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High-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ... engineering at MIT. “All that force has to be created close to the surface, at a near standstill. That’s what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchA lasting — and valuable — legacy
Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ... Engineering, grew up in a curious, independently minded family. Her mother had multiple jobs over the years, ... engineering, and worked successfully in them. When Gallant was very young, she and her father did science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ... by adding a common stimulant: caffeine. zero-emissions fuel.jpg MIT engineers Aly Kombargi (left) and ... author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineWater vapor sets some oxides aflutter
Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ... Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. She is the senior author of a paper describing the research that is ... was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Skoltech-MIT Center for Electrochemical Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutterA new, inexpensive catalyst speeds the production of oxygen from water
Courtesy of the researchers Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed an entirely new type of ... abundant components. The family of materials allows engineers to precisely tune the catalyst’s structure ... Materials, in a paper by MIT postdoc Shuai Yuan, graduate student Jiayu Peng, Professor Yang Shao-Horn, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-inexpensive-catalyst-speeds-production-oxygen-waterRooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience
stress on the grid, MIT engineers say. An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can harness our smart dishwashers, ... a good start.” This work was supported, in part, by the U.S. Department of Energy and the MIT Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceHow to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
, geothermal wells, agricultural settings, desalination plants, and a variety of renewable energy systems and ... Energy Initiative, the MIT Martin Fellowship Program, and the National Science Foundation. Wednesday, ... MIT-Crystal-Droid-01-PRESS.jpg When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-salt-out-water-make-it-self-ejectLife 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 ... the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is designing and researching the activities humans will ... microgravity. This May, the SEI supported researchers from the Media Lab; MIT's departments of Aeronautics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityLifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood
engines. His work with Professor James Fay and Professor James Keck in the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory ... Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... From identifying the source of emissions to analyzing the future of automotive engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
Voigt, a professor in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, made those comments at the first of ... two research workshops produced by the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) on ... Sept. 14th and Sept. 28th at the Samberg Center. The annual workshop brings members of the MIT community ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsPhD student recognized by International Desalination Association
engineering blue Education LIENHARD@MIT.EDU ... MIT doctoral candidate Ronan K. McGovern SM '12 has received the Best Presentation Award of ... Program." The paper in question, titled "Design and Optimization of Hybrid ED-RO Systems for the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phd-student-recognized-international-desalination-associationMechE Colloquia
Autonomous Systems http://calendar.mit.edu/event/meche-colloquium-professor-navid-azizan October ... Robotics http://calendar.mit.edu/event/meche-colloquium-tissue-engineering-biological-actuators-for ... Virtual World http://calendar.mit.edu/event/meche-colloquium-professor-ming-guo-pushing-multicellular-living-systems ...
https://meche.mit.edu/meche-colloquiaJ-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions
Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, has been awarded ... projects. Together, the funded projects demonstrate MIT’s application of innovative technologies to food and ... Solutions program helps move these water and food technologies from labs at MIT into commercial use, where ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-commercialization-grants-develop-technologies-water-and-food-solutionsA Low-Cost, High-Performance Prosthetic Knee
goal. In a paper published in IEEE’s Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, the ... prosthetics, at a fraction of the cost. MIT-Prosthetic-Knee-4-1024.jpg A prototype of the prosthetic knee ... going after this disruptive opportunity,” says Winter, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/low-cost-high-performance-prosthetic-kneeSeparating finely mixed oil and water
efficiency." The team is working with Shell, which supported the research through the MIT Energy Initiative, to ... ecosystems. But MIT researchers have discovered a new, inexpensive way of getting the two fluids apart again. ... journal Scientific Reports by MIT professor Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Brian Solomon, and postdoc M. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-finely-mixed-oil-and-waterA New Era in 3D Printing
Yang, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Ideation Laboratory. “It gives you ... professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity, ... hundred years later, a new type of printing was invented in the labs of MIT. Emanuel Sachs, professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-era-3d-printingJ-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
systems. By speeding the development of new products and services, J-WAFS Solutions grants help advance MIT ... grants provide one year of financial support to MIT principal investigators with bench-scale, ... the launch of three MIT startups. The first of these was Via Separations, a company spun out from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-2018-solutions-grants-commercialization-mit-food-and-water-technologiesTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Sili Deng
materials science and automotive engineering. We have awhile to go before clean energy technologies like ... Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ... Understanding combustion Much of the conversation about energy sustainability is dominated by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-sili-dengAsegun Henry wins National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award
transfer and high-temperature energy systems. He directs the Atomistic Simulation and Energy (ASE) Research ... The National Science Foundation (NSF) today named Asegun Henry, a professor in MIT’s Department of ... Mechanical Engineering, as a 2023 recipient of its Alan T. Waterman Award. This award is the NSF's ...
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