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Beyond low-hanging fruit
Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... Engineering Group, teaches and conducts research in the area of precision machine design. Precision, he says, ... fruit.” That, he says, is normal engineering. Precision engineering is about going for the low-hanging ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/beyond-low-hanging-fruitJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentGetting a charge out of water droplets
devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ... mechanical engineering at Boston University who was not involved in this research, says, “This work provides ... Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsMechE Film "Water Is Life" Wins New England Emmy Award
for MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), attended the black tie affair where he ... Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education International Maker Vertical The film "Water Is ... Interested in highlighting the important work done in Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-film-water-life-wins-new-england-emmy-awardFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... mechanical engineering Alexie M. Kolpak. Yet studies at the atomic scale — for example, at the interface ... at MIT with Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman. Kolpak’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakEvelyn Wang joins leadership team in MechE
Laboratory, has been named associate department head for operations in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... has been appointed associate head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Photo: Bryce Vickmark ... school was on music (particularly violin and piano), she ended up majoring in mechanical engineering as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-joins-leadership-team-mecheRooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience
a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can harness our smart dishwashers, ... stress on the grid, MIT engineers say. An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects ... of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers present a blueprint for how grid-edge devices ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceQS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025
subject areas for 2025, including Mechanical Engineering. Credit: Emily Dahl MIT also placed second in ... Science; Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing Engineering; Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy; and ... 2025, including Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing Engineering. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-world-university-rankings-rates-mit-no-1-11-subjects-2025Two projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions
the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-principal investigator Paul Barton, the Lammot du ... The Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Center, one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s ... Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, aims to produce hydrogen without CO 2 emissions while creating ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-projects-receive-funding-technologies-avoid-carbon-emissionsBoosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems
now an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, along with MIT professors of mechanical ... MIT have developed a method that could significantly boost the performance of systems that use ... today in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science in a paper by MIT postdoc Sami Khan PhD ’19, who is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/boosting-efficiency-carbon-capture-and-conversion-systemsTurning extreme heat into large-scale energy storage
’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Heat transfer systems are usually made out of metals like iron and ... a mechanical engineer would come up with a design and say, ‘Give me the best materials to do this,’” Henry ... through metal pipes. Fourth Power, founded by MIT Professor Asegun Henry SM ’06, PhD ’09, is turning these ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-extreme-heat-large-scale-energy-storageSeparating finely mixed oil and water
ecosystems. But MIT researchers have discovered a new, inexpensive way of getting the two fluids apart again. ... journal Scientific Reports by MIT professor Kripa Varanasi, graduate student Brian Solomon, and postdoc M. ... mechanical support. The approach can be adapted to industrial processes used today for making large membranes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-finely-mixed-oil-and-waterAccessibility
The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering is committed to providing an online environment that ... website due to a disability, please contact us at mehq@mit.edu. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/accessibilityThe answer may be blowing in the wind
worst possible conditions,” said Paul Sclavounos, a professor of mechanical engineering and naval ... a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of mechanical engineering, is developing ... offshore wind by 2030 — enough to power 10 million homes. At the MIT Energy Initiative’s Spring Symposium, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/answer-may-be-blowing-windNavigating beneath the Arctic ice
Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Maker Horizontal A team of MIT ... global climate change, there is a need for mapping the ocean below the ice cover. A team of MIT engineers ... and naval officers led by Henrik Schmidt, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, is trying to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/navigating-beneath-arctic-ice-0Autonomous robot scans ship hulls for mines
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have ... commercialized by spinoff Bluefin Robotics Corp., and the MIT engineers have continued to work to improve its ... scientists, along with research institutions around the world, have been engineering resilient robots for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-robot-scans-ship-hulls-mines