MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

News

2.00b Toy Product Design Lab PLAYsentations Tonight!
Course 2.00b, more popularly known as the Toy Product Design Lab, is one of those classes that students really get excited to take. Named one ...

Entrepreneurial students dive into product design and development
A subway commuter digs through his backpack to find his iPad. A college student lugs a bag of dirty clothes to the laundry room in ...

Whirr, click, hum: Robots go at it in 2.007 finale
MIT’s Johnson Athletic Center took on the aura of an old-fashioned county fair on Thursday night, complete with popcorn, balloons, jugglers, cotton candy and pitchmen ...

Professors Lienhard and Hadjiconstantinou Recognized with Prestigious ASME Awards
Congratulations to Professor John Lienhard and Professor Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou for receiving prestigious recognitions from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers this week. ...

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Features

Amy Smith: Service Engineering
Amy B. Smith is an inventor who creates useful technologies for others. Yet before she could do that, she had to invent something else: a way to channel her skills into a path that was meaningful to her.

Research

Control, Instrumentation, & Robotics
The Control, Instrumentation, and Robotics (CIR) area seeks to promote research and education into identifying fundamental principles and methodologies that enable systems to exhibit intelligent, goal-oriented behavior, and developing innovative instruments to monitor, manipulate, and control systems.