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I’m interested in how humans can sustainably harvest the oceans’ resources in energy, food, and minerals, while conserving their fragile ecosystems.

- Alumna Grace Young (SB ’14)

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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

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Bio-Inspired Robotics

MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world, then extract those useful principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to solve such challenges as manipulation and locomotion in novel and interesting ways.

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A 3D printable tissue adhesive

MIT researchers have introduced a direct-ink-write 3D printable tissue adhesive, offering a way to customize bio-adhesive patches or devices

Crystan McLymore SM ’23: Exceling at sea and in the lab

Crystan McLymore SM '23 recently completed a master’s degree in mechanical engineering after participating in research on an ingestible device that can detect radiation in the gastrointestinal tract.