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News & Awards: Winter 2019

Research Laboratory, has been named head of the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her leadership ... MIT-Graphene-Wafers-1024.jpg Jeehwan Kim, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed ... Manufacturing Lead at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, has been named to Manufacturing Engineering Magazine ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/news-awards-winter-2019

Alumni Spotlight

capability of computer simulations has reduced engineering and development expenses by enabling deep design ... in every aspect, starting with a fully integrated team of designers and engineers focused on common, ... improvements. The US launch vehicle utilizes a mid-engine layout, rear-wheel drive, and double wishbone ...

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New Microscope Creates Near-Real-Time Videos of Nanoscale Processes

molecules. MIT-Better-Micro-1-1024.jpg A new high-speed microscope produces images of chemical processes ... capture active, changing environments. Now engineers at MIT have designed an atomic force microscope that ... engineering at MIT, says the instrument’s sensitivity and speed will enable scientists to watch atomic-sized ...

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Moderating Extremes in Building Design

Program orange Collaboration glicks@mit.edu Horizontal Leon Glicksman has developed a fire-resistant ... and, like many of his MIT colleagues, he brings with him a high-tech portfolio. He develops aerogel ... mechanical engineering says that both will be needed in the retrofitting of existing buildings and the ...

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Squishy robots

the material as part of the Chemical Robots program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ... the same feat. The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and ... applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max ...

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Three from MIT awarded 2022 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Luu Trang Luu graduated from MIT with a BS in mechanical engineering in 2018, and a master of ... MBA/MS engineering sciences program. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, Luu was 3 when her family immigrated to ... engineering. As an MIT undergraduate, Luu focused on assistive technology projects, applying her engineering ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-awarded-2022-paul-and-daisy-soros-fellowships-new-americans

Rohit Karnik named director of J-WAFS

(NEET) program in the School of Engineering. Before coming to MIT, Karnik received a bachelor’s degree ... Rohit Karnik, the Tata Professor in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named ... impact around the world,” Waitz wrote. J-WAFS is the only program at MIT focused exclusively on water and ...

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Translating MIT research into real-world results

Chemical Engineering, went through the NE I-Corps Spark program to better understand the customer base for ... MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering and a current MBA candidate at the MIT Sloan School of ... related to water or food. Modeled after the esteemed grant program of MIT’s Deshpande Center for ...

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Iridescent Displays

at a consulting firm, Exponent, in the Boston area. The inventor and his co-founder were both MIT ... used for quite a few years afterward as a tool to help subsequent engineers understand how all the ... to try to get out of the way of our highly capable teams. How did your studies at MIT help prepare ...

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Clarence Chui

in the Boston area. The inventor and his co-founder were both MIT alums and we were introduced by ... afterward as a tool to help subsequent engineers understand how all the basic parameters were interrelated. ... way of our highly capable teams. How did your studies at MIT help prepare you for this role?  ...

https://meche.mit.edu/people/clarence-chui

Propelling Transportation Forward

Electronics, and Michael Defilippo, Research Engineer at MIT Sea Grant College Program, have conducted research ... gradually – to the consumer level. In the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, faculty are researching ... battery recharging. Professor Chathan Cooke, Principal Research Engineer at MIT Research Laboratory of ...

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Palladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel

Field, director of research at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI); former MIT chemical engineering ... around 800 kelvins, they can break down. Now, MIT engineers have developed a new palladium membrane that ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Kim and his colleagues report details of the new membrane in ...

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A simple formula could guide the design of faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries

Chemical Engineering and a professor of mathematics at MIT. The new model may also help scientists ... reaction rates,” says Yang Shao-Horn, the J.R. East Professor of Engineering at MIT and a professor of ... MIT-Lithium-Intercalation-01-press_1024.jpg Lithium intercalation is the process by which lithium ions insert themselves into the solid ...

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Four from MIT are named IEEE Fellows for 2021

jointly chartered by Lincoln Laboratory and the MIT School of Engineering, he directs a program of ... are four members of the MIT community: Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical engineering ... ; Asuman Ozdaglar, professor and head of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-are-named-ieee-fellows-2021

MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel

MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like ... greenhouse gas emissions. 1024MIT-solar-fuels-01.jpg: MIT engineers have developed a design for a system that ... Ahmed Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. “We’re trying to achieve ...

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Expanding 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 ... Stacy Godfreey-Igwe sat in her dorm room at MIT, staring frantically at her phone. An ...

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Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces

launched another startup company, in partnership with MIT professor of chemical engineering and Associate ... about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... fundamentals in engineering and gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams,” he says. “Coming to MIT was ...

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Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination

a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston, who was not associated with ... expense. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt ...

https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalination

Photovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”

postdoc Ian Matthews, researcher Shijing Sun, chemical engineering student Mariya Layurova, researcher ... problematic for long-term monitoring.   MIT-Solar-Sensor_1024.jpg MIT researchers have designed low-cost, ... years before needing replacement. Image courtesy of the researchers, edited by MIT News MIT researchers ...

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Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately

heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... material-engineering technique. Her MIT co-authors are Luis Marcelo Lozano, Seongdon Hong, Yi Huang, Hadi Zandavi, ...

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