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If we can make medical diagnostic devices more accurate, easier, and cheaper, then why wouldn’t we?

- Professor Douglas Hart

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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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Printing with Light

Using light to imprint features onto polymer or plastic, Associate Professor Nick Fang's research led his team to disprove the established diffraction limit.

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Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions

Professor Russ Tedrake and a team of researchers have developed a rapid safety check technique which can ensure a robot will avoid collisions while completing a task.

Mechanical engineering with a twist: Pursuing a passion for robotics with customized major

Sharmi Shah ’23 pursued Course 2-A/6, a customizable degree path that combines mechanical engineering with computer science and electrical engineering.