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MISTI pilots conversations in energy
While fall typically sees MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) programs ... options to the MIT community, including internships and research, faculty research, and teaching programs ... gearing up to facilitate international summer internship and research experiences for MIT students, this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/misti-pilots-conversations-energyTalking Shop: Assistant Professor Sili Deng
Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ... electricity and power,” explains Sili Deng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Brit (1961) ... 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-dengStudy suggests energy-efficient route to capturing and converting CO2
In the race to draw down greenhouse gas emissions around the world, scientists at MIT are looking ... and chemical manufacturing are especially difficult industries to decarbonize, as carbon and fossil ... run. The MIT team is looking to combine the two processes into one integrated and far more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-suggests-energy-efficient-route-capturing-and-converting-co2A simple diagnostic tool for gastrointestinal disorders
Engineering at MIT, a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the senior author of the study. ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Collaboration ... can sense contractions of the GI tract. MIT researchers have now designed a new device that could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-diagnostic-tool-gastrointestinal-disordersTackling Greenhouse Gases
faculty members in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are turning to technologies that store, ... Culture Education International Horizontal Faculty in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering are ... Researchers across MIT are working on a myriad of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tackling-greenhouse-gasesLiberty Ladd: Going above and beyond
program through MIT. Through ROTC on campus, I was the vice commander of our wing, where I was in charge ... of the operational and logistical operations of our training program. I used to be on the MIT Mock ... particular — Ladd knew she wanted to study political science entering MIT. Also wanting a double major in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/liberty-ladd-going-above-and-beyondFarmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half
of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 when he went to ... and reducing pollution from runoff and wind-carried chemicals. “Globally, farms are spending about $60 ... prizes such as runner-up awards at the MIT $100K and Rice Business Plan competitions. Over-spraying ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/farmers-use-60-billion-pesticides-each-year-2-mit-scientists-have-developed-newJennifer Rumsey and John Wall
that combined mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering.” Wall had been at the company for five ... ‘72, his new roommate and a master’s student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, ... Advanced Heavy Duty Engine Development at engine design and manufacturing company Cummins. It was her first ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jennifer-rumsey-and-john-wallMaking hydropower plants more sustainable
and entrepreneurship that permeated the campus. Gia came to MIT in 1995 and majored in chemical ... insects in the bed of the river with the beaver dams. MIT_Natal-energy1024.jpg A fish-safe turbine ... siblings admit coming to MIT was a major culture shock, but they loved the atmosphere of problem solving ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-hydropower-plants-more-sustainableWhy boiling droplets can race across hot oily surfaces
trivial phenomenon has been analyzed and understood for the first time by researchers at MIT — and may ... expected to move much more slowly. But, counterintuitively, the series of experiments at MIT has showed ... liquid through the tiny tubing of microfluidic devices used for biomedical and chemical research and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-boiling-droplets-can-race-across-hot-oily-surfacesEducating future naval leaders
Since 1901, MIT has offered a graduate program unlike any other at the Institute. The Naval ... Construction and Engineering program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering educates active duty officers ... both from MIT’s perspective and the Navy’s perspective. We have access to the greatest engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/educating-future-naval-leadersDora Aldama: Drawn to multidimensional problems
student in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program. “I was checking it out — what’s great, not ... engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ... airplanes. Aldama decided to return to MIT and join the LGO program for a dual masters in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/dora-aldama-drawn-multidimensional-problemsMIT gears up to transform manufacturing
says John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and faculty co-director of ... Manufacturing@MIT program. “It’s a recognition by MIT that manufacturing is an Institute-wide theme and an ... of chemical engineering. The initiative is pursuing four main themes: reimagining manufacturing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-gears-transform-manufacturingTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ... other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ... is such a ubiquitous chemical that “every lab at MIT has some,” he says, so finding markets for it ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resourceMicrofluidics from LEGO bricks
MIT engineers have just introduced an element of fun into microfluidics. The field of ... mechanical engineering at MIT. Indeed, LEGO bricks are manufactured so consistently that no matter where in ... Owens, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “We hope in the future, others ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-lego-bricksDora Aldama
MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program. “I was checking it out — what’s great, not so great. ... engineering major as an undergraduate at MIT before working for five years on oil systems of jet engines as an ... airplanes. Aldama decided to return to MIT and join the LGO program for a dual masters in mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/dora-aldama-0Annabel Flores
program that instilled confidence in the engineer. After she graduated from MIT, Flores was determined to ... aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program ... are sometimes told is impossible — become an engineer. Upon beginning her collegiate career at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/annabel-floresMIT engineers uncover a surprising reason why tissues are flexible or rigid
Now, MIT engineers have found that this “intercellular” fluid plays a major role in how tissues respond ... deformation, is completely ignored,” says Ming Guo, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Now ... neuromuscular diseases. MIT_Cell-Water-Eflux-01-Press_1_1024.jpg These images directly visualze interstitial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-uncover-surprising-reason-why-tissues-are-flexible-or-rigidMIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials
Damian Stefaniuk at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, James Weaver at the Wyss ... Institute, and Yunguang Zhu in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The work was supported by the MIT ... alternative to batteries — that could provide storage of electrical energy. As an example, the MIT researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-engineers-create-energy-storing-supercapacitor-ancient-materialsChanging lives with heart, humor, and engineering
7. MIT-Schwartz-Nick-01_1024.jpg “The kind of engineering that I want to do is the kind that can ... people smile with his work — both inside and outside of MIT. Meaningful engineering When Schwartz first ... of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa ...
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