School of Engineering third quarter 2018 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.
Plasma Science and Fusion Center
A new path to solving a longstanding fusion challenge
Novel design could help shed excess heat in next-generation fusion power plants.
Juan Ruiz Ruiz: The heat of the matter
PhD candidate seeks to discover how heat leaks from fusion plasmas.
MIT fusion collaboration receives renewed funding
Department of Energy funds Plasma Science and Fusion Center to advance fusion studies on the world’s largest stellarator.
Pushing the plasma density limit
Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers discover a path to overcoming the plasma density limit in their quest for steady-state fusion.
Stephen Wukitch, John Wright win Landau-Spitzer Award
MIT and European Union scientists collaborate on new plasma heating scenario to boost fusion research.
Encouraging the next generation of fusion innovators
The Samuel W. Ing Memorial Fund will support MIT graduate students as they create a more advanced and less costly path to fusion energy solutions.
Taming fusion with machine learning
Postdoc Cristina Rea's detour into banking provides a new route back to plasma research.
Tom Fredian: Streamlining fusion data
MIT systems analyst receives award for his essential fusion data storage and retrieval system.
Fine-tuning fusion
Postdoc Theresa Wilks finds home on the west coast, helming an MIT collaboration with the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactor.
MIT and newly formed company launch novel approach to fusion power
Goal is for research to produce a working pilot plant within 15 years.
3Q: Zach Hartwig on MIT's big push on fusion
Researchers will work with industrial collaborators to pursue fusion as a source of carbon-free power.
Integrated simulations answer 20-year-old question in fusion research
Study finds that turbulence competes in fusion plasmas to rapidly respond to temperature perturbations.
Changing lives with heart, humor, and engineering
MIT senior and Marshall Scholar Nick Schwartz wants to solve the energy problem — and make people smile along the way.