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Talking Shop: Professor Thomas Peacock
mechanical engineering at MIT, to ensure the full effects of seabed mining are understood prior to drafting ... Lermusiaux, professor of mechanical engineering and ocean science and engineering, who has the expertise in ... of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Professor Thomas Peacock uses his ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-thomas-peacockResearch Focus: Preventing energy loss in windows
says Nicholas Fang, professor of mechanical engineering. “We need an effective way of blocking solar ... Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration Culture Entrepreneurship ... University of Science and Technology and Leon Glicksman, professor of building technology and mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/research-focus-preventing-energy-loss-windowsElectron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
graduate student in mechanical engineering at MIT. “If phonons are scattered by electrons, they’re not as ... Professor in Power Engineering and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Alexei Maznev, ... MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electron-phonon-interactions-affect-heat-dissipation-computer-chipsHigh-speed images capture archer fish’s rocket-like launch
Alexandra Techet, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. But once an insect is shot down, it ... engineer more agile underwater vehicles. “Can we understand nature to help us design mechanical systems? ... insect in midair, ensuring that no other competitor steals its prey. Now MIT engineers have detailed the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/high-speed-images-capture-archer-fish%E2%80%99s-rocket-launchUltralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
says the study’s lead author, Carlos Portela, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. If ... Julia R. Greer, a professor of materials science, mechanics, and medical engineering at Caltech, whose ... A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich shows that “nanoarchitected” materials ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ultralight-material-withstands-supersonic-microparticle-impactsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang. Robot recipe For the past five years, Zhao’s group has ... Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishKripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
about to be upended by a new product coming to market. The brainchild of MIT mechanical engineer Kripa ... earned tenure as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He met his wife ... works as an electrical engineer and his mother is a physics lecturer. His grandfathers were teachers. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/kripa-varanasi-innovating-interfacesNew Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down
co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet-Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering ... Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO ... Professor of Materials Science and Engineering W. Craig Carter, as well as postdoc Xinwei Chen, graduate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-concept-turns-battery-technology-upside-downTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
extreme events occur,” says Themistoklis Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering ... systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. Now engineers at ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsTalking Shop: Professor John H. Lienhard V
problems. How does MIT’s School of Engineering, and MechE in particular, fit in to solving them? Great ... irrigation. Amazing things are being done at MIT in all of these areas, and the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering in particular is working on almost every one of these issues. How does your research fit in? My ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-professor-john-h-lienhard-vSolar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
says Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang ... climate change,” says Jonathan Bessette, MIT PhD student in mechanical engineering. “This technology could ... MIT engineers have built a new desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solar-powered-desalination-system-requires-no-extra-batteriesWater vapor sets some oxides aflutter
to mechanical engineering, Shao-Horn holds joint appointments with the Department of Materials ... mechanisms. “It’s an unexpected result that opens a lot of questions to address scientifically.” While the ... the material suggests that it could offer a new mechanism for catalyst designs, she says. In addition ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-vapor-sets-some-oxides-aflutterWhy have solar energy costs fallen?
(IDSS), along with co-principal investigators Tonio Buonassisi, associate professor in mechanical ... engineering; and David Hs, assistant professor in urban studies and planning — all of whom are also faculty ... mechanisms driving PV system cost reductions, the MIT team will delve deeply into specific ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/why-have-solar-energy-costs-fallenMechE 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 ... devices. Wright, a grad student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering who also works with the MIT ... foot. Olesnavage, 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-collegiateCrumpled Graphene Could Provide an Unconventional Energy Storage
d'Arbeloff Career Development Associate Professor in Engineering Design, and four other authors. The new, ... crumpled graphene paper, a sheet of the material was placed in a mechanical device that first compressed it ... exciting and amazing to me,” says Dan Li, a professor of materials engineering at Monash University in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/crumpled-graphene-could-provide-unconventional-energy-storageResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... material-engineering technique. Her MIT co-authors are Luis Marcelo Lozano, Seongdon Hong, Yi Huang, Hadi Zandavi, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyExperiments reveal the physics of evaporation
of mechanical engineering and department head Evelyn Wang, and three others at MIT and Tokyo ... understanding of the dynamics at play, but in many cases engineers rely on approximations or empirical ... Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), who was not involved in this work. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/experiments-reveal-physics-evaporationEven as temperatures rise, this hydrogel material keeps absorbing moisture
thermal regulation,” says Lenan Zhang, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering ... drying effects. MIT engineers have now found that polyethylene glycol (PEG) — a hydrogel commonly used in ... MIT engineers have found that a common hydrogel has unique, super-soaking abilities. Even as ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/even-temperatures-rise-hydrogel-material-keeps-absorbing-moistureTurning heat into electricity
Physics; and Gang Chen, the Soderberg Professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ... that will harvest heat — produced as a byproduct of industrial processes and combustion engines — and ... conventional semiconductors like silicon,” says Te-Huan Liu, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/turning-heat-electricityDesign could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium batteries
a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering. “The electrolyte also enables ... nuclear science and engineering and materials science and engineering. Because the electrode material ... essential mechanism by which batteries get charged and discharged — while blocking the other cations, known ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/design-could-enable-longer-lasting-more-powerful-lithium-batteries