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...
3Q: Muriel Médard on the World-altering Rise of 5G
The rise of 5G, or fifth generation, mobile technologies is refashioning the wireless communications and networking industry. The Sch...
Ties with MIT Run Deep for the U.S. Navy’s Top Officer
Looking back on his MIT graduate student days in the late 1980s, Admiral John M. Richardson SM ’89, EE ’89, ENG ’89 recalls a q...
Artificial Intelligence in Action
A person watching videos that show things opening — a door, a book, curtains, a blooming flower, a yawning dog — easily understan...
Apophis Is Coming!
Alissa Michelle Earle is rehearsing in front of her class. She stands before a presentation slide, and reads: “Mission Motivation: ...
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...
Getting a Leg Up on Engineering
Matthew Cavuto, now a senior in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, embarked on his career path partly as a result of a tal...
Run, Jump, Fly: Student Aviators to Compete in National Flugtag Competition
When several Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) students read of an event that dares “the brave and brainy to d...
Cem Tasan
Cem Tasan will join the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in January 2016. He holds a BSc and MSc fro...