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Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... MIT-Solar-Desalinization-01-PRESS_0.jpg A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir. Credit: Jintong Gao and ... Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Device Research Laboratory. The team envisions a scaled-up ...

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Featured video: Making music with the Chorallaries of MIT

a physiological response from the audience? Mechanical engineering senior Isabel "Izzy" Lloyd and fellow ... Mechanical engineering senior Isabel "Izzy" Llyod finds a creative outlet with the Chorallaries, ... members of the MIT Chorallaries a capella group figure out this complex transformation every time they get ...

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Department News

including mechanical engineering (which tied with Stanford). Other top-ranked engineering programs at MIT this year are ... Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Winter and his co-developer, Professor Anette Hosoi, investigated how ... last year, MIT’s graduate programs led US News lists in seven engineering disciplines, ...

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A new way to mix oil and water

researchers at MIT might turn that expression on its head, providing a way to get the two substances to mix ... the proportion of surfactant. The findings, by MIT graduate student Ingrid Guha, former postdoc ... either mechanically shaking the mix or using sound waves to set up intense vibrations within the liquid, ...

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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award

Engineering (CEE) and Mechanical Engineering. He served as the department head of CEE from 2013 to 2020, as well as ... American Society of Civil Engineers; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the Institute of ... MIT Professor Markus J. Buehler has been named the recipient of the 2025 Washington Award, one of ...

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Advancing technology for aquaculture

error.  With funding from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS), MIT Sea Grant is ... working with Associate Professor Otto Cordero of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental ... Engineering, Professor Taskin Padir and Research Scientist Mark Zolotas at the Northeastern University ...

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Professor Emeritus David Gordon Wilson, expert in human-powered transport and gas turbines, dies at 91

then the head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wilson joined MIT’s faculty in 1966. He ... David Gordon Wilson, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, passed away on May 2 at the age ... of 91. Wilson served on MIT’s faculty since 1966 and remained an active member of the mechanical ...

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MIT alum receives Navy award

Mechanical engineering ... the position with character and competence to what a Chief Engineer is.” Monday, August 19, 2013 ...

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Kripa Varanasi named faculty director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation

Kripa Varanasi, professor of mechanical engineering, was named faculty director of the MIT ... Mechanical Engineering The  MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation  is an interdepartmental center ... professor of mechanical engineering, has been appointed faculty director of the MIT Deshpande Center for ...

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