Preparing for a career at the forefront of the aerospace industry
In a new class, students design, build, and test an electric rocket engine turbopump, facing challenges they will experience as practicing engineers.
A collaboration across continents to solve a plastics problem
MIT students travel to the Amazon, working with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis.
A collaboration across continents to solve a plastics problem
MIT students travel to the Amazon, working with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis.
2025 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
MIT professors Paloma Duong, Frank Schilbach, and Justin Steil are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.
Making airfield assessments automatic, remote, and safe
U.S. Air Force engineer and PhD student Randall Pietersen is using AI and next-generation imaging technology to detect pavement damage and unexploded munitions.
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2025
The Institute also ranks second in seven subject areas.
A leg up for STEM majors
MIT undergraduates broaden their perspectives and prospects through political science.
Old Ironsides Update
As students settled back in to the routine this Spring, several Battalion events have been keeping them busy! February was ushered out with the MIT Joint Services Military Ball, held for the first time on the MIT campus, at Morss Hall. The formal event was the culmination of months of cooperation and planning by Navy, […]
Designing better ways to deliver drugs
Graduate student and MathWorks fellow Louis DeRidder is developing a device to make chemotherapy dosing more accurate for individual patients.
Developing materials for stellar performance in fusion power plants
Zoe Fisher, a doctoral student in NSE, is researching how defects can alter the fundamental properties of ceramics upon radiation.