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Water, water everywhere … even in the air
including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ... humidity of 100 percent, explains Wang, who is the Gail E. Kendall Professor at MIT. But such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ... Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... senior author of both papers. MIT postdoc Sameer Rao and former graduate student Hyunho Kim SM ’14, PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... that, but on a far, far grander scale.” Behind Keystone Smith, who studied mechanical engineering and ... electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, conceived of a tapered spiral-welding process while ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsTransforming boating, with solar power
The MIT Sailing Pavilion hosted an altogether different marine vessel recently: a prototype of ... a solar electric boat developed by James Worden ’89, the founder of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team ... the MIT Edgerton Center, MIT Sea Grant, and the broader community an inside look at the Anita, named ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transforming-boating-solar-powerMaterials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium
Boriskina, a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing “smart” ... Engineering (DMSE); Asegun Henry, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and ... 20 held by MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory. About 200 people registered to attend the event in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials%E2%80%99-key-role-addressing-climate-change-focus-materials-day-symposiumTechnique quickly identifies extreme event statistics
structure,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You can ... research by MIT scientists may help engineers design more resilient offshore platforms. Courtesy of the ... researchers Now engineers at MIT have developed an algorithm that quickly pinpoints the types of extreme ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-quickly-identifies-extreme-event-statistics-0With Coffee Cookie, MechE duo takes product from idea to launch
to 90 degrees Celsius. Both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, Alba and Gregory conceived ... With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They ... will satisfy a coffee drinker's desire. MIT-Coffee-Cookie-1024.jpg MIT seniors Victoria Gregory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/coffee-cookie-meche-duo-takes-product-idea-launchHow to speed up the discovery of new solar cell materials
Joule, in a paper by MIT research scientist Shijing Sun, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... painstaking. MIT-AI-Solar-PRESS 1024.jpg Diagram depicts the sequence of steps used in the new streamlined ... Now, a team of researchers at MIT and several other institutions has accelerated the process of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-speed-discovery-new-solar-cell-materialsOvercoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion
Soto, graduate student Jack Lake, and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. ... a power plant or other emissions sources. Now, researchers at MIT have identified, quantified, and modeled ... conversion systems, were published today in the journal Langmuir, in a paper by MIT postdoc Álvaro Moreno ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/overcoming-bottleneck-carbon-dioxide-conversionNew Kind of “Tandem” Solar Cell Developed
student Jonathan Mailoa; associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi; Colin Bailie and ... sunlight. Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines ... in solar-power installations, the researchers say. MIT-Tandem-Solar 1024-.jpg Photo by Felice Frankel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-kind-%E2%80%9Ctandem%E2%80%9D-solar-cell-developedAir pollution can put a dent in solar power
instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ... Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in ... citizens snapped them up to aid their breathing. MIT-Hazy-Photocells_1024.jpg Results have just been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/air-pollution-can-put-dent-solar-powerTransatlantic connections make the difference for MIT Portugal
hugely successful,” says Douglas Hart, MPP co-director and professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... and fostering mutual trust and understanding. The MIT Portugal Program (MPP), a strategic partnership ... between MIT, Portuguese universities and research institutions, and the Portuguese government, is a case ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transatlantic-connections-make-difference-mit-portugalBubble-capturing surface helps get rid of foam
graduate Leonid Rapoport PhD ’18, visiting student Theo Emmerich, and professor of mechanical engineering ... product and may require extra processing steps for their removal. Now, researchers at MIT have come up ... essential. MIT-Bubble-Capture-1024.jpg In a beaker with a constant stream of bubbles, inserting a piece of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-capturing-surface-helps-get-rid-foamProcessing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biomass fuels, including wood, peat, ... product. It was 2011, and Kung was at MIT as a biological engineering grad student focused on cancer ... Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who on a long walk-and-talk along the Charles River ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsThree from MIT awarded 2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Luu Trang Luu graduated from MIT with a BS in mechanical engineering in 2018, and a master of ... engineering. As an MIT undergraduate, Luu focused on assistive technology projects, applying her engineering ... MIT graduate student Fernanda De La Torre, alumna Trang Luu ’18, SM ’20, and senior Syamantak ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-awarded-2022-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americansQ&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
Sciences; Architecture and Planning; Engineering; and Science; plus the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, ... of Shipping Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, discusses her work with ... This is the second article in a four-part interview series highlighting the work of the 27 MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
is reported in the journal Scientific Reports by MIT’s Xuanhe Zhao, the Brit (1961) and Alex (1949) ... d'Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and four other authors. The new, ... crumpled graphene paper, a sheet of the material was placed in a mechanical device that first compressed it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageMIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape
MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Energizing@MIT: the MIT Energy Initiative’s ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “It’s an unbelievably enormous problem people have to wrap their minds ... in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering, who has spun out a company, Addis Energy, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-conference-spotlights-research-priorities-amidst-changing-energyLifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood
Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... engines. His work with Professor James Fay and Professor James Keck in the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory ... Museum. Following in the footsteps of his father, a mechanical engineer, and his mother, a chemist and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
projects is one by Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering Evelyn Wang and chemistry professor ... Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) program at MIT. John H. Lienhard V, the Abdul Latif ... the program has received and funded grant proposals from all five of MIT’s schools, provided 24 seed ...
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