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The flexible Course 2-A program is very important because it shows that you can provide an extremely rigorous accredited engineering education while still adapting to the modern themes that are emerging in real engineering jobs.

- Professor Peko Hosoi

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The Birth of a Hands-On Education

The first hands-on classes to teach students not only how to design an object but also how to build it.

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MIT graduate engineering, business, economics programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2022

US News & World Report has ranked MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering the number one mechanical engineering graduate program for 2022.

Sustainable solutions at home and abroad

A senior studying mechanical engineering, Arnav Patel has devoted much of his undergraduate career to championing sustainable causes.

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[ SM ’14 PhD ’17 and SM ’14 PhD ’18 ]

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Dana Yoerger

Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

[ SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83 ]

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Jennifer Rumsey and John Wall

Chief Technology Officer, Cummins

[ SB, SM ’75, ScD ’78; SM ’98 ]

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The Birth of a Hands-On Education

MIT graduate engineering, business, economics programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2022

Sustainable solutions at home and abroad

Meet Some of Our Faculty

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