Accelerating hardware development to improve national security and innovation
The alumni-founded startup Nominal has built a platform for building and testing complex systems like fighter jets, nuclear reactors, rockets, and robots.
MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel
Conventional systems for producing hydrogen depend on fossil fuels, but the new system uses only solar energy.
Organizing “spaghetti” software so it can be easily modified
The MIT spinout Silverthread helps companies transform complex codebases into modular systems that can be changed or updated without headaches.
Embracing the future we need
MIT Sloan Professor Andy Sun works to improve the electricity grid so it can better use renewable energy.
Megawatt electrical motor designed by MIT engineers could help electrify aviation
Technology demonstrations show the machine’s major components achieve the required performance.
Mix-and-match kit could enable astronauts to build a menagerie of lunar exploration bots
Robotic parts could be assembled into nimble spider bots for exploring lava tubes or heavy-duty elephant bots for transporting solar panels.
With new heat treatment, 3D-printed metals can withstand extreme conditions
A technique that transforms the metals’ microscopic structure may enable energy-efficient 3D printing of blades for gas turbines or jet engines.
How to get more electric cars on the road
Study measures which kinds of infrastructure improvements could lead to wider adoption of clean vehicles.
Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
Analysis points to ways engineering strategies could be reimagined to minimize delays and other unanticipated expenses.
What pharmacy students in Ethiopia can do with supply chain education
The MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain lab led a blended supply chain management course with Addis Ababa University.
Business lessons from “Ford v. Ferrari”
A look at the popular film through a lens of systems thinking and process improvement.
MIT-Boeing educational collaboration aims to scale learning in additive manufacturing
New online course will enable professionals to invent and implement innovative 3-D-printing applications.
Incorporating humanity into a systems mindset
Grad student and Air National Guard officer Elizabeth Bieler combines systems design and management studies with engineering and volunteer projects.
Evading in-flight lightning strikes
MIT study shows electrically charging planes would reduce their risk of being struck by lightning.
Danielle Wood joins Media Lab faculty
MIT alumna is establishing a new research group aimed at harnessing space engineering to improve life on Earth.