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January 7, 2025 New general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales

Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are diverse in composition but all contain networks of interconnected strands. A longstanding question about the durability of these...

January 6, 2025 New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste

MIT engineers have developed a new nanofiltration process to curb hazardous waste generated from aluminum production.

December 19, 2024 Global MIT At-Risk Fellows Program expands to invite Palestinian scholars

The Global MIT At-Risk Fellows (GMAF) initiative launched in February 2024 as a pilot program for Ukrainian researchers under the direction of MechE Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi.

December 18, 2024 MechE Professors Named “Highly Cited Researchers”

Professors Tonio Buonassisi, Gang Chen, Yang Shao-Horn, Evelyn Wang and Xuanhe Zhao, along with MechE alumnus Hyunwoo Yuk, have been named “Highly Cited Researchers” for 2024 by Clarivate, a data analytics company.

December 18, 2024 Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.

Researchers have created a way to autonomously generate and evaluate promising research hypotheses across fields, through human-AI collaboration. The multi-agent approach, is co-authored by Professor Markus Buehler.

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Design for the Developing World

In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, MIT students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way – from ambulances in Tanzania to an irrigation pump in Nepal.

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Hacking for Lilly

MechE students use their knowledge of mechanical engineering to design an improved walker for 9-year-old Lilly and gain new perspective about how assistive technologies can improve the lives of others in the process.

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A Cleaner Burn

Millions of people die each year as a result of soot or smoke inhalation from these wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in Uganda manufacture charcoal briquettes that produce a cleaner burn, minimizing these health risks.

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