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New 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-sunUnderstanding 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-oceanA 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-caffeineNew 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moderating-extremes-building-designBeyond 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-mecheQS 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-2025