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Palacios named Associate Director of new semiconductor research center; Jing Kong, Farnaz Niroui, Luqiao Liu, and Bilge Yildiz to act as PI’s.

February 28, 2023

The new research center will bring together researchers from nine different higher education institutions, with a focus on developing energy-efficient semiconductor materials and technologies.

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Tomás Palacios named new Director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL)

December 14, 2022

The Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) will now be helmed by a new director.

A collage of professional headshots includes Phillip Isola, Will Oliver, Costis Daskalakis, Manish Raghavan, Stefanie Mueller, Martin Wainwright, Muriel Médard, Martha Gray, Polina Golland, and David Perreault.

Recent chair announcements within EECS

October 25, 2022

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) recently announced the following crop of chair appointments, all effective July 1, 2022. Karl Berggren has been named the

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2022

April 7, 2022

The Institute also ranks second in two subject areas.

Last-minute pivot leads to record-setting Microsystems Annual Research Conference

March 21, 2022

Virtual conference gathered students, faculty, and industry partners to explore the future of microsystems and nanotechnology.

Caption:The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team poses with Nimbus, their solar car, after winning the 2021 American Solar Challenge. Credits:Photo courtesy of MIT SEVT.

MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team wins 2021 American Solar Challenge

August 19, 2021

Student-designed Nimbus solar car travels 1,109 miles in five days, averaging 38.4 miles per hour.

MIT and Ericsson enter collaboration agreements to research the next generation of mobile networks

August 6, 2021

Two research projects on the design of state-of-the-art hardware could one day power next-generation 5G and 6G mobile networks.

Clearing the way toward robust quantum computing

June 25, 2021

A tunable coupler can switch the qubit-qubit interaction on and off. Unwanted, residual (ZZ) interaction between the two qubits is eliminated by harnessing higher energy levels of the

Recent NEET graduates tackle air pollution with autonomous drones

June 25, 2021

Image: Lillie Paquette | School of Engineering Hovering one hundred meters above a densely populated urban residential area, the drone takes a quiet breath. Its goal is singular,

The future of the IoT (batteries not required)

May 25, 2021

Benton Calhoun SM ’02 PhD ’06 and David Wentzloff SM ’02 PhD ’07 are co-founders of Everactive, which uses wireless sensing to provide continuous remote monitoring for the industrial internet of things.