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High-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ... engineering at MIT. “All that force has to be created close to the surface, at a near standstill. That’s what ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchNew Theory of Deep-Ocean Sound Waves May Aid Tsunami Detection
Kadri and his colleague, Triantaphyllos Akylas, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, have ... a matter of minutes. MIT-audio-waves.jpg “Without compressibility and gravity, we cannot describe ... overlooked acoustic-gravity waves.” Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT Researchers at MIT have now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-theory-deep-ocean-sound-waves-may-aid-tsunami-detectionNew technique allows rapid screening for new types of solar cells
engineering at MIT and senior author of the paper. “One of the things that makes the process slow is the long ... MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass such expensive and time-consuming ... the traditional approach. MIT-Assessing-PVs_1024.jpg This experimental setup was used by the team to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-technique-allows-rapid-screening-new-types-solar-cellsPhysicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
says Vivishek Sudhir, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who directed the project. ... very much in motion. MIT-Kilogram-Cooling-1024.jpg MIT scientists have cooled a 10-kilogram object to ... optics technicians examining one of LIGO’s mirrors. Image Courtesy of Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab In the last ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/physicists-bring-human-scale-object-near-standstill-reaching-quantum-stateWaves in the Deep
a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, tracked the theoretical movement of fluid caught up ... wave — either of which can be devastating. Now a new study by an MIT researcher suggests that these ... and other nutrients around the globe in a matter of hours. MIT-Deep-Ocean-Waves-1024.jpg Usama Kadri, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/waves-deepAir pollution can put a dent in solar power
instruments, Peters worked with MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi and three ... Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in ... citizens snapped them up to aid their breathing. MIT-Hazy-Photocells_1024.jpg Results have just been ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/air-pollution-can-put-dent-solar-powerStudy opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials
Kong and Kuan Qiao Now MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting ... MIT-Transpararent-Graphene-1024.jpg MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its ... Development Associate Professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-opens-route-flexible-electronics-made-exotic-materialsA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... already thinking along similar lines. In fact, Li and nine collaborators (from MIT, Lawrence Berkeley ... National Laboratory. MIT-neural-netowrk-1024.png A neural network that carries the full crystal symmetry ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysExotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Power Engineering. MIT co-authors on the paper are lead authors Sam ... behave this way in our day-to-day surroundings. But now MIT researchers have observed this seemingly ... stuff of pencil lead. MIT-Second-Sound_1024.jpg Researchers find evidence that heat moves through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exotic-%E2%80%9Csecond-sound%E2%80%9D-phenomenon-observed-pencil-leadIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
in a paper in PNAS, by MIT postdoc Yaodong Tu, professor of mechanical engineering Gang Chen, and ... Shaoting Lin, Mohammed Alshrah, and Xuanhe Zhao, all in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Monday, ... results from various groups that claimed to have exceeded the thermal limit, a team of researchers at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/surprising-finding-light-can-make-water-evaporate-without-heatResearchers Unravel Secrets of Hidden Waves
these waves,” says Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and one of ... MIT-Internal-Waves-1024.jpg These subsurface waves can tower more than 500 meters high, and generate powerful turbulence. ... | MIT News Office yellow Collaboration International tomp@mit.edu Horizontal Researchers unravel secrets ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-unravel-secrets-hidden-wavesHow to clean solar panels without water
a team of researchers at MIT has devised a way of automatically cleaning solar panels, or the mirrors of ... problem, they say. MIT-Cleaning-Solar-03-press.jpeg The new system uses electrostatic repulsion to cause ... side of the panel. The research is described today in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-clean-solar-panels-without-water“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid
MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such ... clock. MIT-Renewable-Storage-1024.jpg MIT researchers propose a concept for a renewable storage system, ... Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9Csun-box%E2%80%9D-would-store-renewable-energy-gridDesigning cleaner vehicles
Mehrotra majored in electrical engineering and computer science as an undergraduate, but says he was drawn ... to mechanical engineering and took as many MechE classes as he could. During his junior year, ... mechanical design and sparked an interest in vehicle design. He now heads up a “revamping” of the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehicles-0MIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use
hull,” explains Michael Triantafyllou, professor of mechanical engineering and director of MIT Sea ... Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship’s hull ... presented at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 2025 Maritime Convention in Norfolk, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-researchers-demonstrate-ship-hull-modifications-cut-fuel-use-0Bringing closure to models: Deep learning physics
understanding, and applicability. Such technology could be a “holy grail for engineers and scientists,” ... according to Pierre Lermusiaux, the Nam Pyo Suh Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Ocean ... Science and Engineering. Applications could include better weather, ocean, earth system, and climate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bringing-closure-models-deep-learning-physicsA Renewable Future
mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions to develop new sustainable technologies, ... mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions to develop new sustainable technologies. ... Betar Gallant, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, utilizes electrochemical reactions ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/renewable-futureAutomating Aquaculture
Image Teaser Image: Teaser Headline: Automating aquaculture with robots MIT students, including ... MechE Alum Michelle Kornberg, and researchers from MIT Sea Grant work with local oyster farmers in ... mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, and electrical engineering, and computer sciences students work ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/automating-aquacultureUnderstanding the Arctic
Image Teaser Headline: Navigating beneath the Arctic ice A team of engineers from MIT developed ... ice with GPS accuracy. A team of MIT engineers and naval officers led by Professor Henrik Schmidt ... Robotics Ocean Science and Engineering Innovation Environment Security Impact Home Research Home Culture ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-arcticEducating Future Naval Leaders
a remote-controlled vessel to complete a series of tasks in the MIT Towing Tank. Ocean Science and Engineering ... Engineering and Naval Ship Design), naval officers and other graduate students get hands-on experience in ... https://youtu.be/3XZdf-IDgFg In class 2.702 (Systems Engineering and Naval Ship Design), naval officers and other graduate ...
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