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SeaPerch, a robot with a mission
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Anne Wilson, Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Education Horizontal SeaPerch II, ... interested in ocean science and engineering The SeaPerch underwater robot is a popular educational tool for ... has had a tremendous impact on the fields of ocean science and engineering,” says Andrew Bennett, ‘85 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seaperch-robot-missionStudy Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
innovation; Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Robert Jaffe, the Jane and Otto ... technologies now being developed using specially designed nanomaterials may one day provide significant ... advantages. They could be easier and cheaper to manufacture; they could be made into ultrathin, lightweight, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
by six current and former MIT researchers, including postdoc Ian Mathews and professor of mechanical ... engineering Tonio Buonassisi, who is head of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. MIT-Battery-Reuse-1024.jpg ... electric vehicle manufacturers are already beginning to do such pilot studies. “That’s a whole area of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-energy-farms-could-offer-second-life-electric-vehicle-batteriesWrinkle Predictions
Norbert Stoop Now a team of MIT mathematicians and engineers has developed a mathematical theory, ... Pedro Reis, the Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Associate Professor in Civil Engineering. In past ... experiments, Reis manufactured ping pong-sized balls of polymer in order to investigate how their surface ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wrinkle-predictionsHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
designed to withstand high temperatures, the engineering of the optical properties of a potential solar ... device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering, who is the paper’s lead author. “They were empty, there was air inside,” he says. “No one had ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberA new way to harness waste heat
Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... was not around at that time” for the battery electrodes, as well as advances in engineering the ... Cui says, “Virtually all power plants and manufacturing processes, like steelmaking and refining, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatTackling poverty, one person at a time
throughout all of the years before, and can be amazing mechanical engineers that can make designs and ... for her work in developing countries. But before that, she was a mechanical engineering major who ... philosophy In addition to her mechanical engineering major, Tress has also pursued a concentration in ethics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-timeMIT plays key role in statewide effort to produce PPE
Massachusetts Emergency Response Team helps manufacturers produce personal protective equipment ... Local manufacturers with experience making things like active apparel and footwear were eager to help, ... helping local manufacturers pivot operations to produce the most-needed equipment at the highest possible ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-plays-key-role-statewide-effort-produce-ppeSensing the world around us
principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, spoke about his work on robotic ... challenges in hardware design, manufacturing, packaging, reducing cost, and producing at scale. On the topic ... vessels,” explained Benjamin. At the MIT Marine Autonomy Lab, researchers are designing underwater surface ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... level experimentally is the team’s next goal. Sevilla, a doctoral student in the mechanical engineering ... inactive material. But in the new design with the fluorinated catholyte material, the amount of dead weight ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesSarah Tress
mechanical engineers that can make designs and products they are really proud of, with just a bit of grit,” ... that, she was a mechanical engineering major who wanted to make an impact — and she happened to take ... Designer)s, where she learned how to draw the human figure. For her, art and engineering aren’t separate. “I ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sarah-tressHacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni
MBA ’13, and mechanical engineering alumnus Kevin Rustagi ’11. Having last year expanded nationwide, ... With Rustagi, a friend and mechanical engineering student, Amarasiriwardena began selling the shirts ... intersection of engineering, design, and marketing and business coming together,” Amarasiriwardena says. At the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-apparel-becomes-lucrative-business-alumniA leg up for STEM majors
mechanical engineering because I really enjoy the hands-on aspects of the field.” In parallel to her design ... and manufacturing, and mechanics and materials courses, Hovendon also immersed herself in energy and ... going on.” With one year to go, Hovendon is contemplating graduate school in mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leg-stem-majorsStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
and chemical manufacturing are especially difficult industries to decarbonize, as carbon and fossil ... reported similar demonstrations, but the mechanisms driving the electrochemical reaction have remained ... Malaysia. Breaking bonds Carbon-capture technologies are designed to capture emissions, or “flue gas,” from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2Providing hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
in mechanical engineering and Microsystems Technology Laboratories Associate Director for Computation ... principal research scientist in mechanical engineering, helped established the MIT Lab for Education and ... electronics technicians and engineers. Weninger teaches LEAP bootcamp-1024.jpg: MIT materials science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/providing-hands-photonics-education-across-massachusettsStick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Jolet de Ruiter, and postdoc Dan Soto. ... mechanics involved when droplets come in contact with surfaces. Pictured here is a microscopic top view of ... a droplet. Image: Varanasi Group/MIT Now, MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the mechanics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-peel-or-bounce-controlling-freezing-droplet%E2%80%99s-fateFaculty Promotions
authority in the field of precision engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and ... and Productivity, and currently serves as Graduate Admissions Officer in Mechanical Engineering ... R&D 100 Awards. Most recently, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotionsFaculty Research: Professor John Lienhard
Lienhard V, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering, you should. “The world supply of ... also spearheaded a one-of-a-kind course in desalination as part of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering curriculum. He has dedicated the past six years of his career to addressing this worldwide water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-john-lienhard-0Syringe technology could enable injection of concentrated biologic drugs
in MIT’s mechanical engineering department who is the first author on the paper, designed a system ... Kripa Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. “Drug makers need to focus on what they do ... diluted and injected intravenously. MIT-slippery-syringe-02-press-1024.jpg Researchers designed a system ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/syringe-technology-could-enable-injection-concentrated-biologic-drugsMIT Maritime Consortium sets sail
improved hydrodynamics and ship design, cybersecurity, and manufacturing.” Co-led by Sapsis and Fotini ... Center for Ocean Engineering, which is housed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; IDSS, which is ... to hydrodynamics, ship structural mechanics and dynamics, propeller design, and overall ship design ...
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