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The plastic bottle you just tossed in the recycling bin could provide structural support for your future house.
MIT engineers are using recycled plastic to 3D print construction-grade beams, trusses...
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The Pappalardo Apprentice program pushes the boundaries of the traditional lab experience, inviting a selected group of juniors and seniors to advance their fabrication skills while also providing...
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More than 200 years ago, the steam boiler helped spark the Industrial Revolution. Since then, steam has been the lifeblood of industrial activity around the world. Today the production of steam —...
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MIT’s senior capstone course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), an iconic class known colloquially on campus as “two double-oh nine,” emulates what engineers experience while working as part of a...
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Students enrolled in MIT’s New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program recently collaborated across academic disciplines to design and construct a solar-powered charging station....
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A spray-on coating to keep power lines standing through an ice storm may not be the obvious fix for winter outages — but it’s exactly the kind of innovation that happens when MIT students tackle a...
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To help mitigate climate change, companies are using bioreactors to grow algae and other microorganisms that are hundreds of times more efficient at absorbing CO2 than trees. Meanwhile, in the...
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MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum.
The new printable metal is made from...
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Of all the tools he has designed over the years, Evan Brown ’18 considers his first his favorite: a high-torque impact wrench made for iron workers and truck mechanics that was twice as powerful as...
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Kresge Auditorium came alive Friday as MIT entrepreneurs took center stage to share their progress in the delta v startup accelerator program.
Now in its 14th year, delta v Demo Day represents the...
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If your hand lotion is a bit runnier than usual coming out of the bottle, it might have something to do with the goop’s “mechanical memory.”
Soft gels and lotions are made by mixing ingredients until...
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MIT researchers have developed a reconfigurable antenna that dynamically adjusts its frequency range by changing its physical shape, making it more versatile for communications and sensing than...
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“Manufacturing is the engine of society, and it is the backbone of robust, resilient economies,” says John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and faculty co-director of...
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MIT today launched its Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an Institute-wide effort to reinfuse U.S. industrial production with leading-edge technologies, bolster crucial U.S. economic sectors,...
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MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing, announced today by President Sally A. Kornbluth, is the latest installment in a grand tradition: Since its founding, MIT has worked overtime to expand U.S....
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One of the most profound open questions in modern physics is: “Is gravity quantum?”
The other fundamental forces — electromagnetic, weak, and strong — have all been successfully described, but no...
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Imagine a boombox that tracks your every move and suggests music to match your personal dance style. That’s the idea behind “Be the Beat,” one of several projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (...
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Materials like car tires, human tissues, and spider webs are diverse in composition but all contain networks of interconnected strands. A longstanding question about the durability of these materials...
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Used in everything from soda cans and foil wrap to circuit boards and rocket boosters, aluminum is the second-most-produced metal in the world after steel. By the end of this decade, demand is...
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On an otherwise dark and rainy Monday night, attendees packed Kresge Auditorium for a lively and colorful celebration of student product designs, as part of the final presentations for MIT’s popular...