MIT engineers introduce the Oreometer
Mechanical engineers put an Oreo’s cream filling through a battery of tests to understand what happens when two wafers are twisted apart.
Mechanical engineers put an Oreo’s cream filling through a battery of tests to understand what happens when two wafers are twisted apart.
Longtime professor of mechanical engineering influenced nuclear reactor design and shaped thermodynamics education at MIT.
MIT ocean and mechanical engineers are using advances in scientific computing to address the ocean’s many challenges, and seize its opportunities.
The new observations record a key crossover from classical to quantum behavior.
New results show North Atlantic hurricanes have increased in frequency over the last 150 years.
APS names Bourouiba, Grego, Liu, Peacock, Winslow, and Yildiz as MIT’s newest fellows for their contributions to physics.
As climate change brings greater threats to coastal ecosystems, new research can help planners leverage the wave-damping benefits of marsh plants.
Udayan Umapathi SM ’17 and Will Langford SM ’14, PhD ’19 are co-founders of a Media Lab spinoff building a full-stack platform to enable automation for genomics and genetic engineering.
Probstein’s research had diverse applications in fields including aeronautics, energy, desalination, and soil decontamination.
Themistoklis Sapsis tackles engineering problems associated with the unpredictable ocean environment and its effects on ships and other structures.
The results may help engineers develop a way to inject drugs without needles.
MIT team looks at classroom configurations and offers modifications to enhance safety during Covid-19 pandemic.
Applied in the field, a new model reduced quakes from oil and gas processes; could help manage seismic events from carbon sequestration.
Interest is growing in mining the ocean for valuable metals. A new study helps gauge the extent of the impact.
“This is the key, the linchpin that will set a lot of things in the right direction,” says the mechanical engineering professor.