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How much CO2 is emitted by manufacturing batteries?
materials is rising, explains Yang Shao-Horn, JR East Professor of Engineering in the MIT Departments of ... amount of energy they can store in a small space, charging capabilities, and ability to remain effective ... make these batteries good candidates for energy storage for the electric grid. However, that does come ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-much-co2-emitted-manufacturing-batteriesFour from MIT are named 2018 IEEE Fellows
Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and MIT Lincoln ... Tony Pulsone Jones joined MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1994. She has served on ... Each year the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) honors members who have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-are-named-2018-ieee-fellowsSchool of Engineering Awards for 2016
Two MechE professors win excellence in teaching awards. The MIT School of Engineering recently ... education at MIT.” A fourth award rotates among the School of Engineering’s five other academic ... Engineering, and/or the MIT Sloan School of Management, who inspires students in pursuing and achieving ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-awards-2016Student Awards
Undergraduate Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in ... Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Jacqueline Sly, Grace Young AMP Inc. Award (Outstanding Performance ... Department Service Award (Outstanding Service to the Department of Mechanical Engineering) Edward Burnell, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awards-0Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and ... John Hart, the Class of 1922 Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT ... fan blades in jet engines. Fan blades are traditionally cast from titanium — a material that is more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/printable-aluminum-alloy-sets-strength-records-may-enable-lighter-aircraft-partsHelping older adults stay safe and independent
engineering at MIT, Chamberlain was involved in a lot more than just his coursework. In one of his first weeks ... is putting themselves at greater risk of falling.” MIT_Walk-Wise-01-PRESS_0.jpg WalkWise uses ... Chamberlain could have imagined when he was tinkering with a prototype for his family in MIT’s MakerWorkshop ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/helping-older-adults-stay-safe-and-independentBuilding 31 powers back up
Laboratories for Aircraft and Automotive Engines, originally opened in 1928 as a single-story home for MIT ... A $52 million renovation of the 90-year-old Building 31 on MIT’s campus has transformed the space ... into a gleaming home for research in autonomy, turbomachinery, energy storage, and transportation. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-31-powers-backEngineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures
process throughout a building’s construction, from manufacturing to demolition. Now MIT engineers ... material,” says Kaitlyn Becker, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We’re taking glass and ... Glass Structures and Engineering. Their MIT co-authors include lead author Daniel Massimino and Charlotte Folinus, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-building-structuresDepartment of Mechanical Engineering Wins New England Emmy Award for “Hope Regenerated”
1970s. The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) multimedia team has been recognized with ... Engineering, says, “Professor Yannas’s inspiring story speaks to the best of MIT. I felt fortunate to capture ... Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture YANNAS@MIT.EDU Vertical Emmy-winning video chronicles Professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-mechanical-engineering-wins-new-england-emmy-award-%E2%80%9Chope-regenerated%E2%80%9DTonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive
Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... opportunity to push the needle” on energy and climate change, he joined the faculty of MIT’s Department of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tonio-buonassisi-seeks-make-solar-cells-competitivePanel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future
company, in collaboration with MIT, expects to have a fusion system that produces net energy by the middle ... Five speakers at a recent public panel discussion hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and ... engineering at MIT, moderated the panel discussion. She said that achieving the ambitious net-zero goal “has ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/panel-addresses-technologies-needed-net-zero-futureDroplets get a charge out of jumping
Alcatel-Lucent. The work received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through the MIT Solid-State ... In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that ... atmosphere, they say. The finding is reported in a paper in the journal Nature Communications written by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-get-charge-out-jumpingExploring Surfaces of Nanomaterials
been at MIT, the Electrochemical Energy Laboratory she directs has grown “to one with a research team ... Yang Shao-Horn is tackling the world’s energy problem by exploring — and manipulating — the ... sustainable energy conversion and storage,” says the Gail E. Kendall Associate Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-surfaces-nanomaterialsClosing the gender gap in mechanical engineering
contrast to the undergraduate population in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), which as of ... individuals around the world responded to offhand comments about a female engineer with the hashtag ... late MIT Professor Emerita Millie Dresselhaus, are revered just as much as celebrities and athletes. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-gender-gap-mechanical-engineeringAn easier way to remove medical devices
Traverso, the Karl van Tassel Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and ... postdoc, is the lead author of the paper. MIT-Dissolving-Devices-01-press_0.jpg MIT engineers have shown ... Foundation, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/easier-way-remove-medical-devicesFive from MIT named 2023 Quad Fellows
the intersection of power generation, sustainability, and energy access. Since graduating from MIT in ... engineering and computer science in June 2019. Rodriguez Jimenez became passionate about energy after ... neuroscientist passionate about developing engineering-level models of complex neural systems. After graduating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/five-mit-named-2023-quad-fellowsClass Close-Up: 2.981 New England Coastal Ecology
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Instructors Juliet Simpson, Research Engineer at MIT Sea ... station to close. Less than a week later in a dry classroom on MIT’s campus, a group of students discussed ... a third-year mechanical engineering student. “We talked about the bad nor’easter earlier in January and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2981-new-england-coastal-ecologyCreating “big, beautiful things”
a state-championship-winning robot. A1-MIT-Garrett-Parrish-1024.jpg “The whole goal of my life is to fix all the people ... power to influence that in a good way,” senior Garrett Parrish says. Photo: Ian MacLellan MIT was the ... a part of the MIT culture, and having the resources that are available here, are what really what opened ...
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