Search Results
Showing Results for: “mechanical engineering courses”
Drinking 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-lifeMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... a postdoc in RLE; Yirui Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and five ... materials science and engineering, and a member of the Research Lab of Electronics (RLE); Tao Wang, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsMapping the effects of crystal defects
— can affect electrical and heat transport through crystals, at a microscopic, quantum mechanical level. ... understanding of the mechanism of the dislocation-phonon interaction has been elusive and controversial, which ... in the journal Nano Letters, in a paper co-authored by postdoc Mingda Li, Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-effects-crystal-defectsMIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering, and then-graduate student Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 ... professor of mechanical engineering, and then-graduate student Divya Panchanathan SM '15, PhD '18. ... Henry Keenan, professor and one-time department head of mechanical engineering at MIT. To join Keenan as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-research-seawater-surface-tension-becomes-international-guidelineNew fund makes MIT a living sustainability lab
The four project teams are lead by Kripa Varanasi of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Randy ... Sandbox Innovation Fund Program, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Materials ... Water recapture at MIT’s power plant Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Kripa ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-fund-makes-mit-living-sustainability-labTalking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering, who has the expertise in ... of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock uses his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... engineer more agile underwater vehicles. “Can we understand nature to help us design mechanical systems? ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ... Julia R. Greer, a professor of materials science, mechanics, and medical engineering at Caltech, whose ... A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang. Robot recipe For the past five years, Zhao’s group has ... Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO ... Professor of Materials Science and Engineering W. Craig Carter, as well as postdoc Xinwei Chen, graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
extreme events occur,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering ... systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. Now engineers at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... irrigation. Amazing things are being done at MIT in all of these areas, and the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering in particular is working on almost every one of these issues. How does your research fit in? My ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
says Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang ... climate change,” says Jonathan Bessette, MIT PhD student in mechanical engineering. “This technology could ... MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesNew surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, professor of chemical engineering and Associate Provost ... says Jonathan Boreyko, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencyCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
d'Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and four other authors. The new, ... crumpled graphene paper, a sheet of the material was placed in a mechanical device that first compressed it ... exciting and amazing to me,” says Dan Li, a professor of materials engineering at Monash University in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storage