Mechanical engineering

The building blocks of healthy collagen, above, begin with one-nanometer-sized amino acids, which form the universal 300-nanometer tropocollagen strands. Fibrils composed of those strands, in turn, make up the steel-cable-like collagen fibers.

Math model may aid study of collagen ailments

Tensile loading reveals nature's economy

November 14, 2006

Soap Box speakers urge energy conservation

November 13, 2006

Robots headed for deepwater oil, gas operations

November 8, 2006

Engineer launches review of energy use in manufacturing

November 1, 2006

Gutowski focuses on design to boost recycling

November 1, 2006

Green design research unites Institute across disciplines

November 1, 2006

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Gareth McKinley, left, and HST graduate student Nikola Kojic used the micro-rheometer in their lab to study the viscosity and stickiness of spider silk. The taffy-like 'thread' is actually a protein solution, they found.

Engineers probe spiders' polymer art

Manufactured silk could be used for artificial tendons and ligaments, sutures, parachutes and bulletproof vests

October 30, 2006

MIT researchers have developed a half-sized engine that performs like a full-sized engine but offers the fuel efficiency of a hybrid electric car. The team includes, from left to right, Leslie Bromberg, principal research engineer at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), Daniel Cohn, division head and senior research scientist at the PSFC, and John Heywood, director of the Sloan Automotive ...

MIT's pint-sized car engine promises high efficiency, low cost

Ethanol empowers the little engine that could

October 25, 2006

Jonathan How, a professor in aeronautics and astronautics, joins graduate students Brett Bethke, center, and Mario Valenti, right, in demonstrating their "hands-off" technique of simultaneously controlling four fully-autonomous flying vehicles using a PC.

MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously

September 26, 2006

MIT graduate student Trevor Shen Kuan Ng demonstrates the stretchy properties of wheat flour dough.

Student makes dough -- in the lab

September 26, 2006

This scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image shows MIT's new nanoscale molecular sieve, which consists of thousands of alternating deep (300 nanometers or billionths of a meter) and shallow (55 nanometers) regions. The deep and shallow regions act together to form energy barriers that separate proteins by size. Pores of different sizes can be engineered for different filters to capture specific p...

MIT's molecular sieve advances protein research

September 11, 2006

MIT energy experts explore life "beyond carbon"

September 5, 2006

Among three designs for floating giant wind turbines in the deep ocean, MIT research is focusing on the tension leg platform (center), a system that oil companies use for deep-water rigs.

Deep-sea oil rigs inspire MIT designs for giant wind turbines

August 29, 2006

Students working to develop fuel-efficient cars at MIT this summer test out a prototype vehicle powered by electricity and fuel cells. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('vehicle-1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Sun and new fuels power student vehicles

August 14, 2006

MIT research engineer Joseph Curcio, left, helps launch a SCOUT for experiments conducted off the island of Pianosa, Italy, in July 2005.

Kayaks adapted to test marine robotics

August 7, 2006

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