Less-wasteful laser-cutting
Fabricaide, developed at MIT CSAIL, provides live design feedback to help users reduce leftover material.
Department
Mechanical Engineering
Unleashing the potential of the mind
Pison, founded by Dexter Ang ’05, enables people to control digital interfaces, such as their phones, through brain signals.
Reducing inequality across the globe and on campus
Through research and student leadership, senior Orisa Coombs is tackling problems including water scarcity, food insecurity, and racial injustice.
An origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries
The patch, which can be folded around surgical tools, may someday be used in robotic surgery to repair tissues and organs.
Our gut-brain connection
“Organs-on-a-chip” system sheds light on how bacteria in the human digestive tract may influence neurological diseases.
Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
MIT researchers grow structures made of wood-like plant cells in a lab, hinting at the possibility of more efficient biomaterials production.
Deploying no-contact vitals-sensing kiosks across campus
Mechanical engineering students Ivan Goryachev and Ryan Koeppen ’19 are developing a thermal trailer and subsequent kiosks that could be deployed on campus during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Four from MIT are named IEEE Fellows for 2021
Three MIT professors and a principal staff member from Lincoln Laboratory are among the 2021 class of fellows.
Heather Theberge, mechanical engineering staff member, dies at 42
Theberge served as an administrative assistant for the mechanical engineering undergraduate program since 2012.
School of Engineering third and fourth quarter 2020 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the past two quarters.
Delivering life-saving oxygen during a pandemic
MIT mechanical engineers have developed technologies to help hospitals around the world provide life-saving oxygen to patients with Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
MIT Society of Women Engineers’ journey into virtual connection
SWE members develop innovative and creative ways to maintain programming during the pandemic.
With campus as a test bed, climate action starts and continues at MIT
MIT serves as a laboratory for a multifaceted approach to address the Institute’s own contributions to climate change.
Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
A new web-friendly modeling tool helps organizations build tailored Covid-19 testing strategies that can save money and reduce coronavirus spread.
Model could help determine quarantine measures needed to reduce Covid-19’s spread
A key finding: Early reopening last spring led to a dramatic drop in “quarantine strength” in southern and west-central U.S. states.