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Student Spotlight: Peter Godart '15, SM '19, PhD Candidate
engineering and Godart’s advisor. “It is inexpensive, robust, efficient, and clean – producing no toxic ... a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... class 2.013, Engineering Systems Design. During the class, he worked with aluminum fuel. “That ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-peter-godart-15-sm-19-phd-candidateResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ... engineering at MIT, has been tasked with helping Hong Kong achieve its ambitious goal to reduce carbon ... and research being conducted by Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsUnderstanding combustion
of mechanical engineering and the Brit (1961) & Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development ... degree in thermal engineering, she received her master’s and PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton, ... and products being developed across areas like materials science and automotive engineering,” she ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionMaking catalytic surfaces more active to help decarbonize fuels and chemicals
Nature Catalysis, in a paper by Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT professor of mechanical engineering and of ... materials science and engineering, and a member of the Research Lab of Electronics (RLE); Tao Wang, ... a postdoc in RLE; Yirui Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; and five ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-catalytic-surfaces-more-active-help-decarbonize-fuels-and-chemicalsBianca Champenois SM ’22 Helps Model the Future for Coastal Industries
Mechanical engineering PhD student looks at geophysical systems of land, air, and water to track ... in mechanical engineering, uses these data points to model conditions affecting acidity, a growing ... Program, which applies MIT research and engineering to ocean-related challenges, Champenois is developing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bianca-champenois-sm-%E2%80%9922-helps-model-future-coastal-industriesExploring new frontiers in mineral extraction
mechanical engineering at MIT, and his team in the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory (ENDLab), are at the ... resources,” says Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, in a video discussing his ... | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/exploring-new-frontiers-mineral-extractionDelivering life-saving oxygen
recalls Daniele Vivona, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Italy. In early March, Vivona and ... energy carriers,” explains Yang Shao-Horn, professor of mechanical engineering and EEL’s director. “We ... father Alexander Slocum Sr., Walter M. May and A. Hazel May Professor of Mechanical Engineering, as well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/delivering-life-saving-oxygenThe answer may be blowing in the wind
Chemical Engineering, in his introduction to the event. In sessions devoted to technology, deployment and ... worst possible conditions,” said Paul Sclavounos, a professor of mechanical engineering and naval ... Environmental Engineering. Howland’s work modeling turbulence in the atmosphere and wind speeds has demonstrated ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/answer-may-be-blowing-windMIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape
that,” said Desirée Plata, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Climate and Energy in ... MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, at Energizing@MIT: the MIT Energy Initiative’s ... Department of Mechanical Engineering. “It’s an unbelievably enormous problem people have to wrap their minds ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-energy-initiative-conference-spotlights-research-priorities-amidst-changing-energyEmeritus: 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-mining