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Research Engineer 1, Electro-Mechanical Design:

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Open Graduate Research Opportunities:

If you are a newly admitted MIT student and are interested in any of the project descriptions below, please reach out to the corresponding postdoctoral associate!

Water Treatment in the Amazon

The project will identify, optimize, and validate existing water‑treatment technologies suited to rural communities in the Amazon Rainforest, adapting feasible low‑cost solutions to ensure long‑term, sustainable implementation and operation in remote sites.

Contact: Leonardo Capeleto de Andrade (capeleto@mit.edu)

Making Rural Water Treatment Safer Through Smart Coagulant Control

This project aims to retrofit drinking water treatment systems by developing an operator-assistive tool for optimal coagulation, potentially improving water safety for billions in Asia.

Contact: Chotiwat Jantarakasem (choja@mit.edu)

Designing desert-optimized greenhouses for efficient water and energy use in agriculture

This project aims to develop and validate greenhouse architectures tailored to hot, arid conditions in the UAE and MENA, reducing water and energy use while maintaining profitable and scalable crop production.

Contact: Mohamed Naouri (mnaouri@mit.edu)

If you have ideas for other projects, feel free to reach out to our lab manager, Emily Welsh (ewelsh@mit.edu).