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Steam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ... senior author of both papers. MIT postdoc Sameer Rao and former graduate student Hyunho Kim SM ’14, PhD ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-air2.12: Introduction to Robotics
engineering student, it’s a fun hands-on convergence of design, manufacturing, kinematics, controls, ... engineering, but it’s particularly important in robotics – we wouldn’t have robotics without it.” An elective ... mathematical concepts and a chance to build on their foundation in mechanical engineering basics. Students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/212-introduction-roboticsMagnetic 3-D-printed structures crawl, roll, jump, and play catch
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with ... Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and ... Environmental Engineering, says the group’s technique may be used to fabricate magnetically controlled ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/magnetic-3-d-printed-structures-crawl-roll-jump-and-play-catchLifetime Achievement: Professor John Heywood
engines. His work with Professor James Fay and Professor James Keck in the MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory ... Cambridge, Mass., to attend MIT for a master’s degree, and then a PhD, in mechanical engineering. “I loved ... From identifying the source of emissions to analyzing the future of automotive engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lifetime-achievement-professor-john-heywoodRooftop panels, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could chip in to boost power grid resilience
stress on the grid, MIT engineers say. An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects ... a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If we can harness our smart dishwashers, ... of the National Academy of Sciences, the engineers present a blueprint for how grid-edge devices ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rooftop-panels-ev-chargers-and-smart-thermostats-could-chip-boost-power-grid-resilienceA pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy
expensive, time-consuming, and emotionally taxing. MIT engineers hope to alleviate some of that stress with ... into a program that would quickly analyze the video frames and assign a clinical score, or level of ... every evaluation,” says Hermano Krebs, principal research scientist at MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/pose-mapping-technique-could-remotely-evaluate-patients-cerebral-palsyUROP/UPOP
If you’re looking for a MechE-focused UROP or thesis project, go to Mechanical Engineering Thesis ... your UROP application. For information about the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), ...
https://meche.mit.edu/uropupopA new way to mend a broken heart
Roche, co-first author of the study and assistant professor at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... Image: Whyte, et al./Nature Biomedical Engineering A new study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering ... involving a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mend-broken-heartCourse 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems
Mechanical Engineering curriculum, you’d be hard-pressed to choose anything other than “hands-on.” The ... but there are others that are focusing on the interface between mechanical engineering and other ... engineering fields. One of them is Professor Derek Rowell’s 2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems, which ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/course-2678-electronics-mechanical-systemsHarnessing the Full Potential of the Sun
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P8-8FveMieM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Researchers at MIT have developed ... gap. Energy Science and Engineering Micro and Nanotechnology Energy Security Impact Home Research Home ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harnessing-full-potential-sun-03-D-printed structures shrink when heated
expanding. Engineers from MIT, the University of Southern California, and elsewhere are now adding to this ... mechanical engineering at MIT, has manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or ... include former MIT postdoc Qi Ge, along with lead author Qiming Wang of the University of Southern ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-d-printed-structures-shrink-when-heatedMovable microplatform floats on a sea of droplets
friction. A new approach developed by researchers at MIT could offer a new way of making movable parts with ... Physics Letters, co-authored by Daniel Preston, an MIT graduate student; Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall ... Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and five others. Preston explains that the new system could ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/movable-microplatform-floats-sea-dropletsMapping the effects of crystal defects
MIT has been able to learn important details about how those interactions work, which could inform ... Engineering head Professor Gang Chen, the late Institute Professor Emerita Mildred Dresselhaus, and five ... unsolved. Now, the MIT team has found a new mathematical approach to analyzing such systems, using a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mapping-effects-crystal-defectsJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... surprising, then, that he is currently keeping things cool at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), ... MIT grad student Julien Barber. "Fusion fits the bill of a global remedy for both energy needs ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentGetting a charge out of water droplets
Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from ... devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ... mechanical engineering at Boston University who was not involved in this research, says, “This work provides ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ... Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office sapsis@MIT.EDU Horizontal Themis Sapsis developed a new prediction tool that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadCommunications Requirements and Guidelines
pages: libguides.mit.edu Mechanical Engineering Citations Virtual Reference Collection ... Communications Requirements and Guidelines Engineering work is critically dependent upon ... communication skills. Engineers must be able to explain their ideas and designs clearly and succinctly to their ...
https://meche.mit.edu/education/undergraduate/comm-guidelinesNo more blackouts?
professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “In the end, it is a step toward lower-cost microgrids that can ... reason, engineers have typically designed microgrids in simple, centralized configurations with thick ... — a conservative measure that increases a microgrid’s reliability but comes with a significant cost. Now engineers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/no-more-blackoutsResearchers solve mystery of how gas bubbles form in liquid
Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and MIT Professor Ruben Juanes. The key to ... typically a much more random process. Now, a study by researchers at MIT and Princeton University shows that ... a paper by MIT graduate Amir Pahlavan PhD ’18, Professor Howard Stone of Princeton, MIT School of ...
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