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SAE honors MIT researchers for best paper
of Mechanical Engineering — C. Justin Kamp, Alex G. Sappok, and Victor W. Wong — with the 2014 Arch ... 2014 Department of Mechanical Engineering orange ... The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recently presented three researchers in the Department ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/sae-honors-mit-researchers-best-paperMIT continues to advance toward greenhouse gas reduction goals
incubator for new ideas. In 2019, MITOS director Julie Newman and professor of mechanical engineering ... and Maintenance; Environment, Health, and Safety; Facilities Engineering; the Office of ... drive efficiency and minimize emissions. Carlo Fanone, director of facilities engineering, explains that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-continues-advance-toward-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goals“This is science!” – MIT president talks about the importance of America’s research enterprise on GBH’s Boston Public Radio
Mechanical Engineering, and Jerry Lu MFin ’24, a former researcher at the MIT Sports Lab, visit The Curiosity ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/%E2%80%9C-science%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-mit-president-talks-about-importance-america%E2%80%99s-research-enterprise-gbh%E2%80%99sNylon fibers made to flex like muscles
the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Previously, researchers had come up with the basic principle ... turn that linear shrinking motion into bending typically requires a mechanism such as a pulley and ... the motion without requiring extra mechanical parts. One of the limitations on linear actuators made ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nylon-fibers-made-flex-musclesStretchy optical fibers for implanting in the body
Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “If these ... Liu and Hyunwoo Yuk, specializes in tuning the mechanical properties of hydrogels. The researchers ... within the human body,” says Fiorenzo Omenetto, a professor of biological engineering at Tufts ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchy-optical-fibers-implanting-bodyPower Efficiency in the Violin
a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at MIT. “You’re cutting with a knife into thin wood and you ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The team modeled the airflow through a simple round ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/power-efficiency-violinData-driven diabetes management
insulin.” Making a win-win product During their MIT years, White, a mechanical engineering student, and ... on new injection methods in the lab of Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Ian Hunter, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/data-driven-diabetes-managementFinding leaks while they’re easy to fix
development and testing for nine years by professor of mechanical engineering Kamal Youcef-Toumi, graduate ... period of time,” says Mark Gallager, director of engineering and distribution at the Cambridge, ... Ultimately, the team hopes, the robot could not just find leaks but also be equipped with a special mechanism ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/finding-leaks-while-they%E2%80%99re-easy-fixNew approach makes sprayed droplets hit and stick to their targets
mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Dan Soto, graduate student Henri-Louis Girard, and ... spraying fuel into engines or water into cooling towers, and printing with fine droplets of ink. The new ... method is purely passive and mechanical, Girard says. “Here, we let the mesh do the atomization ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-makes-sprayed-droplets-hit-and-stick-their-targetsBursting bubbles launch bacteria from water to air
ocean,” says Andrea Prosperetti, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, who ... assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Fluid Dynamics of Disease ... “The mechanism [Bourouiba] identified is also at work when foam bubbles burst at the surface of the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/bursting-bubbles-launch-bacteria-water-airCell-weighing method could help doctors choose cancer drugs
Erna Viterbi Professor in the MIT departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/cell-weighing-method-could-help-doctors-choose-cancer-drugsNew system recovers fresh water from power plants
by Maher Damak PhD ’18 and associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi. Damak and ... A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide a low-cost source of drinking water for ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-system-recovers-fresh-water-power-plantsSpray tuning
specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/spray-tuningMechE announces three new appointments
Mechanical Engineering, and Professor John Leonard has been appointed associate head for research, both ... provide oversight of its machine shops. Hosoi joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2002 as ... and has taken a strong lead as the Department of Mechanical Engineering revamped its innovative Course ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/meche-announces-three-new-appointmentsMotion-Induced Quicksand
mechanical engineering at MIT, studies granular materials, using mathematical models to explain their ... MIT granular model explains unusual behavior in sand. From a mechanical perspective, granular ... mechanical behavior of the sand itself has changed because something was moving far away,” Kamrin says. “How ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/motion-induced-quicksandStick, peel, or bounce: Controlling a freezing droplet’s fate
professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Jolet de Ruiter, and postdoc Dan Soto. ... mechanics involved when droplets come in contact with surfaces. Pictured here is a microscopic top view of ... a droplet. Image: Varanasi Group/MIT Now, MIT researchers have found a surprising new twist to the mechanics ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stick-peel-or-bounce-controlling-freezing-droplet%E2%80%99s-fateA New Quantum Approach to Big Data
Mechanical Engineering, explains that algebraic topology is key to the new method. This approach, he says, ... computationally very expensive,” Lloyd says. “This is where quantum mechanics kicks in.” The new quantum-based ... big data with quantum mechanics. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-quantum-approach-big-dataA new approach to ultrafast light pulses
associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas X. Fang, postdocs Qing Hu and Dafei Jin, and five ... deposited on a metal substrate. The molecules can quickly exchange energy with the metal below, a mechanism ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-approach-ultrafast-light-pulsesResearchers design coatings to prevent pipeline clogging
journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-design-coatings-prevent-pipeline-clogging