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Avani Ahuja, a rising MIT senior majoring in mechanical and electrical engineering, is one of four students to be named a 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholar.

Maria C. Yang has been named Interim Dean of MIT's School of Engineering.

MechE researchers have discovered that fluid between cells, not just what’s inside them, plays a major role in how tissues handle pressure and deformation.

MIT ranked No. 1 university by QS World University Rankings.

MIT researchers have developed a new adaptive control system that could help autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments or in the face of unpredictable forces like gusty winds.

Loewen Cavill ‘20, cofounder of Amira Health, is changing women’s health with a patent-pending wearable bracelet that can predict hot flashes.

Xuanhe Zhao, the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, and colleagues are tapping into an unconventional source to improve access to safe and affordable drinking water.

Feeling nostalgic in the midst of the heatwave, we want to recognize some of the MechE faculty who received awards for winter 2025.

A new microfluidic fluorescence technique allows rapid, single-cell density analysis of up to 30,000 cells per hour by combining mass and volume measurements in a streamlined flow system.

MechE professors Doug Hart and John Hansman are leading the charge as MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4.

MIT’s initiative for New Manufacturing revitalizes U.S. industry through innovation, education, and human-centered design.

MIT researchers have proposed a new hypothesis for how astrocytes, once thought to be just support cells, play a key role in memory storage by enabling complex, multi-neuron interactions. This could help explain the brain’s massive memory capacity.

MechE graduate student Alex Kachkine, an avid art collector, has developed a restoration method in using digital tools to create a ‘mask’ of pigments that can be printed and varnished onto damaged paintings.

Former MechE faculty member and department head, Evelyn Wang gathered the campus community to explore the Climate Project at MIT.

RT @MITEngineering: Amos Winter, a professor in @MITMechE, received the 2025 Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, given annually to a fac….

10 years ago, MechE Associate Professor Giovanni Traverso’s lab began developing an ingestible capsule that can stay in the stomach until all of the drug is released. Today, it is supporting a clinical trial for schizophrenia.

MechE PhD Student Palek Patel has been awarded the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship, supporting Patel’s aerospace engineering and space science studies.

Guardian Ag founded by former MITERS makers Adam Bercu and Charles Guan ‘11, offers new technology to American farmers.

MechE Researchers have developed a new way of creating hydrogen gas, lowering carbon footprint.