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Explore a career path in Manufacturing & Transportation

Are you interested in the way people and things move throughout the world? Are you a creative engineer with an eye for efficiency or design? Maybe you’re a little bit of both! Whether you want to build and program autonomous vehicles, sustainably fabricate the batteries for electronics, or manage the supply chains that make it all possible, there are opportunities for you in the field of manufacturing and transportation.

This field is all about movement and change. Put your innovative perspective and unique skills to work testing and sampling construction materials as transportation engineer, searching for ways to sustainably improve production rates as a manufacturing engineer, envisioning new traffic patterns as an engineering consultant, or disrupting the industry with an unprecedented new idea.

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Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions

New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent.

Any motorist who has ever waited through multiple cycles for a traffic light to turn green knows how annoying …

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Supporting mission-driven space innovation, for Earth and beyond

Aurelia Institute, founded by a team from MIT, serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry.

Founded by Ariel Ekblaw SM ’17, PhD ’20; Danielle DeLatte ’11; and former MIT …

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US manufacturing is in ‘pretty bad shape.’ MIT hopes to change that.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Initiative for New Manufacturing is partnering with Siemens, GE Vernova and others to boost productivity through technology and innovation.

U.S. manufacturing is in a rebuilding phase. Following decades of productivity slowdowns fueled by labor declines …

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Utilizing data in the transportation industry

The transportation industry is reliant on large amounts of data to effectively route billions of people every day. In this article, we’ll examine how data is used to fuel navigation apps, ensuring that travelers receive up-to-date information to get to …

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Building a Network: Digital and In-Person Strategies for Students, Recent Graduates, and Postdocs

The following article is from Trevor Cambron’s post for the MIT Communications Lab

Networking. For some it is a loaded word that induces a visceral sense of dread, while for others it is a natural part of the workday. In …

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Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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