Entrepreneurial students dive into product design and development
Joint MIT-RISD course yields concepts from iPad-friendly backpacks to waste-free sugar.
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Whirr, click, hum: Robots go at it in 2.007 finale
Competition concludes mechanical design class, unleashing a wide variety of spinning, pumping and striking robots.
Woodie Flowers, a pioneer of hands-on engineering education
Flowers and his former student, David Wallace, have created a fun, teamwork-based approach to learning the art of mechanical design.
New technique predictably generates complex, wavy shapes
May help improve drug delivery and explain natural patterns from brain folds to bell peppers.
Through a glass, clearly
MIT researchers find a way to make glass that’s anti-fogging, self-cleaning and free of glare.
New method to prevent undersea ice clogs
Surface coatings developed by MIT researchers could inhibit buildup of methane hydrates that can block deep-sea oil and gas wells.
Moving microfluidics from the lab bench to the factory floor
The Center for Polymer Microfabrication designs manufacturing processes for a new generation of diagnostic tools.
Buckle in
Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures.
Calculating the cost of advanced manufacturing
The Environmentally Benign Manufacturing group studies the life cycle of new technologies.
Catching some rays — lots of them
New MIT design for a metamaterial could be far more efficient at capturing sunlight than existing solar cells.
Sometimes the quickest path is not a straight line
New methods and software developed at MIT can predict optimal paths for automated underwater vehicles.