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Members of the MIT engineering faculty annually receive a myriad of honors and awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.

School of Engineering fourth quarter 2017 awards

Faculty members were recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.

January 16, 2018

Senior Matt Guthmiller (left), who flew a six-seat plane around the world at age 19, and Philip Greenspun ’82, PhD ’99 are among the pilots teaching students to fly during IAP.

During IAP, MIT community steps out of its comfort zone

For a campus that prizes creative risk-taking, Independent Activities Period is a cultural touchstone.

January 10, 2018

Evelyn Wang (left) and Heena Mutha have developed a nondestructive method of quantifying the detailed characteristics of carbon nanotube samples — a valuable tool for optimizing these materials for use as electrodes in a variety of practical devices.

Optimizing carbon nanotube electrodes

New model measures characteristics of carbon nanotube structures for energy storage and water desalination applications.

January 5, 2018

A Nov. 20 reception honored the MIT faculty receiving this year’s Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants. The program is named for the late Amar Bose ’51, SM ’52, ScD ’56, a longtime MIT faculty member and the founder of the Bose Corporation. This year’s reception also honored his son, Vanu Bose ’87, SM ’94, PhD ’99, who passed away last month. In his opening remarks, President L. ...

Bose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions

Six potentially paradigm-shifting research projects will make strides with funding from Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.

December 14, 2017

First row, left to right: Arvind Satyanarayan, Bryan Bryson, David Des Marais, Desiree Plata. Second row, left to right: Sili Deng, Wim van Rees, Farnaz Niroui, Julian Shun. Third row, left to right: Koroush Shirvan, Luca Carlone, Mingda Li, Phillip Isola. Fourth row, left to right: Rafael Gomez Bombarelli, Song Han, Tami Lieberman, Tim Kraska.

School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Sixteen new professors join seven of the school’s departments.

December 8, 2017

Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Herd, Alan Edelman, Jonathan How, and Lynette Jones have been honored as IEEE Fellows for 2018.

Four from MIT are named 2018 IEEE Fellows

Researchers from across MIT are honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

December 7, 2017

Cadence Payne (left) and Alexa Aguilar credit AeroAstro fellowships with allowing them to follow their research interests without constant worry of funding their studies.

AeroAstro announces graduate fellowships for women and other underrepresented students

November 29, 2017

MIT course 22.033 (Nuclear Systems Design) is taught this year by Zach Hartwig, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the inaugural holder of the John C. Hardwick Career Development Chair.

Bringing design thinking into nuclear science and engineering

Nuclear Systems Design class immerses students in the design and communications skills needed to produce innovations.

November 15, 2017

Remembering Christine Moulen, library systems manager at the MIT Libraries

Alumna leaves legacy of kindness and passionate dedication to her work and her communities.

November 13, 2017

The new Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel will be situated in the same location as its predecessor. Building 17, which is located to the right of the tunnel and contains its controls, will have a new structure added to the rear for an elevator and access bridge to AeroAstro’s Neumann Hangar.

MIT to construct new, cutting-edge Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel

Largest, most advanced U.S. academic tunnel will replace 79-year-old facility; Boeing is project’s lead donor with philanthropic commitment.

November 13, 2017

An MIT team won first place for urban design with the Redwood Forest, a series of woodsy habitats enclosed in open, public domes that would reside on the Martian surface.

Mars city living: Designing for the Red Planet

A multidisciplinary team of MIT students and postdocs wins an international competition focused on building sustainably on Mars.

October 31, 2017

Tiera Guinn ’17 has been named an "Awesome Woman of 2017" by Good Housekeeping magazine.

Good Housekeeping honors rocket scientist Tiera Guinn '17

Design engineer and 2017 alumna working on the largest rocket ever created by NASA was named an "Awesome Woman of 2017."

October 16, 2017

Associate professors Julie Shah, Sertac Karaman, and Amos Winter, in front of the newly renovated Building 31.

Building 31 powers back up

Members of AeroAstro and MechE are returning to a dramatically renovated building, with robots, drones, and even a Corvette in tow.

September 24, 2017

$Research by MIT graduate student Ashley Kaiser (left) and postdoc Itai Stein shows that a small fraction of carbon nanotubes added to phenol-formaldehyde resin lowers the processing temperature needed to achieve the best combination of hardness and low density by 200 degrees Celsius.$

Glassy carbon, now with less heat

Carbon nanotubes lower the transformation temperature of glassy carbon, possibly aiding manufacturers, MIT researchers report.

September 1, 2017

Engineers at MIT have designed an autonomous robot with “socially aware navigation,” that can keep pace with foot traffic while observing these general codes of pedestrian conduct.

New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct

Approach may enable robots to move around hospitals, malls, and other areas with heavy foot traffic.

August 29, 2017

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