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A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
N. Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This is an ... Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, along with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-heat-engine-no-moving-parts-efficient-steam-turbineEngineers repurpose 19th-century photography technique to make stretchy, color-changing films
in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Now that we’ve cleared this scaling hurdle, we can ... Miller’s co-authors are MIT undergraduate Helen Liu, and Mathias Kolle, associate professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-repurpose-19th-century-photography-technique-make-stretchy-color-changing-filmsStripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids
co-author Irmgard Bischofberger, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “And from ... understand the mechanics underlying fluid transformations, which could be used to create new, reconfigurable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stripes-flowing-liquid-crystal-suggest-route-%E2%80%9Cchiral%E2%80%9D-fluidsNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
is authored by Fay and Anette “Peko” Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Running, ... mechanics. Using this gait model, he predicted how fast a person could run on various track types, from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performanceNew filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste
Lienhard, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and director of ... Engineering. The study’s co-authors include MIT mechanical engineering undergraduates Trent Lee and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-filter-captures-and-recycles-aluminum-manufacturing-wasteA smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), a principal ... understand what they don’t know and building mechanisms for continual self-improvement. These capabilities ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/smarter-way-large-language-models-think-about-hard-problemsMaking a remarkable material even better
Mechanical Engineering, and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering, set out to ... says Lin Zhao PhD ’19 of mechanical engineering. “So in our work, we’ve been trying to understand ... in parallel, graduate student Elise Strobach of mechanical engineering had been learning how best to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-remarkable-material-even-betterUsing aluminum and water to make clean hydrogen fuel — when and where it’s needed
becomes a mechanism for storing hydrogen — and a very effective one,” says Douglas P. Hart, professor of ... mechanical engineering at MIT. “Using aluminum as our source, we can ‘store’ hydrogen at a density that’s 10 ... reaction,” says Laureen Meroueh PhD ’20, who earned her doctorate in mechanical engineering. IMG_7714 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-aluminum-and-water-make-clean-hydrogen-fuel-%E2%80%94-when-and-where-it%E2%80%99s-neededGEARing technology for developing markets
a single-speed, variable mechanical advantage drivetrain. Grasping high on the lever increases torque, while ... GEAR Lab,” says Winter, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “One ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gearing-technology-developing-marketsMIT continues to advance toward greenhouse gas reduction goals
mechanical systems upgrades, as well as smart building management systems, in a number of buildings across ... incubator for new ideas. In 2019, MITOS director Julie Newman and professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-continues-advance-toward-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goalsFour MIT faculty members receive U.S. Department of Energy early career awards
assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Each year, the DoE selects researchers for significant ... difficult to capture the physical interactions at play. Wim van Rees, assistant professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-faculty-members-receive-us-department-energy-early-career-awardsLife in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality
and Astronautics (AeroAstro), Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), and Mechanical ... Mechanical Engineering and AeroAstro, respectively), offers future astronauts a rotating plant habitat that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/life-space-preparing-increasingly-tangible-realityPushing material boundaries for better electronics
faculty member in MIT’s departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Kim ... accepted a junior faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His first impressions upon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pushing-material-boundaries-better-electronicsSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
says Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang ... climate change,” says Jonathan Bessette, MIT PhD student in mechanical engineering. “This technology could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesGetting the Salt Out
well, but pure water does not. McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-salt-outWaves in the Deep
a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepWrinkle Predictions
mechanics with elasticity theory, Dunkel and Stoop derived a simplified equation that accurately predicts ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesResearchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-unravel-secrets-hidden-wavesAlum Ronan McGovern Brings Innovative Beer Filtration System to Market
Ronan McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been working on an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alum-ronan-mcgovern-brings-innovative-beer-filtration-system-market