Researchers can now fabricate transistors and memory devices in one compact stack on a semiconductor chip, so data do not need to travel between components. This eliminates wasted energy while boosting the speed of computation.
MIT’s new TechAMP program teaches production principles to workers, helping them to advance their careers. “We think there’s a gap between the traditional worker categories of engineer and technician, and this technologist training fills it,” John Liu says.
Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, an Institute Professor and MIT’s executive vice provost, has been named dean of MIT’s School of Engineering.
Fellows at the MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship dream big while staying true to themselves. “MIT taught me the human side of entrepreneurship,” says Arjav Shah SM ’22, PhD ’25, whose startup focuses on therapeutic biologics.
MIT’s Supply Chain Management program hosts three fellows each year from the US Army, reflecting the strong links between the military and the logistics industry. “If you think about it, logistics started as a military function,” says Chris Caplice.
In a world without MIT, radar wouldn’t have been available to help win World War II. We might not have email, CT scans, time-release drugs, photolithography, or GPS. And we’d lose over 30,000 companies, employing millions of people. Can you imagine?
Since its founding, MIT has been key to helping American science and innovation lead the world. Discoveries that begin here generate jobs and power the economy — and what we create today builds a better tomorrow for all of us.