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Alumni Spotlight: Kiva Systems
and Pete Wurman (SB ‘87) by Alissa Mallinson Courtesy of Kiva Systems When a handful of MIT ... undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity. Together with technical ... engineering fellow Pete Mansfield (PhD ‘90) joined the start-up. “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-kiva-systemsDepartment News
Festival’s Accelerator-Innovative Web Track competition, two MIT students—Tom Milnes, MechE PhD candidate ... coffee mugs. Annual Manufacturing Summit Focused on Innovation MIT’s sixth annual manufacturing summit, ... Production in the Innovation Economy (PIE, see page 11 for more) and MIT Professor Olivier de Weck, and the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/department-news-4Master of Engineering in Manufacturing
undergraduate level, and in fact we have never had an undergraduate degree in manufacturing at MIT. As a result, ... formalizing that experience.” The MEngM, which first began in 2001 as a master’s degree in the Singapore-MIT ... provides the context to immediately apply classroom learning.” There are other programs at MIT addressing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/master-engineering-manufacturingIoannis Yannas to be Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor of polymer science and engineering recognized for inventing "artificial ... skin" Ioannis V. Yannas, professor of polymer science and engineering in the MIT Department of ... the theory of viscoelasticity in polymers at MIT when he approached surgeon John F. Burke to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ioannis-yannas-be-inducted-national-inventors-hall-fameNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... hair.jpg The new material designed by MIT researchers is a flexible polymer "skin" coated with ... manipulate rain or sunlight,” says Yangying Zhu, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-material-structures-bend-microscopic-hairRefrigerator magnets
according to a new theory formulated by MIT researchers. The theory describes the motion of magnons ... magnetic moments, magnons also conduct heat; from their equations, the MIT researchers found that when ... so you can essentially use a magnet as a refrigerator,” says Bolin Liao, a graduate student in MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/refrigerator-magnetsSteam from the sun
A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure ... highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... at MIT, report on the details of the new steam-generating structure in the journal Nature ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunNew particle-sorting method breaks speed records
such detections possible in real time, according to a team from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital ... McKinley, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... several fields.” The team also included MIT graduate students Eugene Lim and Thomas Ober and five others. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-particle-sorting-method-breaks-speed-recordsNew ultrastiff, ultralight material developed
those elements. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised ... MIT’s Nicholas Fang; former postdoc Howon Lee, now an assistant professor at Rutgers University; ... at MIT and LLNL have tested the process using three engineering materials — metal, ceramic, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-ultrastiff-ultralight-material-developedHow cormorants emerge dry after deep dives
feathers. The research was carried out by MIT professors Robert Cohen, Michael Rubner, and Gareth McKinley; ... Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “By putting our ... the water might spontaneously dewet, and it would be dry again.” The MIT analysis showed that this ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-cormorants-emerge-dry-after-deep-divesA New Way to Make Sheets of Graphene
difficulties in transferring the graphene from the foil to useful substrates. Now researchers at MIT and the ... led by A. John Hart of MIT. Lead authors of the paper are Dan McNerny, a former Michigan postdoc, and ... Viswanath Balakrishnan, a former MIT postdoc who is now at the Indian Institute of Technology. Currently, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-make-sheets-grapheneNew method for propulsion in fluids
Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of harnessing temperature gradients in fluids to ... discover new things.” In addition to Peacock, the work was carried out by former MIT postdoc Matthieu ... Mercier, now at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse in France; MIT affiliates Brian Doyle and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-method-propulsion-fluidsSolving a mystery of thermoelectrics
researchers at MIT and elsewhere say they have finally found a theoretical explanation for the differences, ... which could lead to the discovery of new, improved thermoelectric materials. The findings — by MIT ... phase-change research and those doing thermoelectric research,” Lee says. Interdisciplinary meetings at MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-mystery-thermoelectricsOrienteering for robots
Recognition in June, MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that could make it much easier, by ... student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, is lead author on the paper. He’s joined by ... his advisors, John Fisher, a senior research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/orienteering-robotsRobot builds on insights into Atlantic razor clam dynamics
Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Despite its rigid shell, the Atlantic razor ... mathematics at MIT, needed to understand how the clam’s movement causes the soil to liquefy, or turn into ... an MIT spinout based in Quincy, Mass. Energy-saving anchoring Winter first began developing the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/robot-builds-insights-atlantic-razor-clam-dynamicsNew surface treatment stops scale buildup
at MIT has come up with a potential solution to this huge but little-recognized problem. A new kind ... Ocean Utilization in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You can see [scale] pretty much ... to be proven on an industrial scale, the new approach developed by the MIT team could make ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-stops-scale-buildupBetter batteries through biology?
number of charging-discharging cycles the batteries can withstand. Now, MIT researchers have found that ... area. Belcher, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative ... and Shao-Horn, the work was carried out by MIT research scientists Jifa Qi and Yong Zhang and postdoc ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/better-batteries-through-biologySeparating the good from the bad in bacteria
— a time-intensive laboratory procedure. Now MIT researchers have developed a new microfluidic device that could ... Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, says a bacterium’s ... medication and understand quickly the health of the patient and where the disease is going.” Buie, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/separating-good-bad-bacteriaMick Mountz
When a handful of MIT graduates get together to solve a problem, amazing things can happen – in ... were roommates as MechE undergraduates at MIT and fellow members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) ... Mick_Mountz 1024 copy.jpg “Kiva Systems isn’t an MIT startup company – we created the business about 15 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/mick-mountzThe ocean’s hidden waves show their power
China Sea, are produced. The new findings come from a team effort involving MIT and several other ... Thomas Peacock, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, has teamed with researchers from ... la Recherche in France, and the MIT-France Program. Tuesday, January 7, 2014 David L. Chandler, MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean%E2%80%99s-hidden-waves-show-their-power