Education at MechE | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT MechE has historically attracted very entrepreneurial, hands-on students. It was through my interaction with these friends that I came to appreciate the importance of applying theoretical principles to building useful products.

- Alum Davide Marini (PhD ’03), CEO/Co-Founder, Firefly Bioworks

MechE Education News + Media

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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Training manufacturing technologists to be future shop floor leaders

New curriculum from MIT and collaborating institutions aims to give technicians a ladder to become shop-floor leaders — “technologists” who bridge the gap between technicians and engineers.

Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2024 R&D 100 Awards

Two of the fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies recognized by 2024 R&D 100 Awards, sometimes called the “Oscars of Innovation,” are MechE Collaborations.