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Rogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Themis Sapsis, the American Bureau of Shipping Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... published their results in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Adjusting for the real world For the most part, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionProcessing waste biomass to reduce airborne emissions
Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Biomass fuels, including wood, peat, ... Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, who on a long walk-and-talk along the Charles River ... product. It was 2011, and Kung was at MIT as a biological engineering grad student focused on cancer ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/processing-waste-biomass-reduce-airborne-emissionsAlumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on solid-state solar thermal energy ... conversion systems. In 2016, while taking course 15.366 (Climate and Energy Ventures), he met Jordan Kearns ... Science and Engineering. The two were studying renewable energy when they began to think about the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuelsSavannah Gordon
a graduate student in mechanical engineering, spent IAP 2025 in Querétaro, Mexico, hosting an electronics ... by MIT Professor Steven Leeb, the Emanuel E. Landsman (1958) Professor in Electrical Engineering and ... Computer Science. Her original intent was to teach the course at the technical public school, Técnica 4, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/savannah-gordonA new way to mend a broken heart
Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... O'Leary | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Entrepreneurship International Horizontal ... Image: Whyte, et al./Nature Biomedical Engineering A new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mend-broken-heartSquishy robots
the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... contraction, says Carmel Majidi, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Robotics Institute at ... a new paper in the journal Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, could also be used in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/squishy-robotsNew model predicts how shoe properties affect a runner’s performance
is authored by Fay and Anette “Peko” Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. Running, ... a person’s particular running style. MIT engineers are hoping to change that with a new model that predicts ... A model developed by MIT engineers predicts the optimal running shoe design for a given runner. Pictured ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-model-predicts-how-shoe-properties-affect-runner%E2%80%99s-performanceInflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
mechanical engineering and of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. “There’s huge potential to make ... commercial neuroprosthetics — highly articulated bionic limbs, engineered to sense a user’s residual muscle ... that can be heavy and rigid. Now engineers at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have designed ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-robotic-hand-gives-amputees-real-time-tactile-controlThe Power and Potential of Oceans Unknown
functional AUVs to become commercially successful. Several areas of mechanical engineering – such ... as mechanics, controls, design, optics,and robotics – play a large part in modern ocean engineering, and ... Engineering and the Ocean Environment: Challenge and Opportunity by Alissa Mallinson Vast ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-and-potential-oceans-unknownLifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood
Museum. Following in the footsteps of his father, a mechanical engineer, and his mother, a chemist and ... Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... From identifying the source of emissions to analyzing the future of automotive engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodThree MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows
His research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering investigates heat and mass transfer, ... Hewitt is the Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics in the Department of ... Prather is the Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering and a co-director of the MIT Energy ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-faculty-elected-2018-aaas-fellowsDrinking Water From Thin Air
in the air, even in the most arid conditions. Mechanics Energy Science and Engineering Health ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/drinking-water-thin-airCollaboration runs through J-WAFS-funded projects
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, whose expertise in optical materials proved to be key. ... Voigt, a professor in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering, made those comments at the first of ... the Universidad Politécnica in Spain. Voigt and experts in plastid engineering and plant gene ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/collaboration-runs-through-j-wafs-funded-projectsUnderstanding how fluids heat or cool surfaces
mechanical engineering at MIT, made a careful analysis of published experimental data and found that this ... Andrei Fedorov, a professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, who was not involved in this work. ... some have been taught incorrectly to generations of engineering students, a new analysis shows. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-how-fluids-heat-or-cool-surfacesSENSE.nano awards seed grants in optoelectronics, interactive manufacturing
sensing and recognition Jeehwan Kim, associate professor with a dual appointment in mechanical engineering ... associate director of MIT.nano, and a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. “As we work to grow SENSE.nano’s research footing and to attract partners, it is encouraging to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensenano-awards-seed-grants-optoelectronics-interactive-manufacturingDelivering life-saving oxygen
recalls Daniele Vivona, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Italy. In early March, Vivona and ... energy carriers,” explains Yang Shao-Horn, professor of mechanical engineering and EEL’s director. “We ... father Alexander Slocum Sr., Walter M. May and A. Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/delivering-life-saving-oxygenWater is Life
in-the-field research. Mechanics Design and Manufacturing Energy Science and Engineering Health Environment ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-life