News + Video | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

close menu

MechE Covid-19 Resources

News
Videos
Photos

See our innovations + inventions in the world

Explore the Impact of MIT MechE

Cullen Buie

Professor

View Full Profile

Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature

Just Watched Sangbae Kim: Inspired by Nature

Watch More Videos

How to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed

Pioneering the future of materials extraction

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2024

MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

Student Awards Luncheon 2022

For MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Faith Brooks, the sky’s the limit

Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars

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

Major News Announcements from MechE

News + Announcements

January 27, 2025 Real People, Real Solutions at D-Lab

D-Lab students innovate to help solve challenges in communities worldwide.

January 21, 2025 For MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Faith Brooks, the sky’s the limit

Faith Brooks, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, has had a clear dream since the age of 4: to become a pilot.“At around 8 years old, my neighbor knew I wanted to fly and...

January 14, 2025 Three MIT students named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars

Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii will spend 2025-26 at Tsinghua University in China studying global affairs.

January 7, 2025 New general law governs fracture energy of networks across materials and length scales

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...

January 6, 2025 New filter captures and recycles aluminum from manufacturing waste

MIT engineers have developed a new nanofiltration process to curb hazardous waste generated from aluminum production.

View all Announcements from the Wire

Explore Our Videos

We Are MechE at MIT

What’s so unique about the MIT MechE spirit? Hear it straight from our students and faculty in this short video.

View

Next Generation Electronics

Jeehwan Kim, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is using his background in materials science to build a physical neural network and produce cheap semiconductor wafers – technologies that could help bring the artificial intelligence power of super computers to handheld devices.

View

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.

View

See All Videos