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Understanding the impact of deep-sea mining
demand due to energy storage,” says Richard Roth, director of MIT’s Materials Systems Laboratory. While ... mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... study of such plumes. He was joined by Alford and Eric Adams, senior research engineer at MIT, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningManufacturing a cleaner future
faculty and alumni from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering offer solutions for manufacturing’ ... one of the first companies to receive funding from MIT’s venture firm, The Engine. Currently, ... filtration process. “This closed loop system accounts for an enormous amount of energy consumption in the US. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/manufacturing-cleaner-futureDepartment News
Stephen H. Crandall, the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at MIT, a pioneer in random vibrations and ... Professor of Engineering in 1975, and an emeritus professor in 1991. While at MIT, Crandall led the ... underwater systems that increases endurance by tenfold. The result is a novel method that exploits the energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-1Startup founded by MIT alumnus unveils electric vehicles for the future
range. Rivian assembles its own battery packs, using proprietary cooling systems to achieve energy ... the Los Angeles Auto Show. MIT-Rivian_1024.jpg One of the two models unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto ... clearance and wheel articulation that’s helped by a suspension system that adjusts to the environment, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-founded-mit-alumnus-unveils-electric-vehicles-futureUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... engines, Lienhard says. In fact, though, most engineers working on such systems understand the existence of ... some have been taught incorrectly to generations of engineering students, a new analysis shows. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesA simple formula could guide the design of faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries
Chemical Engineering and a professor of mathematics at MIT. The new model may also help scientists ... reaction rates,” says Yang Shao-Horn, the J.R. East Professor of Engineering at MIT and a professor of ... MIT-Lithium-Intercalation-01-press_1024.jpg Lithium intercalation is the process by which lithium ions insert themselves into the solid ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-formula-could-guide-design-faster-charging-longer-lasting-batteriesSix MIT students named 2023 Schwarzman Scholars
arriving at MIT. He is studying physics and electrical engineering with a minor in political science. After ... children. He is in his second year of the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. Kuhl hopes to use his ... climate crisis and hopes to convene stakeholders and align goals to enable energy system transitions. Wu ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/six-mit-students-named-2023-schwarzman-scholarsMIT gears up to transform manufacturing
says John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and faculty co-director of ... “Manufacturing is the engine of society, and it is the backbone of robust, resilient economies,” ... the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM). “With manufacturing a lively topic in today’s news, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-gears-transform-manufacturingStudy: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions
a co-director of the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. With that knowledge and with detailed ... Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, the ... reactions, are a crucial part of chemical energy storage processes, including water splitting, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-some-catalysts-contribute-their-own-oxygen-reactionsProducts of Progress
engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ... students in engineering and in the MIT Sloan School of Management, lawyers, and accountants — also showed ... small-scale farmers an innovative product she designed in MIT’s D-Lab: a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/products-progressSmart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”
farmers,” says Susan Amrose, research scientist with the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at MIT ... a low-cost precision irrigation controller that optimizes system energy and water use at a full-scale test ... irrigation controller that optimizes system energy and water use, enabling farmers to operate the system on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smart-irrigation-technology-covers-%E2%80%9Cmore-crop-drop%E2%80%9DMIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge
After three years of hard work, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team took first place at the 2021 ... the University of Kentucky, by over 100 miles. mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-asc-champs-00.jpeg The ... MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team poses with Nimbus, their solar car, after winning the 2021 American ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-wins-2021-american-solar-challengeNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
sunlight. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines ... energy. The development could lead to photovoltaic cells that are more efficient than those currently used ... in solar-power installations, the researchers say. MIT-Tandem-Solar 1024-.jpg Photo by Felice Frankel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedTunneling Across a Tiny Gap
blurred,” says Vazrik Chiloyan, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering. “We’re trying to come up ... Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... U.S. Department of Energy. Monday, April 6, 2015 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office red gchen2@mit ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunneling-across-tiny-gapElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ... Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Tuesday, October 11, 2016 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsNew kind of supercapacitor made without carbon
Energy storage devices called supercapacitors have become a hot area of research, in part because ... researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive ... MIT-Semicapacitor_1024.jpg To demonstrate the supercapacitor's ability to store power, the researchers modified an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-supercapacitor-made-without-carbonMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Environment. Tuesday, September 7, 2021 David L. Chandler | MIT ... energy sources in chemical bonds, an important capability for decarbonizing transportation fuels. Now, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsMaterials Research Laboratory: Driving interdisciplinary materials research at MIT
Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE), two institutions that helped lay the foundation for MIT’s global ... investigator at MIT for REMADE: the Institute for Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions. Her ... Materials research thrives across MIT, spanning disciplines and departments. Recent breakthroughs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials-research-laboratory-driving-interdisciplinary-materials-research-mitExotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ... behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ... stuff of pencil lead. MIT-Second-Sound_1024.jpg Researchers find evidence that heat moves through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-leadWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ... to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launch