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Designing exploratory robots that collect data for marine scientists
tools to make a difference. In 2016, Preston completed her BS in robotics engineering from Olin College ... of Engineering. “My first research project involved creating a drone that could take noninvasive blow ... Preston began her PhD in aeronautics and astronautics and applied ocean physics and engineering through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-exploratory-robots-collect-data-marine-scientistsUnleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells
science and engineering at Georgia Tech. What the researchers found, after about three years of work at ... with novel material engineering is of the highest quality, and is deserving of appearing in such ... knowledge will be important for addressing future engineering challenges.” The study, which included ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-perovskites%E2%80%99-potential-solar-cellsAffordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings
engineer, fabricates aerogels in the first step of the manufacturing process. Photo courtesy of AeroShield. ... Evelyn Wang, Ford Professor of Engineering, now on leave to serve as director of the Advanced Research ... investor MassMutual Ventures. Strobach notes that the company now has investor, engineering, and customer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/affordable-high-tech-windows-comfort-and-energy-savingsA Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?
Engineering — as well as MIT principal research scientist Ivan Celanovic, postdoc Ognjen Ilic, and Purdue ... fluorescent and LED bulbs,” says Alejandro Rodriguez, assistant professor of electrical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanophotonic-comeback-incandescent-bulbsBose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
engines or propellers. “The aircraft would pull itself through the air by ionizing air over its surface ... could, and to dream big,” he says. Seeking light from an unexpected source Engineer Michael Strano and ... a lot of cases where people engineer the vote that they receive by drawing the lines in a particular ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bose-grants-2017-reward-bold-and-unconventional-research-visions%C2%A0Solving a mystery of thermoelectrics
graduate student Sangyeop Lee; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering; and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsHot New Solar Cell
advance,” says Peter Bermel, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hot-new-solar-cellAutonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea
Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering at the WHOI; and Nicholas Roy, a professor in CSAIL and in the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/autonomous-system-improves-environmental-sampling-seaMore than a meal
Grace Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering. Rob Vincent, assistant director for advisory ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-mealA new way to irrigate crops year-round
co-founder who is no longer with the company), who were classmates in of hers in 2.760 (Global Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundGreen Eelgrass, Blue Carbon
MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts. By understanding the role that eelgrass ecosystems play in preparing for and mitigating the effects of climate change we can better make the c ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/green-eelgrass-blue-carbonHybrid System Could Cut Coal-Plant Emissions in Half
Combining gasification with fuel-cell technology could boost efficiency of coal-powered plants. Most of the world’s nations have agreed to make substantial reductions in their greenhouse gas emissions, but achieving these goals is still a considerable tec ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hybrid-system-could-cut-coal-plant-emissions-halfA new way to find better battery materials
A new approach to analyzing and designing new ion conductors — a key component of rechargeable batteries — could accelerate the development of high-energy lithium batteries, and possibly other energy storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, resear ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-find-better-battery-materialsSea Grant, DOE, NOAA Fisheries partner to invest $1M+ to support research for the co-existence of ocean energy with Northeast fishing and coastal communities
MIT Sea Grant will coordinate an ocean renewable energy research effort with the Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, leveraging a diversity of federal partners. The Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Ene ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sea-grant-doe-noaa-fisheries-partner-invest-1m-support-research-co-existence-ocean-energyCapturing the Sun in a box: Thermal battery inventor wins the 2021 Bell Labs Prize
The winner of the 2021 Nokia Bell Labs Prize is proposing a remarkable new use for carbon, the primary source of global greenhouse gas. Instead of burning carbon in the form of coal and other fossil fuels to produce energy, Asegun Henry wants to use car ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/capturing-sun-box-thermal-battery-inventor-wins-2021-bell-labs-prizeD-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries
MIT D-Lab students and instructors are improving the efficacy and economics of a brooder technology for newborn chicks that utilizes a practical, local resource: beeswax. IMG_3686.jpg Students from the MIT D-Lab class 2.652/EC.712 (Applications of Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/d-lab-grid-brooder-saves-chicks-and-money-using-locally-manufactured-thermal-batteriesA nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
Lithium-ion batteries are the workhorses of home electronics and are powering an electric revolution in transportation. But they are not suitable for every application. A key drawback is their flammability and toxicity, which make large-scale lithium-ion ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futureMIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each day
When it comes to water use, most of us think of the water we drink. But industrial uses for things like manufacturing account for billions of gallons of water each day. For instance, making a single iPhone, by one estimate, requires more than 3,000 gallon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinout-gradiant-reduces-companies%E2%80%99-water-use-and-waste-billions-gallons-each-dayNews & Awards: Winter 2018
Highlights from the latest news and research from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Engineering. MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering was ranked as the No. 1 mechanical engineering ... mechanical engineering students. The Prince Innovation Prize will be given to an undergraduate with ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-winter-2018MIT-Takeda program launches
Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of digital learning; and ... Mechanical Engineering. "Automating adverse effect assessments and scientific literature review": ... Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of digital learning; and Brian Subirana, research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-takeda-program-launches