Shell executive Harry Brekelmans joins MITEI Director Robert Armstrong for a conversation on energy access, corporate social responsibility, and climate change solutions.
Professor Christopher Knittel and colleagues from UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Northwestern University devise a new machine learning approach to measure the effectiveness of energy efficiency upgrades in California schools.
MITEI Director of Research Francis O'Sullivan explains how micro-grids can help make the electric grid more resilient against mass blackouts in future natural disasters like Hurricane Irma.
MIT Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, founder of 24M, has developed a “semisolid” lithium ion battery that he thinks could be ideal for grid storage applications.
MITEI's Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga discusses how changing patterns of electricity use are forcing global power utilities to rethink their "antiquated business models." The article cites examples from MITEI's Utility of the Future study.
A venture fund started by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called The Engine has financed its first seven companies after raising $200 million from investors.
The Materials Processing Center is hosting Materials Day, which includes a topical symposium followed by a student poster session. This year the symposium will be broad in scope and will involve primarily speakers from MIT. The theme will be Frontiers in Materials Research. Presentations will be given by speakers who represent MIT’s new generation of leaders in materials research. Subjects covered will include: additive technologies for manufacturing; high temperature materials extraction and processing; probing and interrogation of neural function in mammals with fibers; utilizing optical phase change materials; and new high performance communication circuits and systems.
New for this year, Materials Day will include a panel discussion involving four distinguished leaders of MIT’s materials research community addressing the challenges and opportunities of materials research. The poster session immediately follows the symposium and showcases students research and its applications. About seventy-five posters are presented each year, on a full range of research topics.
