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MIT MechE Graduate Student Folkers Rojas explains his PhD Thesis research: "Mitigating the impact of a Blowout Preventer failure".

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Fast, furious, and soon to be electric
The MIT Formula SAE team heats up the road ...

Professor Sangbae Kim Receives NSF CAREER Award
We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Sangbae Kim was recently bestowed with a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue ...

A robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
The AUV built by MIT spinout Bluefin Robotics will begin imaging the ocean floor in search of clues. ...

Excitons observed in action for the first time
Technique developed at MIT reveals the motion of energy-carrying quasiparticles in solid material. ...

Lemelson-MIT announces National Collegiate Student Prize Competition winners
$50,000 awarded to undergraduate and graduate student inventors ...

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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.

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Mechanics
The Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, and Computation (MMEC) area seeks to enable rational engineering innovation through research and education. Research - We advance and enrich the spectrum of scientific tools and physical models for predicting and understanding thermo-mechanical phenomena.