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Making waves
Harvard, he accepted a faculty position at MIT. Based in the ocean science and engineering section of MIT ... Engineers” on a shelf in Pierre Lermusiaux’s office. The textbook, which he has kept since he was an ... engineering undergraduate in Belgium, introduces each chapter with a quote from the fictional sleuth ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-wavesCovid-19 shutdown led to increased solar power output
natural experiment. The findings are reported today in the journal Joule, in a paper by MIT professor of ... mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, research scientist Ian Marius Peters, and three others in Singapore ... at the Helmholtz-Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg for Renewable Energies, in Germany, where Peters also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/covid-19-shutdown-led-increased-solar-power-outputSchool of Engineering third and fourth quarter 2020 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by ... centers. The following are awards presented to engineering faculty in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2020. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-third-and-fourth-quarter-2020-awardsA Cleaner Burn
wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are ... of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in ... from MIT’s D Millions of people die each year as a result of soot or smoke inhalation from these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaner-burnNot stuck on silicon
light-emitting diodes, and other electronic and photonic devices. A new technique developed by MIT engineers may ... engineers worked out carefully controlled procedures to place single sheets of graphene onto an expensive ... also rather “slippery” and does not tend to stick to other materials easily, enabling the engineers to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/not-stuck-siliconThe MIT Bike Lab: A place for community, hands-on learning
| Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal MIT's Bike Lab, an all-volunteer student-run bike shop, ... love of bikes really materialized when she was in college. Champenois studied mechanical engineering ... continued to grow. When she arrived at MIT for her master’s studies, she joined the cycling team. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-bike-lab-place-community-hands-learningUnderstanding combustion
dynamics.” Along with her team at the Deng Energy and Nanotechnology Group at MIT, she hopes that ... Much of the conversation around energy sustainability is dominated by clean-energy technologies ... like wind, solar, and thermal. However, with roughly 80 percent of energy use in the United States ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionClass Close-Up: 2.S999
campus. Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Solving for carbon neutrality at MIT While so many faculty and researchers at MIT are developing ... technologies to reduce carbon emissions and increase energy sustainability, one class puts the power in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2s999Students launch products that help users harness their superpowers
lasso of truth. Batman has his suit. On Monday evening, teams of mechanical engineering students ... 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), have spent the semester developing and designing a product ... people can play together) to the life-saving (a real-time system for search and rescue teams) to the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/students-launch-products-help-users-harness-their-superpowersOn a mission to measure
during mechanical engineering students’ junior year, arms students with the knowledge and skills needed ... engineer is the ability to communicate what you’ve done, why you did it, and why it’s important for people ... Thursday, September 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-measureAlumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alum Prakash ... when he received a fellowship from the Legatum Center at MIT to develop a technology-based business in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12Nicholas Mabey
graduation, Mabey noticed a trend: there were next to no mechanical engineering jobs in renewable energy. “I ... like mechanical engineering with a thesis focused on technology policy issues. “My time at MIT gave me ... co-founding E3G combined the engineering and design approach I learned at MIT with the political approach ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/nicholas-mabeyMIT Hyperloop Team Unveils its Pod
The MIT Hyperloop team unveiled its pod on Friday, May 13, to a large crowd at the MIT Museum in ... Hyperloop design competition in March of this year, the team of 30 MIT graduate students, 14 of which are in ... comprised of students from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-hyperloop-team-unveils-its-podMADMEC winners develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice
a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and member of MITten, the ... for winter outages — but it’s exactly the kind of innovation that happens when MIT students tackle ... requiring diesel-powered equipment, replacement materials, and added energy use. And as households switch to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/madmec-winners-develop-spray-coating-protect-power-lines-ice3-D printed structures “remember” their shapes
Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to ... Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says shape-memory polymers that can ... to a certain temperature “sweet spot.” MIT-Shape-Memory_1024.jpg A shape-memory Eiffel tower was 3-D ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-%E2%80%9Cremember%E2%80%9D-their-shapesMIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day
Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president, ... members of the MIT community gathered to welcome Kornbluth with an academic symposium exploring the theme ... “Where Big Ideas Come From — and Why They Matter.” Held at MIT’s Samberg Conference Center and streamed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-faculty-tackle-big-ideas-symposium-kicking-inauguration-dayMIT affiliates receive 2024-25 awards and honors from the American Physical Society
MIT Materials Research Laboratory and the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering, Checkelsky is working ... A number of individuals with MIT ties have received honors from the American Physical Society ... and seven alumni. Frances M. Ross, the TDK Professor in Materials Science and Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-affiliates-receive-2024-25-awards-and-honors-american-physical-society