Engineering a safer world
Workshop explores safety in nuclear power plants, occupational health, aviation and medicine.
Department
Aeronautics and Astronautics
New study links air pollution and early death in the U.K.
Researchers find car exhaust causes more premature deaths than car accidents.
A biplane to break the sound barrier
Cheaper, quieter and fuel-efficient biplanes could put supersonic travel on the horizon.
National Engineers Week: A Q&A with Nancy Leveson
On system safety and the book "Engineering a Safer World:Systems Thinking Applied to Safety"
National Engineers Week: A Q&A with Olivier de Weck
On engineering systems and the book Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World
Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth
Third annual Zero Robotics competition pits robots against each other on the International Space Station.
MIT faculty see promise in American manufacturing
Study group is tackling hard questions about what it will take to stoke renewal.
Speed limit for birds
MIT researchers find critical speed above which birds — and drones — are sure to crash.
3 Questions: Greg Chamitoff on the final frontier
Alum-astronaut relives some of the highlights of his space shuttle career.
