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Hydrogel Superglue is 90 Percent Water
Felice Frankel Now engineers at MIT have developed a method to make synthetic, sticky hydrogel that is ... Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. For example, Zhao’s group is ... bond. Hydrogel superglue.jpg Engineered hydrogel being pulled away from a glass surface. The material ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hydrogel-superglue-90-percent-waterUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... study of such plumes. He was joined by Alford and Eric Adams, senior research engineer at MIT, as well ... as other researchers and engineers from MIT, Scripps, and the United States Geological Survey. With ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningUndergraduate Spotlight: Katy Olesnavage
engineering, programming, and aeronautical engineering were just added benefits. I have gotten a lot more out ... Graduating Senior Lays Groundwork for Locating Fresh Water Sources Photo credit: MIT News ... strictly within the bounds of mechanical engineering, where I am most comfortable.” Indeed, locating SGD, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undergraduate-spotlight-katy-olesnavageResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ... Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship ... says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsA new way to irrigate crops year-round
lifestyles of farmers and minimizes risk for vulnerable communities. MIT-Khethworks-02-PRESS 1024.jpg The ... an MIT graduate student and Tata Fellow in 2013. At the time, she was working with smallholder ... co-founder who is no longer with the company), who were classmates in of hers in 2.760 (Global Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-irrigate-crops-year-roundDesigning cleaner vehicles
arenas: designing clean energy vehicles and enhancing mechanical engineering education at MIT. For the ... intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering. MIT-Aditya Mehrotra-01-press_0-1.jpg: MIT graduate ... and help them build. I knew of MIT as one of the best mechanical engineering departments in the world. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesTechnique quickly identifies extreme event statistics
research by MIT scientists may help engineers design more resilient offshore platforms. Courtesy of the ... researchers Now engineers at MIT have developed an algorithm that quickly pinpoints the types of extreme ... structure,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You can ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-quickly-identifies-extreme-event-statistics-0Products of Progress
engineering at MIT and is CEO of GCS. GCS has since been a technology-agnostic, product-distribution firm ... students in engineering and in the MIT Sloan School of Management, lawyers, and accountants — also showed ... small-scale farmers an innovative product she designed in MIT’s D-Lab: a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/products-progressMIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge
After three years of hard work, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team took first place at the 2021 ... the University of Kentucky, by over 100 miles. mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-asc-champs-00.jpeg The ... MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team poses with Nimbus, their solar car, after winning the 2021 American ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-solar-electric-vehicle-team-wins-2021-american-solar-challengeMIT spinoff takes top honor at MassChallenge Awards
Co-founders Kripa Varanasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and postdocs Maher Damak PhD ’18 ... MIT_Infininte_Cooling_Awards_1024.jpg The Infinite Cooling team accepts the $100K Diamond Winner Award at the MassChallenge Awards on ... being tested at MIT’s Central Utility Plant. Monday, October 22, 2018 Entrepreneurship International ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-spinoff-takes-top-honor-masschallenge-awardsFaculty Highlight: Alexie Kolpak
at MIT with Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Jeffrey C. Grossman. Kolpak’s ... first year on the MIT faculty in 2013, Kolpak worked with MIT mechanical engineering principal research ... “The behavior is influenced, and often dominated by, the interfaces,” says MIT assistant professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-highlight-alexie-kolpakAlbatross robot takes flight
MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the ... MIT-Albatross-Robot-1024.jpg An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Photo: Gabriel Bousquet ... extracted for sailboats.” An albatross glider, designed by MIT engineers, skims the Charles River. Bousquet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightStudy Assesses Solar Photovoltaic Technologies
MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to ... work on other technologies. An MIT assessment of solar energy technologies concludes that today’s ... Vladimir Bulović, the Fariborz Maseeh (1990) Professor of Emerging Technology and MIT’s associate dean for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-assesses-solar-photovoltaic-technologiesTunneling Across a Tiny Gap
blurred,” says Vazrik Chiloyan, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering. “We’re trying to come up ... Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... gaps. Now researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and Rutgers University have developed a model ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/tunneling-across-tiny-gapMoving water and earth
these very scary degrees of freedom,” says Kamrin, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Shape ... sediment over time. Knowing how quickly or slowly this sediment flows can help engineers plan for the ... flow can be off by a wide margin. An MIT team has come up with a better formula to calculate how much ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthSimple, solar-powered water desalination
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in ... efficient, low-cost water source. MIT-Portable-Desalination-1024.jpg Tests on an MIT building rooftop showed ... appearing today in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, authored by MIT doctoral students Lenan ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/simple-solar-powered-water-desalinationA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ... a limpet’s shell can flash brilliantly even in murky water. MIT-Shell-Design-02.jpg Scientists at MIT and ... its blue-striped appearance./ Courtesy of the researchers Now scientists at MIT and Harvard University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mollusk-different-stripeHidden ocean waves
time, ocean engineers and scientists from MIT, the University of Minnesota at Duluth (UMD), and the ... MIT for this research; Pierre Lermusiaux, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and ocean ... science and engineering at MIT; Tim Duda, a senior scientist at WHOI; and Patrick Haley, a research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/hidden-ocean-wavesEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... -CapturingHumidity1024.jpg MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ... thermal regulation,” says Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureHow to assess new solar technologies
by MIT graduate student Sarah Sofia, associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, ... question, but a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way to figure out the best ... are better. MIT-Cost-Solar_1024.jpg A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has come up with a way ...
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