MIT DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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Mechanical engineering student Eli Brooks taught toy product design to children at the Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage and uncovered a newfound passion for teaching and life along the way.

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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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Orisa Coombs and Max Kessler named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Rohit Karnik

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Ellen Roche and Warren Seering win School of Engineering Awards for 2021

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Phonon catalysis could lead to a new field

Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly

Homing in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells

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Physics and the machine learning “black box”

Tonio Buonassisi

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Mathias Kolle

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The Teaching Student

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Mining the Deep Sea

Orisa Coombs and Max Kessler named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

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Rohit Karnik

Ellen Roche and Warren Seering win School of Engineering Awards for 2021

Phonon catalysis could lead to a new field

Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly

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Homing in on longer-lasting perovskite solar cells

PHOTO GALLERY: 2019 Build Challenge

Physics and the machine learning “black box”

Tonio Buonassisi

Mathias Kolle

A safer way to deploy bacteria as environmental sensors

A team led by Prof. Yang Shao-Horn shows a new universal descriptor for removal of nitrogen monoxide.

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