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Faculty Research: Professor Gareth McKinley
Cohen, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley. Fog-harvesting systems generally consist of ... Shreerang Chhatre (PhD ’13), graduate student Siddarth Srinivasan, chemical engineering professor Robert ... mechanics associated with the fog droplets as they collect, grow and coalesce on the meshes. Large mesh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-gareth-mckinleyThe Power of Salt
according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT. The researchers evaluated an emerging method of power ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, says reducing the size of the membrane needed to generate power would, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-salt“Active” Surfaces Control What’s on Them
surfaces are passive,” says Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and ... material, such as electric fields or differences in temperature. Neelesh Patankar, a professor of mechanical ... engineering at Northwestern University who was not involved in this work, says this research “introduces a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Cactive%E2%80%9D-surfaces-control-what%E2%80%99s-themStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that ... Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. The hydrogel, which Zhao detailed earlier this month, is a rubbery material, mostly composed of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsInfinite Cooling wins Cleantech University Prize competition
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, and graduate student Maher Damak. Photo: Alexi Taylor Ko Infinite ... and Karim Khalil, all from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been fine-tuning their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/infinite-cooling-wins-cleantech-university-prize-competitionA new approach to liquid-repelling surfaces
a paper by graduate student Kyle Wilke, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... management in high-performance devices.” Chang-Jin Kim, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-liquid-repelling-surfacesNew material could make it easier to remove colon polyps
Mechanical Engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Traverso is the senior ... Mechanical Engineering. Monday, July 29, 2019 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration Entrepreneurship ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-could-make-it-easier-remove-colon-polypsHow to get conductive gels to stick when wet
Baoyang Lu, and professor of mechanical engineering Xuanhe Zhao. Most electrodes used for biomedical ... uncoated polymer, he says. The result is a mechanically strong and conductive gel that bonds tightly with ... chemical engineering at Stanford University, who was not associated with this research. “Wet adhesives are ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-get-conductive-gels-stick-when-wetDriving a human-machine collaboration
Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Is there a sort of future ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/driving-human-machine-collaborationGraphene holds up under high pressure
associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the team’s results, reported today ... But engineers at MIT have found that the ultrathin material is exceptionally sturdy, remaining intact ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/graphene-holds-under-high-pressureLet it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof
water-resistant,” says Varanasi, who is an associate professor of mechanical engineering. “If you’re standing out in ... Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate provost at MIT. Credit for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/let-it-rain-new-coatings-make-natural-fabrics-waterproofA new way to make droplets bounce away
and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. The key to the process, they explain, is ... In many situations, engineers want to minimize the contact of droplets of water or other liquids ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-droplets-bounce-awaySAE honors MIT researchers for best paper
of Mechanical Engineering — C. Justin Kamp, Alex G. Sappok, and Victor W. Wong — with the 2014 Arch ... 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering orange ... The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recently presented three researchers in the Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sae-honors-mit-researchers-best-paperAlumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
On a Friday in mid-November, recent mechanical engineering alumna Elizabeth Bianchini ’18 found ... pose in Killian Court. This group of mechanical engineering seniors designed and developed a working ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering and one of the 2.009 lab instructors assigned to the Rhino team. “It ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-team-tops-collegiate-inventors-competitionDepartment Head John Hart Announces New MechE Leadership
Mechanical and Ocean Engineering. He has provided extensive service to MechE in various roles ... Associate Head for Research Ellen Roche is the Latham Family Career Development Associate Professor in Mechanical ... Engineering and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). Her research focuses on the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-head-john-hart-announces-new-meche-leadershipIcing ALS: MIT Family Reshapes Research Models
Rafael Reif and the mechanical engineering faculty recently took the chilly dunks — with a decidedly MIT ... Mechanical Engineering John Heywood SM ’62, PhD ’65 — Stephen Heywood, who died of ALS in 2006, and whose ... and provided startup funds and connections to other donors. Jamie’s mechanical engineering training at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/icing-als-mit-family-reshapes-research-modelsInspired to Heal the Human Heart
the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Roche takes such ideas back to her lab, where she and her ... may include mechanical engineers, bioengineers, material scientists, pharmacists, surgeons, and other ... Development Professor and an associate professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspired-heal-human-heartAn inflatable gastric balloon could help people lose weight
deflated in between meals,” says Giovanni Traverso, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at ... limitation.” The research was funded by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Karl van Tassel Career ... engineers have designed a new type of gastric balloon that can be inflated and deflated as needed. In an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inflatable-gastric-balloon-could-help-people-lose-weightSpreading kindness far and wide
engineering course load, a teaching assistant position in a Physics I class, and roles with MIT’s gospel ... though I’m definitely a mechanical engineer at heart.” Heading into her senior year, Arkhurst is ... cake mix, and craft materials. And she did all of this while balancing a demanding mechanical ...
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