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The diversity of our skill sets as mechanical engineers can help us make a major global impact by addressing the biggest needs and issues facing our world.

- Evelyn Wang, Ford Professor of Engineering

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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

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MIT Hyperloop

MIT students head to the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition with a concept pod, and a vision for the future of transportation. The MIT Hyperloop Team will be firing their concept pod along a one-mile test track in Hawthorne, potentially bringing the world closer to what SpaceX CEO Elon Musk describes as a “fifth mode of transportation.”

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Pushing material boundaries for better electronics

Associate Professor Jeehwan Kim is exploring systems that could take over where silicon leaves off.

This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs

Professor Xuanhe Zhao and his team have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs deep inside the body. This sensor could detect signs of disease such as liver and kidney failure.