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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

Lee Perlman (in maroon shirt) lectures on the philosophy of love at MIT. Perlman also teaches classes at Massachusetts prisons with a mix of both MIT students and prison inmates.

Breaking down walls between the ivory tower and prison

The MIT Prison Initiative provides an academic framework for undergraduates and local inmates to explore the human condition.

May 24, 2017

Left to right: Matthew Nicolai, Dallace Francis, and Christian Argenti, MIT seniors in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and members of the fraternity Delta Kappa Epsom, took the MIT History seminar, People and Other Animals, together.

Entering the animal world

In a history seminar, engineering students explore shifting ideas about animal intelligence and human uses of animals throughout the ages.

May 19, 2017

MIT teaching assistant Marjorie Cantine lands a drone in Death Valley.

Classroom Earth: Drones over the desert

Professor Kristin Bergmann and her class used innovative technology to explore the sedimentary history of the Carrara Formation in California's Death Valley.

May 16, 2017

An Imperial Snowtrooper inspects a competitor’s entry at the 2017 MIT Mechanical Engineering 2.007 Student Design Final Robot Competition.

The Force was strong in this robot competition

MechE class ends semester with ingeniously designed robots battling on a “Star Wars”-themed playing field.

May 15, 2017

Twelve National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates interns, co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Center for Materials Science and Engineering, and two AIM Photonics Academy interns will conduct research from June 15 to August 5 on the MIT campus. 2017 MIT Summer Scholars: (top row, l-r) Alejandro Aponte-Lugo, Stephanie Bauman, Lucia Brunel, Richard Canty, ...

Summer Scholars embrace engineering challenges

Diverse group seeks MIT laboratory internship experiences in materials science, photonics, energy, and biomedical applications.

May 11, 2017

Tommi Jaakkola, a professor of electrical engineering and comptuer science at MIT, tosses chocolates to students during Introduction to Machine Learning, or 6.036.

Genuine enthusiasm for AI

Machine learning is one of the hottest subjects on campus.

April 27, 2017

2017 MIT supply chain management graduates pose in front of the MIT dome.

MIT master’s program in supply chain management ranked No. 1 in the world

Program earns top accolade for a second time from global ratings agency Eduniversal.

April 25, 2017

In innovation workshops led by MIT faculty, female government officials in Dubai brought know-how and international experience into the design thinking process, says Federico Casalegno, associate professor of the practice, and founder and director of the MIT Mobile Experience Lab. “I think the mix of people within the teams was one of the successful parts of it.”

United in learning

An MIT Professional Education program brings the Institute to Dubai.

March 30, 2017

Recent IDM presentations included one team's proposal for reducing and reusing waste in the production of Camper Shoes.

Constraints and viewpoints

The Integrated Design and Management Program blends creativity, analysis, and empathy.

March 7, 2017

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