragement ... Mechanical engineering professor carries out pioneering work in the creation of biological ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/domitilla-del-vecchio-bridges-math-engineering-and-biologyTransforming boating, with solar power
The MIT Sailing Pavilion hosted an altogether different marine vessel recently: a prototype of ... a solar electric boat developed by James Worden ’89, the founder of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team ... the MIT Edgerton Center, MIT Sea Grant, and the broader community an inside look at the Anita, named ...
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