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Hidden 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-wavesKripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... works as an electrical engineer and his mother is a physics lecturer. His grandfathers were teachers. ... fundamentals in engineering and gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams,” he says. “Coming to MIT was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesFundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
engineers have now developed systems of mathematical equations that forecast the most informative data to ... Engineering. “Our criteria … allow the autonomous machines to pinpoint sensor locations and sampling times ... marine robots are our scouts, braving the rough seas to collect data for us,” says mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/fundamental-equations-guide-marine-robots-optimal-sampling-sites-0Albatross 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 ... professor of mechanical engineering and information sciences and of brain sciences; and Michael ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/albatross-robot-takes-flightResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... material-engineering technique. Her MIT co-authors are Luis Marcelo Lozano, Seongdon Hong, Yi Huang, Hadi Zandavi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyExperiments reveal the physics of evaporation
of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and three others at MIT and Tokyo ... understanding of the dynamics at play, but in many cases engineers rely on approximations or empirical ... Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), who was not involved in this work. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationMaintaining the equipment that powers our world
— who recently completed his PhD program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and will be ... undergraduates, they took a few of the same courses, with Vega-Brown double majoring in mechanical engineering and ... like jet engines were leased by customers — in this case airlines — rather than purchased, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/maintaining-equipment-powers-our-worldMIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering, and then-graduate student Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 ... professor of mechanical engineering, and then-graduate student Divya Panchanathan SM '15, PhD '18. ... Henry Keenan, professor and one-time department head of mechanical engineering at MIT. To join Keenan as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-research-seawater-surface-tension-becomes-international-guidelineAsegun Henry has a big idea for tackling climate change: Store up the sun
MIT-Asegun-Henry-01-press.jpg MIT mechanical engineering professor Asegun Henry. Photo Credit: Adam Glanzman Henry says this ... tenure position in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, and is funneling much of his energy into ... Makola Abdullah, a professor of civil engineering at Florida A&M. Abdullah hired Henry as a young ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/asegun-henry-has-big-idea-tackling-climate-change-store-sunMeet the Oystamaran
mechanical and ocean engineering to make the world a better place. Luckily, she found the perfect senior ... and Grace Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering and director of MIT Sea Grant, and Dan ... — composed of six students in mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, and electrical engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meet-oystamaran-0A lasting — and valuable — legacy
Engineering, grew up in a curious, independently minded family. Her mother had multiple jobs over the years, ... engineering, and worked successfully in them. When Gallant was very young, she and her father did science ... a mechanical engineering department, or else I likely would not have been able to go down that road.” Gallant ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/lasting-%E2%80%94-and-valuable-%E2%80%94-legacyEven 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 ... MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ... engineer other heat-resistant, water-absorbing materials. The group envisions such materials could one day ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureStudy: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping
Doherty Professor in Ocean Science and Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and others ... marine scrubber is a huge, metal, vertical tank installed in a ship’s exhaust stack, above the engines ... exhaust gases as they exit the engines. The seawater interacts with sulfur dioxide in the exhaust, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/study-burning-heavy-fuel-oil-scrubbers-best-available-option-bulk-maritime-shippingPalladium filters could enable cheaper, more efficient generation of hydrogen fuel
around 800 kelvins, they can break down. Now, MIT engineers have developed a new palladium membrane that ... MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Kim and his colleagues report details of the new membrane in ... Field, director of research at the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI); former MIT chemical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/palladium-filters-could-enable-cheaper-more-efficient-generation-hydrogen-fuelAn energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Narayanan, who conducted this work at MIT as part of his doctorate in mechanical engineering, is the lead ... Electrochemical Energy Lab; Gareth McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation and ... professor of mechanical engineering at MIT; and Yang Shao-Horn, the JR East Professor of Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/energy-storage-solution-flows-soft-serve-ice-creamQ&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
grow millions of times faster than plants and dozens of times faster than microalgae. Engineering these ... Sciences; Architecture and Planning; Engineering; and Science; plus the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, ... Desiree Plata, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-climate-grand-challenges-finalists-accelerating-reductions-global-greenhouse-gasAdvancing the energy transition amidst global crises
(MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th Annual ... Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus, founding director of MITEI, and ... professor of civil and environmental engineering, and Howard Herzog, a senior research engineer at MITEI, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/advancing-energy-transition-amidst-global-crisesDesigning cleaner vehicles
a second-year master’s degree student in mechanical engineering, Mehrotra has channeled his energy into two ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-cleaner-vehiclesSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ... connected to real groundwater, water tanks, and solar panels. Photo: Shane Pratt The engineers tested ... says Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang ...
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