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Coming in March is a book by Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, called Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos (Knopf, ISBN 1400040922 / also available now as an e-book).

When an Iowa State professor of mechanical engineering followed his hunch about spider webs, it paid off: he proved biological materials can rival metals in conducting heat.

«The reality is that, if you're able to make it to much smaller dimensions, these materials can actually respond very quickly, within seconds,» said Nicholas X. Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT.

Cary Pint, professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, says: «This approach not only produces better batteries, but it also establishes a value for carbon dioxide recovered from the atmosphere that is associated with end - user battery cost, unlike most efforts to re-use CO2 that are aimed at low - value fuels, like methanol, that can not justify the cost required to produce them.»

Professor of mechanical engineering explains the importance of advancing internal combustion engines and offers his take on recent EPA rollbacks.

One new addition to the suite of actions to create greater progress toward MIT's stretch goal of seeking carbon neutrality is a new class that will be offered in the spring 2018 semester, taught jointly by Director of Sustainability Julie Newman and professor of mechanical engineering Timothy Gutowski.

Glenn Bower, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, who with his students has designed hybrid - power vehicles, said he thought that compressed air compared unfavorably with batteries as a medium for storing energy.

May 2, 12:09 a.m. Updated Michael E. Webber, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, sent this reaction, focused on the political context:

Dr. Morrow, formerly a fellow at the Belfer Center, is a professor of mechanical engineering and economics at Iowa State University

He was head of the Mechanical Engineering department, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Dean Emeritus.

### The research team In addition to Jonathan Claussen and Loreen Stromberg, co-authors of the paper describing water - repelling, inkjet - printed graphene circuits are: Suprem Das, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Kansas State University, formerly an Iowa State postdoctoral research associate in mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory; Srilok Srinivasan, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Qing He, an Iowa State graduate student in agricultural and biosystems engineering; Nathaniel Garland, an Iowa State graduate student in mechanical engineering; Warren Straszheim, an Iowa State associate scientist with the Materials Analysis and Research Laboratory; Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering, a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and a professor of chemistry at Rice University in Houston; and Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formerly an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State.

«Graphene starts forming in little islands, and then those islands grow together to form a continuous sheet,» says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at MIT.

«We're taking low - cost, inkjet - printed graphene and tuning it with a laser to make functional materials,» said Jonathan Claussen, an Iowa State University assistant professor of mechanical engineering, an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and the corresponding author of the paper recently featured on the cover of the journal Nanoscale.

On May 25, the team, which includes co-principal investigators Louis Whitcomb, a professor of mechanical engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, and Dana Yoerger of WHOI who were responsible for development of the vehicle's navigation and control system, conducted a planned sequence of successively deeper dives — testing Nereus, making scientific observations and collecting deep - sea samples at each depth they reached.

April 19, 2018 - «Graphene starts forming in little islands, and then those islands grow together to form a continuous sheet,» says John Hart, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at MIT.

A 2017 study co-authored by John Bischof, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, and published in Science Translational Medicine, used specially coated iron oxide nanoparticles.

The project is a collaboration between the labs of Ed Boyden, the Benesse Career Development associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, and Craig Forest, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech.

«Drugs that block the effects of myofibroblasts on the electrical or mechanical properties of heart tissue or that coax them to revert to fibroblasts might be more effective than current therapies,» says Guy M. Genin, PhD, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science in WUSTL's School of Engineering & Applied Science, who is one of three co-primary investigators (PI) on the grant.

«Imagine that the tons of metal waste discarded every year could be used to provide energy storage for the renewable energy grid of the future, instead of becoming a burden for waste processing plants and the environment,» said Cary Pint, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University.

Jonathan Claussen, an Iowa State assistant professor of mechanical engineering and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, is lead author.

Kamal Youcef - Toumi, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and SASTA's Board member, says the instrument's sensitivity and speed will enable scientists to watch atomic - sized processes play out as high - resolution «movies.»

The team's paper originally grew out of an MIT class, 2.675 (Micro / Nano Engineering), taught by Rohit Karnik, associate professor of mechanical engineering.

«Our focus has been to make a practical machine that can be used for the Defense Department's forces,» says Homayoon Kazerooni, chief scientist for Berkeley Bionics and a professor of mechanical engineering at U.C. Berkeley's Robotics Laboratory.

Talk to your university administration about implementing high - impact practices,» said Frank Jacobitz, president of AAAS» Pacific Division and professor of mechanical engineering at the University of San Diego's Shiley - Marcos School of Engineering, in an appeal to students.

