Women's Seminar, Anette Hosoi, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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The ME Graduate Women's Group has offered ME/ENGR 311A: Women's Perspectives, a 1-unit credit seminar, every year since the group's inception in 1998. For credit or not, everyone is welcome to come! Speakers are asked to address the factors, experiences, and lessons that have been particularly important to their success in industry, academia, and... life. 

Learn To Lead, Lead to Learn

4:15pm Social | 4:30pm Seminar starts

The seminars are every Thursday, January 7 - March 10, 2016

Building 300, Room 300, Stanford  Map

*Reception to follow after seminar at 5:30pm in Room 200, Old Union

All are invited to attend!

Feb 25

Anette (Peko) Hosoi

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Founder, Sport Technology and Education at MIT (STE@M)
  

Anette HosoiAnette (Peko) Hosoi is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.  She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago and went on to become an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Mathematics and at the Courant Institute, NYU. Her research interests include fluid mechanics, bioinspired design and locomotion, with a focus on optimization of crawling gastropods, digging bivalves, swimming microorganisms and soft robotics. Her work is being used, in collaboration with Schlumberger-Doll Research, Bluefin Robotics, and Boston Dynamics to guide the engineering design of robotic crawlers and other mechanisms.

Prof. Hosoi is an exceptional, innovative teacher and an inspiring mentor for women in engineering. She was awarded the Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching, and a MacVicar Fellowship. Prof. Hosoi is also an avid mountain biker and her passion for sports has led her to create STE@M, Sports Technology & Education at MIT. STE@M is a program that is designed to build an interconnected community of faculty, students, industry partners, alums and athletes who are dedicated to applying their technical expertise to advance the state-of-the-art in sports.

 

Date/Time: 
Thursday, February 25, 2016. 4:15 pm - 6:30 pm
Sponsors: 
Sandia National Laboratories, General Motors, AT&T, Lockheed Martin, the Vice Provost of Engineering Education, and the School of Engineering Alumni Relations Progra
Admission: 
Free, open to the public
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