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Steam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunGetting a charge out of water droplets
devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ... mechanical engineering at Boston University who was not involved in this research, says, “This work provides ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsPowering Desalination with the Sun
graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sunBubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch
processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate ... shown a new method to control the boiling phenomenon,” says Satish Kandlikar, a professor of mechanical ... engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology, who was not involved in this research. “Such control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble-flick-switchPowered by the sun
I knew I was interested in mechanical engineering, and I was thinking of a way I could apply mechanical ... engineering to solving world problems, and I thought energy was a world problem and solar car was the perfect ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunProtecting seafarers and the global supply chain during Covid-19
Covid-19 Task Force. Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering, is a member of the task force, ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-seafarers-and-global-supply-chain-during-covid-19Robotic palm mimics human touch
in mechanical engineering. “By combining rigid structures with deformable, compliant materials, we ... don't need extra motors or mechanisms to actuate the palm's deformation — the inherent compliance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robotic-palm-mimics-human-touchMini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
developer Benjamin Katz, a technical associate in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The ... in the lab of Sangbae Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering. Kim says loaning mini ... identical, low-cost electric motors that the researchers engineered using off-the-shelf parts. Each motor can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mini-cheetah-first-four-legged-robot-do-backflip-0Joe Brown
“My goal was to be the next Walt Disney,” Brown explains. “I majored in Course 2 [mechanical ... engineering] because I wanted to design rollercoasters and to create my own theme park.” Brown’s passion for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/joe-brownUnleashing the potential of the mind
assistive technology course run by John Leonard, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean ... Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “I was really passionate about the problem [of ... Ang on a mission that would change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/unleashing-potential-mindDexter Ang
change his life. Ten years after graduating from MIT with a mechanical engineering degree, he returned to ... assistive technology course run by John Leonard, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean ... Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “I was really passionate about the problem [of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dexter-ang-0The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants
technique.” Mathias Kolle, Rockwell Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... '20 collaborated with Kolle throughout his PhD program in mechanical engineering, making the project ... Hart, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The two are developing an edible, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/catalyzing-potential-j-wafs-seed-grantsAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; and Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering ... , a professor of mechanical engineering and of materials science and engineering, and a member of the Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... professor of mechanical engineering and of ocean science and engineering, and Glenn Flierl, professor of ... study of such plumes. He was joined by Alford and Eric Adams, senior research engineer at MIT, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningCooling buildings worldwide
and Mechanical Engineering. Lienhard is Norford’s colleague at the Center for Environmental Sensing ... mechanical engineering graduate students: Tianyi Chen, who was working with Norford on the impacts of outdoor ... Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (’72) Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Paired up for a class project, they ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cooling-buildings-worldwideMIT Club of Greece hosts “Sustainable Ecosystems for the Maritime Industry”
July 7, 2024 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Horizontal In late June, Professors ... several graduates of the 2N (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) program and other MIT alumni, ... Engineering, and Director of MIT Sea Grant. “We anticipate moving ahead with a collaborative effort between MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-club-greece-hosts-%E2%80%9Csustainable-ecosystems-maritime-industry%E2%80%9DMIT J-WAFS awards eight grants in seventh round of seed funding
and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Additional funded principal investigators are from the ... with Evelyn N. Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, to find ... a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has teamed up with Pratik Shah, a principal research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-j-wafs-awards-eight-grants-seventh-round-seed-fundingMIT Energy Initiative awards seven Seed Fund grants for early-stage energy research
W.M. Keck Professor of Energy in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and ... Shao‐Horn of the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering ... Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering. “This year’s funded projects highlight just a few examples of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-awards-seven-seed-fund-grants-early-stage-energy-researchMaterials’ Key Role in Addressing Climate Change is Focus of Materials Day Symposium
Boriskina, a principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing “smart” ... Engineering (DMSE); Asegun Henry, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and ... Engineering. “To meet the climate targets we set for 2050, all of our new systems must be low- or no-emissions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/materials%E2%80%99-key-role-addressing-climate-change-focus-materials-day-symposiumMIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards
Co-founders Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and postdocs Maher Damak PhD ’18 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinoff-takes-top-honor-masschallenge-awards