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Understanding 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-combustionSchool 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-awardsOn 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-measureStudents 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-superpowers3-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-shapesAlumni 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-12MIT 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-podMIT 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-dayNicholas 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-mabeyMADMEC 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-iceMIT team races to second in electric car competition
MIT Motorsports team places second at the Society of Automotive Engineers' electric car ... is what the MIT Motorsports team did when they snagged a Second Place Overall Spirit of Excellence ... Award at the Society of Automotive Engineers' Formula SAE Electric competition in Lincoln, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-second-electric-car-competitionMIT 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-societyMIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT ... professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as well as seven additional MIT alumni. NAI ... related to systems and circuits. He holds an MS in electrical engineering from Imperial College London and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-community-members-elected-national-academy-inventors-2025Stick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
or power lines. MIT-SelfPeel-Drop-1024.jpg MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the ... a droplet. Image: Varanasi Group/MIT Now, MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the mechanics ... The new results are presented today in the journal Nature Physics, in a report by MIT associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-peel-or-bounce-controlling-freezing-droplet%E2%80%99s-fateDarya Guettler
MIT Energy Initiative program called Solar Spring Break, which had partnered with Homeboy Industries, ... and soon joined the MIT Undergraduate Energy Club, where she says she met inspiring and equally ... advocate for ways MIT can take initiative to reduce and offset their energy emissions. While Guettler ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/darya-guettlerJoystick-operated robot could help surgeons treat stroke remotely
MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat ... Horizontal MIT engineers led by Professor Xuanhe Zhao have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons ... any damage to the brain. The MIT team envisions that its robotic system could be installed at smaller ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/joystick-operated-robot-could-help-surgeons-treat-stroke-remotelyLegena Henry SM ’10
engineering master’s from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). They ... In 2019, Legena Henry SM ’10 and the students in her renewable energy course at the University ... working with partners like the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency and Supernova ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/legena-henry-sm-%E2%80%9910Finding leaks while they’re easy to fix
developing world. Now, a new system developed by researchers at MIT could provide a fast, inexpensive ... MIT team, called PipeGuard, intends to commercialize its robotic detection system to help alleviate ... The MIT system was actually first developed to detect gas leaks, and later adapted for water pipes. ...
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