Ben Beasley ('27)
Current MITERS Tesla Coil Child (TM)
Current MITERS Tesla Coil Child (TM)
Hobby machinist studying electrical engineering, specializing in RF.
Vehicles, rocket science, and other miscellaneous projects. Jack of most trades master of none, but better than one!
EECS. MechE too. Understander of Electric Vehicles.
Robots and automation, batteries and battery management, power electronics, embedded development. Dane worked at A123 systems for several years and is our go-to guy for lithium battery management and safety.
Conventional/manual machine operation, metrology, traditional manufacturing, mechanical design especially gear design and gear manufacturing, precision grinding, electric discharge machining, heavy equipment moving/rigging/hauling, machinery salvage and restoration. Has a machine shop in Waltham specializing in gear manufacturing.
Experimental physics, vintage machine refurbishment, gear shaping & hobbing. A good person to randomly dispense advice or stories… he’s old!
Ciaran got his PhD in mechanical engineering from Harvard and worked as a Post-doc designing novel tools.
Robotics PhD student at Columbia building hand exoskeletons for people after stroke and spinal cord injuries. I like growing tiny trees with normal-sized fruits, and make other silly things sometimes.