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Design for the Developing World

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MIT Energy Initiative conference spotlights research priorities amidst a changing energy landscape

Ahmed Ghoniem

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Cultivating confidence and craft across disciplines

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Burning things to make things

New AI agent learns to use CAD to create 3D objects from sketches

Adhesive inspired by hitchhiking sucker fish sticks to soft surfaces underwater

Photo Gallery: Celebrating the Class of 2022

Celebrating the Class of 2022 during Commencement Week.

Startup’s tablets deliver cancer drugs more evenly over time

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Jeehwan Kim

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Four from MIT named 2025 Goldwater Scholars

Prof. Anand presents major advances in coupled theories for large-deformation solid mechanics in his new book.

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June 7, 2026 Innovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat

Innovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat

June 3, 2026 Developing innovative alternatives to conventional carbon capture methods

Developing innovative alternatives to conventional carbon capture methods

June 1, 2026 Ambassadors of STEM

Ambassadors of STEM

June 1, 2026 Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart

Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart

May 25, 2026 Ten from MIT accept 2026 Fulbright awards

Ten from MIT accept 2026 Fulbright awards

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Learning Through Creation

Class 2.00a, Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth, empowers first-year students to build machines early in their academic careers at MIT.

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Bio-Inspired Robotics

MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world, then extract those useful principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to solve such challenges as manipulation and locomotion in novel and interesting ways.

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Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature

Associate Professor Sangbae Kim describes his cutting-edge research in the area of biomimetics, the study of biological systems as models for the design and engineering of robots.

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