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Discover both undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering classes at MIT on our updated Class Offerings page.

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Rhodes Scholar

Wilhem Hector, a senior from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was awarded a Global Rhodes Scholarship. He is the first Haitian national to receive this distinction.

Building with Glass

Motivated by circular construction’s eco potential, MIT engineers are developing a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass.

Building with Glass

The Breadth of MechE

Discover the incredible breadth of work underway in MechE at MIT.

The Breadth of MechE

Spectacular crack patterns

A new study by Paul Lilin and Irmgard Bischofberger, rationalizes the spectacular crack patterns formed by drying drops of a colloidal suspension by considering the energy released by each successive crack.

Spectacular crack patterns

A SimPLE Solution

The approach, dubbed SimPLE, learns to pick, regrasp and place objects using the object’s computer-aided design (CAD) model.

A SimPLE Solution

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If you design in a box, whether it’s for someone in the US or someone in India, your solution isn’t going to be right.

- PhD candidate Natasha Wright (SM ’14), Vice President of GAME

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Robert Langer

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Artificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce storm damage

Artificial reef designed by MIT engineers could protect marine life, reduce storm damage

A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine

A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine

Markus Buehler

McAfee Professor of Engineering

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Ahmed Ghoniem

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

Reducing pesticide use while increasing effectiveness

Reducing pesticide use while increasing effectiveness

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License plates of MIT

The Eric P. & Evelyn E. Newman Lab Open House

The Eric P. & Evelyn E. Newman Lab Open House

The Eric P and Evelyn E Newman Laboratory provides a new home for robotics and biomechanics research in MechE.

Stripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids

Stripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to “chiral” fluids

Turning history of science into a comic adventure

Turning history of science into a comic adventure

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

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