Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Energy consumption and smart growth in Massachusetts : does smart growth make a difference?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)With the environmental crisis involving climate change fast approaching, all potential mitigation techniques must be explored and implemented. A key approach comes from the power towns and cities have to influence land use ... -
Energy consumption and traffic conditions of the Philadelphia-Paoli electrification of the Pennsylvania Railroad
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Energy consumption by automobiles in Japan
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Energy consumption metrics of MIT buildings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)With world energy demand on the rise and greenhouse gas levels breaking new records each year, lowering energy consumption and improving energy efficiency has become vital. MIT, in a mission to help improve the global ... -
Energy consumption of building 39
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The MIT community has embarked on an initiative to the reduce energy consumption and in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol. This thesis seeks to further expand our understanding of how the MIT campus consumes energy and ... -
Energy conversion in laminar magnetohydrodynamic channel flow
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Energy conversion using thermal transpiration : optimization of a Knudsen compressor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Knudsen compressors are devices without any moving parts that use the nanoscale phenomenon of thermal transpiration to pump or compress a gas. Thermal transpiration takes place when a gas is in contact with a solid boundary ... -
Energy dissipation in shape memory zirconia particles, packings, and composites
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)This research project lies at the intersection of two classes of materials, namely superelastic materials and granular materials, each known for their ability to dissipate large amounts of kinetic energy. Because of their ... -
Energy dissipation of composite multifilamentary superconductors for high-current ramp-field magnet applications
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Energy distribution measurements of magnetically trapped spin polarized atomic hydrogen : evaporative cooling and surface sticking
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Energy economy gait analysis of an autoadaptive prosthetic knee
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002) -
The energy effects of occupant controlled heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in office buildings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Energy efficiency in office technology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)This thesis, directed toward a wide variety of persons interested in energy efficiency issues with office technology, explores several issues relating to reducing energy use and improving energy efficiency of office ... -
Energy efficient accelerators for autonomous navigation in miniaturized robots
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Autonomy is becoming an increasingly desirable feature for very small nano/pico robots to navigate cluttered and confined indoors environments such as collapsed buildings, caves, etc. Robot perception (i.e., semantic and ... -
An energy efficient AES engine with DPA-resistance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The advent of portable electronics which transmit and receive sensitive data via wireless communication have led to interest in the design of energy-efficient security engines. The hardware implementation of cryptographic ... -
An energy efficient CMOS interface to carbon nanotube sensor arrays
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)A carbon nanotube is considered as a candidate for a next-generation chemical sensor. CNT sensors are attractive as they allow room-temperature sensing of chemicals. From the system perspective, this signifies that the ... -
Energy efficient commercial buildings : a study of natural daylighting in the context of adaptive reuse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)Daylighting is a powerful design element which can have a dramatic impact on people's perception of space, physical and psychological well-being as well as a building's annual and daily energy requirements. Understanding ... -
Energy efficient computing : from nanotubes to negative capacitance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Physical scaling of silicon-based field-effect transistors (FETs) has been a major driving force to improve computing energy efficiency (quantified by the energy-delay product, EDP, the product of energy consumption and ... -
Energy efficient control for power management circuits operating from nano-watts to watts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Energy efficiency and form factor are the key driving forces in today's power electronics. All power delivery circuits, irrespective of the magnitude of power, basically consists of power trains, gate drivers and control ... -
Energy efficient links and routers for multi-processor computer systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)As multi-processor computer systems become more prevalent in today's computer industry, it is clear that routers and interconnection networks are critical components of these multi-processor systems. Therefore, there is a ...
