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In class 2.72/2.270 (Elements of Mechanical Design), "if it doesn’t break the laws of physics, it's possible... you just have to figure out how to engineer it."
In the Spring 2026 issue of MechE Connects, our departmental magazine, we explore MechE-born entrepreneurship and the companies launched by MechE alumni.
Found Industries, with support from the DOE, is hoping to use its electrochemical gallium extraction technology to create a new domestic supply chain for gallium and a host of other important metals. We believe we can deploy this at scale to become one of the first major Western suppliers of these metals," says MechE alum Peter Godart.
The MIT Sports Lab helped develop a tool referees used to make clutch calls at the last World Cup, but their ongoing work with FIFA is just one of many collaborations with heavy hitters in sports.
Mechanical engineers designed a robot that can swim underwater, break through the surface, and continue flying in air. Diving birds manage this feat. "So we knew it was possible. Just no one had tried this in a mobile robotic system," Raphael Zufferey says.
Michelangelo didn’t attend a semester of lectures; he learned in the studio with a master looking over his shoulder.
- Professor Sanjay Sarma, Director of the Office of Digital Learning