Students with toys: Not just playing around
In mechanical engineering department’s toy-design class, teams design creative board games, plush toys and puzzles.
Reducing wasted energy in commercial buildings
Much energy is wasted heating and cooling indoor spaces when no one or almost no one is present. Now, MIT researchers have used their own campus to demonstrate a means of measuring that energy/occupancy mismatch.
Science students hold design-thinking workshop
Program aims to help students gain perspective on new methodologies, improve overall research skills.
Buongiorno and McKrell awarded more than $400,000 by CEA, France
The researchers will investigate transient boiling heat transfer phenomena under rapidly escalating heat fluxes.
Researchers engineer light-activated skeletal muscle
Technique may enable robotic animals that move with the strength and flexibility of their living counterparts.
Better product design through a simple square chart
How Design Structure Matrix analysis has helped heavyweight companies improve their products, production lines and organizations.
Bits of buildings: How is computing changing the architect’s job?
In a new book, an MIT researcher looks at the influence of high-tech simulations on the profession of architecture.
ARTEMiS brings art to teaching of science and engineering concepts
ART for Engineering, Mathematics, and Science an initiative launched last summer through MIT’s Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT).
A design to save American cities
In new book, urban studies professor Brent Ryan says shrinking American cities should stop emulating the suburbs and start supporting creative rebuilding ideas.
Entrepreneurial students dive into product design and development
Joint MIT-RISD course yields concepts from iPad-friendly backpacks to waste-free sugar.
Game theory, in the real world
MIT economist Parag Pathak engineers practical solutions to complicated education problems.