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DMSE Career Fair expands students’ career horizons
The eighth floor of MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing brought together recruiters, students, and postdocs from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) on October 16 for…
MIT student team CERBERUZ wins NASA LunaRecycle Centennial Challenge, turning lunar trash into tools
Establishing a human presence on the moon will require state-of-the-art spacecraft, spacesuits, life-support systems, and some of the most sophisticated technology humans have ever built. It will also…
Building energy security through more sustainable batteries
For Hugh Smith, the challenge of building an energy-secure future isn’t about creating the world’s “best” battery. It’s about designing the right battery for the right job.As a…
DMSE Class of 2026 urged to keep pushing limits after MIT
Undergraduate and graduate students who mastered rigorous subjects, advanced research in fields ranging from semiconductors to medical devices, and even founded companies were urged during MIT’s commencement festivities…
Learning to teach, learning to discover
Nik Sandu points to a graph on the whiteboard in a seventh-grade science class. “According to the graph, what is the energy of the ball?” she asks, gently waving…
Solving hard problems in soft electronics
A crepe cake.That’s how Camille Cunin describes the polymer-metal “sandwiches” that became a highlight of her doctoral thesis at MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE). Over…
Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments
What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard? In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini…
MIT NEET students install solar-powered charging station on campus, resurrecting an MIT tradition
Students enrolled in MIT’s New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program recently collaborated across academic disciplines to design and construct a solar-powered charging station. Positioned in a quiet campus courtyard,…
MIT students develop spray-on coating to protect power lines from ice
A spray-on coating to keep power lines standing through an ice storm may not be the obvious fix for winter outages—but it’s exactly the kind of innovation that…
The brain power behind sustainable AI
How can you use science to build a better gingerbread house?That was something Miranda Schwacke spent a lot of time thinking about. The MIT graduate student in the…