

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Jacob White exemplifies strong leadership and deep empathy during the Coronavirus outbreak, going to great lengths to guide his students through the challenges of moving their lab-based feedback-control class online.
Five years in the making, MIT’s autonomous floating vessels get a size upgrade and learn a new way to communicate aboard the waters.
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a solar-powered device that can extract drinkable water directly from the air even in dry regions.
A new skin-like device can measure small movements such as a twitch or a smile, allowing ALS patients to communicate sentiments such as “I love you,” or “I’m hungry.”
A new electronic design tool lets users digitally model an object's form and electronic function in one integrated space.
SwingBot is a robot that is able to learn the physical features of a held object through tactile exploration. Two exploration actions (tilting and shaking) provide the tactile information used to create a physical feature embedding space.
In transitioning 10.213 (Chemical thermodynamics) to a self-paced mode last spring, ChemE professors Chris Love and Will Tisdale discovered ways to make remote learning work — and gained insights into their students. “They are just so genuinely interested in learning,” says Tisdale.
In a project that will run through the fall semester, wastewater from seven buildings on campus will be tested each day for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The project is designed to determine if wastewater testing can be an effective early warning system for outbreaks on campus.
Pat Pataranutaporn, a research assistant in the Fluid Interfaces group, discusses his work at the Media Lab and talks about adjusting to the new normal of the pandemic and other changes on MIT’s campus.
As students return for a semester with mostly remote learning, instructors in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering introduce new innovative methods of teaching hands-on classes which may inform educational best practices for years to come.