«Their efficiency is due to the fact that they run very lean,» explained Anna Stefanopoulou, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan.

Now, an international team of researchers led by Bingqing Wei, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware and the director of the Center for Fuel Cells and Batteries, is doing work that could lay the foundation for more widespread use of lithium metal batteries that would have more capacity than the lithium ion batteries commonly used in consumer electronics today.

In order to provide the benefits of palpation to minimally invasive surgery, a team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University headed by Pietro Valdastri, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and medicine, has designed a special - purpose wireless capsule equipped with a pressure sensor that fits through the small ports that surgeons use for what is also called «keyhole» surgery.

«The noise from wind turbines is not very loud,» says Virginia Tech's Richardo Burdisso, a professor of mechanical engineering and Arenas» colleague in Blacksburg.

«These robot scouts will be small, inexpensive, agile, and autonomous,» said Thomas Bewley, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego.

Richardo Burdisso, a professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, works with colleagues in Chile to make wind turbines more acceptable.

Jones and Ph.D. advisor Geoff Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in OSU's College of Engineering, have built a framework for the vehicles to plan energy - efficient trajectories through disturbances that are strong and uncertain, like ocean currents and wind fields.

It's about 95 to 97 percent air,» said Ann Anderson, professor of mechanical engineering.

Zyvex reached out to Dr. Reza Moheimani, a professor of mechanical engineering, to help address STMs» tip crash problem.

The researchers were led by Sandeep Kumar, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

«It is both strong and tough, which is a combination not usually found in nature,» said Teng Li, the co-leader of the team and Samuel P. Langley Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at UMD's Clark School.

«Collagen and elastin are everywhere,» said Jessica Wagenseil, associate professor of mechanical engineering & materials science at the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

«A lot of attention has been paid to defeat devices, but our work emphasizes the existence of a much larger problem,» said Daven Henze, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at CU Boulder who, along with postdoctoral researcher Forrest Lacey, contributed to the study.

Brun, who is now an assistant professor at Princeton University, carried out this current work at MIT with Alice Nasto, a graduate student in MIT's Deparment of Mechanical Engineering, and Anette «Peko» Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean of engineering at MIT.

Kim's MIT co-authors are first author and graduate student Yunjo Kim; graduate students Samuel Cruz, Babatunde Alawonde, Chris Heidelberger, Yi Song, and Kuan Qiao; postdocs Kyusang Lee, Shinhyun Choi, and Wei Kong; visiting research scholar Chanyeol Choi; Merton C. Flemings - SMA Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Eugene Fitzgerald; professor of electrical engineering and computer science Jing Kong; and assistant professor of mechanical engineering Alexie Kolpak; along with Jared Johnson and Jinwoo Hwang from Ohio State University, and Ibraheem Almansouri of Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.

«Haptic feedback,» or feedback that is based on the sense of touch, «is the future of computing interfaces,» says Allison M. Okamura, a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

The new results are presented today in the journal Nature Physics, in a report by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, former postdoc Jolet de Ruiter, and postdoc Dan Soto.

So it's easy to obtain and also very cheap,» says Daraio, professor of mechanical engineering and applied physics in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science.

By also collaborating with James Hone, a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia, they designed a better way to connect electrical signal lines to the sandwiched graphene.

Igor Mezić, a professor of mechanical engineering and oil spill expert at UC Santa Barbara, further cautions that the technology might not be seaworthy.

The findings, the result of microscopic analysis of bacteria inside microfluidic devices, were made by MIT postdoc Roberto Rusconi, former MIT postdoc Jeffrey Guasto (now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University), and Roman Stocker, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT.

«Once you have robots that cooperate, you can do all sorts of things,» said Kilian Weinberger, associate professor of computer science, who is collaborating on the project with Silvia Ferrari, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Mark Campbell, professor of mechanical engineering.

Dr. William Anderson, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, co-authored a paper published in the journal Physical Review E that explains the common Martian phenomenon of a mountain positioned downwind from the center of an ancient meteorite impact zone.

But that is precisely what Yuebing Zheng, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is working toward with his «nanotweezers» — a new tool for handling nanoparticles using light that could create opportunities for innovations in nanotechnology and individual health monitoring.

A 1977 graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, he earned his doctoral degree from MIT in 1981 and taught at Brown University before joining the MIT faculty as professor of mechanical engineering in 1993.

Cengiz Ozkan, professor of mechanical engineering, and Mihri Ozkan, professor of electrical engineering, led the project.