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Affordable high-tech windows for comfort and energy savings
a startup spun out of MIT, is poised to start manufacturing such windows. Building operations make up 36 ... Technology development at MIT Research on AeroShield’s window technology began a decade ago in the MIT lab of ... Evelyn Wang, Ford Professor of Engineering, now on leave to serve as director of the Advanced Research ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/affordable-high-tech-windows-comfort-and-energy-savingsSophia Chen
focused on early research and development for the desiccant technology by running tests for vapor ... previous summer, Sophia had interned with a startup targeting the spread of cholera in developing areas by ... there, she joined Professor Amos Winter’s Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab as an Undergraduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/sophia-chenPropelling Transportation Forward
emissions. Cheng and his team are researching ways to minimize these startup emissions. The catalytic ... Research and the Reacting Gas Dynamics Lab. “With COP21, everyone agrees that we are producing lots of CO2 ... and not enough clean energy. We have our marching orders.” Judging by the number of research projects ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/propelling-transportation-forwardWhere the wind blows
Taking a longer-term view, a widely cited 2005 study by researchers at Stanford University projected that ... could stress power grids, forcing the repeated startup and shutdown of other generators to compensate ... a major contributor to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, says research engineer Stephen Connors, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/where-wind-blowsProsper Nyovanie
power off-grid communities around the world through his startup, Voya Sol. The company develops solar ... I was super excited about UROP [the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program]. That program made MIT ... Culpepper. But his experience in 15.031J made him realize his interests were broader than just research, and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/prosper-nyovanie-1Cleaning up industrial filtration
in industrial use. Via Separations, a startup that emerged from MIT in 2017, has set out to address ... Engineering. Grossman was pursuing research into nanoporous membranes for water desalination. “We thought we ... separation technology. This research led them to target the paper industry, because the environmental ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cleaning-industrial-filtrationGEARing technology for developing markets
a startup called Global Research Innovation and Technology (GRIT) to move prototypes developed in GEAR Lab ... resulted in the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), developed at the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) ... fundamental science.” Along the way, GEAR Lab conducts the research needed to articulate the engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/gearing-technology-developing-marketsStudent Spotlight: Melinda Hale (PhD ’13) and Allison Yost (SM ’12)
years, she has been an organizer of the MIT Global Startup Workshop, which began as part of the MIT $100K ... collection turned into a startup that sells sensor packages to optimize the vacuum power for removing ... Yost, several startups have come out of the program. “The goal of H@cking Medicine is to inspire ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-melinda-hale-phd-%E2%80%9913-and-allison-yost-sm-%E2%80%9912Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting ... researchers curl even tighter when warmed up. This causes the fiber to contract, much like a muscle fiber. ... contrast, is extremely lightweight and can respond very quickly, the researchers say. The findings are being ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-%E2%80%9Cmuscles%E2%80%9D-achieve-powerful-pulling-forceStudent Awards
Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering) Beckett Colson, Lampros Tsontzos AMP Inc. Award ... Research Innovation Kirsten Lim, Georgia Van De Zande Ernest Cravalho Award (Outstanding Performance in ... Mendelson Rabinowicz Tribology Award (Outstanding Research in Tribology) Adam Paxson Wunsch Foundation ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-awardsQ&A: How MITHIC is fostering a culture of collaboration at MIT
elevating human-centered research and teaching and connecting scholars in the humanities, arts, and social ... by teaching and research staff representing 22 different units across MIT. The collaborative is ... ways it’s accelerating new research and collaborations across the Institute. Makan is the Michael ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qa-how-mithic-fostering-culture-collaboration-mit3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles
As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor ... member of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. His research addresses navigation and mapping for ... autonomous mobile robots operating in challenging environments. Their research brief, “ Autonomous Vehicles, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-john-leonard-future-autonomous-vehiclesTalking Shop with Professor John Leonard
Associate Department Head for Research in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses ... on navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots, and he was one of the first researchers to ... robots my whole life, and the self-driving car has been the dream of robot navigation researchers ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-leonard3 Questions: Sanjay Sarma and Bill Bonvillian on new technologies in workforce education
Technology, and Society and former director of MIT’s Washington D.C. office, recently produced a new research ... the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future ’s series of research briefs, asks: What lessons from ... best science-based teaching practices. Sarma and Bonvillian have been leading a research project on ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/3-questions-sanjay-sarma-and-bill-bonvillian-new-technologies-workforce-educationClimbing the ‘power ascension’ market
2010, dubbed the APA-5 — developed with funding from the Office of Naval Research’s Tech Solutions ... the Atlas team through startup basics, such as legal and financial work, and doing business with the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/climbing-%E2%80%98power-ascension%E2%80%99-marketRJ Scaringe
Electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive has spent the first nine years of its existence in ... Automotive Laboratory, where he was a member of the automotive research team. He worked with some of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/rj-scaringeInnovation and Entrepreneurship: The MechE Way
research, it’s also important for successful startups.” MechE faculty are crucial links in this ecosystem of ... process at one point or another, either by licensing a patent or by directly participating in a startup ... of Taiwanese opto-electronics researchers working on 3D imaging for computer animation. “I went out ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-meche-wayThree MIT alumni graduate from NASA astronaut training
Institute for Biomedical Research research fellow Kate Rubins, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2009 ... engineer and researcher. “We're kind of a jack-of-all-trades,” he says. “One of the amazing things ... engineering at MIT, she conducted original research at the intersection of synthetic biology, microfluidics, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/three-mit-alumni-graduate-nasa-astronaut-trainingAlumnus’ thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
result of two MIT startups becoming one. Alumni join forces Bierman did his masters and doctoral work in ... Kearns did research through the MIT Energy Initiative and the researchers received support from MIT’s ... if he could buy out Medley’s team, and the researchers finally became co-workers. “Antora and Medley ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumnus%E2%80%99-thermal-battery-helps-industry-eliminate-fossil-fuelsDavid Bierman
result of two MIT startups becoming one. Alumni join forces Bierman did his masters and doctoral work in ... Kearns did research through the MIT Energy Initiative and the researchers received support from MIT’s ... if he could buy out Medley’s team, and the researchers finally became co-workers. “Antora and Medley ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/david-bierman