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System provides cooling with no electricity
E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering. But this is a different issue that has received much ... a paper in the journal Science Advances, by MIT graduate student Arny Leroy, professor of mechanical ... engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and seven others at MIT and at the Pontifical Catholic University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/system-provides-cooling-no-electricityTwo projects receive funding for technologies that avoid carbon emissions
the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and co-principal investigator Paul Barton, the Lammot du ... Pont Professor of Chemical Engineering, aims to produce hydrogen without CO 2 emissions while creating ... study to gain a holistic understanding of the coupled chemo-mechanical processes that accompany CO ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/two-projects-receive-funding-technologies-avoid-carbon-emissionsSolar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
Joule, in a paper by Professor Evelyn Wang, who is head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, who was not associated with this work. “It ... represents a powerful engineering approach for designing a dual-stage AWH device to achieve higher water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-extracts-drinkable-water-%E2%80%9Cdry%E2%80%9D-airSurface coating designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize
MIT’s Ford Professor of Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Such ... ’18, who is currently a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT. “When compared to what’s ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surface-coating-designed-improve-power-plant-efficiency-wins-2022-water-innovation-prizeSensing the world around us
principal research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, spoke about his work on robotic ... in Media Arts & Sciences and the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science ... positioning transforms the world,” he said. At the intersection of electrical engineering, communications, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sensing-world-around-usWhales Dine with Their Own Kind
Nicholas Makris, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, along with their students, are co-authors of ... PhD ’02, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. “Maybe ... on their different foraging mechanisms. That’s material for new research.” Ratilal and her husband, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/whales-dine-their-own-kindSimple, solar-powered water desalination
Zhang and Lin Zhao, postdoc Zhenyuan Xu, professor of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn ... of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationBoosting the efficiency of carbon capture and conversion systems
now an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, along with MIT professors of mechanical ... engineering Kripa Varanasi and Yang Shao-Horn, and recent graduate Jonathan Hwang PhD ’19. “Carbon dioxide ... electrolyzer,” says Ifan Stephens, a professor of materials engineering at Imperial College London, who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/boosting-efficiency-carbon-capture-and-conversion-systemsPhysicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
says Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who directed the project. ... of mechanical engineering Vivishek Sudhir. Precision pushback All objects embody some sort of motion ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateNew materials could enable longer-lasting implantable batteries
mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, and four others at MIT and Caltech. Replacing the battery in ... level experimentally is the team’s next goal. Sevilla, a doctoral student in the mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-materials-could-enable-longer-lasting-implantable-batteriesIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatMIT Sea Grant students explore the intersection of technology and offshore aquaculture in Norway
intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea ... MIT Sea Grant director Michael Triantafyllou and professor of mechanical engineering Themistoklis ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-sea-grant-students-explore-intersection-technology-and-offshore-aquaculture-norway-0Turning extreme heat into large-scale energy storage
Department of Mechanical Engineering. Heat transfer systems are usually made out of metals like iron and ... a mechanical engineer would come up with a design and say, ‘Give me the best materials to do this,’” Henry ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-extreme-heat-large-scale-energy-storageSeparating finely mixed oil and water
mechanical support. The approach can be adapted to industrial processes used today for making large membranes ... a weaker filter. “There is no separate layer, it’s completely integrated, so the mechanical support is ... cloudy appearance. Anish Tuteja, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-finely-mixed-oil-and-waterWhy 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-heightsA legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young
platform. Emily Hanhauser Emily is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering (MechE). Her research centers ... a background in engineering. In her research, she draws inspiration from nature and biological cybernetics to ... systems. From an engineering perspective, her contributions guide the design of algorithms for autonomous ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/legacy-curiosity-name-hugh-hampton-youngMIT 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-innovation