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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

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Students develop tech for people with disabilities at annual Assistive Technologies Hackathon

How Christopher Weaver SM '85 transformed video games and game studies at MIT

Building the tools of the next manufacturing revolution

A new way to make droplets bounce away

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Engineers 3-D print flexible mesh for ankle and knee braces

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