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Beyond low-hanging fruit

Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... mechanism of the system to do this. You have to have huge amounts of this polymer to get enough uranium and ...

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New surface treatment stops scale buildup

Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... there’s mechanical damage, the lubricant can return to that surface,” Subramanyam says. “It can maintain ...

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How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light

graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in this ...

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Droplets get a charge out of jumping

postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, mechanical engineering professor Evelyn Wang, and two others. Miljkovic says this ... electricity-generating power plants — provided a mechanism for enhancing the efficiency of heat transfer on those ...

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John Lewandowski

properties. As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ... studied biology as an undergraduate at CWRU, envisioned a solution that took advantage of these mechanical ...

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Danielle Zurovcik

$4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive? “If you look at it from ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ...

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Wind power — even without the wind

Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ...

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Remembering ‘Papa Flash’

they produced high-intensity light, possessed mechanical strength to withstand great pressures, and ... Kim Vandiver, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, ...

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Powering Desalination with the Sun

graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ...

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Bubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch

processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate ... shown a new method to control the boiling phenomenon,” says Satish Kandlikar, a professor of mechanical ...

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A Makerspace for Students, by Students

there is one word that embodies the spirit of MIT MakerWorks, the all-access Department of Mechanical ... June 21, 2016 Alissa Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education ...

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Prakash Govindan

crisis that inspired Govindan – who received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian ... Institute of Technology at Madras and his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT – to do his part to find ...

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Basic training

campus,” says Culpepper, who is also a professor of mechanical engineering, and runs the MakerLodge program ... makerspace. Junior Ruben Peinado, a student volunteer and mechanical engineering major, is making the most of ...

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A new strategy for choosing cancer drugs

Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ... cells and analyzing them to understand mechanisms of resistance,” Manalis says. In a recent paper in ...

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3-D printing with cellulose

The paper is co-authored by associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart, the Mitsui ... important component in giving wood its mechanical properties. And because it’s so inexpensive, it’s ...

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A measurable improvement in STEM access for the blind

technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Jain and Singhal, PhD candidates in Course 2 (mechanical ... knew that they wanted a mechanical solution, one that wouldn’t be as prone to electronic failure, or as ...

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Julien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment

a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... mechanism for this kind of application. Barber’s work so far has focused on analyzing the thermal properties ...

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Wearable system helps visually impaired users navigate

a couple of different tests with blind users,” says Robert Katzschmann, a graduate student in mechanical ... a graduate student in mechanical engineering; and Laura Giarré, a professor of electrical engineering at the ...

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After MIT, new officers will serve their country

the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a master's from the Department of Aeronautics and ... Navy: A graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, McCoy will be a naval reactors engineer ...

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Julien Barber