Classes and programs

A five-day MIT Professional Education course — Agriculture, Innovation, and the Environment — showcased new technologies and strategies for making the agriculture industry more productive.

Growing season

New professional education program on agriculture, innovation, and the environment attracts global agricultural leaders to MIT.

July 19, 2016

“Beijing Studio” celebrates 30 years

MIT–Tsinghua collaboration grapples with urban issues in China.

July 14, 2016

This image shows microneedles, which are mostly used for the delivery of drugs and vaccines across the skin, and the silicone mold used to make them.

Seeing science

Workshop led by scientist and photographer Felice Frankel teaches researchers how to translate experiments into captivating images.

July 1, 2016

Professor John Ochsendorf advises on structural design and mechanics.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offering new minors, subjects this fall

CEE creates three new undergraduate minors, adds new subjects to extend choice and opportunity.

June 17, 2016

"We got to learn how to use saws, a drill press, and other machines," says Kathryn Hendrickson, rising senior and computer science major (at left with Theodore Mouratidis and Lauren Huang). "It was cool to make something physical, where I'm used to just code. Building a printing press is awesome."

Mens et manus in the MIT History workshop

Students gain insights into early book-making technology and cultural systems by creating paper and a handset printing press from scratch.

June 10, 2016

The 2016 MPC-CMSE Summer Scholars are: (top row, l-r) Michael Concepción Santana, Justin Cheng, Erica Eggleton, Ashley Del Valle Morales; (middle row, l-r) Suna Njie, Ashley Kaiser, Jennifer Coulter; (bottom row, l-r) Michael Porter, Alexandra Barth, Victoria Yao, Grant Smith.

Stepping out of their comfort zone

Eleven students will challenge themselves at MIT in the MPC-CMSE Summer Scholars program.

June 6, 2016

MIT students led by Assistant Professor Justin Steil leave MCI-Norfolk prison after a class session.

Prison is the ideal classroom for new urban studies course

A seminar explores inequality through conversations in Massachusetts’ largest prison.

May 31, 2016

Jakub Chudik (third from right) poses with his ConquerX team during the MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.

From MOOC to bootcamp to MIT

Two students with entrepreneurial spirit found their way into the Class of 2020 through MITx.

May 19, 2016

Katherine Young (center), a sophomore enrolled in 6.S04 (Fundamentals of Programming), works with Professor Srini Devadas on one of the class's software labs.

A learn-by-doing approach to coding

New class lays a strong foundation for learning computer science.

May 19, 2016

Left to right: Maysa Jalbout, CEO of the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education; Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, chair of the board of trustees; and Eric L. Grimson, MIT chancellor for academic advancement.

MIT and Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education collaborate to expand digital education reach

Collaboration funds two new MITx MicroMaster's for students worldwide.

May 17, 2016

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science launches new undergraduate curriculum

Updated degree requirements emphasize flexibility, earlier engagement with core material, and smoother introduction to software

May 16, 2016

Over 27,000 learners enrolled in the first MOOC of the MicroMaster's in supply chain management program.

New MicroMaster’s MOOC teaches supply chain design

The second in a new series of open online courses, part of MIT's MicroMaster’s program in supply chain management, is open for enrollment.

May 16, 2016

Since 2013, John Hart (standing, center) has been teaching the MIT graduate course 2.S998 (Additive Manufacturing), which explores the fundamentals of 3-D printing.

3-D Printing 101

As MIT course challenges students to reinvent 3-D printing, professor aims to share approach with others.

May 11, 2016

Instructors modeled the competition’s obstacle course after major landmarks from the American Revolution, including replicas of Boston’s North Church, Concord’s Old North Bridge, and the “H.M.S. Beaver.”

2.007 robots battle it out, revolutionary-style

Motors smoking, robot reenacted Paul Revere’s ride to win competition.

May 6, 2016

Students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, photographed here with MIT Lincoln Laboratory instructors for a three-day build-a-radar workshop, show off the small "coffee-can" systems they built and demonstrated.

Teaching radar at the University of Puerto Rico

Lincoln Laboratory workshop teaches undergraduates how to build and test small radar systems.