School of Engineering

Two MIT professors win prestigious Wolf Prize

Michael Artin and Robert Langer honored for groundbreaking work in mathematics and chemistry.

January 4, 2013

Jumping-droplet condensation shown on a nanostructured tube.

Research update: Jumping droplets help heat transfer

Scalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers could make for more efficient power generation and desalination.

January 4, 2013

In this micrograph of an experimental transistor, blue highlighting indicates areas of "strain," where germanium atoms have been forced closer together than they find comfortable. One of the reasons for the transistor's record-setting performance is that the strain has been relaxed in the lateral direction.

Researchers demonstrate record-setting p-type transistor

New design for a basic component of all computer chips boasts the highest ‘carrier mobility’ yet measured.

January 3, 2013

Professor Roger Kamm, left, and PhD candidate Ioannis Zervantonakis

Professor Roger Kamm visualizes sneaky tumor cells with 3-D assay

Kamm is studying the mechanics of metastasis, the process of cancer-cell migration from one location in the body to another and the cause of more than 90 percent of cancer deaths.

December 26, 2012

Recent Course X grad named one of Forbes magazine's '30 Under 30'

Pedro Valencia PhD '12 honored for drug research.

December 26, 2012

Sallie 'Penny' Chisholm, left, and Robert Langer, right.

Chisholm, Langer awarded nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors

Two MIT professors are awarded the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

December 22, 2012

Illustration shows the layered structure of the new device, starting with a flexible layer of graphene, a one-atom-thick carbon material. A layer of polymer is bonded to that, and then a layer of zinc-oxide nano wires (shown in magenta), and finally a layer of a material that can extract energy from sunlight, such as quantum dots or a polymer-based material.

Flexible, light solar cells could provide new opportunities

MIT researchers develop a new approach using graphene sheets coated with nanowires.

December 21, 2012

The color of the road segments in this image represents the number of neighborhoods that are major sources of drivers for that segment. Red is more than 100, yellow is 61 to 100, green is 41 to 60, dark blue is 1 to 20 and purple is none.

Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups

Study: Congestion can be alleviated throughout a metropolitan area by altering the trips of drivers in specific neighborhoods.

December 20, 2012

F. William Herbert of materials science and engineering (left) and Bilge Yildiz of nuclear science and engineering are examining how nanoscale disruptions in the crystalline structure of metals affect those materials’ vulnerability to stress corrosion cracking.

New experiments, new insights into stress corrosion cracking

MIT researchers now have new insights into how 'stress corrosion cracking' may be affected by nanoscale disruptions in the crystalline structure of metallic materials.

December 20, 2012