Design

Philip Freelon stands in the lobby of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, designed by the Freelon Group and HOK.

Philip Freelon, professor of the practice and champion of diversity in architecture, dies at 66

Noted architect designed landmark civic, cultural, and educational buildings.

July 15, 2019

MIT startup Lumii creates ink designs that make images appear three dimensional on packages, labels, IDs, and more.

Creating 3-D images, with regular ink

MIT startup Lumii helps manufacturers replicate the visual effects of holograms on their printed materials.

June 19, 2019

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2019-20

Ranked at the top for the eighth straight year, the Institute also places first in 11 of 48 disciplines.

June 18, 2019

In conjunction with defining design criteria for a novel water filter technology using plant xylem tissue under development by Mechanical Engineering Professor Rohit Karnik, a D-Lab research team investigated user needs and preferences through surveys, interviews, and through water filter prototyping sessions with local women in Bageshwar district, Uttarakhand, India.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum honors MIT D-Lab with National Design Award

D-Lab noted for its "work to address the daily challenges of poverty through design."

June 18, 2019

PhD candidates Sahil Shah (left) and Peter Godart, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab for 2019-20. Their research explores possible solutions to global and local water supply challenges through new approaches to desalination.

PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

J-WAFS announces graduate fellowships for Sahil Shah and Peter Godart, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

June 17, 2019

David Larson (far right) skippered the MIT team during the 2013 New England Match Racing Championship.

Solving equations to design safer ships

David Larson, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering and an avid sailor, models ship-wave interactions to understand how ships behave in severe storms.

June 10, 2019

MIT researchers have given their fleet of autonomous “roboats” the ability to automatically target and clasp onto each other — and keep trying if they fail. The roboats are being designed to transport people, collect trash, and self-assemble into floating structures in the canals of Amsterdam.

Autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other

Fleet of “roboats” could collect garbage or self-assemble into floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals.

June 5, 2019

"Ira's Fountain," Lawrence Halprin and Associates

Felice Frankel donates image collection to the MIT Libraries

Landscape architecture photographs will be shared as a learning resource.

May 28, 2019

I.M. Pei ’40 left a lasting mark on the MIT campus and community. He was a member of the MIT Corporation and an honorary member of the Council for the Arts at MIT.

Renowned architect I.M. Pei ’40 dies at 102

Designer of the Louvre pyramid and of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art left a distinctive mark on the MIT campus.

May 17, 2019

Left to right: Ann McInroy ’18, Isabella Didio ’16, and Jacklyn Herbst ’10, MEngM ’11 stand in front of a wall showing the history of Microsoft’s hardware since the 1980s in Building 88 of Microsoft’s campus located in Redmond, Washington.

Where design meets assembly for three MIT alumnae at Microsoft

Mechanical engineering alumnae Jacklyn Herbst ’10, MEngM ’11, Isabella DiDio ’16, and Ann McInroy ’18 bring shared MIT experiences to the same Microsoft team.

May 13, 2019