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Products 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-progressRAS Proposal Submission Timeline
Timelines Mechanical Engineering has established the following internal deadlines to have ...
https://meche.mit.edu/ras-proposal-submission-timelineMIT 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-awardsAlbatross 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-flightTunneling 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-moistureUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ... MIT-Supersonic-Carbon-01-press1024.jpg Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely ... says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsPassive cooling system could benefit off-grid locations
or no reliable electric power. Now, an innovative system developed at MIT offers a way to use passive ... Reports Physical Science, in a paper by MIT postdoc Zhengmao Lu, Arny Leroy PhD ’21, professors Jeffrey ... supported by MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab. MIT-EfficientCooling-01-press_0.jpg Two ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/passive-cooling-system-could-benefit-grid-locationsHow 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-assess-new-solar-technologiesTechnique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
laboratory conditions. Now MIT engineers have developed a microfluidic technique that can quickly process ... do,” says Qianru Wang, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “There is recent work ... adds Cullen Buie, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Thus, a tool that allows you ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-identifies-electricity-producing-bacteriaTaking on the stormy seas
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and computational methods to try to predict ... the other. Today, Sapsis, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, uses analytical and ... and Marine Engineering, Themistoklis Sapsis had a very satisfying realization. “I realized that ships ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/taking-stormy-seasSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... experiments — including one in which they simply placed the solar sponge on the roof of MIT’s Building 3 — the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightTurning heat into electricity
might one day become a reality. MIT-dirac-heat-1024.jpg MIT researchers, looking for ways to turn heat ... Daniloff/MIT Thermoelectric devices are made from materials that can convert a temperature difference into ... that will harvest heat — produced as a byproduct of industrial processes and combustion engines — and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityHow to speed up the discovery of new solar cell materials
Joule, in a paper by MIT research scientist Shijing Sun, professor of mechanical engineering Tonio ... painstaking. MIT-AI-Solar-PRESS 1024.jpg Diagram depicts the sequence of steps used in the new streamlined ... Now, a team of researchers at MIT and several other institutions has accelerated the process of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-speed-discovery-new-solar-cell-materialsRobotic palm mimics human touch
from a robot. Why? Most of them don't have palms. 1024MIT-GelPalm.png MIT CSAIL student Sandra Q. ... Liu displays her innovative GelPalm robotic design in her lab workspace. Credit: Michael Grimmett/MIT ... ongoing Herculean effort. Now, a new robotic hand design developed in MIT's Computer Science and ...
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