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Surface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize

MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... ’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ... and lifetime.” MIT-WaterPrize22-02-press.jpg Michael Gangemi, left, and Yajing Zhao of Mesophase. In ...

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Annabel Flores

are sometimes told is impossible — become an engineer. Upon beginning her collegiate career at MIT ... , she saw firsthand what was possible by looking around her own mechanical engineering class, a class ... program that instilled confidence in the engineer. After she graduated from MIT, Flores was determined to ...

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Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteria

do,” says Qianru Wang, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “There is recent work ... adds Cullen Buie, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Thus, a tool that allows you ... laboratory conditions. Now MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic technique that can quickly process ...

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Robotic palm mimics human touch

in mechanical engineering. “By combining rigid structures with deformable, compliant materials, we ... from a robot. Why? Most of them don't have palms. 1024MIT-GelPalm.png MIT CSAIL student Sandra Q. ... Liu displays her innovative GelPalm robotic design in her lab workspace. Credit: Michael Grimmett/MIT ...

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Bubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch

processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate ... first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an ... being hydrophilic and hydrophobic, Wang explains. MIT-Switchable-Boiling.jpg Researchers found that ...

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Vishnu Jayaprakash

On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... while he was a student in the lab of Kripa Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering. Currently, ... startup AgZen. Helping droplets stick Varanasi and his lab at MIT work on what is known as interfacial ...

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Powering Desalination with the Sun

graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ... MIT-natasha-wright_1024.jpg Photo by: Bryce Vickmark Wright joined the lab of Amos Winter, an assistant professor of ...

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Bringing closure to models: Deep learning physics

according to Pierre Lermusiaux, the Nam Pyo Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean ... Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering, and Abhinav Gupta PhD '22 An ... 2024 Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering yellow Collaboration Entrepreneurship ...

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Educating future naval leaders

Construction and Engineering program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering educates active duty officers ... both from MIT’s perspective and the Navy’s perspective. We have access to the greatest engineering ... Engineer degree, students often earn an additional master’s degree in a relevant field such as mechanical ...

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MIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards

Co-founders Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and postdocs Maher Damak PhD ’18 ... MIT_Infininte_Cooling_Awards_1024.jpg The Infinite Cooling team accepts the $100K Diamond Winner Award at the MassChallenge Awards on ... being tested at MIT’s Central Utility Plant.   Monday, October 22, 2018 Entrepreneurship International ...

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MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge

(equivalent to 597.5 miles). In the process, SEVT member and rising junior in mechanical engineering Cameron ... After three years of hard work, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team took first place at the 2021 ... the University of Kentucky, by over 100 miles. mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-asc-champs-00.jpeg The ...

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MIT Club of Greece hosts “Sustainable Ecosystems for the Maritime Industry”

several graduates of the 2N (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) program and other MIT alumni, ... Engineering, and Director of MIT Sea Grant. “We anticipate moving ahead with a collaborative effort between MIT ... the state and Greek Naval Officers, many of whom studied in MIT’s Naval Construction & Engineering ...

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From entrepreneur to climate policy advocate

entrepreneurship. She experimented with mechanical engineering classes through MIT D-Lab, a program focused on ... solutions.” Wahnschafft arrived at MIT with the desire to continue pursuing product engineering for social ... Today, Wahnschafft is a junior studying both mechanical engineering and economics. In her career, she ...

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Maintaining the equipment that powers our world

— who recently completed his PhD program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be ... undergraduates, they took a few of the same courses, with Vega-Brown double majoring in mechanical engineering and ... estimate if and when components will fail. MIT-Tagup-01_1024.jpg Tagup's industrial equipment ...

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Computing for ocean environments

exploring the many ocean creatures we haven’t discovered yet.” Ocean engineers and mechanical engineers ... Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Ocean and ... mechanical engineers are utilizing advances in scientific computing to address the ocean’s many challenges, ...

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Bold research visions recognized and rewarded

associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Ron Weiss, a professor in the ... Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, wants to build better energy ... Since 2013, the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant has been supporting MIT faculty with big, ...

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Simple, solar-powered water desalination

Zhang and Lin Zhao, postdoc Zhenyuan Xu, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in this ... A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ...

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Hidden ocean waves

MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering at MIT. Photo by Tim ... time, ocean engineers and scientists from MIT, the University of Minnesota at Duluth (UMD), and the ...

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Passive cooling system could benefit off-grid locations

a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, who was not associated with this research. Ruan ... of Mechanical Engineering and Jatin Patil of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering ... or no reliable electric power. Now, an innovative system developed at MIT offers a way to use passive ...

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Taking on the stormy seas

professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and computational methods to try to predict ... the other. Today, Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and ... and Marine Engineering, Themistoklis Sapsis had a very satisfying realization. “I realized that ships ...

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