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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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MIT, US Space Force to explore opportunities for research and workforce development

Sara Cody | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Publication Date: September 23, 2021

Advancing human understanding and exploration in space is a long-standing pursuit of researchers and students at MIT. For the U.S. military, space technologies and discovery have wide-ranging implications …

By MIT News
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Best Manufacturing Companies to Work For in 2020

by Dominique Fluker

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has created a challenging economic climate, there are companies who are still actively hiring and looking for essential employees that are willing to contribute to creating products that make a difference. The following …

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Lessons From the Aerospace Life: Networking is Important, Too

By Jordan Cox | Air & Space Magazine

The job: Lara works in the Boeing Research and Technology (BR&T) structures department at the company’s St. Louis facility, where he investigates materials and composites for building lighter and stronger aircraft. Lara has …

By Alexis Boyer
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The Top 25 Self-Driving Car Companies Paving the Way for an Autonomous Future

By Sunny Betz

The automobile is arguably the most important invention of the past hundred years. Though it has changed daily life more than most innovations, aside from the implementation of safety features like airbags and seatbelts, there haven’t been …

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Making self-driving cars safer through keener robot perception

By Hannah Meiseles | MIT News Office

PhD student Heng Yang is developing algorithms to help driverless vehicles quickly and accurately assess their surroundings.

Aviation became a reality in the early 20th century, but it took 20 years before the proper …

By MIT News
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