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Making waves
Lermusiaux, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. “You have fronts and eddies, ... to decide on a path after graduating with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from ... Department of Mechanical Engineering, his group carries out research in mechanics, computations and control. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/making-wavesThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
spearheading the project, is a graduate student working with mechanical engineering professor Alex Slocum, the ... support from the MIT Energy Initiative, the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical ... Engineering and Computer Science, and the MIT Edgerton Center. Initial tests were conducted on a dynamometer, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogenComputing for ocean environments
exploring the many ocean creatures we haven’t discovered yet.” Ocean engineers and mechanical engineers ... Beth Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Collaboration International Horizontal Ocean and ... mechanical engineers are utilizing advances in scientific computing to address the ocean’s many challenges, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/computing-ocean-environmentsFour from MIT are named IEEE Fellows for 2021
are four members of the MIT community: Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical engineering ... the Department of Mechanical Engineering was elevated to IEEE Fellow for her "contributions to ... Among the newly selected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/four-mit-are-named-ieee-fellows-2021Office of Sustainability names 2018 grant winners
Systems, and Society, and Professor Douglas Hart, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Trancik ... Mechanical Engineering installed an electrified, water-catching dome structure over the steam plumes of MIT’s ... This year, undergraduate students taking 2.013 (Engineering Systems Design) and 2.014 (Engineering ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/office-sustainability-names-2018-grant-winnersBeyond low-hanging fruit
Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Precision ... Engineering Group, teaches and conducts research in the area of precision machine design. Precision, he says, ... fruit.” That, he says, is normal engineering. Precision engineering is about going for the low-hanging ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/beyond-low-hanging-fruitTalking Shop: Associate Professor Themistoklis Sapsis
engineering. After completing my PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, I had a post-doc appointment at NYU’s ... warning to prepare or evacuate. Themistoklis (Themis) Sapsis, associate professor of mechanical and ocean ... engineering and principal investigator at MIT’s Stochastic Analysis and Nonlinear Dynamics (SAND) lab is ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-associate-professor-themistoklis-sapsisFaculty Research: Professor John Lienhard
Lienhard V, the Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering, you should. “The world supply of ... also spearheaded a one-of-a-kind course in desalination as part of the Department of Mechanical ... Engineering curriculum. He has dedicated the past six years of his career to addressing this worldwide water ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/faculty-research-professor-john-lienhard-0Talking Shop: Assistant Professor Sili Deng
electricity and power,” explains Sili Deng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and Brit (1961) ... Sunday, November 24, 2019 Mary Beth Gallagher | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering Culture Education ... interested in engineering at very early age since my dad is an electrical engineer. When I was young, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/talking-shop-assistant-professor-sili-dengNew Material Structures Bend Like Microscopic Hair
Materials. The paper’s co-authors are Evelyn Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, former ... Researchers say structures may be used in windows to wick away moisture. MIT engineers have ... 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-hairTechnique identifies electricity-producing bacteria
do,” says Qianru Wang, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “There is recent work ... adds Cullen Buie, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Thus, a tool that allows you ... Wang Scientists and engineers are exploring ways to harness these microbial power plants to run fuel ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-identifies-electricity-producing-bacteriaExpanding the conversation about sustainability
a disproportionately heavy environmental burden. At MIT, she chose a double major in mechanical engineering with ... and received a presentation award during the MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition. This past ... Godfreey-Igwe worked under a lab in Stanford University’s civil and environmental engineering department to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/expanding-conversation-about-sustainabilityUnderstanding combustion
of mechanical engineering and the Brit (1961) & Alex (1949) d’Arbeloff Career Development ... Gallagher | Department of Mechanical Engineering Horizontal Assistant Professor Sili Deng is on a quest to ... degree in thermal engineering, she received her master’s and PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/understanding-combustionJulien Barber: Protecting magnets and the environment
a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is describing Winnipeg, ... largest known to exist, and represents a major engineering challenge. Tokamaks have typically used low ... mechanism for this kind of application. Barber’s work so far has focused on analyzing the thermal properties ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/julien-barber-protecting-magnets-and-environmentSaving seaweed with machine learning
Xia received word that she had been accepted into the mechanical engineering graduate program at MIT. ... announced a new seed funding program in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The program encouraged ... combine my passion for food, my technical expertise in ocean engineering, and my interest in sustainably ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/saving-seaweed-machine-learningSteam from the sun
highly concentrate sunlight. Hadi Ghasemi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, says ... be very useful.” Ghasemi and mechanical engineering department head Gang Chen, along with five others ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/steam-sunGetting a charge out of water droplets
devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn ... mechanical engineering at Boston University who was not involved in this research, says, “This work provides ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/getting-charge-out-water-dropletsWind power — even without the wind
Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Brian Hodder, a researcher at the MIT ... mechanical engineering and naval architecture at MIT, among others; this storage system would dovetail well ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/wind-power-%E2%80%94-even-without-windPowering Desalination with the Sun
graduate student Natasha Wright began her PhD program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to ... mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright’s project was ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/powering-desalination-sun