Designing for flexibility
Richard de Neufville teaches and practices flexible engineering design for infrastructure projects that meet the challenges of the future.
MIT embarks on collaborative climate resiliency planning
MIT and Novartis are co-chairing a new working group on Cambridge climate resiliency.
“A new leadership cadre for science and engineering”
MIT and Total partner to improve technical instruction in African universities.
LiquiGlide slides into consumer space
Startup brings nonstick coating to consumer goods packaging in major licensing deal.
Tackling challenges at the intersection of engineering and sports
Sports companies connect with engineering students and faculty at the second annual STE@M Day.
Middle schoolers turn into Roombas
Engineers from iRobot provide workshop for students from the Boston area in the MIT STEM Mentoring Program.
A new tool measures the distance between phonon collisions
Tabletop setup provides more nuanced picture of heat production in microelectronics.
Philips establishes alliance with MIT
Company moves R&D headquarters to Cambridge and establishes a five-year, $25 million research alliance.
MIT LGO: Succeeding in its mission to create industry leaders
Alumni weigh in on the value of an MIT engineering and management program that has produced many top executives.
Student chips in with new technique for cutting silicon wafers
Leaders for Global Operation internship project earns award, could save millions for company.
MIT Clean Earth Hackathon breaks convention to foster innovative ideas for industry
Winning teams combined talents to solve real sustainability challenges.
Boiling down viscous flow
A new simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids.
Patents forecast technological change
New method uses patent data to estimate a technology’s future rate of improvement.
Taking aircraft manufacturing out of the oven
New technique uses carbon nanotube film to directly heat and cure composite materials.
