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Running on Waste Heat
of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, used nanotechnology to ... change, thanks to thermoelectric innovators such as MIT’s Gang Chen. Thermoelectric materials convert ... — including Institute Professor Emeritus Mildred Dresselhaus at MIT — began using nanotechnology to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/running-waste-heatBasketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Data return Across the sports world, data analysts have grown in number and ... according to a new study by MIT researchers, there’s one member who consistently boosts their team’s ... performance: the data analyst. An MIT basketball player dribbles during a game. Credit: MIT DAPER The new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/basketball-analytics-investment-key-nba-wins-and-other-successesFaculty Promotions
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 ... authority in the field of precision engineering. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-promotionsMaking solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories
year. From surgical robots to solar robots While majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, Hunter found ... Hunter and Justicz, who majored in mechanical engineering and computer science, had discussed starting ... with fellow MIT alumnus Max Justicz ’17. “We’re going from a very bespoke, hands on, manual ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-solar-projects-cheaper-and-faster-portable-factoriesAI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), a principal ... target, MIT researchers developed a new, machine learning-based adaptive control algorithm that could ... MIT researchers developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-enabled-control-system-helps-autonomous-drones-stay-target-uncertain-environmentsNoninvasive technique reveals how cells’ gene expression changes over time
engineering at MIT, director of MIT’s Laser Biomedical Research Center, and one of the authors of the paper. ... making it difficult to study ongoing changes in gene expression. An alternative approach developed at MIT ... and a number of degenerative diseases,” says Peter So, a professor of biological and mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/noninvasive-technique-reveals-how-cells%E2%80%99-gene-expression-changes-over-timeUnder the sea
oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Young, a mechanical and ocean engineering major, will take charge of marine ... the sea. Yet when ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of ... remaining a full-time MIT student. “Hopefully we’ll resurface before final exams,” she says with a smile. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/under-seaNew materials improve oxygen catalysis
Shao-Horn, the Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering ... MIT researchers have found a new family of materials that provides the best-ever performance in ... MIT researchers say. The specific compounds used in this research were made by combining a lanthanide ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-improve-oxygen-catalysisBatch desalination configuration bests standard reverse osmosis approach
mechanical engineers, PhD candidate Emily Tow and postdoc David Warsinger, and also includes MIT PhD student ... water is energy-intensive. A team of MIT researchers has responded by creating new designs for reverse ... could substantially reduce the energy use of future desalination systems. The team is co-led by two MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/batch-desalination-configuration-bests-standard-reverse-osmosis-approachProfessors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring
Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Center for Energy and ... MIT professors Ahmed Ghoniem and Katherine “Kate” Kellogg have been selected as the most recent ... Committed to Caring seeks to recognize and celebrate MIT faculty members who go above and beyond to make an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/professors-ghoniem-and-kellogg-honored-committed-caringPanel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future
engineering at MIT, moderated the panel discussion. She said that achieving the ambitious net-zero goal “has ... ’s mechanical engineering department, said “the electric grid is an engineering marvel.” In the United States it ... Five speakers at a recent public panel discussion hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/panel-addresses-technologies-needed-net-zero-futureA protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy
mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso and James ... National Cancer Institute, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and the U.S. Advanced Research ... of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Iowa have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protein-tiny-tardigrades-may-help-cancer-patients-tolerate-radiation-therapyAlumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems
engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company ... and Pete Wurman (SB ‘87) by Alissa Mallinson Courtesy of Kiva Systems When a handful of MIT ... undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity. Together with technical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kiva-systemsNew surface treatment stops scale buildup
Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... at MIT has come up with a potential solution to this huge but little-recognized problem. A new kind ... when warm, moist air cools suddenly as it meets a cooler surface. For the most part, engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildupMick Mountz
When a handful of MIT graduates get together to solve a problem, amazing things can happen – in ... were roommates as MechE undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) ... management Benge Ambrogi (SM ‘87) and engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mick-mountzMicrobes chow down on latest fuel-cell tech
energy," says Buie, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. "A lot of our applications are ... mankind that could benefit from microscale engineering." Wednesday, May 28, 2014 MIT Industrial ... wastewater, and potentially sell some back to grid," says Cullen Buie, who heads up MIT's Laboratory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microbes-chow-down-latest-fuel-cell-techBuilding nursery 2.0
the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, the trio (now including Madden) ... monitor” — an innovative, sensor-implanted onesie being commercialized by a team of MIT alumni through ... their startup, Rest Devices. Dubbed the Mimo kimono, the baby monitor, based on the co-founders’ MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-nursery-20Keeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19
and associate professor in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical ... Engineering, and at the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science at MIT. “However, we find that ... We know proper indoor ventilation is key to reducing the spread of Covid-19. Now, a study by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/keeping-indoor-humidity-levels-%E2%80%9Csweet-spot%E2%80%9D-may-reduce-spread-covid-19Coloring outside the lines
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is diving into the microstructure of butterfly wings and other ... ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “MIT struck me as exciting,” Kolle says. “MIT’s gung-ho attitude of ... engineered to generate colors without chemicals. | Right: Mathias Kolle, an associate professor of mechanical ...
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