School of Engineering first quarter 2023 awards
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.
Department
Materials Science and Engineering
Deep-learning system explores materials’ interiors from the outside
A new method could provide detailed information about internal structures, voids, and cracks, based solely on data about exterior conditions.
Off-menu materials science
Rob Macfarlane synthesizes new composite materials by manipulating their structure at the nanometer scale.
MIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2023-24
Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 4.
Exploring new sides of climate and sustainability research
With the support of each other and MIT faculty, students in the MCSC’s Climate and Sustainability Scholars Program are making their impact on real-world climate challenges.
Nanoparticles provoke immune response against tumors but avoid side effects
In a new study, immunostimulatory drugs slowed tumor growth without producing systemic inflammation.
Scientists uncover the amazing way sandgrouse hold water in their feathers
The structure of the desert birds’ belly feathers enables males to carry water over long distances to their chicks.
School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Eleven new faculty members join six of the school's academic departments and institutes.
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2023
The Institute also ranks second in five subject areas.
MIT-led teams win National Science Foundation grants to research sustainable materials
The teams will work toward sustainable microchips and topological materials as well as socioresilient materials design.
Aviva Intveld named 2023 Gates Cambridge Scholar
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in earth sciences at Cambridge University.
Student-led conference charts the future of micro- and nanoscale research, reinforces scientific community
19th Microsystems Annual Research Conference reveals the next era of microsystems technologies, along with skiing and a dance party.
Making nanoparticle building blocks for new materials
Associate Professor Robert Macfarlane is uncovering design principles that allow researchers to fine-tune materials at many size scales.
Nine from MIT named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”
Using lasers, researchers can directly control a property of nuclei called spin, that can encode quantum information.