Research

The 2020 MIT A+B Applied Energy Symposium (MITAB) was held entirely virtually this year, with both live and prerecorded online presentations from August 13–14, 2020. The conference aims to disseminate information on technologies that either (A) can be currently deployed to reduce...

NSE’s Mike Short is one of eight faculty members granted tenure in five departments across the School of Engineering.

Separation of 85Kr from Spent Nuclear Fuel by a Highly Selective Metal Organic Framework. Nuclear energy provides about 20 percent of the US electricity supply, and over half of its carbon-free generating capacity. Operations of commercial nuclear reactors produce small quantities of...

In the following letter to NSE faculty Dean of MIT School of Engineering, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, announced the appointment of Anne White as the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Anne White has...

Prof Mike Short and collaborators finds that in certain alloys, exposure to proton irradiation can extend the material’s lifetime, study finds.

Hundreds of miles from campus, Sreya Vangara recalibrates her approach to laboratory research and other MIT commitments.

In mid-March, when the Covid-19 pandemic darkened MIT classrooms and labs, lights switched on for undergraduate research taking place remotely. Zooming in from times zones often distant from Cambridge, many students were able to take continue undergraduate research opportunities (UROPs) made possible...

MIT team has made strides toward a system, which uses physical, analog devices that can much more efficiently mimic the brain’s learning process, for neural network AI systems.

Prof. Jacopo Buongiorno talks with host Laur Hesse Fisher about how nuclear power works, why even some climate advocates don’t agree on using it, and what role it can play in our clean energy future.

Researchers have devised a practical solution for preventing corrosive buildup in nuclear systems. Image shows specimens of a standard reactor zirconium alloy with and without our crud-resistant coating. The uncoated specimens at left are covered with crud in our flowing reactor experiment,...