MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

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MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teams
Fourteen teams will participate in this year’s MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator (MIT GFSA), an international entrepreneurship program that provides student entrepreneurs with the skills ...

Students with toys: Not just playing around
Their theme might have been “in the dark,” but the MIT students who participated in this year’s 2.00b (Toy Design), a first-year elective in mechanical ...

Water purification process named 'Technology Idol of the Year'
The humidification-dehumidification (HDH) carrier gas extraction process developed by Prakash Narayan and colleagues in Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor John H. Lienhard’s research group has ...

Professor John H. Lienhard's Group Wins Water Technology Idol of the Year Award
The humidification-dehumidification (HDH) carrier gas extraction process developed by Prakash Narayan and colleagues in Professor John H. Lienhard’s research group has just been named the Water ...

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Features

Center for Ocean Engineering: Anchors Aweigh
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.

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.