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Spray tuning
McKinley, who is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT and the paper’s senior ... specks. MIT-Elastic-Liquid-1.jpg Such droplet sizes may seem random, but now engineers at MIT can predict ... used a strobe light technique, originally developed by MIT’s Harold “Doc” Edgerton, to create ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/spray-tuningDesigning vehicles that drive, fly — and swim
practical direction. MIT-Student-Winston-1024.jpg Crystal Winston Image: Ian MacLellan “He was like, ‘Yeah, ... mechanical engineering. She is also one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, ... in the lab of Associate Professor John Hart, she has been building and refining this robot for more ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/designing-vehicles-drive-fly-%E2%80%94-and-swimResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
visible and infrared radiation are often naturally linked. MIT-Thermal-Control-1024.jpg The visual and ... heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelyDesalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
Zhang’s study co-authors include MIT graduate student Yang Zhong and Evelyn Wang, the Ford Professor of ... Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely ... MIT-Solar-Desalinization-01-PRESS_0.jpg A tilted ten-stage prototype is located into a “boat-like” reservoir. Credit: Jintong Gao and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/desalination-system-could-produce-freshwater-cheaper-tap-waterMicrofluidics device helps diagnose sepsis in minutes
A novel sensor designed by MIT researchers could dramatically accelerate the process of diagnosing ... MIT-BioChip-Sensor-01-1024.jpg Sepsis occurs when the body’s immune response to infection triggers an inflammation chain reaction ... Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, MIT researchers describe a microfluidics-based system that ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/microfluidics-device-helps-diagnose-sepsis-minutesA streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys
concert with solar energy systems. Fortuitously, Mingda Li — the Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor ... of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, who heads the department’s Quantum Matter Group — was ... already thinking along similar lines. In fact, Li and nine collaborators (from MIT, Lawrence Berkeley ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/streamlined-approach-determining-thermal-properties-crystalline-solids-and-alloysExplained: Why perovskites could take solar cells to new heights
separate into a 2D layered structure, or lose ordered structure entirely,” says Tonio Buonassisi, professor ... of mechanical engineering at MIT and director of the Photovoltaics Research Laboratory. “Perovskites ... with the A being larger. MIT-Explained-Perovskites-1024.jpg Perovskites are widely seen as the likely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/explained-why-perovskites-could-take-solar-cells-new-heightsStudent teams design in the face of danger
conceived, designed, built, and tested by students in MIT’s iconic product design class known by its course ... number, 2.009. MIT-2.009-Event-1024.jpg At the conclusion of Monday’s final presentations for the ... conclusion of the evening of demonstrations, students paid tribute to the course instructor, professor of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-teams-design-face-dangerHow to prevent biofilms in space
a paper in the journal Nature Microgravity, by Samantha McBride PhD ’20 and Kripa Varanasi of MIT, Pamela ... did on Earth at preventing microbial adhesion. MIT_Space-Biofilms-02-PRESS.jpg Preventing biofilms ... Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering and founder of a company called LiquiGlide, which makes ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/how-prevent-biofilms-spaceJahnavi Kalpathy
In spring of 2014, Jahnavi Kalpathy was weighing her options: She could remain at MIT and try to ... where my degree was taking me, or why I’d been admitted to MIT in the first place.” Jahnavi was struck ... MIT. “I thought taking a break proved I was a failure,” Jahnavi says. “But it turned out to be the best ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/jahnavi-kalpathyCaroline Sorensen
says Dennis Whyte, the director of PSFC and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at MIT. “We ... MIT graduate student Caroline Sorensen is using her talent for mechanical engineering to help ... advance a novel project within the domain of applied science: the commercialization of fusion energy. MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/caroline-sorensenAlex Hattori
professor of mechanical engineering and MIT’s Maker Czar. Culpepper helped Hattori find the makerspaces and ... Each spring, accepted MIT students trek to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Institute’s annual ... not MIT would be a good fit. For Alex Hattori, a rising senior studying mechanical engineering, ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/alex-hattoriCelebrating the life and legacy of George Hatsopoulos
Corporation. But at an event hosted by MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in January, Hatsopoulos’ ... University of Athens, he enrolled at MIT where he earned a bachelor’s degree, master of science degree, ... a business, Hatsopoulos continued to teach at MIT. Fueled by his passion for education and love of fun, he ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/celebrating-life-and-legacy-george-hatsopoulosProtecting machine learning datasets
to graduate school at MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he joined Associate Professor ... friend, Antoni Rosinol SM’18, a graduate student in MIT AeroAstro, started brainstorming ideas that solved ... practical problems outside of the lab. They joined MIT Fuse, a micro-accelerator program organized by the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/protecting-machine-learning-datasetsClass Close-Up: 2.729 Design for Scale
That same year, students and instructors in the MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale collaborated ... hospitals,” explains Toria Yan, a senior studying mechanical engineering at MIT. Class close up_Okea 1024.jpg ... Yang, class co-instructor and professor of mechanical engineering. “We are asking students to design ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/class-close-2729-design-scaleTeaching first-year students fundamental principles through creation
MIT – a passion for making. Whether it’s tinkering with robots, building motors, or designing devices, ... they are eager to create something tangible during their time at MIT. Typically, an engineering ... students come to MIT motivated to actually creating something, but they might have to wait until junior or ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-first-year-students-fundamental-principles-through-creationStudent Spotlight: Peter Godart '15, SM '19, PhD Candidate
materials while providing clean energy and fresh water,” adds Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical ... a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... in class 2.013, went back to the East Coast, and enrolled in graduate school. “I came back to MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/student-spotlight-peter-godart-15-sm-19-phd-candidateLeslie's legacy
After forty-seven years in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Leslie Regan retired, ... you mention Leslie Regan’s name to any alum of MIT’s mechanical engineering graduate program, their ... thousands of mechanical engineering students. Regan joined MIT’s staff in September 1974. She started as an ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/leslies-legacyDigital Instruments for Musical Togetherness
Ntaimo was an undergrad, his now advisor, Professor David Trumper, encouraged him to pursue a graduate ... proficiently in little time. Digital-Instruments_for_Musical_Togetherness_1024.jpg At MIT, Joseph Ntaimo took ... music classes, played in the MIT Symphony Orchestra, and became a respected DJ on campus, routinely ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/digital-instruments-musical-togethernessPeter Godart
materials while providing clean energy and fresh water,” adds Douglas Hart, professor of mechanical ... a driving force in Godart’s academic career. As a mechanical engineering undergraduate at MIT, he took the ... in class 2.013, went back to the East Coast, and enrolled in graduate school. “I came back to MIT and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/peter-godart