School of Engineering

In a wireless network, different transmission frequencies work better for different users. That's because the same transmission reaches each user along several different paths; at one frequency, the signals arriving over different paths might reinforce each other, while at another frequency, they might cancel each other out.

Sharing the air

Unused wireless spectrum is getting scarce; MIT researchers are teaching emerging technologies to coexist in what's left

September 22, 2009

A turning point in the struggle against cancer?

Using new tools, ideas and ways of working, MIT biologists and engineers hope to change paradigm.

September 21, 2009

Carol Livermore, associate professor of mechanical engineering, left, stands with graduate student Frances Hill in Livermore's lab.

Small springs could provide big power

Mechanical engineer Carol Livermore and colleagues find that carbon nanotubes, used as springs, have potential to compete with batteries for energy storage.

September 21, 2009

A close up of the 6dot Braille Labeler, a device created by MIT students to enable blind or visually impaired people to make labels for objects easily and inexpensively.

Braille made simple

MIT students develop device that could make labeling easier for the visually impaired. Product could be on the market next year.

September 21, 2009

A satellite image of internal waves (with a wavelength of about 2 kilometers), which are generated by flow from the the Atlantic ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, at the east of Gibraltar and Ceuta.

Hidden waves pack a big punch

Thomas Peacock sheds light on an odd but powerful phenomenon of sea and sky

September 18, 2009

Researchers at MIT have shown the benefits of a new approach toward eliminating carbon-dioxide emissions at coal-burning power plants.

Concentrating emissions

Ahmed Ghoniem of mechanical engineering leads an MIT effort to make coal plants cleaner by using a pressurized combustion system to capture carbon dioxide.

September 17, 2009

Graduate student Will Chung displays a hybrid chip being developed in Professor Tomas Palacios' lab. The machine in the background is used to combine the semiconductor materials into one chip.

Two chips in one

MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.

September 15, 2009

Cement’s basic molecular structure finally decoded

Robustness comes from messiness, not a clean geometric arrangement

September 9, 2009

Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

A geotechnical engineer who served on the
panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans
following Hurricane Katrina is the new head
of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

August 25, 2009