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Cooling buildings worldwide
and Mechanical Engineering. Lienhard is Norford’s colleague at the Center for Environmental Sensing ... mechanical engineering graduate students: Tianyi Chen, who was working with Norford on the impacts of outdoor ... Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (’72) Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Paired up for a class project, they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-buildings-worldwideWind 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windJ-WAFS awards 2018 Solutions grants for commercialization of MIT food and water technologies
Mechanical Engineering “ Manufacturing and Marketing E. coli Test Kits to Promote Safely Managed Drinking ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has a solution. He and his team have been awarded ... a 2015 J-WAFS Solutions grant which has since been supported by The Engine, has received numerous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-awards-2018-solutions-grants-commercialization-mit-food-and-water-technologiesUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... professor of mechanical engineering and of ocean science and engineering, and Glenn Flierl, professor of ... minerals, to manufacture the batteries necessary to decarbonize the economy,” says Peacock, a professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningSimple, solar-powered water desalination
Zhang and Lin Zhao, postdoc Zhenyuan Xu, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in this ... specialized drying equipment for its manufacture.) Wang emphasizes that the team’s key contribution is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationThe catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants
technique.” Mathias Kolle, Rockwell Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... '20 collaborated with Kolle throughout his PhD program in mechanical engineering, making the project ... Hart, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The two are developing an edible, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catalyzing-potential-j-wafs-seed-grantsThe Freedom of Constraint
a two-hour focus group that Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Maria Yang has started to answer. ... December 13, 2014 Alissa Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering green International Maker ... Engineering for global change. You’ve probably heard of MechE alum and Associate Professor Hugh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/freedom-constraintMIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge
(equivalent to 597.5 miles). In the process, SEVT member and rising junior in mechanical engineering Cameron ... five-day race, their solar car, Nimbus — designed and built entirely by students — beat eight other SOVs ... Mehrotra, a rising senior in electrical engineering and computer science. “We were all hopeful, but I don’t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-wins-2021-american-solar-challengeJ-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
for research at MIT D-Lab and professor of mechanical engineering, has pioneered a new approach to ... The team includes Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, and ... Eric Verploegen, a research engineer in MIT D-Lab. Instead of relying on traditional refrigeration with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-announces-2021-solutions-grants-commercializing-water-and-food-technologiesSystem provides cooling with no electricity
E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. But this is a different issue that has received much ... magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do exactly that. The device, ... a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... that, but on a far, far grander scale.” Behind Keystone Smith, who studied mechanical engineering and ... a team of engineers, including Daniel Bridgers SM ’12 and Dan Ainge ’12 — Keystone’s system allows the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsProducts of Progress
small-scale farmers an innovative product she designed in MIT’s D-Lab: a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily ... a technology problem in the field; we’re facing a distribution problem,” says Wu, who studied mechanical ... engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/products-progressNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
student Jonathan Mailoa; associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi; Colin Bailie and ... than 35 percent. They will also explore how to easily manufacture the new type of device, but ... through methods very similar to conventional silicon-cell manufacturing. One hurdle is making the material ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedWith Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ... venture they are also involved in, whose difficult and long-term goal is designing a miniature jet engine ... of the drink warmer during a class exercise in 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Usually, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchBubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam
graduate Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18, visiting student Theo Emmerich, and professor of mechanical engineering ... away, and that understanding drove the design process.” The team came up with a flat device that has ... a set of carefully designed surface textures at a variety of size scales. The surface was tuned so that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-capturing-surface-helps-get-rid-foamAir pollution can put a dent in solar power
instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ... are under-designed because of a failure to take hazes into account, that could also affect overall ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/air-pollution-can-put-dent-solar-powerTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Giovanni Traverso
at scale? There was a lot of fundamental mechanical engineering at play – from large scale ... As both a biomedical engineer and physician, Giovanni Traverso is uniquely positioned to tackle ... particularly in relation to gastroenterology. In addition to being assistant professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-giovanni-traversoResearchers develop a roadmap for growth of new solar cells
Marius Peters, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT, Wellesley ... starting with higher-value niche markets and gradually expanding, solar panel manufacturers could avoid the ... solar installations. Their constituent materials are inexpensive, and they could be manufactured in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-roadmap-growth-new-solar-cellsUnlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence
| Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education International Horizontal Students taking ... engineering. “The way I look at it, we are trying to clone the oceanographer and put our understanding of how ... engineering expertise. Schmidt and Benjamin have structured 2.680 to ensure students have a working knowledge ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unlocking-marine-mysteries-artificial-intelligence