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Emeritus: David Wilson was an early proponent of the concept of energy-use fees
a strategy, devised in the 1970s by MIT professor of mechanical engineering David Gordon Wilson, has been ... original fields of study. A mechanical engineer who was born and educated in England, he first came to the ... the invitation of Richard Soderberg, then the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Soon ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/emeritus-david-wilson-was-early-proponent-concept-energy-use-feesTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... Engineering in particular is working on almost every one of these issues. How does your research fit in? My ... the engineering process. Usually if you have more area, bigger heat exchangers, more membrane area, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vSponge creates steam using ambient sunlight
How do you boil water? Eschewing the traditional kettle and flame, MIT engineers have invented ... Ni, an MIT graduate student; and Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering ... and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; in collaboration with TieJun Zhang and his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sponge-creates-steam-using-ambient-sunlightProjects make inroads on global food and water challenges
projects is one by Gail E. Kendall Professor of Mechanical Engineering Evelyn Wang and chemistry professor ... Professor Antoine Allanore of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Another project, led by ... Karthish Manthiram, the Warren K. Lewis Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, seeks to develop an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/projects-make-inroads-global-food-and-water-challengesA champion of renewable energy
can use engineering to help the planet. Although Guettler had long understood the need to improve ... to combine her mechanical engineering major with a degree in political science and has gravitated to ... interesting classes. I’ve got a class about engineering democratic development, one about election modeling, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/champion-renewable-energyDesigning exploratory robots that collect data for marine scientists
tools to make a difference. In 2016, Preston completed her BS in robotics engineering from Olin College ... of Engineering. “My first research project involved creating a drone that could take noninvasive blow ... Preston began her PhD in aeronautics and astronautics and applied ocean physics and engineering through ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-exploratory-robots-collect-data-marine-scientistsSolar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
a paper by MIT graduate student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, professor of mechanical engineering ... accumulation,” says Wang, who is the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering. Li says that the advantages of this system are “both the high performance and the reliable ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-system-offers-route-inexpensive-desalinationMoving water and earth
sediment over time. Knowing how quickly or slowly this sediment flows can help engineers plan for the ... American engineer who originally derived it. This formula sets a relationship between the force of a fluid ... calculate how much sediment a fluid can push across a granular bed, which could help engineers manage river ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/moving-water-and-earthThe Freedom of Constraint
Engineering for global change. You’ve probably heard of MechE alum and Associate Professor Hugh ... consider factors that most engineers can skip right over, such as social norms, local politics, in-depth ... engineer – especially one working in a rich country like the US – ever reasonably expect to understand the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/freedom-constraintMechE students win 2017 Lemelson-MIT Student Prizes honoring promising collegiate inventors around the country.
Yu, undergraduates in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering and computer science, are ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, invented an electrostatic transducer that uses a 125 nanometer ... devices. Wright, a grad student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who also works with the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-students-win-2017-lemelson-mit-student-prizes-honoring-promising-collegiateUnderstanding the impact of deep-sea mining
mechanical engineering and the director of MIT’s Environmental Dynamics Lab (END Lab). He is part of an ... professor of mechanical engineering and of ocean science and engineering, and Glenn Flierl, professor of ... study of such plumes. He was joined by Alford and Eric Adams, senior research engineer at MIT, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-impact-deep-sea-miningThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
spearheading the project, is a graduate student working with mechanical engineering professor Alex Slocum, the ... support from the MIT Energy Initiative, the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science, and the MIT Edgerton Center. Initial tests were conducted on a dynamometer, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenENDLab develops and demonstrates new abyssal ocean sensor to inform deep-sea mining
Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and one of the authors of the ... Wednesday, October 16, 2024 Anne Wilson | Mechanical Engineering green Collaboration Horizontal Researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/endlab-develops-and-demonstrates-new-abyssal-ocean-sensor-inform-deep-sea-miningTransforming boating, with solar power
how far I’ve come as an engineer with SEVT. James also explained the boat using solar car terms, as he ... drew on his experience with solar cars for his solar boats. It blew my mind to see the engineering we ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transforming-boating-solar-powerMission TULiP: A robotic pursuit on the Charles River
engineering at MIT and graduate student Brooks Reed and colleagues, which was just accepted into the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mission-tulip-robotic-pursuit-charles-riverHigh-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-launchTurning heat into electricity
that will harvest heat — produced as a byproduct of industrial processes and combustion engines — and ... Engineering. “In the end, this could be a clean-energy way to help us use a heat source to generate ... Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; former graduate student Bolin Liao, now an assistant professor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityMIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition
dedicated to the distribution of practical knowledge for water system operators, wastewater engineers, and ... innovations that have come out of his lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Lienhard Research ... Environmental Engineering, and the technology that emerged grew into the city-scale wireless sensor network now ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit%E2%80%99s-growing-global-leadership-water-achieves-industry-recognitionSun-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 ... Thomas Cooper, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at York University, who led the work as ... the lab of Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT. A clever ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-soaking-device-turns-water-superheated-steamDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
nuclear science and engineering and materials science and engineering. Because the electrode material ... a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering. “The electrolyte also enables ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteries