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High-speed videos show what happens when a droplet splashes into a pool
in agricultural runoff. MIT engineers have taken high-speed videos of droplets splashing into a deep ... Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and a core member of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science ... Mechanics. MIT co-authors include former graduate student Raj Dandekar PhD ’22, postdoc (Eric) Naijian Shen, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-videos-show-what-happens-when-droplet-splashes-poolSolar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, who was not associated with this work. “It ... Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have significantly boosted the output from a system that can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-extracts-drinkable-water-%E2%80%9Cdry%E2%80%9D-airNew theory describes intricacies of a splashing droplet
researchers at MIT have found a way to track the thickness of a droplet’s rim as it splashes up from a variety ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... Transmission Laboratory at MIT, says the group’s results can be used to model the physics of sprays, such as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-describes-intricacies-splashing-dropletMISTI pilots conversations in energy
picture of where I want to fit into this.” Titan Hartono, a PhD student in mechanical engineering ... While fall typically sees MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) programs ... gearing up to facilitate international summer internship and research experiences for MIT students, this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/misti-pilots-conversations-energyNavigating blindfolded
Leonard, a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and a member of the MIT Computer Science and ... Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute ... four-part series examines current MIT efforts to refine AUVs’ artificial intelligence, navigation, stability ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-blindfoldedUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... professor of mechanical engineering and of ocean science and engineering, and Glenn Flierl, professor of ... study of such plumes. He was joined by Alford and Eric Adams, senior research engineer at MIT, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and five others. Preston explains that the new system could ... mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not involved in ... friction. A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could offer a new way of making movable parts with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-dropletsHow to Make a “Perfect” Solar Absorber
device that took the form of hollow cavities, explains Chou, of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... reradiated by the material, and thus lost to the conversion process. Now researchers at MIT say they have ... co-authored by MIT postdoc Jeffrey Chou, professors Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Fang, Evelyn Wang, and Sang-Gook ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-make-%E2%80%9Cperfect%E2%80%9D-solar-absorberTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ... is such a ubiquitous chemical that “every lab at MIT has some,” he says, so finding markets for it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resourceMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and 11 others. Silicon, which forms the basis of most ... institutions, including MIT, could eliminate many of those limitations. The new approach is described in a paper ... published in the journal Nature Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-lightNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Materials. The paper’s co-authors are Evelyn Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairSteam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ... A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunA recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
author Aly Kombargi, a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We also don’t have to ... hydrogen fuel; and Douglas Hart, MIT professor of mechanical engineering. Shields up The MIT team, led by ... A sustainable source for clean energy may lie in old soda cans and seawater. MIT engineers have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/recipe-zero-emissions-fuel-soda-cans-seawater-and-caffeineUnderstanding the impact of climate change on the ocean
2-OE (Mechanical and Ocean Engineering). Later that year, Kornberg declared 2-OE. “I think ocean ... with solving all the technical challenges mechanical engineers face,” explains Kornberg, now a senior. ... Technology Initiatives. Alongside Nicholas Fritzinger-Pittman, a senior studying mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-climate-change-oceanNew computer vision method helps speed up screening of electronic materials
pipeline of advanced materials screening. Now, a new computer vision technique developed by MIT engineers ... MIT co-authors include graduate student Fang Sheng, postdoc Basita Das, and professor of mechanical ... professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi (left) is a co-author on the paper outlining the new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-computer-vision-method-helps-speed-screening-electronic-materialsAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; and Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering ... , a professor of mechanical engineering and of materials science and engineering, and a member of the Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamUnderwater Robot for Port Security
a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... contraband. Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MIT researchers ... and unique propulsion mechanism — which leaves no visible wake — the robots could, in theory, be ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securityLeading business past dollars and cents
mechanical engineering class, a class that was 42 percent female. Flores was in good company in ... graduated from MIT, Flores was determined to continue her plan with the doors opened by her mechanical ... aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leading-business-past-dollars-and-centsEmeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... original fields of study. A mechanical engineer who was born and educated in England, he first came to the ... the invitation of Richard Soderberg, then the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Soon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesModerating Extremes in Building Design
mechanical engineering says that both will be needed in the retrofitting of existing buildings and the ... and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ... for that. One option is to use aerogel. It’s not a new technology, but, in conjunction with MIT ...
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