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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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Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications

A team of engineers, including Prof. John Hart, uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications. The approach could improve the performance of many other materials as well.

With a quantum “squeeze,” clocks could keep even more precise time, MIT researchers propose

Clocks, lasers, and other oscillators could be tuned to super-quantum precision, allowing researchers to track infinitesimally small differences in time, according to a new study by Assistant Professor Vivishek Sudhir.

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MechE faculty are passionate, out-of-the-box thinkers who love to get their hands dirty.

Pierre Lermusiaux

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John Leonard

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Kamal Youcef-Toumi

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Research areas in MechE are guidelines, not boundaries. Our faculty partner across disciplines to address the grand challenges of today and tomorrow, collaborating with researchers in MechE, MIT, industry, and beyond.

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