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We are makers. We are thinkers. We are explorers. In all that we do. The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose to make a better world through education, research, and innovation. We are fun and quirky, inventive and artistic, obsessed with numbers, and welcoming to talented people regardless of where they come from.

Only at MIT
🏛 In a new class, 16.811 (Advanced Manufacturing for Aerospace Engineers), students design, build, and test an electric turbopump for a rocket engine, facing challenges they’ll experience as practicing engineers.
🔨 Seeing a flaw in how hammers were designed, Kurt Schroder ’90 made it his mission to fix it. Today, his design improvements have made hammering much easier on the users’ elbows.
Open your mind to the infinite possibilities of MIT...what will you discover?