How do people become addicted to online games and social networking sites?
By using them. The principles of online interaction aren’t so different from those of a slot machine…
Project Sandcastle
On a foggy night in San Francisco, a Bat-Signal appears in the sky. It flickers above a house on the highest hilltop in the city, whe...
Future Engineers
We are dedicated to making science and engineering open to everyone. Too often, kids’ zip codes play a larger role in determining t...
GrubHub Founder Starts a Handy Alternative to the Gig Economy
It started not with a stroke of creative genius, but with a rain barrel that Mike Evans ’99, MEng ’00, wanted to install in his g...
The Ingestible Bacterial-Electronic Sensor
MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stoma...
The Warmup
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They have a promising idea, a series of ...
Creating “Big, Beautiful Things”
Garrett Parrish grew up singing and dancing as a theater kid, influenced by his older siblings, one of whom is an actor and the other...
Professional Education
We can help you take the next step in your career. Our Professional Education program provides a gateway to MIT knowledge and experti...
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
In the MIT School of Engineering, we believe that engineering is a creative and collaborative endeavor in which the best solutions ar...
Leadership Development
We are educating leading engineers — and engineers who can lead. Humanity’s greatest challenges are increasingly being met with e...