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New 3D printing technique creates unique objects quickly and with less waste

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Twenty-three MIT faculty honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2023-25

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MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

Crack densification in drying colloidal suspensions

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Lincoln Laboratory staff member Steve Gillmer tests the elasticity of a bioabsorbable fabric.

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$New general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales$

New general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales

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

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March 12, 2025 Making solar projects cheaper and faster with portable factories

Charge Robotics, founded by Banks Hunter ’15 and Max Justicz ’17, has created a system that automatically assembles and installs completed sections of large solar farms.

March 12, 2025 QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025

QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2025, including Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing Engineering.

March 11, 2025 Mapping the future of metamaterials

Professor Carlos Portela and Postdoc James Surjadi discuss key hurdles, opportunities, and future applications in the field of mechanical metamaterials.

March 7, 2025 New electroadhesive hydrogel may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases

e-GLUE, a new electroadhesive hydrogel, may be used to deliver sustained drug administration for GI diseases and biosensing.

March 6, 2025 A leg up for STEM majors

MechE Junior Erin Hovendon’s work is focused on sustainable methods for addressing climate change. She is currently participating in a multi-semester research project at MIT's Environmental Dynamics Lab.

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Design for the Developing World

In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, MIT students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way – from ambulances in Tanzania to an irrigation pump in Nepal.

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Bio-Inspired Robotics

MIT Mechanical Engineering students in Professor Sangbae Kim’s class explore why certain physical traits have evolved in animals in the natural world, then extract those useful principles, which are applicable to robotic systems, to solve such challenges as manipulation and locomotion in novel and interesting ways.

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Water is Life

As overpopulation and lack of rainfall fuel a crisis-level need in rural India for affordable drinking water, PhD candidate Natasha Wright and Assistant Professor Amos Winter work to design a low-cost desalination system, guided by insight from their extensive in-the-field research.

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