People of MITERS

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Current Students

Ryan Trujillo ('27)

Amateur "machinist" and bike mechanic who likes to pretend he knows what he's doing

Anhad Sawhney ('25)

MITERS Emperor (and CRC captain)! I build combat robots, electric bikes, rollercoasters, and other crazy ideas that pop into my head.

Tanner Packham ('24)

I am an electrical engineer, specifically a 6-1. I can be found at MITERS building something interesting from cruft recently obtained from the loading dock...

Robbie Khazan ('26)

I like making stuff, miters is a great place to do that. I'm a '26, would love to build a jetski or overpowered mini boat. In my free time I fly FPV.

Oliver Trevor('25)

Hobby machinist studying electrical engineering, specializing in RF. Also helps run Swapfest, the Flea at MIT.

Nigel Barnett('25)

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

MITERS Alumni

Jaguar Kristeller ('16)

Hub-less hub motor, crocs, Chinese, truck home conversion, robotics, personal data dashboard analytics, alternative education models, brain computer interfaces

Jonhenry Poss ('23)

Retired MITERS dictator and current aficionado of general swashbuckling adventures. Will teach you how to weld in exchange for Beantown. Fond of high vacuum, electric vehicles, and hydrofoils.

Ben Katz ('16)

Legged robots, electric motors, enthusiast of high bandwidth electro-mechanical contraptions

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

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

MIT Staff

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.

Andrew Birkel

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

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.