Jimmy Tran
Master’s student
Desalination team
Research Interests
Jimmy is a graduate student on the desalination team. His passions lie in product design and manufacturing. During his undergrad, he did research in the Engineering Systems lab, designing a prototype for PEARL, an autonomous floating platform that AUVs can dock at to recharge and offload data. He also worked internships at Ford and Multiply Labs.
Education
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021
Honors and Awards
2nd Place in de Florez Undergraduate Design Competition, 2021
School of Engineering SMA2 Brown Fellowship, 2021
Carl G. Sontheimer Prize Outstanding Undergraduate Assistant, 2020
Hobbies
Skateboarding, making/fixing stuff, watching TV, playing video games, playing board games, frisbee