![Becoming a Doctor on Zoom](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/full_video_poster/public/gallery/Defense%20pic%202.jpg?itok=X4scgd6F)
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Becoming a Doctor on Zoom
Recent graduate Erin Looney reflects on the surprising benefits of defending her doctoral thesis virtually.
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![Becoming a Doctor on Zoom](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Defense%20pic%202.jpg?itok=Txqcfz3w)
Recent MIT graduate Erin Looney, who received her PhD in mechanical engineering, reflects on the surprising benefits of defending her doctoral thesis virtually.
![The Art of Measuring a Material Function as it Flows](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Ober%20HD_0.jpg?itok=MKKAWitr)
PhD candidate Thomas Ober discusses his thesis research: the development of a basic tool set and framework for using microfluidic devices to characterize viscoelastic liquids at large deformation rates.
![Celebrating the MIT MechE Class of 2020](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Celebrating%202020%20class%201920.jpg?itok=G0mH3XWq)
Faculty and teaching staff from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering share words of encouragement and reflect back on the accomplishments of MIT MechE’s Class of 2020.
![Design for the Developing World](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Design%20for%20scale%2001.jpg?itok=0OMBRuLf)
In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, MIT students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way – from ambulances in Tanzania to an irrigation pump in Nepal.
![A Cleaner Burn](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Uganda%20Photo%201920.jpg?itok=fxVFq93s)
Millions of people die each year as a result of soot or smoke inhalation from these wood-burning cookstoves. A team of students from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and MIT D-Lab are helping a start-up in Uganda manufacture charcoal briquettes that produce a cleaner burn, minimizing these health risks.
![Yo-Yo Champion](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Yo-Yo%20still%20image.jpg?itok=5TUJrdO6)
Six-time national yo-yo champion and rising senior Alex Hattori explores his passion for yo-yos at MIT.
![Hacking for Lilly](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Lilly_poster.jpg?itok=AbIDWLPI)
MechE students use their knowledge of mechanical engineering to design an improved walker for 9-year-old Lilly and gain new perspective about how assistive technologies can improve the lives of others in the process.
![The Magic of Making](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/ISAM_1920.jpg?itok=QarUuMos)
The magic of making is told through the personal stories of MIT students, whose passion runs deep and from an early age.
As overpopulation and lack of rainfall fuel a crisis-level need in rural India for affordable drinking water, PhD candidate Natasha Wright and Assistant Professor Amos Winter work to design a low-cost desalination system, guided by insight from their extensive in-the-field research.
![We Are MechE at MIT](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/WE%20ARE%20HD.jpg?itok=_G8PC5IB)
What’s so unique about the MIT MechE spirit? Hear it straight from our students and faculty in this short video.
![Designing the Next-Generation Prosthesis](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Olesnavage%20HD_0.jpg?itok=fkKmh5xN)
MIT graduate student Katy Olesnavage redesigns the Jaipur Foot to create a high-value prosthesis at a low cost for those in need in developing countries.
PhD candidate Folkers E. Rojas researches how to mitigate the impact of a Blowout Preventer failure by using a continuous feed of an occluding medium into an uncontrolled well.
![Seal-whisker-inspired Sensing](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/seal%20wisjers%201920%20_0.jpg?itok=qGG3TFVe)
Dr. Heather Beem (PhD ’15) has designed a sensor that could be used by underwater robots to collect data on hydrothermal events or marine life.
![MIT Hyperloop](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Hyperloop%20video%20HERO_0.jpg?itok=bcZD4kr9)
MIT students head to the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition with a concept pod, and a vision for the future of transportation. The MIT Hyperloop Team will be firing their concept pod along a one-mile test track in Hawthorne, potentially bringing the world closer to what SpaceX CEO Elon Musk describes as a “fifth mode of transportation.”
![A Makerspace for the Students, by the Students](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Maker%20video%20still.jpg?itok=7-2U_qD8)
MakerWorks, MechE’s comprehensive community makerspace offering both fabrication and measurement tools, is run by and for students.
Senior Guangtao (Taotao) Zhang, of China, reflects upon her undergraduate journey at MIT as a transfer student and the path to becoming one of the most successful students in her class.
![Living Undersea](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/GRACE%20HD.jpg?itok=5ybij-8u)
Just returning from 15 days living undersea as part of Fabien Cousteau's Mission 31 project, MechE alumna Grace Young '14 reflects on her experience.
![Programmable Aperture Light Field Cameras](https://meche.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/three_thirty/public/gallery/Milnes%20HD_0.jpg?itok=xusQp9Ox)
PhD candidate Thomas Milnes explains his thesis research: the development of novel hardware and software techniques -- such as "digital aperture" and "programmable deconvolution" -- for the field of light field imaging.