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Tackling poverty, one person at a time
MIT's mechanical engineering shop, the Pappalardo Lab, for the past two years, where she has served as ... success in mechanical engineering at MIT is not a male one, but anyone.” Oxford and beyond When Tress ... for her work in developing countries. But before that, she was a mechanical engineering major who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-poverty-one-person-timeCreating “big, beautiful things”
perspective.” Robotic spectaculars Parrish also loves building physical objects, and his mechanical engineering ... programming mechanical things — is where I think I can get the most enjoyment.” Even before he joined MIT ... engineering, computers, mechanical stuff, everything someone needs to know in order to be able to do that,” ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/creating-%E2%80%9Cbig-beautiful-things%E2%80%9DCoatings for shoe bottoms could improve traction on slick surfaces
research was funded by the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation, ... Inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, MIT engineers have designed a friction-boosting ... professor of mechanical engineering, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coatings-shoe-bottoms-could-improve-traction-slick-surfacesOcean engineering students set stage for a smarter fleet
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Mechanical engineering blue ... working life. Now, Course 2N (Ocean Engineering) students Travis Anderson, Katie Gerhard and Bart ... operating hours above 28 knots. In his Naval Engineer’s thesis (advised by Professor Franz Hover), Travis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-engineering-students-set-stage-smarter-fleetRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... Themis Sapsis, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadDesigning cleaner vehicles
arenas: designing clean energy vehicles and enhancing mechanical engineering education at MIT. For the ... intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering. MIT-Aditya Mehrotra-01-press_0-1.jpg: MIT graduate ... and help them build. I knew of MIT as one of the best mechanical engineering departments in the world. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesBubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double
by mechanical engineering postdoc Navdeep Singh Dhillon, professor of nuclear science and engineering ... Jacopo Buongiorno, and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. “Roughly 85 percent ... fellowship from Mechanical Engineering Department. The micro-nano structured surfaces used in the study were ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble%E2%80%A6boiling-doubleStudy: Some catalysts contribute their own oxygen for reactions
appointments in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, and is ... research scientist Livia Giordano in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kelsey Stoerzinger PhD ’16, ... of these observed catalytic activities is not well-understood. Now, a team at MIT has shown that in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-some-catalysts-contribute-their-own-oxygen-reactionsGetting the Salt Out
well, but pure water does not. McGovern, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and ... the surface. Now researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia say they have found an economical solution for ... a paper co-authored by MIT professor John Lienhard, postdoc Ronan McGovern, and four others. The method ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-salt-outA Lifelong Relationship with the Institute
Evelyn Wang (SB '00), an associate professor of mechanical engineering, attended MIT as an ... Bryce Vickmark So ending up on the mechanical engineering faculty here at the Institute, where Wang ... enjoyable time for me,” she recalls. “I started taking classes in mechanical engineering, and it really ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifelong-relationship-instituteSENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing
associate director of MIT.nano, and a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical ... sensing and recognition Jeehwan Kim, associate professor with a dual appointment in mechanical engineering ... and advanced manufacturing systems. A center of excellence powered by MIT.nano, SENSE.nano received ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensenano-awards-seed-grants-optoelectronics-interactive-manufacturingTunneling Across a Tiny Gap
blurred,” says Vazrik Chiloyan, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering. “We’re trying to come up ... Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... gaps. Now researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University have developed a model ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunneling-across-tiny-gapResearchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
electronic devices. MIT-Graphene-Wafers-01-1024.jpg Researchers in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT have developed a technique to harvest 2-inch ... materials, according to Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-quickly-harvest-2-d-materials-bringing-them-closer-commercializationThe proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturing
biosciences, chemical engineering, and more. MIT contributions to management and logistics have also helped ... Manufacturing@MIT working group; MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program offers a joint Engineering ... -MBA degree with a strong focus on manufacturing; the Department of Mechanical Engineering offers an advanced ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/proud-history-and-promising-future-mit%E2%80%99s-work-manufacturingHacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni
MBA ’13, and mechanical engineering alumnus Kevin Rustagi ’11. Having last year expanded nationwide, ... Amarasiriwardena says. But when he started studying chemistry and biological engineering at MIT, and was biking ... With Rustagi, a friend and mechanical engineering student, Amarasiriwardena began selling the shirts ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-apparel-becomes-lucrative-business-alumniMIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We’re trying to achieve ... MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ... greenhouse gas emissions. 1024MIT-solar-fuels-01.jpg: MIT engineers have developed a design for a system that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelLet your car tell you what it needs
Mechanical Engineering and vice president of open learning at MIT; and two others. A smartphone app combining ... the car’s left front tire needs air, its air filter should be replaced next week, and its engine needs ... accelerometers. MIT-Car-Diagnostics-1024.jpg A new smartphone app analyzes a car’s sounds and vibrations, as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needsFundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering at MIT, have laid out their ... AUVs. “Not all data are equal,” says Arkopal Dutt, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... marine robots are our scouts, braving the rough seas to collect data for us,” says mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0Asegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ... thankful.” Sunday, July 11, 2021 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Horizontal MIT mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunAlbatross robot takes flight
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ... professor of mechanical engineering and information sciences and of brain sciences; and Michael ...
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