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During his six years at MIT, Ravi Patil ’93, SM ’95 kept a journal. The 120-page record chronicled “triumph, defeat, and everything in between,” but after he left the Institute it was packed away in...
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The field of mechatronics is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, occupying the intersection of mechanical systems, electronics, controls, and computer science. Mechatronics engineers work in a...
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In 1873, Channing Whitaker, SB 1869, professor and head of mechanical engineering courses from 1875 to 1883, redirected the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s educational emphasis toward...
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Thermodynamics started out as a field with a somewhat singular focus: motion. More specifically, mechanical motion, locomotives, and, ultimately, the conversion of heat to mechanical work. Steam...
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Across a career’s worth of pioneering product designs, Doug Field’s work has shaped the experience of anyone who’s ever used a MacBook Air, ridden a Segway, or driven a Tesla Model 3.
But his newest...
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Eleven MIT faculty, including nine from the School of Engineering and two from the School of Science, were awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). More than...
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When it comes to water use, most of us think of the water we drink. But industrial uses for things like manufacturing account for billions of gallons of water each day. For instance, making a single...
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Inside a giant sphere, the engineers pored over their equipment. Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon...
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Imagine a boombox that tracks your every move and suggests music to match your personal dance style. That’s the idea behind “Be the Beat,” one of several projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (...
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This past January, in the small, small town of Ambovombe in southern Madagascar—a place accessible by the bumpiest of roads—Lilly Heilshorn ’25 learned something she’ll never forget: what gets...
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Faith Brooks, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, has had a clear dream since the age of 4: to become a pilot.
“At around 8 years old, my neighbor knew I wanted to fly and showed me...
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Three MIT students — Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii — have been awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarships and will join the program’s 10th cohort to pursue a master’s degree in global...
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Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are diverse in composition but all contain networks of interconnected strands. A longstanding question about the durability of these materials...
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Used in everything from soda cans and foil wrap to circuit boards and rocket boosters, aluminum is the second-most-produced metal in the world after steel. By the end of this decade, demand is...
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When the Global MIT At-Risk Fellows (GMAF) initiative launched in February 2024 as a pilot program for Ukrainian researchers, its architects expressed hope that GMAF would eventually expand to...
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Professors Tonio Buonassisi, Gang Chen, Yang Shao-Horn, Evelyn Wang and Xuanhe Zhao, along with MechE alumnus Hyunwoo Yuk, have been named “Highly Cited...
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Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New PhD candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to...
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The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So, chip manufacturers are looking to build up rather than out....
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On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible was about an hour-and-a-half into its two-hour descent to the Titanic wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when it lost contact with its support ship....
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On an otherwise dark and rainy Monday night, attendees packed Kresge Auditorium for a lively and colorful celebration of student product designs, as part of the final presentations for MIT’s popular...