Alumni team tops Collegiate Inventors Competition
Mechanical engineering alumni of 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) win with Rhino, a product that makes brick repointing faster, safer, and more accurate.
Blending medicine and mechanical engineering
Assistant Professor Ellen Roche develops revolutionary medical devices through research at the crossroads of medical science and engineering.
Accelerating 3-D printing
Researchers have designed a novel printhead that works with unprecedented speed and pioneered ways to melt and extrude renewable materials.
Reproducing paintings that make an impression
CSAIL's new RePaint system aims to faithfully recreate your favorite paintings using deep learning and 3-D printing.
Ekene Ijeoma joins MIT Media Lab
The new media arts and sciences faculty member merges social justice with design, architecture, music, performance, and technology.
One man’s flying car dream is taking off, thanks to MIT
Felipe Varon uses knowledge gained from MIT Professional Education to improve his invention; hopes cars might service areas with low access to food and supplies.
Creating 3-D-printed “motion sculptures” from 2-D videos
CSAIL system could help athletes, dancers, and others better analyze how they move.
Ana Miljacki: Scholar of designers and dreamers
Historian, curator, and designer studies architects and their quest to make a better world.
Software tool could help architects design efficient buildings
MIT researchers develop inexpensive way to perform full lifecycle analysis of design choices as buildings are being planned.
Design tool reveals a product’s many possible performance tradeoffs
Users can quickly visualize designs that optimize multiple parameters at once.
Inventing future fabrics
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America workshop challenges pioneering MIT and FIT students to conceive new ideas.
Smart office enables a personalized workplace atmosphere
Project out of the MIT Media Lab uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize the sensory experience in individual work environments.
Dennis Frenchman named head of the MIT Center for Real Estate
Architect and urban designer brings to the role decades of global expertise on the transformation of cities
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2018-19
Ranked at the top for the seventh straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 48 disciplines.