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Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers, innovator in design and engineering education, dies at 75
instrumental in shaping MIT’s hands-on approach to engineering design education, first developing teaching ... the systems and design division in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the early 1990s and was ... countless engineering students during his 35 years on the MIT faculty. He served as undergraduate and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professor-emeritus-woodie-flowers-innovator-design-and-engineering-education-dies-75Hidden 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-waves“Each of us holds a piece of the solution”
anthropologists and engineers, and more,” MIT Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang told an energetic ... president for energy and climate, to learn about the Climate Project at MIT, make connections, and exchange ... energy and climate. For example, the MIT Office of Sustainability showcased efforts to use the MIT campus ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Ceach-us-holds-piece-solution%E2%80%9DAbe Schneider
co-founders of Natel Energy, a company attempting to mimic natural river ecosystems with hydropower systems ... entrepreneurship that permeated the campus. Gia came to MIT in 1995 and majored in chemical engineering while Abe ... about 30 gigawatts, enough to power millions of homes.: Natel Energy, founded by sibling MIT alumni, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/abe-schneiderSteam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... systems.” Monday, July 21, 2014 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office green ... A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunPeter Godart
a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... class 2.013, Engineering Systems Design. During the class, he worked with aluminum fuel. “That ... on harnessing enough energy from these small pellets to power desalination and generate electricity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-godartMechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award
for MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), attended the black tie affair where he ... in rural India. With the generous support of Robert Stoner, deputy director of the MIT Energy ... desalination system for use in developing areas. The film was also recently honored with a 2017 National Edward ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-film-water-life-wins-new-england-emmy-awardMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
that underpins the future of mobility and autonomous systems: energy storage. MIT’s Martin Bazant, ... Professor in Environmental Systems, and Yang Shao-Horn, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, will lead the ... Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Sra ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityDavid Bierman
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ... conversion systems. In 2016, while taking course 15.366 (Climate and Energy Ventures), he met Jordan Kearns ... Science and Engineering. The two were studying renewable energy when they began to think about the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-biermanMIT entrepreneurs think globally, act locally
of Energy's Deepwater Horizon team, has extensive experience with systems that operate in the ... M. May and A. Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) Alexander Slocum Sr., ugly mats ... ocean. “In the last 10 years,” says Bisonó León, now an MBA candidate in the MIT Sloan School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-entrepreneurs-think-globally-act-locally-0Faculty Research: Professor John Lienhard
University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and leads the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT; he ... the HDH system from an engineering perspective,” says Lienhard. “It has moist air on one side and ... deployment in situations where you don’t have an engineer on site to keep an eye on the system,” says ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-john-lienhard-0Beyond low-hanging fruit
Offshore renewable energy systems, a concept for making offshore wind energetically and economically ... (Precision Machine Design) class, sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative, decided to give it a go. “So, ... Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/beyond-low-hanging-fruitTapping the MIT talent pool for the future of fusion
MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... energy gain. In order to fast track an innovative solution, MIT announced plans last March to work with ... superconductors. The Italian energy company Eni, a founding member of the MIT Energy Initiative, invested $50 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tapping-mit-talent-pool-future-fusionModerating Extremes in Building Design
Leon Glicksman develops energy efficiency technologies and strategies for old and new buildings ... all over the world. Leon Glicksman designs buildings with an eye toward improved energy efficiency, ... and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moderating-extremes-building-designMichelle Kornberg
2.013/2.014 (Engineering Systems Design and Development) during her junior year, she worked with a team on ... Tony Pulsone During MIT’s First-Year Pre-Orientation Program, Kornberg got a sense of which major would ... Engineering). Later that year, Kornberg declared 2-OE. “I think ocean engineering as a field is really ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/michelle-kornberg-0“For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade"
engineering background, she came to MIT to work with Professor Emeritus Henry Marcus, one of the most ... markets pick up. New opportunities in ocean engineering systems management Professor Marcus, now retired, ... was the chairman of the Ocean Systems Management Program in the Department of Ocean Engineering for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-whosoever-commands-sea-commands-tradeWatering the world
MIT-Drop-Irrigation.JPG Engineers at MIT have found a way to cut the cost of solar-powered drip systems by half, by ... lowering energy bills for farmers. Pictured is an example of a current drip system. Drip irrigation can ... environments where they cost farmers more than $3,000 per acre to install. Now engineers at MIT have found ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/watering-world“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... was supported by the MIT-KFUPM Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy. Friday, August 1, 2014 David ... Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-them