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Mining the Deep Sea
MIT, are racing to understand the environmental impact of deep-sea mining. Energy Science and ... Engineering Ocean Science and Engineering Energy Environment Security Home Page Impact Home Research Home ... Researchers including Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, are racing to understand the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mining-deep-seaPhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and ... for clean water to making significant improvements to the energy efficiency of desalination systems ... education in Canada, and worked in Houston as an engineering consultant before being drawn to MIT to pursue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-students-awarded-j-wafs-fellowships-water-solutionsTaking on the stormy seas
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and computational methods to try to predict ... the other. Today, Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and ... and Marine Engineering, Themistoklis Sapsis had a very satisfying realization. “I realized that ships ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-stormy-seasNew battery gobbles up carbon dioxide
Mechanical Engineering provided support for the project. Thursday, September 20, 2018 David L. Chandler | MIT ... A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide ... of mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, doctoral student Aliza Khurram, and postdoc Mingfu He. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-battery-gobbles-carbon-dioxideSENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing
and advanced manufacturing systems. A center of excellence powered by MIT.nano, SENSE.nano received ... know that so much important research — in sensors; sensor systems; and sensor science, engineering — is ... and materials science and engineering, proposes an ultra-sensitive sensor system using neuromorphic ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensenano-awards-seed-grants-optoelectronics-interactive-manufacturingSun-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 ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ... was supported in part by MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), and from MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamBold research visions recognized and rewarded
Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, wants to build better energy ... Since 2013, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has been supporting MIT faculty with big, ... bold, and unconventional research visions. In the latest round of grants, four proposals from six MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bold-research-visions-recognized-and-rewardedNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ... says MIT graduate student Eunice Aissi. “The whole system would allow us to give a computer a materials ... improving solar energy to transparent electronics and transistors,” adds MIT graduate student Alexander ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materialsBreakthrough in boiling
associate professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, has made a significant breakthrough in ... Science and Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal High-fidelity simulations by MIT nuclear ... Engineers must manage a maelstrom in the core of operating nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/breakthrough-boilingMIT J-WAFS awards eight grants in seventh round of seed funding
The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has announced its seventh round ... targets of the Paris accords. Simply fixing energy systems will not be enough,” says J-WAFS Director John ... Professor in Environmental Systems in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has teamed up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-j-wafs-awards-eight-grants-seventh-round-seed-fundingQ&A: Engineering professors on America’s Cup
hour). Several professors in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering — who are experts in naval ... a new frontier in advanced marine technology. Oceans at MIT invited professors Doug Hart, a professor of ... mechanical engineering; Paul Sclavounos, a professor of mechanical engineering and naval architecture; and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-engineering-professors-america%E2%80%99s-cupScaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
D-Lab courses. While taking the cross-listed MIT D-Lab class 2.651/EC.711 (Introduction to Energy in ... Culture Education International Maker Horizontal Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working ... exposed to this smoke,” says Betty Ikalany, founder and chief executive director of Appropriate Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scaling-cleaner-burning-alternative-cookstovesRefrigerator magnets
of Energy and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Monday, July 28, 2014 Jennifer Chu | MIT ... according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsSchool of Engineering second quarter 2023 awards
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of ... their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes ... Alizadeh in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-second-quarter-2023-awardsThe answer may be blowing in the wind
offshore wind by 2030 — enough to power 10 million homes. At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Spring Symposium, ... international chief engineer at Energinet, Denmark’s state-owned energy enterprise, described one component of ... a Renewable Energy Facility Siting Clinic at MIT. “We get people to agree that there is a problem, and to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/answer-may-be-blowing-windHigh-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 ... launch them into the air. Now MIT scientists have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into ... Their work could help to predict how spashing droplets, such as from rainstorms and irrigation systems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolStudy Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to ... work on other technologies. An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s ... fronts.” This research was supported by the MIT Future of Solar Energy study. This article appears in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesMIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition
dedicated to the distribution of practical knowledge for water system operators, wastewater engineers, and ... at MIT, he leads an Institute-wide initiative to cultivate new water and food systems research across ... students at MIT. The sponsored research addresses challenges related to water contaminants, energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-growing-global-leadership-water-achieves-industry-recognitionAccelerating particle size distribution estimation
increased waste, making the latter a more attractive option. In recent years, MIT engineers and researchers ... engineers, is generated from the MIT-Takeda program. Collaborators are affiliated with three MIT departments: ... Barbastathis, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is the article’s senior author. The paper, ...
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