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Underwater Robot for Port Security
a graduate student in mechanical engineering, who designed the robot together with her advisor, Ford ... Professor of Engineering Harry Asada. “If this is cheap enough — if I can get this out for $600, say — why ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/underwater-robot-port-securityFaculty Research: Professor Pierre Lermusiaux
them moving all at once toward separate destinations. But that’s just what a team of engineers led by ... incorporate obstacle-avoidance functions to protect the AUVs. The team included mechanical engineering graduate students ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-pierre-lermusiauxSteam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunGetting a charge out of water droplets
devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ... mechanical engineering at Boston University who was not involved in this research, says, “This work provides ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsWater-shedding surfaces can be made to last
Engineering, “people have always searched for a durable surface treatment” to make condensers hydrophobic. With ... negligible degradation,” says Gleason, the Alexander and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-shedding-surfaces-can-be-made-lastWind power — even without the wind
Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windSolving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers
and I. Michael Kasser Professor of Chemical Engineering. As a result, understanding of the electrical ... their paper. Kripa Varanasi, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, says, “We wanted to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mysteries-conductivity-polymersPowering Desalination with the Sun
graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sunBubble, Bubble, at the Flick of a Switch
processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate ... engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology, who was not involved in this research. “Such control ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bubble-bubble-flick-switchA Nanophotonic Comeback for Incandescent Bulbs?
Engineering — as well as MIT principal research scientist Ivan Celanovic, postdoc Ognjen Ilic, and Purdue ... fluorescent and LED bulbs,” says Alejandro Rodriguez, assistant professor of electrical engineering at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nanophotonic-comeback-incandescent-bulbsRogue Wave Ahead
developed by MIT engineers may give sailors a 2-3 minute warning of an incoming rogue wave, providing them ... Engineering at MIT. “We have a range of possibilities, and we can say that this will be a dangerous wave, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/rogue-wave-aheadWater vapor sets some oxides aflutter
to mechanical engineering, Shao-Horn holds joint appointments with the Department of Materials ... Science and Engineering and the MIT Energy Initiative’s Center for Energy Storage. The research team also ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutterWater, water everywhere … even in the air
including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... technology,” says Yang Yang, a professor of engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airResearchers clarify mystery about proposed battery material
David H. Koch Professor in Engineering and head of the Department of Chemical Engineering; Michal ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-clarify-mystery-about-proposed-battery-materialIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Evelyn Wang, the Gail E. Kendall Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who was the ... a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles, who was not ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airPowered by the sun
I knew I was interested in mechanical engineering, and I was thinking of a way I could apply mechanical ... engineering to solving world problems, and I thought energy was a world problem and solar car was the perfect ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powered-sunTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
systems and that must be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. Now, engineers at MIT ... other papers by MIT research scientist Amit Kumar, professor of mechanical engineering John. H. Lienhard ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-desalination-waste-useful-resourceMIT Motorsports unveils their 2019 electric race car
team began in 2001, co-founded by mathematics major Nick Gidwani ’04 and mechanical engineering major ... Grown-Haeberli; J. Kim Vandiver, mechanical engineering professor and Forbes director of the MIT Edgerton Center; ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-motorsports-unveils-their-2019-electric-race-carGetting more heat out of sunlight
Engineering; Gang Chen, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor in Power Engineering; and five others. The key to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-more-heat-out-sunlightProtecting seafarers and the global supply chain during Covid-19
Covid-19 Task Force. Thomas Peacock, professor of mechanical engineering, is a member of the task force, ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-seafarers-and-global-supply-chain-during-covid-19