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Office of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners
Systems, and Society, and Professor Douglas Hart, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Trancik ... Mechanical Engineering installed an electrified, water-catching dome structure over the steam plumes of MIT’s ... This year, undergraduate students taking 2.013 (Engineering Systems Design) and 2.014 (Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/office-sustainability-names-2018-grant-winnersBeyond low-hanging fruit
Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... Engineering Group, teaches and conducts research in the area of precision machine design. Precision, he says, ... fruit.” That, he says, is normal engineering. Precision engineering is about going for the low-hanging ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/beyond-low-hanging-fruitTalking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis
engineering. After completing my PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, I had a post-doc appointment at NYU’s ... warning to prepare or evacuate. Themistoklis (Themis) Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean ... engineering and principal investigator at MIT’s Stochastic Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics (SAND) lab is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-themistoklis-sapsisTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Sili Deng
electricity and power,” explains Sili Deng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Brit (1961) ... Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ... interested in engineering at very early age since my dad is an electrical engineer. When I was young, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-sili-dengNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Materials. The paper’s co-authors are Evelyn Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, former ... Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairTechnique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
do,” says Qianru Wang, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “There is recent work ... adds Cullen Buie, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Thus, a tool that allows you ... Wang Scientists and engineers are exploring ways to harness these microbial power plants to run fuel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-identifies-electricity-producing-bacteriaExpanding the conversation about sustainability
a disproportionately heavy environmental burden. At MIT, she chose a double major in mechanical engineering with ... and received a presentation award during the MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition. This past ... Godfreey-Igwe worked under a lab in Stanford University’s civil and environmental engineering department to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-conversation-about-sustainabilityUnderstanding combustion
of mechanical engineering and the Brit (1961) & Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Assistant Professor Sili Deng is on a quest to ... degree in thermal engineering, she received her master’s and PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionSaving seaweed with machine learning
Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT. ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... combine my passion for food, my technical expertise in ocean engineering, and my interest in sustainably ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-seaweed-machine-learningMIT scientists build a system that can generate AI models for biology research
Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Biological sequences such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and glycans have the ... the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in the Department of Biological Engineering ... financially costly process for science and engineering labs. Even with a machine-learning expert, selecting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-scientists-build-system-can-generate-ai-models-biology-researchJim Christian
Mechanical Engineering (MechE) alumnus Jim Christian SM '14 had an idea to tap into the superabundance ... a product that solves a real-life problem for course 2.739 (Product Design and Development). Inspired by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jim-christianSteam 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-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-grants