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Talking Shop: Professor Themis Sapsis
for vibration mitigation in structural systems, and energy harvesting from ambient vibrations. One particular ... marine engineering in 2005. He began his graduate studies at MIT in 2006, earning his PhD in mechanical engineering ... Professor Sapsis’ research focuses on the area of stochastic dynamical systems in ocean ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-themis-sapsisCooling homes without warming the planet
works. Co-founder Mircea Dincă, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy in MIT’s Department of Chemistry, has ... ’07, who is also a lecturer at MIT D-Lab, and CTO Matt Dorson, a mechanical engineer who worked with ... by Rob Stoner, the MIT Energy Initiative’s deputy director for science and technology and a founding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-homes-without-warming-planetHow to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater
systems, the idea has not yet led to any widespread use, though there are a few companies attempting to ... enter this area. Now, a team of researchers at MIT says they may have found the key to a truly efficient ... and inexpensive removal mechanism. The findings were reported this week in the journal Energy and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-pull-carbon-dioxide-out-seawater-0Collaborating for irrigation access solutions: Where policy and engineering meet
energy-efficient systems like drip irrigation — can help. Two research teams at MIT have been invested in this ... in the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab at MIT, led by Amos Winter, the Ratan N. Tata ... fall, when the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) facilitated a connection between ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaborating-irrigation-access-solutions-where-policy-and-engineering-meetMIT and SUSTech announce Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech
announced the launch of the Centers for Mechanical Engineering Research and Education at MIT and SUSTech. ... inspire new approaches to engineering education. MIT-SUStech-Signing02-1024.jpg Representatives from MIT ... SUSTech dean of engineering, Shiyi Chen, president of SUSTech, Richard Lester, associate provost at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-and-sustech-announce-centers-mechanical-engineering-research-and-education-mit-andMeet the women shaping science and engineering in Saudi Arabia
Since 2012, a handful of Saudi Arabia’s top scientists and engineers have arrived on MIT’s campus ... Engineering at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and MIT. In addition to serving as ... engineering projects, with Maria Yang, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-women-shaping-science-and-engineering-saudi-arabiaEngineers turn plastic insulator into heat conductor
coverings trap the heat that the devices produce. Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a polymer ... 10 times as much heat as most commercially used polymers. MIT-Polymer-Conductor.JPG Engineers at MIT ... wearable biosensors,” says Yanfei Xu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Our polymer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-turn-plastic-insulator-heat-conductorA new way to provide cooling without power
and six others at MIT. In theory, the system they designed could provide cooling of as much as 20 ... Juejun Hu, all at MIT. The work was supported as part of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion ... MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-provide-cooling-without-powerWhy boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces
trivial phenomenon has been analyzed and understood for the first time by researchers at MIT — and may ... have important implications for microfluidic devices, heat transfer systems, and other useful ... expected to move much more slowly. But, counterintuitively, the series of experiments at MIT has showed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-boiling-droplets-can-race-across-hot-oily-surfaces3 Questions: Engineering hurricane barriers of the future
Engineering in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, to ask for his perspective on the ... contributions in fluid mechanics with applications to coastal engineering. Mei has worked on barrier systems ... Oceans at MIT's Genevieve Wanucha sat down with Chiang C. Mei, Ford Professor Emeritus of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-engineering-hurricane-barriers-futureMIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
greenhouse gas emissions. 1024MIT-solar-fuels-01.jpg: MIT engineers have developed a design for a system that ... MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ... system of reactors that is driven solely by the sun. In a study appearing today in Solar Energy Journal, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelVapor-collection technology saves water while clearing the air
prototype systems, first on MIT’s natural-gas-powered cogeneration plant and then on MIT’s nuclear research ... further testing of the system with the help of NRL engineer Ed Block. With its 24/7 operation and its ... in adopting the system. MIT-Infinite-Cooling-01-PRESS1024.jpg The cooling tower of MIT’s nuclear ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/vapor-collection-technology-saves-water-while-clearing-airSimple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ... appearing today in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, authored by MIT doctoral students Lenan ... Wang, and eight others at MIT and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. The key to the system ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationSchool of Engineering second quarter 2021 awards
Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, ... centers. Spring_2019_1 1024.jpg Eighteen members of the MIT engineering faculty received awards in ... Department of Chemical Engineering won the Molecular Systems Design and Engineering 2020 Outstanding ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-second-quarter-2021-awardsWhere the wind blows
world's total energy usage over the next half-century? As the MIT Energy Initiative approaches its fifth ... director of the Analysis Group for Regional Energy Alternatives (AGREA) at the MIT Energy Initiative. Wind ... With the world's energy needs growing rapidly, can zero-carbon energy options be scaled up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-wind-blowsHow to solve a bottleneck for CO2 capture and conversion
percent, they say. The new findings are reported today in the journal ACS Energy Letters, in a paper by MIT ... International Exploration and Production Inc. through the MIT Energy Initiative, and the U.S. National Science ... combatting climate change, but systems for removing carbon dioxide suffer from a tradeoff. Chemical compounds ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-solve-bottleneck-co2-capture-and-conversionCapturing the Sun in a box: Thermal battery inventor wins the 2021 Bell Labs Prize
fuels to produce energy, Asegun Henry wants to use carbon as the primary means of storing energy ... on fossil fuels and cutting CO2 emissions. An Associate Professor at MIT and Director of the ... university’s Atomistic Simulation & Energy Research Group, Henry has invented a thermal battery made of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/capturing-sun-box-thermal-battery-inventor-wins-2021-bell-labs-prizeCleaning up industrial filtration
MITEI Seed Grant The story of Via Separations begins in 2012, when the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) ... Family Professor in Environmental Systems and head of MIT’s Department of Materials Science and ... another Grossman graduate student and a 2016-17 ExxonMobil- MIT Energy Fellow, who was developing lab ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-industrial-filtrationGetting more heat out of sunlight
200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit). MIT-Heat-Collection-01-1024.jpg The key to the process ... Zhao, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, professor and head of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering; and five others. The key to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightGraduate Professional Development Opportunities
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities for Graduate Students MIT Mechanical Engineering ... Graduate Travel Grants MIT Mechanical Engineering Department is pleased to again offer five Graduate Travel ... Travel Award in Mechanical Engineering Keck Travel Award in Thermal Sciences Den Hartog Travel Award in ...
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