Members of the MIT engineering faculty receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. The School of Engineering periodically recognizes their achievements by highlighting the honors, prizes, and medals won by faculty working in our academic departments, labs, and centers. The following are awards presented to […]
Day: January 12, 2021
Join the Moon Camp Explorers and Pioneers 2021
Agency 12/01/2021 108 views 1 likes Registrations are now open for the 2021 Moon Camp Explorers and Pioneers. Your team’s mission is to 3D design a Moon Camp capable of sustaining at least two astronauts and keeping them safe from hazards and the vacuum of space. Submit your Moon Camp […]
Inspired by kombucha tea, engineers create “living materials” | MIT News
Engineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the “kombucha mother” used to ferment tea. Using this mixture, also called a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast), the researchers were able […]
The interplay between scientific progress and violence in modern war
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Scientific advancements can both heal and harm. The discoveries that underlie technologies from the gun to the atomic bomb emerged from the minds of scientists. Consequently, the creators of those and many other technologies have found themselves in moral quandaries resulting from the violent application of […]
Instead of pushing students toward entrepreneurship, they should be helped with understanding personal priorities
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Community Domain Many policymakers and academic establishments hope to improve their economies by stimulating students’ entrepreneurial intentions. To day, most investigation concluded that entrepreneurship education and learning could improve these intentions by bettering the graphic that pupils have of entrepreneurship as a vocation solution, earning them see how […]