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Featured video: Pulling drinking water out of thin air
Department of Mechanical Engineering, is in the very air we breathe. “Water vapor is all around us in the ... of conditions. Submitted by: Mary Beth O'Leary / Department of Mechanical Engineering | Video ... Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International enwang@mit.edu Horizontal Powered only by solar energy, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/featured-video-pulling-drinking-water-out-thin-airDelivering life-saving oxygen
Professor Daniela Rus’s group in MIT CSAIL. They used a design developed in the mechanical engineering class ... recalls Daniele Vivona, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Italy. In early March, Vivona and ... energy carriers,” explains Yang Shao-Horn, professor of mechanical engineering and EEL’s director. “We ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/delivering-life-saving-oxygenCleaning up industrial filtration
spring of 2022. “Our vision is to help manufacturers slow carbon dioxide emissions next year,” Dave says. ... Engineering. Grossman was pursuing research into nanoporous membranes for water desalination. “We thought we ... manufacturers, or even carbon capture businesses. Scaling up Dave, Keller, and Grossman launched Via Separations ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-industrial-filtrationThree MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows
His research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering investigates heat and mass transfer, ... Hewitt is the Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics in the Department of ... Prather is the Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering and a co-director of the MIT Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-faculty-elected-2018-aaas-fellowsSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ... MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... device is designed to be suspended over the water, to avoid any possible contamination. The suspended ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ... Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship ... University of Science and Technology and Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology and mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsNew fund makes MIT a living sustainability lab
The four project teams are lead by Kripa Varanasi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Randy ... Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Materials ... Water recapture at MIT’s power plant Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Kripa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-fund-makes-mit-living-sustainability-lab“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... be designed to power a small city not just when the sun is up or the wind is high, but around the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Csun-box%E2%80%9D-would-store-renewable-energy-gridCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, whose expertise in optical materials proved to be key. ... Voigt, a professor in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, made those comments at the first of ... the Universidad Politécnica in Spain. Voigt and experts in plastid engineering and plant gene ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsHoming in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells
combinations to find the best candidates to meet specific goals — longevity, efficiency, manufacturability, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/homing-longer-lasting-perovskite-solar-cellsTurning emissions into fuel
postdoc Xiao-Yu Wu and Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and is ... designed for carbon capture such as oxy-combustion plants. “It is important to use carbon dioxide to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-emissions-fuelThe MIT Bike Lab: A place for community, hands-on learning
love of bikes really materialized when she was in college. Champenois studied mechanical engineering ... Champenois is a graduate student in the joint Mechanical Engineering and Computational Science/Engineering ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal MIT's Bike Lab, an all-volunteer student-run bike shop, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-bike-lab-place-community-hands-learningProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
projects is one by Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering Evelyn Wang and chemistry professor ... Professor Antoine Allanore of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Another project, led by ... Karthish Manthiram, the Warren K. Lewis Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, seeks to develop an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-make-inroads-global-food-and-water-challengesEnergy Conversion Engineering
Energy Conversion Engineering The Energy Conversion Engineering concentration is for students who ... knowledge and skills to analyze, design, and build efficient and sustainable energy systems that exploit the ... requirements. Students are encouraged to design and propose technically oriented concentrations that reflect ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/course-2a/energy-conversion-engineeringCharting the future of production
Office, Schmidt Futures, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering all partnered with Manufacturing ... Mechanical Engineering Horizontal A symposium organized by the Manufacturing@MIT Working Group, which is ... (mechanical engineering) and Berger. Since early 2022, this group, which includes faculty from across campus, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/charting-future-productionStartup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts
John Hart, an associate professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the ... engineering Professor Christopher Schuh; and mechanical engineering Professor Ely Sachs, an early pioneer of ... and designers trying to make objects such as more efficient aircraft engines and lighter automotive ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-uses-3-d-printing-reinvent-production-metal-partsGlassy carbon, now with less heat
Center-Center for Materials Science and Engineering (MPC-CMSE) Summer Scholars Ashley L. Kaiser (2016) and ... astronautics Brian L. Wardle. Kaiser is now a graduate student in Wardle’s lab. Improving manufacturability ... “This work has the interesting finding that nanostructures assist in fabricating [and] manufacturing the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/glassy-carbon-now-less-heatNew 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts
minutes. Anastasios John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, says the new printer ... MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3-D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than ... one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes. MIT-Fast-3D-Printer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-3-d-printer-10-times-faster-commercial-counterpartsGuided Discovery at MIT
I, provide mechanical engineering students at MIT a foundation to build their careers on. Mechanics ... Design and Manufacturing Home Page Culture Home Education Home Undergraduate Prospective Student Home ... I, provide mechanical engineering students at MIT a foundation to build their careers on. Through ...
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