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A Cleaner Burn

Students work to scale-up a solution for the health risks associated with wood-burning cookstoves in Uganda.

A Cleaner Burn

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If you design in a box, whether it’s for someone in the US or someone in India, your solution isn’t going to be right.

- PhD candidate Natasha Wright (SM ’14), Vice President of GAME

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Exotic “second sound” phenomenon observed in pencil lead

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Developing technologies that store, capture, convert, and minimize greenhouse gas emissions

Developing technologies that store, capture, convert, and minimize greenhouse gas emissions

MechE has been named the number one mechanical engineering department in the world by QS World University Rankings

MechE has been named the number one mechanical engineering department in the world by QS World University Rankings

Themistoklis Sapsis

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MIT D-Lab studentsdesign for the developing world

MIT D-Lab studentsdesign for the developing world

Maria Yang

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Where design meets assembly - MechE at Microsoft

Where design meets assembly - MechE at Microsoft

PHOTO GALLERY: 2019 Build Challenge

PHOTO GALLERY: 2019 Build Challenge

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Daniel Frey

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A new, noninvasive technique measures the stiffness of living cells using acoustic waves

A new, noninvasive technique measures the stiffness of living cells using acoustic waves

Professor Gareth McKinley has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society

Two MechE graduate students named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists