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The one who is manufacturing the great ideas is the one making the money. So I look at it and wonder, how could you ever have an economy without manufacturing?

- Professor David Hardt

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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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Harnessing the Full Potential of the Sun

MechE researchers, led by Associate Professor Evelyn Wang, have developed a solar thermophotovoltaic device that experimentally demonstrates a three-fold increase in energy conversion efficiency.

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A closed-loop drug-delivery system could improve chemotherapy

To make chemotherapy dosing more accurate, A team led by Giovanni Traverso has come up with a way to continuously measure how much drug is in the patient’s system during the hours-long infusion.

Want to design the car of the future? Here are 8,000 designs to get you started.

Engineers in MechE's DeCoDE Lab have developed the largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics, which could speed up the design of eco-friendly cars and electric vehicles.