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A community approach to improving the health of the planet

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Design’s new frontier

Engineers use artificial intelligence to capture the complexity of breaking waves

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Team creates map for production of eco-friendly metals

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

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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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Controls, Instrumentation + Robotics

Energy Science + Engineering

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A community approach to improving the health of the planet

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