Meet this year’s MathWorks Fellows: A three-part series, II
The cardiologist reviews the diagnostic images as they play across her screen. Her patient has developed a dangerous lesion in his va...
Recent NEET graduates tackle air pollution with autonomous drones
Hovering one hundred meters above a densely populated urban residential area, the drone takes a quiet breath. Its goal is singular, t...
Meet this year’s MathWorks Fellows: A three-part series, I
In recognition of its decades-long partnership with the School of Engineering, MathWorks in 2019 began offering fellowships to engine...
3D printing tiny parts for big impact
Whether it’s computer chips, smartphone components, or camera parts, the hardware in many products is constantly getting smaller. T...
Crowdsourcing data on road quality and excess fuel consumption
America has over 4 million miles of roads and, as one might expect, monitoring them can be a monumental task. To collect high-qual...
Navigating beneath the Arctic ice
There is a lot of activity beneath the vast, lonely expanses of ice and snow in the Arctic. Climate change has dramatically altered t...
Talking outside the tower
Walking into MIT can feel like entering a foreign country — one with a number for every building and an unwieldy acronym for every ...
Healing with hydrogels
In November, mechanical engineering PhD candidate Hyunwoo Yuk earned the top prize at the Collegiate Inventors Competition hosted by ...
The impact of climate change on the ocean
“I think ocean engineering as a field is really interesting because it marries the holistic side of living on planet Earth with sol...
Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working with collaborators in Uganda on a solution for the health hazards associated...