Search Results
Showing Results for: “mechanical inovations”
Ioannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Mechanical Engineering, was recognized as one of the highest achievers in his field last week when the ... invent.org. Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Alissa Mariello Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering orange ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ioannis-yannas-be-inducted-national-inventors-hall-fameNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... Materials. The paper’s co-authors are Evelyn Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairSteam 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-dropletsNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
as light and sparse as aerogel [a kind of glass foam], we see a mechanical stiffness that’s ... printing technology that can be implemented now. Martin Wegener, a professor of mechanical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedBeyond low-hanging fruit
Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... mechanism of the system to do this. You have to have huge amounts of this polymer to get enough uranium and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/beyond-low-hanging-fruitNew surface treatment stops scale buildup
Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... there’s mechanical damage, the lubricant can return to that surface,” Subramanyam says. “It can maintain ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildupHow to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
graduate student Andrej Lenert, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, physics ... of mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-tap-sun%E2%80%99s-energy-through-heat-well-lightDroplets get a charge out of jumping
postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, mechanical engineering professor Evelyn Wang, and two others. Miljkovic says this ... electricity-generating power plants — provided a mechanism for enhancing the efficiency of heat transfer on those ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/droplets-get-charge-out-jumpingJohn Lewandowski
properties. As a mechanical engineer, Lewandowski, who had originally wanted to be a medical doctor and ... studied biology as an undergraduate at CWRU, envisioned a solution that took advantage of these mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/john-lewandowskiMick Mountz
traverse, but they have to do it on a very consistent, reliable basis. From a mechanical perspective, it’s ... with hundreds of mechanical contraptions they have in their current buildings. In these types of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mick-mountzDanielle Zurovcik
$4,000. But how could a device with such simple mechanics be so expensive? “If you look at it from ... MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Zurovcik was one of the first to identify the significance ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/danielle-zurovcikCommunications Requirements and Guidelines
data is taught in 2.671 and 2.672. Mechanical drawing and CAD/CAM skills are taught in 2.007, 2.008, ... pages: libguides.mit.edu Mechanical Engineering Citations Virtual Reference Collection ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/comm-guidelinesWind power — even without the wind
Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windRemembering ‘Papa Flash’
they produced high-intensity light, possessed mechanical strength to withstand great pressures, and ... Kim Vandiver, professor of mechanical and ocean engineering and director of the MIT Edgerton Center, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/remembering-%E2%80%98papa-flash%E2%80%99Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Alberto Rodriguez
inertia of objects, its pose, or other mechanical properties such as friction. Another is control: Once ... Mallinson | Department of Mechanical Engineering red Maker ALBERTOR@MIT.EDU Horizontal Alberto Rodriguez ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-alberto-rodriguezPowering 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble-flick-switchLearning to Solve
mechanical engineering, is tackling another health problem, investigating a compression bandage design for ... Bio-inspired Photonic Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering for two years and says SuperUROP ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/learning-solveA Makerspace for Students, by Students
there is one word that embodies the spirit of MIT MakerWorks, the all-access Department of Mechanical ... June 21, 2016 Alissa Mallinson | Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Education ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/makerspace-students-students