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Our education here doesn’t make a distinction between people who are good at theory and people who are good with their hands, because at MIT, you need to be good at both.

- Professor Ian Hunter

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Visual Thinking for Engineers

Professor Maria Yang has discovered valuable strategies and techniques for designing both consumer products and complex engineering systems, partnering with NASA, Ferrari, and IBM.

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Robots shoot for the moon in MIT’s annual 2.007 competition

Robotic sweepers, flappers, and telescoping arms face off at MechE’s annual 2.007 competition.

Designing vehicles that drive, fly — and swim

Crystal Winston, a senior studying mechanical engineering, will pursue her vision of a world where cars aren’t limited to roads as a Marshall Scholar earning her graduate degree in the UK.