MIT Communication Lab

The Communication Lab is a discipline-specific peer-coaching program for MIT’s School of Engineering that helps students and postdocs with their scientific writing, speaking, and visual design.

By hiring and training students and postdocs as Communication Fellows, the Communication Lab offers individual coaching, targeted workshops, and a spectrum of initiatives to support engineers as they learn key transferable communication skills that will help them achieve their career goals.

We invite MIT’s School of Engineering students and postdocs to find their department’s Communication Lab website and:

make an appointment with a Communication Fellow at any point in the writing process
use our CommKit: a collection of quick tips and annotated examples for scientific communication tasks.

While we are not able to support students from other institutions with individual coaching appointments, we encourage the use of our online CommKit, which is open and available to all.

Comm Lab Voices: Clients Share Their Stories for the Comm Lab’s 10th Anniversary

In The Spotlight

I hated writing—until I learned there’s a science to it

October 17, 2024 Read EECS Fellow, Rachel Yang's, essay, which was published in Science, about discovering that writing doesn't have to be so intimidating if you treat it as trial-and-error - like research.
Use the Grad App Portal for your graduate application needs

August 2, 2024 Applying to STEM graduate school and graduate fellowships? Use the Grad App Portal to find all of the resources that the MIT Communication Lab has designed to help you with the application process.
Communication Fellow alum graduates from NASA astronaut training

March 25, 2024 Comm Fellow alum, Christina “Chris” Birch PhD ’15, along with Marcos Berríos ’06 and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, were among the 12-member class of astronaut candidates to graduate from basic training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday, March 5.
Gazing Upwards with MIT’s Evan Kramer

February 29, 2024 Join Evan Kramer, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate and Comm Lab Fellow, and Babak Tafreshi, a National Geographic photographer, for an afternoon of inspiring photography and conversation about the importance of a healthy connection between humanity and the night sky.

Writing, speaking, and visual design for engineers—by engineers.

Comm Lab Voices: Clients Share Their Stories for the Comm Lab’s 10th Anniversary