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Study provides suggestions for keeping classroom air fresh
Opportunities Program with support from the MIT Energy Initiative; Nikhilesh Ghanta, a graduate student at MIT ... of building technology and mechanical engineering at MIT who has been studying air circulation issues ... that better air flow in all classrooms has energy and environmental consequences. If an HVAC system ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-provides-suggestions-keeping-classroom-air-freshSchool of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards for winter 2025
education.” Evelyn N. Wang, MIT's vice president for energy and climate and Ford Professor of ... innovators. Winter Awards 2025 1024x768.jpg Twenty-two members of the MIT engineering faculty received awards ... Horizontal Twenty-two members of the MIT engineering faculty and staff received awards in winter 2025. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-faculty-and-staff-receive-awards-winter-2025Engineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
funded, in part, by the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham ... Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they ... much less N95 material than a traditional N95 mask. mask_1024.jpg Researchers at MIT and Brigham and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-design-reusable-silicone-rubber-face-maskFaculty Research: Professor Harry Asada
Engineering Light-Activated Muscles by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Many robotic designs take ... Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the group’s design ... terrain like cheetahs. Photo credit: MIT News Office Now, scientists at MIT and the University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-harry-asadaIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... amounts of energy for cooling. So the new system could potentially fill an unmet need for water even in ... Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airWith campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
lighting upgrades, and enhanced building systems controls to reduce energy use and associated emissions ... include on-site renewable energy storage systems, water capture and reuse at the CUP, and life-cycle ... In 2015, MIT set a goal to reduce its annual greenhouse gas emissions by a minimum of 32 percent ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/campus-test-bed-climate-action-starts-and-continues-mit3 Questions: Why sensing, why now, what next?
— and shape our understanding of the world. SENSE.nano is an MIT.nano Center of Excellence, with a focus ... on sensors, sensing systems, and sensing technologies. The 2019 SENSE.nano Symposium, taking place ... on Sept. 30 at MIT, will dive deep into the impact of sensors on two topics: sensing for augmented ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-why-sensing-why-now-what-nextTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... own group’s work is focused on how we can reduce the energy consumption of desalination systems, and ... that happens in systems engineering. You have a similar kind of tradeoff if you are looking at using ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vNick Schwartz
and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t ... of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ... 7. “The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can change people’s lives for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nick-schwartzLow-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
countries. Now MIT engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor ... Winter, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now we can do that. And that’s super ... products. MIT-Prosthetic-Foot-04-1024.jpg The researchers working with collaborators at Jaipur Foot in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-prosthetic-foot-mimics-natural-walkingEngineering students demonstrate product prototypes
engineering students may be able to help you do it better. Before a raucous crowd in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium ... a giant thank-you card to David Wallace, the professor of mechanical engineering and engineering systems ... yoga or sell some veggies, organize your workshop or calm an elderly relative, MIT’s mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineering-students-demonstrate-product-prototypesHow slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide
of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with former students Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18 and Brian ... An MIT research team that has already conquered the problem of getting ketchup out of its bottle ... a rapidly developing technology that could help to foster renewable energy by providing inexpensive storage ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-slippery-surfaces-allow-sticky-pastes-and-gels-slideWaves in the Deep
a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ... depths of hundreds or thousands of meters below the ocean surface, transferring energy from the upper ... wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepSun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge
MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) completed their first race in three years, the 2018 ... vehicle class. SEVT-American-Solar-Challenge-2018-team-and-car-1024.jpg The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle ... Team poses with their solar vehicle. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team The event ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-car-shines-american-solar-challengeJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ... and forth. We designed an energy-saving system with no energy generation. We didn’t move a single ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentMIT Motorsports unveils their 2019 electric race car
Grown-Haeberli; J. Kim Vandiver, mechanical engineering professor and Forbes director of the MIT Edgerton Center; ... In an event attended by more than 100 members of the MIT community — friends, family, faculty, ... staff, students, and sponsors — the MIT Motorsports team unveiled their 2019 electric race car in Lobby ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-motorsports-unveils-their-2019-electric-race-carThe catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants
in order to find solutions to urgent global water and food systems challenges. For MIT faculty coming ... Fadel Adib, an associate professor of media arts and sciences and of electrical engineering and computer ... science and a 2019 recipient of a two-year seed grant from the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catalyzing-potential-j-wafs-seed-grantsGetting a charge out of water droplets
systems that have been proposed for harvesting waste heat, vibrations, or other sources of ambient energy ... correlated condensation with energy-harvesting before.” The research, which also included MIT graduate ... Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ...
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