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Toward cheaper, cleaner hydrogen production

mechanical engineering as a graduate student, then moved to the Department of Electrical Engineering and ... fun,” says Sobek. Credits: Christine Daniloff, MIT; iStock Green hydrogen won’t scale through ... electrolyzers Sobek was born and raised in Argentina, but he also grew up at MIT over the course of three ...

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Imaging technique removes the effect of water in underwater scenes

(ICRA). Their study co-author is John Leonard, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Aquatic optics ... color of objects in the ocean without imaging them at close range. Now a team from MIT and the Woods ... 3D models of an underwater scene,” says MIT graduate student Daniel Yang. The researchers applied ...

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Q&A: Options for the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant

to close in 2025. A team of researchers at MIT’s Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, Abdul ... transportation. MIT News asked report co-authors Jacopo Buongiorno, the TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and ... Engineering, and John Lienhard, the Jameel Professor of Water and Food, to discuss the group’s findings. Q: ...

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Undergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage

strictly within the bounds of mechanical engineering, where I am most comfortable.” Indeed, locating SGD, ... Graduating Senior Lays Groundwork for Locating Fresh Water Sources     Photo credit: MIT News ... engineering, programming, and aeronautical engineering were just added benefits. I have gotten a lot more out ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux

incorporate obstacle-avoidance functions to protect the AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students ... Chandler, MIT News Office Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer   Sometimes the fastest pathway ... them moving all at once toward separate destinations. But that’s just what a team of engineers led by ...

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Faculty Research: Professor Thomas Peacock

Can Tower Hundreds of Feet By David Chandler, MIT News Office   Their effect on the surface of ... from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions, and coordinated by the Office of Naval ... are potentially “the key mechanism for transferring heat from the upper ocean to the depths,” Peacock ...

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Projects advance naval ship design and capabilities

construction and engineering being conducted at MIT. 2n Program 1024.jpg Students enrolled in the Course 2N ... Engineering Culture Education Horizontal At the annual MIT Ship Design and Technology Symposium, naval ... convened on MIT’s campus each spring for the MIT Ship Design and Technology Symposium. The daylong event is ...

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Reimagining an iconic design class

For the past 50 years, mechanical engineering students at MIT have convened on campus for ... mechanical engineering. “For me, 2.007 was the class I’ve been most looking forward to at MIT. It serves as ... from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, including hiring Antoni Soledad ’21, who participated ...

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The Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown

present significant challenges to exploration technology. At MIT, ocean engineering has always been ... a joint MIT-WHOI program in oceanographic engineering. In 1989, Professor Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis ... functional AUVs to become commercially successful. Several areas of mechanical engineering – such ...

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Study Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies

innovation;  Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor of mechanical engineering;  Robert Jaffe, the Jane and Otto ... MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to ... work on other technologies. An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s ...

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Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution

Laboratory and the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering 's Ocean Science and Engineering lab is ... the submersible had gone missing.) Untitled design (70).jpg A research team from MIT Lincoln ... algorithms. The MIT campus collaborators are developing algorithms for data processing and image formation, ...

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Affordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings

a startup spun out of MIT, is poised to start manufacturing such windows. Building operations make up 36 ... engineer, fabricates aerogels in the first step of the manufacturing process. Photo courtesy of AeroShield. ... Technology development at MIT Research on AeroShield’s window technology began a decade ago in the MIT lab of ...

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New Faculty

2010, respectively, in mechanical engineering from MIT. His research interests include design for ... Manufacturing, Bioengineering, Ocean Engineering, and one search broadly across all mechanical engineering ... engineering from MIT, his NE in naval engineering from MIT, and his PhD in hydrodynamics from MIT. He is the ...

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Self-powered sensor automatically harvests magnetic energy

Computer Science (EECS) and professor of mechanical engineering, a member of the Research Laboratory of ... MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from ... workings of a ship’s engine. There, it could automatically gather data on the machine’s power consumption ...

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Study: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping

Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and others ... these scrubbers are. Through a novel lifecycle assessment, researchers from MIT, Georgia Tech, and ... transitional issue,” says Neil Gershenfeld, an MIT professor, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), ...

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Oceanographers produce first-ever images of entire cod shoals

professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Ocean Engineering, and Olav Rune Godø of ... oceanographers at MIT has journeyed to Norway — one of the last remaining regions of the world where cod still ... OAWRS system, an imaging technique developed at MIT by Makris and co-author Purnima Ratilal, which emits ...

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