Aeronautics and Astronautics

GradSAGE Leadership Sub-Committee members (left to right): Vamsi Mangena, Elise Wilcox, Benjamin Lienhard, Lucio Milanese, Laureen Meroueh, and Clinton Wang

A new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech

A new graduate certificate offered through the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program will launch this fall.

February 26, 2020

New MIT study finds more than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of cross-state pollution, or emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur.

Half of U.S. deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

Study tracks pollution from state to state in the 48 contiguous United States.

February 12, 2020

Two views of the asteroid Pallas, which researchers have determined to be the most heavily cratered object in the asteroid belt.

Study reveals details of “golf ball asteroid”

A tilted orbit may explain the asteroid Pallas’ highly cratered surface.

February 10, 2020

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing leadership team (left to right) David Kaiser, Daniela Rus, Dan Huttenlocher, Julie Shah, and Asu Ozdaglar

A college for the computing age

With the initial organizational structure in place, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing moves forward with implementation.

February 4, 2020

Madeline Abrahams, an EECS senior and MIT/Tang Family FinTech SuperUROP scholar, presents her work investigating the spread of misinformation related to climate change via algorithmic aggregation platforms at the SuperUROP Showcase.

At halfway point, SuperUROP scholars share their research results

In a lively poster session, more than 100 undergraduates discuss their yearlong research projects on everything from machine learning to political geography.

January 29, 2020

MathWorks fellows with Anantha Chandrakasan (back row, center), dean of the MIT School of Engineering. Not pictured: Fellows Pasquale Antonante, Alireza Fallah, and Kate Reidy.

Accelerating the pace of engineering

The 2019-20 School of Engineering MathWorks Fellows are using MATLAB and Simulink to advance discovery and innovation across disciplines.

January 28, 2020

Left to right: Anna Frebel, Wesley Harris, and Harry Tuller are recognized as MIT faculty “Committed to Caring.”

Communicating respect for graduate students

Anna Frebel, Wesley Harris, and Harry Tuller honored by graduate students as “Committed to Caring.”

January 27, 2020

Bradford Parkinson was honored with the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

Bradford Parkinson SM ’61 awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering

“Father of GPS” honored with three colleagues for creating the first truly global, satellite-based positioning system.

January 24, 2020

NASA's newest astronauts participate in a graduation ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Left to right: NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, CSA astronaut Jennifer Sidey-Gibbons, NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Kayla Barron, Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara, Zena Cardman, Raja Chari, Matthew Dominick, Bob Hines, and W...

Three from MIT graduate from NASA astronaut training

Chari, Hoburg, and Moghbeli, all with ties to the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, among the first class to graduate under agency’s Artemis program.

January 22, 2020