"Getting to know the DOE staff is the best part of the week."

Faculty

Name: Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis Position: Director of MIT Sea Grant, Ocean Engineering Professor

Super Mentors

Name: Pranay Sinha Year: 2009 Course: 16, Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering Residence: Next House Email address: pranay@mit.

Name: Rachel Price Year: 2010 Course: 2OE, Ocean Engineering Residence: Women’s Independent Living Group Email address: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

I swim, play water polo, and I'm on the ROV team (apparently I like being around water....) This summer I'm working at the Tow Tank!

Technical Mentor

Name: Jason Wallace Year: 2010 Course: 16, Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering Residence: PIKA Email address: redbaron@mit.

Hobbies: Flying Remote Controlled airplanes, Sailing, Fishing, Tae-Kwan-Do, rock climbing, archery...(list continues). I am extremely passionate about the oceans, and I love anything having to do with the water or the air. (or both!) The summer after my freshman year, I received a very interesting UROP in the ACL (Aerospace Controls Lab) building and designing airplanes and writing code so that they could intelligently fly in their own in set scenarios. I love to be asked questions because if I don’t know the answer then I will learn something! I attended DOE my freshman year and loved it! Most of the friends that I knew for my first semester were from DOE and it was amazing to have such good friends so early in the college transition.

 Mentors

Name: Stephanie Chin Year: 2010 Course: 2-OE Residence: East Campus Email address: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Hello, my name is Steph. I hope you have fun this pre-orientation; DOE is a great chance to be unshy around lots of pretty cool people and pretty cool baby robots. I play with robots on the ROV Team, along with some of your other mentors, and this summer I'm UROPing with vehicle modification for passively falling underwater vehicles. I don't particularly enjoy rap music, but I do like babies and shiny objects.

Name: Matt Gildner Year: 2011 Course: 2OE, Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Residence: Burton Third Email Address: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Hey, I'm Matt and I am excited to help out with DOE this year. I've spent the majority of my life less than 10 minutes from the ocean so its no surprise I ended up in 2OE. Throughout high school and my freshman year at MIT I have been part of a ROV team. This summer I have a UROP with the Center for Ocean Engineering working on the interaction between mud and waves. I am also a pretty active member of my floor, the Burton Third Bombers. And lastly, DOE is pretty much the best. Hope you have as good of a time as I did.

Name: Jenna McKown Year: 2010 Course: 2-OE, Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Residence: MacGregor Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Hi! I am really involved in MIT's Festval Jazz Ensemble, and am the current president of 13Seas, MIT's student engineering association for ocean engineers. I have been a UROP in the Experimental Hydrodynamics Laboratory since my freshman year, and this last semester I was a Lab Assistant for a freshman design course. I am also a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. I love to SCUBA dive, sail, wakeboard, and pretty much anything else involving water. Most importantly, I can't wait to meet you! See you in August!

Name: Grace Kane Year: 2011 Course: 2OE Residence: East Campus

Hi, I'm Grace. I'm a sophomore Ocean Engineering major who loves the sea and still can't decide what she wants to be when she grows up. Something with robots in might be nice. I'm in the ROV team, Shakespeare Ensemble and TaeKwonDo club, and I was in DOE last year and loved it. Looking forward to meeting you all

Name: Jordan Sorensen Year: 2009 Course: 6, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Residence: Sigma Nu Email address: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Name: Christine Chin Year: 2009 Course: 2A, Mechanical Engineering and 7, Biology Residence: Next House Email address: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Outside of class I enjoy training with the MIT SportTaekwondo team. Last summer, I spent three months researching atthe Michigan Nanofabrication Facility. I studied the localizedsurface plasom resonance response of metallic nanoparticle arrays to their dielectric environment and their potential application as sensing platforms for real-time biological sensors.

General Contact Information:

Center for Ocean Engineering Room 5-230 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: 617-253-4330 Fax: 617-253-8125 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Web: http://oe.mit.edu/discover/

Emergency Contact Messages may be left for participants at the Center for Ocean Engineering phone, 617-253-4330. Outside of office hours, a voice-mail greeting will inform callers of an after-hours emergency number. Alternatively, emergency messages may be left with the MIT Campus Police (617-253-1212) and an officer will contact the student.

Discover Ocean Engineering Mentors Six MIT undergraduates who have taken DOE or are interested in Ocean Engineering, will serve as mentors. Each mentor will have five DOE freshmen in his/her charge. Other students will coordinate activities with the mentors and assist Christiaan Adams in running the program.