Using combustion to make better batteries
An MIT team is working to harness combustion to yield valuable materials, including some that are critical in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries.
Preparing students for the new nuclear
MIT Leaders for Global Operations’ collaboration with the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering trains leaders for a rapidly evolving industry.
Wiring the organization for exceptional performance
Steven Spear SM ’93, a senior lecturer of system dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, helps organizations develop the optimal social circuitry.
Rescuing small plastics from the waste stream
PhD student Alexis Hocken is working with manufacturers to keep their products from (literally) falling through the cracks in the recycling process.
Blue-sky thinking and the next 150-year chair
MIT students studying advanced product design explored sustainable chair manufacturing and showed their work in a community exhibition space in Venice, California.
Strengthening America’s manufacturing base
In a visit to MIT, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu talked about the DoD’s role in strengthening U.S. manufacturing.
Manufacturing a cleaner future
Startups founded by mechanical engineers are at the forefront of developing solutions to mitigate the environmental impact of manufacturing.
An automated way to assemble thousands of objects
A new algorithm for automatic assembly of products is accurate, efficient, and generalizable to a wide range of complex real-world assemblies.
Mining for the clean energy transition
MIT Conference on Mining, Environment, and Society convenes academics, industry, policymakers, and NGOs to discuss challenges of supplying the materials for clean energy.
Industrializing 3D printing
VulcanForms, founded by an MIT alumnus and professor, has created digital production systems to manufacture complex metal parts at scale.
Building resilience for the next supply chain disruption
James Rice discusses supply chain resilience and how organizations can prepare for the next big problem.
UpNano joins MIT.nano Consortium
Provider of ultra-high resolution 3D printing becomes sustaining member of industry group.
Desktop simulation of MIT.nano die bonder enables virtual tool training
Digital twins to expand training capabilities through virtual reality.
Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble
Researchers create a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about what they connect with, enabling more-scalable self-assembly.
Bringing it all back home
In MIT visit, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf PhD ’81 offers a road map for creating more manufacturing jobs in the U.S.