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High school physics teacher Scott Brunner (left) assembles a radar component with help from a Lincoln Laboratory instructor with the LLRISE program.

High school teachers become students for a week to learn about radar systems

2017 LLRISE program helps high school physics teachers bring new lessons and activities back to their classrooms.

August 18, 2017

MIT Professor Saman Amarasinghe’s undergraduate course on initiating and managing open-source development projects had no exams or problem sets. Assignments included consulting with mentors, interviewing users, writing a promotional plan — and, of course, leading the development of an open-source application.

Open-source entrepreneurship

New project-based course lets undergrads lead the development of open-source software.

August 11, 2017

Brenda Stern ’17 carves marble with a mallet and chisel, traditional Italian tools, during the MIT Materials in Art, Archaeology and Architecture program in Italy.

Exploring ancient engineering to inform the future

Materials in Art, Archaeology and Architecture program takes students to Italy for unique fieldwork experience.

July 31, 2017

Graduate students Samantha Dale Strasser and Greg Stein are among the trained advisors working in the EECS Communication Lab.

Talk science to me

In the EECS Communication Lab, peer coaches provide guidance on papers, posters, presentations, and more.

July 27, 2017

Agriculture is one of the industry sectors identified by the charter of MIT, and is inscribed inside the dome of Lobby 7 on campus. The MIT Professional Education short program Innovation and Technology in Agriculture and the Environment furthers this connection between research at MIT and industry practitioners.

Back to our roots

MIT short program, Innovation and Technology in Agriculture and the Environment, unifies industry and academia.

July 24, 2017

An avid downhill mountain biker, Associate Department Head and professor of mechanical engineering Anette (Peko) Hosoi visits Highland Mountain Bike Park in Northfield, New Hampshire. Hosoi’s research interests of include fluid dynamics and bioinspired design.

Pushing the limits of athletic performance

MIT 3-Sigma Sports links students and researchers with industry partners to solve the greatest engineering problems in sports.

July 16, 2017

Felice Frankel, a research scientist in MIT’s Center for Materials Science and Engineering, has helped to produce images that just in the last few months have graced the covers of Nature, Nature Materials, and Environmental Science, among others.

Felice Frankel: Creating images to explain science concepts

MIT researcher helps scientists and engineers hone their visual imagery.

July 13, 2017

Chemical engineering postdoc Antoni Forner-Cuenca (far right) explains work in the Brushett Lab on advanced flow batteries for grid-level energy storage to 2017 MPC-CMSE Summer Scholars (l-r) Kaila Holloway, Gaetana Michelet, Alexandra Oliveira, Saleem Iqbal, and Alejandro Aponte-Lugo. Forner-Cuenca is holding carbon paper where battery reactions take place.

Summer interns' lab work underway

Summer Scholars in materials science and engineering are tackling projects ranging from magnetic thin films to catalysts for energy.

July 3, 2017

American Society for Engineering Education President Bevlee Watford (left) presents the 2017 ASEE Excellence in Engineering Collaboration Award to Boeing executives Christi Gau Pagnanelli (center) and Mark Cousino.

Online program wins engineering education award

More than 1,600 professionals have completed the Architecture and Systems Engineering course series developed by MIT in collaboration with Boeing and edX.

June 30, 2017

More than 140 students from five School of Engineering departments completed intensive SuperUROP research projects in the 2016-2017 academic year.

A deep dive into research

SuperUROP gives undergraduates the chance to immerse themselves in a year-long research project with supportive mentors to guide the way.

June 22, 2017

MIT’s inaugural MicroMasters program in supply chain management drew more than 180,000 learners of all ages, from around the world. More than 1,100 learners finished all five of the courses required to earn the MicroMasters credential.

MIT’s first MicroMasters learners earn credentials

More than 1,100 learners finish online course series; 622 pass final exam that offers opportunity to apply for hybrid master’s.

June 20, 2017

Officers surround honorable guest Air Force General Darren W. McDew (at center) and MIT President Rafael L. Reif during the 2017 commissioning ceremony for the MIT’s Reserve Officers Training Corps. More than 12,000 officers have been commissioned from MIT since the program’s origin, and more than 150 have reached the rank of general or admiral.

After MIT, new officers will serve their country

Following their MIT studies, graduates in MIT’s Reserve Officer Training Corps set off on new challenges in the U.S. military.

June 16, 2017

Course 21A.157 (The Meaning of Life), examines how a variety of cultural traditions approach the question of how to live with purpose. Here Brother David Vryhof explains the beliefs followed by brothers at the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a monastery on Memorial Drive.

In search of a meaningful life

Popular MIT anthropology course offers contemplation and dialogue on life's big questions.

June 15, 2017

At a "pitch and demo" DesignX accelerator event, Department of Urban Studies and Planning student Riddhi Shah, lead for the Kumej project, makes her pitch to the crowd. Kumej is a light, collapsible seat designed to enable underprivileged students in India to carry and create their own comfortable work surface, whether at a construction site where their parents work or in a rural school.

Design innovations for improved life in cities

Venture accelerator DesignX unleashes entrepreneurs’ ideas to transform the built environment.

June 13, 2017

Space Systems Engineering students (left to right) Jeremy Stroming, Tori Wuthrich, and Nicholas James compare the properties of stony and iron meteorites.

Project Apophis

Space Systems Engineering students design a close-range mission to a giant asteroid that will fly by Earth in 2029.

May 31, 2017

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