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Credits: Photo: Elia Kneiriemen/J-WAFS Caption: Members of the research team (left to right:) Zi Hao Foo, Omar Labban, Grace Goon, and Annetoinette Figueroa. Credits: Photo courtesy of the researchers Caption: Mechanical engineering professors John Lienhard and Xuanhe Zhao teamed up to combine their expertise in desalination and soft materials. Credits: Photo courtesy of the researchers Previous image Next image Filtration ...
Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: The summer before her junior year, Flora Klise traveled to Tanzania alongside members of MIT D-Lab to work on the Okoa Project, an ambulance trailer that can be attached to motorcycles. While there, she discovered her interest in water research after seeing children use a well pump to get clean water. Credits: Photo courtesy of the Okoa Project. Caption: After graduating this June, Klise will join Xylem, one of the largest wate...
Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: Once at MIT, Coombs explored research opportunities that improved the lives of others. Her work on medical devices in the MIT Media Lab and with a startup helping rural dairy farmers in India both had a tangible impact, but didn’t quite satisfy her goal of reducing inequality and making a difference on a global scale. Credits: Photo: John Freidah Caption: Coombs developed a computational model to better understand a method of desal...
Today, let's read an old book about a new world. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. It's 1832. Our 20th century world is just a premonition in people's minds. The forty years of upheaval that began with the American Revolution finally ended when Napoleon lost at Waterloo. Now America and England are turni...
Today, farming comes to Europe. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. In fall, 1974, my family and I walked a trail on the plateau above the Serbian side of the Danube. It was rainy and verdant. Small farms broke into the forest here and there. The compact and efficient style of farming seemed old as the riv...