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Faculty Research: Professor Kripa Varanasi
journal Nature co-authored by Kripa Varanasi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, along ... with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at ... Environmental Protection Agency. Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-kripa-varanasiFaculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley
Cohen, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley. Fog-harvesting systems generally consist of ... mechanics associated with the fog droplets as they collect, grow and coalesce on the meshes. Large mesh ... collector system can potentially be captured. Daniel Beysens, director of the Physics and Mechanics of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-gareth-mckinleySquishy robots
the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ... reversibly tuning the mechanical rigidity of a joint can be just as important,” he says. “This work is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsCooling when there’s too much heat
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the lead author of the study. The goal for Varanasi and ... Bird, who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University. “Common ... a professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-when-there%E2%80%99s-too-much-heatThe Secret of Wrinkling, Folding, and Creasing
another? MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao and postdoc Qiming Wang describe ... skin of pumpkins. Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering ... mechanisms in the design of materials, such as a crumpled form of graphene that could be useful in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/secret-wrinkling-folding-and-creasingA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
Mechanical Engineering, explains that algebraic topology is key to the new method. This approach, he says, ... computationally very expensive,” Lloyd says. “This is where quantum mechanics kicks in.” The new quantum-based ... big data with quantum mechanics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataHow Crispy is Your Bonbon?
engineers could predict the mechanical response of many other types of shells, from small pharmaceutical ... as a recipe,” says Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor of mechanical engineering ... group’s theory will reinvigorate studies in shell mechanics, a field that saw significant development in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-crispy-your-bonbonFirst Annual MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Awards Presented
Lorna Gibson wins for 3.032 Mechanical Behavior of Materials This year marks the launch of the MIT ... Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering for 3.032 ... (Mechanical Behavior of Materials); Max Goldman, lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/first-annual-mit-teaching-digital-technology-awards-presentedAlumni Spotlight: Prakash Govindan PhD '12
the global water 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 ... Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship LIENHARD@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alum Prakash ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-prakash-govindan-phd-12Water vapor sets some oxides aflutter
mechanisms. “It’s an unexpected result that opens a lot of questions to address scientifically.” While the ... the material suggests that it could offer a new mechanism for catalyst designs, she says. In addition ... to mechanical engineering, Shao-Horn holds joint appointments with the Department of Materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutterEight MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, ... disease. Ioannis Yannas, professor of polymer science and engineering in the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/eight-mit-faculty-elected-national-academy-engineeringGoing with the flow
mechanical engineering who received tenure earlier this month. “I think if we want to develop a better ... in continuum mechanics, which offered governing equations for how materials behave in macroscale ... Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Associate Professor Ken Kamrin’s model of granular material flow could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/going-flow-0MIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
mechanical engineering Mathias Kolle, and associate professor of mechanical engineering A. John Hart. Out of ... optical, chemical, and mechanical properties. These crystals can exhibit properties similar to interesting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-3-d-print-colloidal-crystalsCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, whose expertise in optical materials proved to be key. ... graduate student Sara Nagelberg provided the calculations necessary to understand the mechanics of light’s ... their work. In one project, Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering, who has the expertise in ... of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock uses his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockSchool of Engineering first quarter 2019 awards
” by Deep Knowledge Analytics on Feb. 1. Sangbae Kim, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was ... on Sept. 26, 2018. Gareth McKinley, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was elected to the ... G. Bose Research Grant on Feb. 14. Ellen Roche, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/school-engineering-first-quarter-2019-awardsResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ... University of Science and Technology and Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology and mechanical ... Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... Andrei Fedorov, a professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not involved in this work. ... flows from laminar to transition to turbulent.” Robert Mahan, emeritus professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesSlowing the Spread
As Covid-19 cases increased worldwide, mechanical engineers developed solutions to help slow and ... is transmitted and manufacturing PPE, mechanical engineers have been a driving force in many research ... projects that seek to slow Covid-19’s spread and save lives. “Mechanical engineers are used to developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/slowing-spreadPushing through sand
mechanical engineering at MIT, says scientists have regarded granular RFT as “somewhat like magic,” unsure of ... they have identified a mechanical explanation for why the equation works so well for granular ... flows, to see whether the equation, and the mechanical relationships it defines, could also reproduce the ...
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