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Where the wind blows
simply because the technology is mature," says Paul Sclavounos, an MIT professor of mechanical ... engineering and naval architecture. "There is no technological risk." Globally, 2 percent of ... investments in manufacturing and installation. So far, installed wind power has the capacity to generate only ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-wind-blowsHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in this ... efficiency — enough, they say, for a commercially viable product. The design of the two-layer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-lightJ-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Benedetto Marelli of CEE also launched a new ... Glicksman and Research Engineer Eric Verploegen’s team designed a low-cost cooling chamber to preserve ... mechanical engineering Alex Slocum to a challenge presented by its research affiliate company, Xylem: how to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-supporting-food-and-water-research-across-mitMechE Students Win 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Technology, $10,000 Lemelson-MIT “Eat it!” Undergraduate Team Winner. Mechanical engineering students Rogers, ... Undergraduate Team Winner. Kang, studying in Columbia’s School of Engineering, along with Jin and Tyan, formed ... clutchless transmission for high-performance hybrid vehicles, which are designed to match the performance of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-students-win-2016-lemelson-mit-student-prizeNew pill can deliver insulin
Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he is starting as a faculty member in 2019, is also a senior ... or the small intestine. For the new capsule, the researchers changed the design to have just one ... into the stomach wall, the researchers designed their system so that no matter how the capsule lands in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-pill-can-deliver-insulinA Bipedal Robot with Human Reflexes
Mechanical Engineering. “Instead, we’d like to use the human’s natural reflexes and coordination. An example ... , industrial, and manufacturing engineering at Oregon State University, says the new balance interface is an ... Sangbae Kim, the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Center Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bipedal-robot-human-reflexesRobotics in the 21st Century
fears? Faculty in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering believe there is more to it than that. ... the cheetah itself. Built with electric motors – as opposed to hydraulic motors – and self-designed ... actuators, in collaboration with Professor Jeff Lang in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotics-21st-centuryThree MIT alumni graduate from NASA astronaut training
class 2.007 (Design and Manufacturing I), which led him to study mechanical engineering at MIT. He ... earned his master’s degree in mechanical engineering as well as a doctorate in aeronautics and ... designed their team patch into a housefly shape. (Although team prefers calling themselves the Swarm, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-trainingRobotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
mechanical engineering at MIT. “A robot wouldn’t have to ask a human so many questions about what they need. ... group is exploring how robots programmed with Relevance can help in smart manufacturing and warehouse ... objectives. The AI toolkit is designed to run continuously in the background, similarly to the subconscious ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-system-zeroes-objects-most-relevant-helping-humansSTE@M: Sports Technology and Education @ MIT
“advancing technology at the interface of sports and engineering.” Indeed, the group’s success is rooted in ... a better bike.’ My second thought was, ‘That would be a great engineering challenge for students who are ... workshop – including windsurfing legend Robby Naish, renowned kiteboard designer Ken Winner, VMWare ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stem-sports-technology-and-education-mitPioneering the future of materials extraction
Mechanical Engineering, as vice president of research and development; Daniel Bregante, from the Department ... of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) in 2020. 0624-SiTration_team-all-1.jpg The SiTration ... refining of copper, cobalt, nickel, lithium, precious metals, and other materials critical to manufacturing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pioneering-future-materials-extractionTranslating MIT research into real-world results
H. Lienhard V. “But successful commercialization of MIT technology requires engineers to focus on ... and initiate product design and development,” Lienhard adds. “With this strong I&E framework, many ... big and small,” says Eric Verploegen PhD ’08, former research engineer in MIT’s D-Lab and founder of ...
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