Making stuff is an essential part of the MIT student experience. In project-based courses, in clubs, and for thesis work, MIT students create projects and prototypes to explore, communicate, or make the world a better place.
Students learn to explore their own questions, work with others, and persist through failure. Their creative output becomes part of the science, technology, and other scholarship that make MIT famous.
MIT undergraduate and graduate students can submit proposals to display work undertaken in the current academic year.
Currently on view
Panoramia
Swati Gupta, Ph.D. in Operations Research, 2017
Educational Geiger Counter
Mark Chilenski, Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2015
Await
Yoonjeong Cha, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015
Faltering Stars
Elizabeth Zhang, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2016
Troxes
Jonathan Bobrow, M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences, 2016
Teapot
Dana Gretton, B.S. in Computer Science, 2016
Motorized Prosthetic Arm
Tatyana Gubin, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2017
Winter Guerra, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017
SPHERES Interact
Elizabeth Qian, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2014
Naomi Schurr, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2014
Walk Across
Paloma Gonzalez Rojas, M.S. in Architecture Studies, 2015
Locust Micro-UAV
Team: AeroAstro Beaver Works 2011–13
Jonathan Allen, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2014
Blake Chambers, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2013
Rebecca Colby, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2013
Libby Jones, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2014
Sam Range, B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2013
Tony Tao, M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 2013
MIT Air Quality Network
Civil and Environmental Engineering Class of 2014
David Ogutu, Hao-Yu Derek Chang, Carmen Castanos, Sidhant Pai, Katherine Spies, Obinna Okwodu, Linda Seymour, Sharone Small, Vanya Britto, Sydney Beasley, Theresa Santiano-McHatton, Maria Cassidy, Matthew Monheit, and Paula Gonzalez. Catherine Cheng, Zachary Balgobin, Priscilla Soto, Daphne Basangwa, Carolina Kaelin, and Timothy Wilson
MetaPiano
A sound sculpture created by students in a mini-course during MIT’s Independent Activities Period
2015 Art, Culture, and Technology Course Participants
Teresa Lin, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2015
Marian Styer, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2015
David Ramsay, M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences, 2016
Justin Xiao, B.S. in Physics and Music, 2017
Manuel Castro, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2017
Danny Joh, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2016
Hane Lee, B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017
Laura Malhotra, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 2017
Andy Kelleher Stuhl, M.S. in Comparative Media Studies, 2016
MIT Laser Seal
A three-foot wide, three-dimensional laser harp version of MIT's seal developed by Edgerton Center students