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A legacy of curiosity in the name of Hugh Hampton Young
Hampton Young Fellowship administered by MIT's Office for Graduate Education (OGE) is therefore to ... An anonymous donor established the fellowship in 1965 for the benefit of MIT graduate students, approximately ... selection committee comprised of former Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship recipients and MIT alumni, who meet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/legacy-curiosity-name-hugh-hampton-youngBuilding the tools of the next manufacturing revolution
and when he started in the master’s degree program in mechanical engineering at MIT, he thought he ... nanoscale to the scale of the global economy. Hart, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT ... engineering as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. He spent summers interning for General Motors, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-tools-next-manufacturing-revolutionSun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ... Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamFor cheaper solar cells, thinner really is better
professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, and five others at MIT and NREL. The researchers ... researchers at MIT and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have outlined a pathway to slashing ... detailed in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by MIT postdoc Zhe Liu, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cheaper-solar-cells-thinner-really-betterStick with me
and arrived at MIT to study mechanical engineering. Wang studied the nanoscale physics of fluid, while ... Fund, a grant program supporting ideas to make MIT a more welcoming, inclusive, and healthy place. They ... has left an indelible mark on the MIT campus. Demas and Wang met as undergraduates at Yale University ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-meDavid Hesslink: Taking his passion to the major leagues
life,” says the mechanical engineering major. “The only thing I knew for sure was I loved playing ... to join him on another project as part of a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program ... in the lab and the MLB, he was achieving similar results on the pitcher’s mound for MIT’s baseball ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/david-hesslink-taking-his-passion-major-leaguesNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. Now engineers at ... MIT have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. The framework ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishRefrigerator magnets
according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ... so you can essentially use a magnet as a refrigerator,” says Bolin Liao, a graduate student in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsSteam 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-heartHarnessing 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 ...
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