Engineering

Channel | updated May 02, 2013

Founded in 1861, MIT and its School of Engineering have a proud history of influencing the world through technological leadership and research innovation. MIT is one of the world’s preeminent research universities: renowned for rigorous academic programs in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship; cutting-edge research; a diverse campus community; and a longstanding commitment to working with the public and private sectors to bring new knowledge to bear on the world’s complex challenges.

The School of Engineering educates about 60 percent of MIT’s undergraduates and 45 percent of our graduate students. Just over a third of MIT’s faculty are in the school.

MIT Engineering: Overview

Leaders from MIT's engineering community speak to the past, present, and future of engineering research and education at the Institute.

MIT Engineering: Places

The MIT campus is a place where problems come for solutions--and MIT's engineers help provide them.

MIT Engineering: Programs

Creating a community of great minds in engineering is only one step in solving global-scale problems--MIT also creates programmatic opportunities for scholars to discover their common interests and come together to tackle intriguing, important problems.

MIT Engineering: People

MIT students are working around the globe to provide solutions to problems whose impact defies political boundaries in much the same way our faculty and students defy disciplinary ones.

Inventor: Barry Kudrowitz

Barry is the inventor of "Nerf® Atom Blaster" which has been on store shelves for the past four years and the "Catsup Crapper" which was featured on the Martha Stewart show two years ago.

Custom ESC: Field Weakening Test

This is a test of the brushless ESC I built for my 1/10-scale RC car. It uses sinusoidal AC commutation and field-oriented control, which dynamically adjusts the timing of the motor to optimize torque. As an extension of this control method, it can also run at other operating points that ...

Twitch, Jr.

A SolidWorks rendering of the linkage-drive robot I'm building. It's based on "Twitch...the missing link(age)," FIRST Team 1565's 2008 robot, which you can see in action here: 1565 Build Video 2008 1565 Drive Test 2008 I'm not affiliated with Team 1565, and I don't even know that this is how ...

Rookie vs. the RC Car (...in slow motion.)

Rookie (the dog) likes to chase squirrels. RC cars look like squirrels, I guess.

Pirate Radio Control: Custom RC for a 4WD 1/10th Scale

This is the first test drive of my modified 1/10th scale RC car. It can reach a top speed of nearly 40mph with this gearing. It does 0-30mph in 2.2 seconds. More information. The car is a Team Associated TC4 RTR. Modification I made include: - Switched to a cheap but ...

Transforming Infinity: The new Laboratory for Advanced ...

Transforming Infinity: The new Laboratory for Advanced Materials

The Laboratory for Advanced Materials (LAM) was officially opened on March 17, 2010. The LAM is the third in a series of renovation projects at the eastern end of the Infinite Corridor in the Main Group that have created public-facing materials science and engineering ...

LEAF Motor: Spin-Up

This is the very first spin-up test of the Less Epic Axial Flux (LEAF) motor, to about 1500rpm. The LEAF motor is a "DIY" coreless axial-flux brushless motor. More information. The LEAF motor is the end result of a cheap set of wedge magnets that I bought. They're for "building efficient and ...

Tanya Goldhaber (2010) Shares Her Experiences in the ...

Tanya Goldhaber (2010) Shares Her Experiences in the Gordon-MIT ...

In this video you'll hear the experiences of Tanya Goldhaber (GEL 2010). In this unique engineering leadership program, MIT undergraduates (and young engineers beyond MIT) are immersed in experiential, hands-on learning activities designed to help them become ...

RC Car Tire Spin, 600FPS

Here's a quick video of my new toy, a 1/10th scale 4WD RC car. The video is shot with a Casio EX-F1, (a hand-held high speed video camera for under $1,000).

Inventor: Manu Prakash

Manu is the inventor of Bubble Logic, a novel universal logic family implemented using immiscible fluids in microfluidic devices. A single bit of information (bubble) can carry a chemical payload merging chemistry and computation. Click here for more information.

Brushless Motor Control

This video shows a significant difference between square-wave commutated and sine-wave commutated brushless motor drive. The motor (from the B.W.D. Scooter project, can resonate with the scooter frame at certain speeds when driven with ordinary six-step control. Sine-wave control greatly ...

Engineering

Channel | updated May 02, 2013

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