Department snapshot: Aeronautics and Astronautics
AeroAstro takes off in new directions — prompting a 50 percent spike in new undergraduate enrollments.
AeroAstro takes off in new directions — prompting a 50 percent spike in new undergraduate enrollments.
Director of MIT's Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) discusses some of the key concepts propelling the open education movement.
Curiosity is the most ambitious planetary rover mission ever, but it’s just one of the many exploratory projects JPL is undertaking.
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers to honor professor, associate provost on Sept. 28.
Institute’s undergraduate engineering program is again ranked No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
As small as a penny, these thrusters run on jets of ion beams.
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
New wireless power and camera setups will expand the mini-satellites’ vision and navigation capabilities.
CSAIL's Robot Locomotion Group unveils new computer-controlled aircraft that can perform knife-edge turns.
Workshop explores safety in nuclear power plants, occupational health, aviation and medicine.
Researchers find car exhaust causes more premature deaths than car accidents.
Cheaper, quieter and fuel-efficient biplanes could put supersonic travel on the horizon.