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Learning by doing – The MIT way

Date of the session

02/23/2023

Mode of delivery

Hybrid

Time of the session

5:00 pm

Guest Speaker

Diane Li - MIT Visiting Student

About the lecture

MIT’s motto is Mens et Manus, Latin for Mind and Hand. Beyond the classroom, learning happens in laboratories, machine shops, and other spaces for practice. In this lecture, we travel from the solar car garage to the ballroom dance floor to explore how these extracurricular spaces contribute to an engineering education.

The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team is a student-run organization that designs and builds a road-legal solar car to compete in the American Solar Challenge. How can a car drive 1800 km in 5 days while using only as much power as a toaster oven?

Ballroom dance is a type of partner dance that relies on touch to coordinate synchronized motion between a leader and a follower. How do dancers talk to each other in this language without words?

About the guest speaker


Diane Li is a visiting student from MIT, where she recently completed her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and materials science. She is broadly interested in issues of climate, energy, and sustainability. As an intern at Medine’s Agriculture branch, Diane is working on mushroom cultivation and ways to convert the waste into building materials.