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Harvesting fresh water from fog
electrodialysis can provide cost-effective treatment of salty water from fracked wells. Researchers at MIT ... surface chemistry, the team — which includes MIT professor of mechanical engineering Gareth McKinley and ... MIT professor of chemical engineering Robert Cohen — has been able to increase the fog-collecting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/harvesting-fresh-water-fogDepartment News
lay underwater cables, Winter says. –Helen Knight, MIT News Office MechE Students Win Both “Use it!” Category ... Lemelson-MIT Prizes Ben Peters MechE students won both the undergraduate and graduate student prizes in this year’s ... Lemelson-MIT Program “Use it!” categories, which recognize students working on technology-based inventions that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-0Intelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research
a matter of weeks. The automated experimental facility, developed in the MIT Sea Grant Hydrodynamics ... to accelerated scientific discovery. Image: Dixia Fan and Lily Keyes/MIT Sea Grant Guided by active ... Robotics. Fan, now a postdoc, and a team of researchers from the MIT Sea Grant College Program and MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/intelligent-towing-tank-propels-human-robot-computer-research-0Focusing on innovative solutions to the world’s energy challenges
Like many things in 2020, the annual MIT EnergyHack hosted by the MIT Energy Club looked very ... different this year. For the first time since its founding six years ago, MIT EnergyHack was run as an ... Guided by principles of engagement, impact, and innovation, “the goal of MIT EnergyHack 2020 was to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/focusing-innovative-solutions-world%E2%80%99s-energy-challengesMorris Chang ’52, SM ’53 describes the secrets of semiconductor success
long-term ascendancy in semiconductor manufacturing, while speaking to a large campus audience in an MIT ... lower production costs. Copy of PrecisionAgriculture.jpg MIT alumnus Morris Chang, founder and former ... longtime head of TSMC, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, spoke at MIT about the semiconductor ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/morris-chang-%E2%80%9952-sm-%E2%80%9953-describes-secrets-semiconductor-successLetter from Department Head Mary C. Boyce
Ford Professor of Engineering Dear Friends, MIT is a recognized leader in cutting-edge research whose ... designers from the Rhode Island School of Design and management students from MIT’s Sloan School of ... innovative, life-changing products to the world’s customers. My own MIT journey began when I came here as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/letter-department-head-mary-c-boyceDaniel Hastings and Maria Yang appointed associate deans of engineering
Professors Daniel Hastings and Maria Yang have been named associate deans of MIT’s School of ... director for academics in the MIT D-Lab, and founder and director of MIT’s Ideation Lab. In her role as ... MIT community as a graduate student in 1976, after receiving his bachelor’s degree from Oxford ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/daniel-hastings-and-maria-yang-appointed-associate-deans-engineeringJ-WEL names spring 2018 grant recipients
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) at MIT has selected 10 projects to receive ... impact MIT education, with the broad potential for impact in global settings. They are awarded ... bi-annually to MIT faculty, with spring and fall rounds. Grant recipients, pK-12 projects J-WEL Grants in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wel-names-spring-2018-grant-recipientsResearchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine
efficient are the subject of a recent Nature Communications paper authored by researchers at MIT and Takeda. ... serious,” says Allan Myerson, a professor of practice in the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering and one ... between Takeda and MIT, launched in 2020. The MIT-Takeda Program aims to leverage the experience of both ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-develop-novel-ai-based-estimator-manufacturing-medicineCells get ready for their close-up
In 2007, MIT scientists developed a type of microscopy that allowed them to detail the interior of ... distribution of the cells’ mass to sort them,” says Yongjin Sung, a former postdoc in MIT’s Laser Biomedical ... PRApplied. Instead of using fluorescent tags, the MIT method analyzes the cells’ index of refraction ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cells-get-ready-their-closeThe power of play
A new collaboration between MIT.nano and NCSOFT, a video game development company based in South ... science and technology for gaming. The creation of the MIT.nano Immersion Lab Gaming Program, says Brian ... W. Anthony, the associate director of MIT.nano, arose out of a series of discussions with NCSOFT, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-playIce Bucket Challenge, MechE Style
of MIT mechanical engineering professor John Heywood — as well as others with this disease. Chen was ... of Mechanical Engineering yellow Collaboration Culture JHEYWOOD@MIT.EDU ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ice-bucket-challenge-meche-styleStudent Spotlight: Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang (Candidate SB ’14)
English. Now, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT, she is preparing to graduate this winter ... to reach higher, then you will never reach anything higher.” She decided to apply to MIT as ... a transfer student, instead of graduating almost two years early. She was accepted and started MIT as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-guangtao-taotao-zhang-candidate-sb-%E2%80%9914Documents
know about the department. https://meundergrad.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/292076%20GAMED ... available online: http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/. Peer Advising Peer advising resources are available ... here: http://adviseme.mit.edu/. Program Related Forms Course 2-A Enrollment Form: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/documentsUndersea living: Alumna joins Cousteau mission
research mission! #MIT2014 pic.twitter.com/lqvOPfkr3s — MIT (@MIT) June 6, 2014 Young was originally ... miss MIT's Commencement. “It was a no brainer,” Young says of her decision to flip her "Brass ... Rat" — MIT's class ring — underwater, thousands of miles from Killian Court. Young, a Marshall ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/undersea-living-alumna-joins-cousteau-missionNew Solar Absorber Could Improve Efficiency of Solar Thermal Technology
Masdar Institute-MIT team develops device that harnesses more sunlight, enhancing efficiency of ... researchers at MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has discovered a low-cost way to ... journal Advanced Optical Materials. The work contributes to a larger Masdar Institute-MIT research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-solar-absorber-could-improve-efficiency-solar-thermal-technologyBuilding the mountain bike of wheelchairs
living in rural areas where access to goods, services, and health care require long-distance travel. MIT ... Tanzania in summer 2005, shortly after graduating with an MS from MIT. He quickly realized that no existing ... improve wheelchair technology through the innovative capabilities of MIT.” Winter would teach the class ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/building-mountain-bike-wheelchairsAnette “Peko” Hosoi named associate dean of engineering
Anette “Peko” Hosoi has been named associate dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. Currently the ... Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Hosoi has been at MIT since 1997 and a member of the faculty since ... Engineering. Peko_Asiss Dean 1024.jpg Image: Lillie Paquette/MIT SoE “I am thrilled that Peko has agreed to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/anette-%E2%80%9Cpeko%E2%80%9D-hosoi-named-associate-dean-engineeringSun-powered car shines in American Solar Challenge
MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) completed their first race in three years, the 2018 ... vehicle class. SEVT-American-Solar-Challenge-2018-team-and-car-1024.jpg The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle ... Team poses with their solar vehicle. Photo courtesy of the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team The event ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sun-powered-car-shines-american-solar-challengeGraduate student Sami Khan receives research award
recently received a research award from the Hydro Research Foundation. Khan — who conducts research in MIT ...
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