Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT | 3,297 followers on LinkedIn. The Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT is an interdepartmental, multidisciplinary academic research center. | The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was the first of the Institute’s great modern interdepartmental academic research centers. Our history begins with the Radiation Laboratory, commonly called the Rad Lab, a microwave and radar research lab most known for developing surface to air radar during WWII. Today, we are one of MIT's largest organizations, and the most diverse research lab at MIT in our scope of intellectual interests.