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System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat
Engineering and head of the mechanical engineering department. Being able to test the system in Mumbai was ... Prasher, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and an associate ... a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a way to generate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-can-sterilize-medical-tools-using-solar-heatOobleck’s weird behavior is now predictable
— a material that appears thicker or thinner depending on how it is physically manipulated. Now MIT engineers ... engineering at MIT. “But it turns out the rules that govern how this material flows are very nuanced.” Kamrin, ... into an added shield against sudden impacts. With the team’s new oobleck model, designers and engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/oobleck%E2%80%99s-weird-behavior-now-predictableExploring Surfaces of Nanomaterials
sustainable energy conversion and storage,” says the Gail E. Kendall Associate Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Her work could lead to everything from better fuel cells ... been at MIT, the Electrochemical Energy Laboratory she directs has grown “to one with a research team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-surfaces-nanomaterialsPowered by the sun
I knew I was interested in mechanical engineering, and I was thinking of a way I could apply mechanical ... On a recent April afternoon, MIT sophomore Francis Wang drove out of the Edgerton Center’s Area 51 ... late nights in the student shop. Flux-on-road-in-Georgia 1024.jpg In January, Flux and the MIT Solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunDroplets get a charge out of jumping
postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, mechanical engineering professor Evelyn Wang, and two others. Miljkovic says this ... In a completely unexpected finding, MIT researchers have discovered that tiny water droplets that ... atmosphere, they say. The finding is reported in a paper in the journal Nature Communications written by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-get-charge-out-jumpingResearchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ... have been prevented. Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a solution that might prevent ... the Italian energy company Eni S.p.A. through the MIT Energy Initiative. Thursday, April 13, 2017 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-cloggingA new way to harness waste heat
Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... researchers at MIT and Stanford University have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat ... published in the journal Nature Communications by postdoc Yuan Yang and professor Gang Chen at MIT, postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-harness-waste-heatDragging your feet? Lack of sleep affects your walk, new study finds
of Mechanical Engineering. “We also find that compensating for sleep could be an important strategy. ... out other activities that are assumed to be less mentally taxing. The new study, by researchers at MIT ... be influenced by lack of sleep,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist in MIT’s Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dragging-your-feet-lack-sleep-affects-your-walk-new-study-findsLemelson-MIT announces National Collegiate Student Prize Competition winners
Foundation and administered by MIT's School of Engineering. The Lemelson Foundation seeks to inspire and ... The Lemelson-MIT Program today announced winners of the Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student ... students. The Lemelson-MIT Program awarded $50,000 in prizes, with winning undergraduate teams receiving ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lemelson-mit-announces-national-collegiate-student-prize-competition-winnersNew model of the GI tract could speed drug development
MIT engineers have devised a way to speed up the development of new drugs by rapidly testing how ... engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Many of the drugs that are being ... diseases, tuberculosis, and malaria, says Giovanni Traverso, an assistant professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-gi-tract-could-speed-drug-developmentAUVs: From Idea to Implementation
director of the MIT Sea Grant College Program, the Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering and ... professor of mechanical and ocean engineering. “In the late 1980s, I suggested a revolutionary concept: an ... Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/auvs-idea-implementationUsing sensors and social networks to make slopes safer
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... Connects. Friday, July 7, 2017 Mary Beth O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... of social-media data to benefit athletes and outdoor adventurers. He, along with MIT Sloan School of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/using-sensors-and-social-networks-make-slopes-saferA lasting — and valuable — legacy
Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ... a mechanical engineering department, or else I likely would not have been able to go down that road.” Gallant ... are the fun ones.” Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Michaela Jarvis | Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyAdvancing the energy transition amidst global crises
a problem to where it’s safer. Kripa K. Varanasi, MIT professor of mechanical engineering, described ... Kearney SM '11, PhD '19, SM '19 is a partner at The Engine, a venture firm built by MIT ... mitigation is drastically short of what it needs to be,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-energy-transition-amidst-global-crisesMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, heads up their autonomy effort; Russ ... Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials ... support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing a technology ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
researchers at MIT says they have found a way to do just that. It has been known for years that making ... overcome that problem, the MIT researchers say. The findings are reported this week in the journal Advanced ... Materials by MIT professors Karen Gleason and Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Adam Paxson and postdoc Jose ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-lastFaculty Research: Professor Tonio Buonassisi
Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... Chandler, MIT News Office Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are ... limitations. Now, a new system developed by researchers at five institutions, including MIT, could eliminate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-tonio-buonassisiExploring new frontiers in mineral extraction
mechanical engineering at MIT, and his team in the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab), are at the ... resources,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, in a video discussing his ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-new-frontiers-mineral-extractionRefrigerator magnets
’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can envision wireless cooling where you apply a magnetic field to ... Mechanical Engineering head Gang Chen, have published a paper detailing the magnon cooling theory in Physical ... motivate new experiments.” Li Shi, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at ...
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