Comment on 2. Energy harvesting is still a relatively new field. There is
lots of research going on, but one of the problems is getting devices to run
at real world frequencies. There a lots of designs out there, but they are
either large devices or run at high frequencies.

Robert

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Heal  wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> I'm Heal, a junior student majoring in mechanical engineering from China
> and I'm really honored to join this community.
>
> I'm now puzzled at choosing my graduate field especially at microfluidics
> and power MEMS. It will be very nice if anyone can give me some advise on
> the following questions:
>
> 1) How do mechanical engineers' work differentiate from others, especially
> those in materials, chemistry and bioengineering? I find most of the
> distinguished work was done by the latter. If I choose microfuidics as my
> future career, will I be making a wise choice?
>
> 2) Everyone in power MEMS will say it is quite promising in providing
> energy for wireless sensor nodes. But there seems to be no marketable
> products for the time being. Is it because of lack of research in it or
> others?
>
> Thank you very much for your time.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Heal