Rebecca Shepardson and Mahia Brown honored with 2024 Infinite Mile Awards

Rebecca Shepardson and Mahia Brown have won the School of Engineering’s 2024 Infinite Mile Award, which honors staff members for their extraordinary contributions to MIT’s educational mission.  At a…

Quick action keeps DMSE commencement celebration on dry ground

A nearly constant downpour threatened to drench the Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s commencement reception at MIT on May 30, but quick thinking and swift action by…

DMSE Software Licenses

The following is the software license offered by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. CrystalMaker 11, CrystalDiffract 11, and SingleCrystal 11 for Windows and Mac License Type…

Making steel with electricity

Steel is one of the most useful materials on the planet. A backbone of modern life, it’s used in skyscrapers, cars, airplanes, bridges, and more. Unfortunately, steelmaking is…

EMERGE returns, enabling high schoolers to explore biological materials

The grad-student-run science discovery program EMERGE that trained middle-school kids on electron microscopes in November returned this spring, this time in the recently opened DMSE Breakerspace. Twenty-two high schoolers learned…

Researchers develop a detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases

Most systems used to detect toxic gases in industrial or domestic settings can be used only once, or at best a few times. Now, researchers at MIT have…

From steel engineering to ovarian tumor research

Ashutosh Kumar is a classically trained materials engineer. Having grown up with a passion for making things, he has explored steel design and studied stress fractures in alloys.

This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

We are living in a very noisy world. From the hum of traffic outside your window to the next-door neighbor’s blaring TV to sounds from a co-worker’s cubicle,…

Bernhardt Wuensch, crystallographer and esteemed educator, dies at 90

MIT Professor Emeritus Bernhardt Wuensch, a crystallographer and beloved teacher whose warmth and dedication to ensuring his students mastered the complexities of a precise science matched the analytical…

Student Awards Nomination

DMSE invites nominations for our annual student awards celebrating achievements from the academic year 2025-2026.All nominations including letters and other nomination materials (if applicable) must be submitted by…