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MIT team places first among U.S. universities at 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition

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MIT and Fashion Institute of Technology join forces to create innovative textiles

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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