The Forces on an Airplane
The Forces on an Airplane
How do airplanes fly? It's not magic. Learn about the forces that help (and hinder) airplane flight.
The Heart of the Matter: An Introduction to Engineering ...
The Heart of the Matter: An Introduction to Engineering Heart Tissue
What is the best way to repair a heart after a heart attack? Maybe a tissue engineered blood vessel will work.
Series and Parallel Circuits: A Water Analogy
Series and Parallel Circuits: A Water Analogy
Understanding electrical circuits using a water analogy.
Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
What is the Greenhouse Effect and what role does carbon dioxide play?
Indoor Flying Robots
Indoor Flying Robots
Learn the physics behind how quadrotors fly -- and how they can do it without any human help at all.
Sports Car Aerodynamics: Spolier Alert!
Sports Car Aerodynamics: Spolier Alert!
How does a spoiler effect the performance of a car?
The Physics of Unicycling
The Physics of Unicycling
How does anyone balance on a unicycle? Just keep pedaling!
The ‘New Seed': Babadoru 5-chome project
The ‘New Seed': Babadoru 5-chome project
This video captures the story of the Babadoru 5-chome community and the shelter designed for them by the Japan 3/11 Initiative team
MIT Sea Grant Sea Perch Institute 2011
MIT Sea Grant Sea Perch Institute 2011
Nearly 300 middle and high school students from four schools worked in teams to address a complex engineering problem using remotely operated underwater vehicles they built themselves.
UPOP: "Class of 2021"
UPOP: "Class of 2021"
MIT's Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP) "Class of 2021": Fourth-graders discuss the future of science and engineering
Conversations on Quality Slideshow
Conversations on Quality Slideshow
Video slideshow of the Conversations on Quality Symposium, January 24-24, 2012.
Summer Engineering Design Workshop
MIT Edgerton Center - Summer Engineering Design Workshop
This summer, a few dozen Boston-area high school students chose to spend their mornings toiling away with a variety of materials to create working marvels of engineering. Learn more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/video-edgerton-workshop-0805.
Semmie Kim & Caroline Huang
Semmie Kim & Caroline Huang
Caroline Huang ('10, Course 9) founded the MIT branch of Camp Kesem in her freshman year and has continued to coordinate the summer camp for children of cancer patients for the last three summers.
Ting Shih: ClickHealth & ClickDiagnostics
Ting Shih: ClickHealth & ClickDiagnostics
Ting Shih SM '09 participated in the MIT Paul and Priscilla Gray Value-Added Internship program. Ting traveled to Botswana to implement the ClickDiagnostics telemedicine system she co-founded. The system connects community health workers to remote medical specialists ...
MITES: Genomics Enrichment Course at the Broad
MITES: Genomics Enrichment Course at the Broad
This summer in Genomics, sixteen MITES students were transformed into research scientists. In groups of four, students researched monogenic disorders such as Early Onset Breast Cancer and sequenced the DNA of several individuals to discover novel human genetic ...
Kyle Doolan
Kyle Doolan
"You work all day, you realize it's late at night, and there are still things you want to do - not have to do - want to do." --Kyle Doolan, Senior, Villanova University
Jacques-Yves Cousteau testing Harold 'Doc' Edgerton's ...
Jacques-Yves Cousteau testing Harold 'Doc' Edgerton's camera, 1952
Jacques-Yves Cousteau testing Harold 'Doc' Edgerton's underwater camera and flash in the MIT Pool, 1952.
Youth and Civic Engagement
MIT Communications Forum: Youth and Civic Engagement
With the right tools and backing, children of the 21st century are set to make their mark on the world.
Doc and Crew Pulling up the Distress Lantern from the Civil ...
Doc and Crew Pulling up the Distress Lantern from the Civil War Ship ...
See Doc Edgerton and crew pulling up the distress lantern from the ironclad Civil War-era ship USS Monitor.
Synchronous Motor Motional Transients
Synchronous Motor Motional Transients
Watch a film about Synchronous Motor Motional Transients in this silent film by Doc Edgerton.