MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

News

Sounds good: new 3D imaging technique may lead to improved hearing aids
A new 3D imaging process developed by MechE Professor Douglas Hart holds the potential to make hearing aids bo...

MechE students battle it out in Japan at Robocon 2009
A group of students led by Professor Dan Frey recently traveled to Tokyo Denki University, where they particip...

MIT team helps uncover secrets of ulcer-causing bacteria
A group of MIT-based mechanical and biomedical engineers, including Professor Gareth McKinley, Professor Peter...

Cariplo Foundations funds faculty exchange program between MIT MechE and University of Brescia in It...
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is pleased to announce the establishment of a Faculty Exchange Progra...

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Features

Center for Ocean Engineering: Anchors Away
Originally established in 1893 as the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NA&ME), and rechristened the Department of Ocean Engineering in 1970, the program officially merged with Mechanical Engineering on January 1, 2005. Thus also emerged the Center...

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. Our focus is on ...