Foster the people
At manufacturing conference, emphasis is on keeping high-skill jobs in the United States — and creating workers with the talents to fill those positions.
In Profile: Suzanne Berger
A onetime student of French political history has become a leading figure in the battle to revive U.S. manufacturing.
Building chips from collapsing nanopillars
By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.
President Hockfield stresses innovation in speech to U.S. governors
‘Lasting economic growth emerges from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology,’ she says.
The future of chip manufacturing
MIT researchers show how to make e-beam lithography, commonly used to prototype computer chips, more practical as a mass-production technique.
Hockfield to co-chair U.S. manufacturing partnership
MIT president accepts Obama’s invitation to serve
Which technologies get better faster?
New analysis helps predict which new systems will be on a fast track to improvements in performance.
When is it worth remanufacturing?
MIT study shows sometimes it saves energy, sometimes it doesn’t — and sometimes it makes things worse.
A manufacturing renaissance for America?
At an MIT forum, experts examine new ways to pursue a good old idea: making things.
3 Questions: Steven Spear on Toyota’s troubles
With the vaunted Japanese automaker recalling millions of cars, the MIT senior lecturer explains what went wrong