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    ENERGY: PROVIDING CLEANER, MORE EFFICIENT ENERGY

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      The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.


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