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New Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... Engineering. “So you could filter how much solar radiation you want coming in, and also shed raindrops. This is ... Materials. The paper’s co-authors are Evelyn Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, former ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairBubble, bubble…Boiling On the Double
by mechanical engineering postdoc Navdeep Singh Dhillon, professor of nuclear science and engineering ... Jacopo Buongiorno, and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. “Roughly 85 percent ... engineering at Drexel University who was not involved in this research. “While numerous researchers have shown ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble%E2%80%A6boiling-doubleElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ... graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ... how to engineer the electron-phonon interaction in more sophisticated ways to benefit both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsTechnique 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 ... extreme events occur,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsTechnique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
Wang Scientists and engineers are exploring ways to harness these microbial power plants to run fuel ... 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 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-identifies-electricity-producing-bacteriaExpanding the conversation about sustainability
a disproportionately heavy environmental burden. At MIT, she chose a double major in mechanical engineering with ... Godfreey-Igwe worked under a lab in Stanford University’s civil and environmental engineering department to ... and received a presentation award during the MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition. This past ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-conversation-about-sustainabilityNew Solar Absorber Could Improve Efficiency of Solar Thermal Technology
materials engineering at the Masdar Institute, a graduate-level engineering university in the United Arab ... research and development capabilities in Abu Dhabi. Nicholas X. Fang, professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-solar-absorber-could-improve-efficiency-solar-thermal-technologyA Mollusk of a Different Stripe
optical structures may serve as a design guide for engineering color-selective, controllable, transparent ... co-author Mathias Kolle, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “We believe that the ... engineering bioinspired, optical materials — including color-changing, deformable fibers — started looking ...
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-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 ...
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