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Why boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces
graduate student Victor Julio Leon and professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. In previous ... bare metal. Pictured are various photographs of the droplets that help reveal the mechanisms that cause ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-boiling-droplets-can-race-across-hot-oily-surfacesExplained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ... perovskite, protecting it from exposure to air and moisture. But others are studying the exact mechanisms that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heightsMIT team races to second in electric car competition
Award at the Society of Automotive Engineers' Formula SAE Electric competition in Lincoln, ... tests acceleration, speed, handling, dynamics, efficiency, and reliability over a 22-kilometer course ... frame had a catastrophic mechanical failure during the braking test, so the team had to weld on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-team-races-second-electric-car-competitionA robot that senses hidden objects
Mechanical Engineering. Other co-authors include Junshan Leng, a research engineer at Harvard University, and ... — visible light waves, of course, don’t pass through walls. But radio waves can. For decades, radio ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-senses-hidden-objectsInventor Creates Hub for Innovation
mechanical engineering and zeroed in on product development. The classes 2.007, Design and Manufacturing and ... 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, outlined everything Fienup wanted to do with his career. ... “Ninety-nine percent of my direction was based off of those two courses,” he says. "We’re making an impact ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inventor-creates-hub-innovationBill Fienup
mechanical engineering and zeroed in on product development. The classes 2.007, Design and Manufacturing and ... 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, outlined everything Fienup wanted to do with his career. ... “Ninety-nine percent of my direction was based off of those two courses,” he says. "We’re making an impact ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/bill-fienupMIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator
volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to ... looming, a new team, linked to that course, has resumed the project at a highly accelerated pace. The key ... devise a mechanical system to do the squeezing and releasing of the Ambu bag, since this is not something ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-based-team-works-rapid-deployment-open-source-low-cost-ventilatorFaculty highlight: A. John Hart
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering A. John Hart hopes progress in the science and ... electronics, medical devices, and arts and crafts. "Being in mechanical engineering, in the area of ... software-driven analysis. Hart was assistant professor of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-john-hartThe answer may be blowing in the wind
worst possible conditions,” said Paul Sclavounos, a professor of mechanical engineering and naval ... a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of mechanical engineering, is developing ... Chemical Engineering, in his introduction to the event. In sessions devoted to technology, deployment and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/answer-may-be-blowing-windMIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape
Department of Mechanical Engineering. “It’s an unbelievably enormous problem people have to wrap their minds ... that,” said Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Climate and Energy in ... MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Energizing@MIT: the MIT Energy Initiative’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-conference-spotlights-research-priorities-amidst-changing-energyWind Energy Reaches Greater Heights
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT — is developing a novel system that adapts ... that, but on a far, far grander scale.” Behind Keystone Smith, who studied mechanical engineering and ... a team of engineers, including Daniel Bridgers SM ’12 and Dan Ainge ’12 — Keystone’s system allows the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-energy-reaches-greater-heightsAddressing food insecurity in arid regions with an open-source evaporative cooling chamber design
Glicksman, a professor of building technology and mechanical engineering, drew on his previous research in ... mechanical engineering Dan Frey contributed to the market research phase of the project and the initial ... Engineer Eric Verploegen of MIT D-Lab have released their open-source design for a forced-air ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/addressing-food-insecurity-arid-regions-open-source-evaporative-cooling-chamber-designMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering, heads up their autonomy effort; Russ ... experimental data,” says Bazant, the E. G. Roos (1944) Professor of Chemical Engineering and a professor of ... Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Sra ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/multi-university-effort-will-advance-materials-define-future-mobilityMIT announces 2022 Bose grants for ambitious ideas
year's recipients are: Gang Chen of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. With his proposal, ... bold research projects across diverse areas of study including biology, engineering, and the ... Engineering and Computer Science Sangeeta Bhatia; Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering Gang ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-announces-2022-bose-grants-ambitious-ideasUndergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage
strictly within the bounds of mechanical engineering, where I am most comfortable.” Indeed, locating SGD, ... engineering, programming, and aeronautical engineering were just added benefits. I have gotten a lot more out ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undergraduate-spotlight-katy-olesnavagePhonon catalysis could lead to a new field
just like it's very hot,” says Asegun Henry, professor of mechanical engineering and co-author of ... temperatures engineers could use cheaper materials to build them. This would lower the cost of fuel cells and ... Materials Science and Engineering Collaboration Horizontal By selectively heating specific phonons without ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/phonon-catalysis-could-lead-new-fieldFaculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux
incorporate obstacle-avoidance functions to protect the AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students ... them moving all at once toward separate destinations. But that’s just what a team of engineers led by ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-pierre-lermusiauxTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resourceFaculty Research: Professor Tonio Buonassisi
Communications by MIT graduate student Jonathan Mailoa, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-tonio-buonassisiMaking silicon devices responsive to infrared light
of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and 11 others. Silicon, which forms the basis of most ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-silicon-devices-responsive-infrared-light