The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced that its Laboratory for Electromagnetic Systems (LEES) will be merged into the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) as of July 1, 2009. This move is being made as part of a growing emphasis on energy-related research at RLE. LEES researchers are pioneers in understanding both the theoretical basis of advanced electrical energy applications and the component, circuit, and system technologies required to turn such theories into practical realities. They join other faculty in RLE who are pursuing world-leading energy-related initiatives in solar power, molecular electronics, organic and optoelectronic systems, and biologically inspired systems and devices. RLE, founded in 1946, was the first of MIT’s great modern interdepartmental academic research centers. Today, RLE is one of MIT’s largest organizations and among the most diverse MIT laboratories in its scope of intellectual interests. A new RLE concentration—electromagnetics, power, and energy—will be created to comprise the work of the newly affiliated former LEES faculty and RLE investigators already conducting energy-related research.Find more details in the MIT press release.
EM Lab to Be Merged
