Spotlights
Jay Sim
PhD candidate
I've always loved working with my hands. As a kid I played with building toys like Lego and K'NEX …
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Dan Somen
Technical Director, Product Realization Lab
Mechanical Engineering
I didn’t have an “aha moment” when it came to becoming an engineer …
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Sonia Martin
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
When I first began making decisions about college and my career, I didn’t even know what …
Read Sonia Martin's story for October 17, 2024
Skyler St. Pierre
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I study how we can use neural networks and machine learning to better understand the mechanics of …
Read Skyler St. Pierre's story for June 20, 2023
Michelle Lucas Rice
Director of Student Services
Mechanical Engineering
As director of the Student Services Office in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, I supervise …
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Aaron Brown
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I work in Alison Marsden’s lab, where we study computational modeling of the cardiovascular …
Read Aaron Brown's story for October 19, 2022
Michaëlle Mayalu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
My dad was my first introduction to the field of engineering …
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Matthew Edwards
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I’m interested in the ability of high-powered lasers, with their extremely bright light, to help …
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Aaron Brown
MS ’23
Mechanical Engineering
I think I first became curious about space and science in middle school …
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Bianca Jurewicz (Aumann)
M.S., ’23
Mechanical Engineering
My curiosity about engineering has been a part of me since I was a little girl …
Read Bianca Jurewicz (Aumann)'s story for June 01, 2022
Joseph Towles
Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
I was in high school the first time I heard the word “engineer” used separately from conducting …
Read Joseph Towles's story for April 29, 2022
Xiaolin Zheng
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Two of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the years are the importance of taking advantage of …
Read Xiaolin Zheng's story for November 09, 2021
Renee Zhao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I study soft composites and soft robotic systems for use in minimally invasive biomedical devices …
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Javier Urzay
Senior Research Aerospace Engineer, Center for Turbulence Research and Associate Director, Stanford PSAAP-III Center
Mechanical Engineering
I am a senior research aerospace engineer at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford …
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Dhiraj Indana
PhD
Mechanical Engineering
My parents, who are both doctors, instilled in me a love of biology …
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Kylie Holland, Phoebe Wall and William Alvero Koski
MS candidates
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering
There’s not a lot of work being done on building habitats on other planets, but our Mars Team at …
Read Kylie Holland, Phoebe Wall and William Alvero Koski's story for August 04, 2021
Karsu Ipek Kilic
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I’m from a very small city in Turkey where my parents were physics professors at its only …
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Ovijit Chaudhuri
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: As an undergraduate I was passionate about math and physics, and I knew I wanted to …
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Wendy Gu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always liked research. I really became interested in both engineering and …
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Kelly Chu
Group Lead
Mechanical Engineering
I’m a group lead responsible for the Mechanics and Computation and the Biomechanics groups in the …
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Monroe Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I see “problems” less as impassable obstacles and more as things that can be …
Read Monroe Kennedy's story for February 04, 2020
Alaisha Alexander
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
While I was an undergrad at MIT, I chose mechanical engineering because it was the most broad field, …
Read Alaisha Alexander's story for October 04, 2019