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Current Members

Nigel Barnett('25)

Vehicles, rocket science, and other miscellaneous projects. Jack of most trades master of none, but better than one!

Dane Kouttron

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.

Robert Reeve

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.

Andrew Birkel

Experimental physics, vintage machine refurbishment, gear shaping & hobbing. A good person to randomly dispense advice or stories… he’s old!

MITERS Alumni

(Dr.)Ciaran O'Neill ('23)

Ciaran got his PhD in mechanical engineering from Harvard and worked as a Post-doc designing novel tools.

Ava Chen('17)

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.