Dan Somen
Technical Director, Product Realization Lab
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 …
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Skyler St. Pierre
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I study how we can use neural networks and machine learning to better understand the mechanics of …
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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 …
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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 …
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Joseph Towles
Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
I was in high school the first time I heard the word “engineer” used separately from conducting …
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Xiaolin Zheng
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Two of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the years are the importance of taking advantage of …
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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 …
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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 …
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Alaisha Alexander
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
While I was an undergrad at MIT, I chose mechanical engineering because it was the most broad field, …
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Catie Cuan
PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
I didn’t study engineering in college …
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