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Evelyn Wang: A new energy source at MIT
Glanzman Wang, a mechanical engineering professor by trade, began work this spring as MIT’s first vice ... decades at the Institute. Wang earned her undergraduate degree from MIT in mechanical engineering, and her ... MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. She has held several chaired faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/evelyn-wang-new-energy-source-mitMIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We’re trying to achieve ... scale up hydrogen production.” This work was supported by the Centers for Mechanical Engineering ... MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-design-would-harness-40-percent-sun%E2%80%99s-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuelAlbatross robot takes flight
professor of mechanical engineering and information sciences and of brain sciences; and Michael ... MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightAsegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ... conduction, and received his master’s and PhD in mechanical engineering in 2009. He then accepted a faculty ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunA lasting — and valuable — legacy
a mechanical engineering department, or else I likely would not have been able to go down that road.” Gallant ... are the fun ones.” Tuesday, September 13, 2022 Michaela Jarvis | Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Betar Gallant, MIT associate professor and Class of 1922 Career Development Chair in Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacySeaPerch, a robot with a mission
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Anne Wilson, Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Education Horizontal SeaPerch II, ... interested in ocean science and engineering The SeaPerch underwater robot is a popular educational tool for ... has had a tremendous impact on the fields of ocean science and engineering,” says Andrew Bennett, ‘85 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/seaperch-robot-missionMore than 25 from MIT Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Lists in 2016
student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering “Wright’s approach to removing salt from groundwater ... Fellowship." Sampriti Bhattacharyya (Manufacturing and Industry) Grad student in the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering and founder of Hydroswarm “Bhattacharyya has developed underwater drones that are capable of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/more-25-mit-named-forbes-30-under-30-lists-2016Team creates map for production of eco-friendly metals
journal Chemistry of Materials. Donald Siegel is Department Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Science and Engineering (DMSE) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a leader of the current ... MIT in mechanical engineering in 2022. Peng is a DMSE graduate student. Other Applications The work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/team-creates-map-production-eco-friendly-metalsStudent Spotlight: Peter Godart '15, SM '19, PhD Candidate
a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration ... materials while providing clean energy and fresh water,” adds Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-peter-godart-15-sm-19-phd-candidateTonio Buonassisi Seeks to Make Solar Cells Competitive
Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world. One ... tenure at MIT as an associate professor of mechanical engineering — has taken a few different turns in ... Mechanical Engineering in 2007, where he established the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “It’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tonio-buonassisi-seeks-make-solar-cells-competitiveRefrigerator magnets
Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can envision wireless cooling where you apply a magnetic field to ... Mechanical Engineering head Gang Chen, have published a paper detailing the magnon cooling theory in Physical ... motivate new experiments.” Li Shi, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsMIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt
Mechanical Engineering, and Daniel Frey, a professor of mechanical engineering and the faculty research ... Cairo. The Center will be led mechanical engineering professors by Ahmed Ghoniem and Daniel Frey. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-receives-30-million-help-address-energy-challenges-egyptKirigami-inspired technique manipulates light at the nanoscale
journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X Fang and five ... have been primarily aimed at mechanical rather than optical functions, Fang says. The new nanodevices, ... pattern. “It’s a very nice connection of the two fields, mechanics and optics,” Fang says. The team used ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-nanoscaleFaculty Research: Printing in Reverse
utmost importance, requiring specific electrochemical and mechanical properties to allow the etching to ... select the stamp materials based on particular electrochemical and mechanical properties, since we want ... chemical-mechanical polishing, which does not work well for copper in particular,” he says. “So we have reduced ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-printing-reverseLeading business past dollars and cents
mechanical engineering class, a class that was 42 percent female. Flores was in good company in ... an engineer sometime around seventh grade. “I had early dreams of getting into corporate America ... east to her dream school to do what women are sometimes told is impossible — become an engineer. Upon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leading-business-past-dollars-and-centsAnnabel Flores
she saw firsthand what was possible by looking around her own mechanical engineering class, a class ... continue her plan with the doors opened by her mechanical engineering class. Her thesis’s focus was ... remembers. A planner from the beginning, she decided she wanted to be an engineer sometime around seventh ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/annabel-floresHacking apparel becomes lucrative business for alumni
MBA ’13, and mechanical engineering alumnus Kevin Rustagi ’11. Having last year expanded nationwide, ... With Rustagi, a friend and mechanical engineering student, Amarasiriwardena began selling the shirts ... Amarasiriwardena says. But when he started studying chemistry and biological engineering at MIT, and was biking ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hacking-apparel-becomes-lucrative-business-alumni