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Professor Gareth McKinley has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society

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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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Training robots to “learn” the fundamentals of object manipulation

MIT-Delft University of Technology team places third in Formula Student Germany driverless competition

Warren Seering

Tonio Buonassisi

Professor Arthur Baggeroer and Professor John Leonard elected as 2019 AAAS Fellows

Aerogels used solar devices and windows could help save energy

Photovoltaic-powered sensors for the “internet of things”

Photo Gallery: Visualizing MechE Research: Scientific Photos by Felice Frankel

Technique could help improve design of soft materials like toothpaste or yogurt

Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately

Professor Gareth McKinley has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society

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