Five in EECS Appointed to Career Development Professorships
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has announced the appointment of five of its faculty members to Career Development Professorships, retroactively effective July 1, 2021. Those…
The Shape Of Success: The Summer Geometry Initiative
Associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Justin Solomon wants to bring great students into his research field from all corners of the globe. The Summer Geometry…
Pushing the limits of electronic circuits
Ruonan Han seeks to develop next-generation electronic devices by harnessing terahertz waves.
Engineers create 3D-printed objects that sense how a user is interacting with them
Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
Doğan awarded Adobe Research Fellowship
Mustafa Doğa Doğan, shown here in front of MIT’s Great Dome. Photo credit: Hannah Harens. Mustafa Doğa Doğan is a 3rd year PhD student working with Prof. Stefanie…
Eight from MIT named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows
Eight early-career MIT professors earned Sloan Research Fellowships. Top row, left to right: Fadel Adib, Joey Davis, Steven Flavell, Heather Kulik. Bottom row, left to right: Luquiao Liu, Karthish…
Fabricating fully functional drones
The MIT CSAIL team’s LaserFactory system can manufacture functional, custom-made devices and robots, without human intervention, potentially enabling rapid prototyping of items like wearables, robots, and printed electronics.…
Professor Stefanie Mueller stands in front of a range of hand tools used to create working prototypes for class 6.810, “Engineering Interactive Technologies.” Photograph by Juliana Sohn. When…
Could lab-grown plant tissue ease the environmental toll of logging and agriculture?
MIT researchers have proposed a method to grow plant-based materials, like wood and fiber, and have demonstrated the concept by growing a culture of wood-like cells from zinnia…
Portable device can quickly detect plant stress
A portable leaf-clip Raman sensor in use at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory detects nutrient stress in leafy vegetables. Researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and Temasek…