In January 2017, the team won the Safety and Reliability Award and placed third overall.
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“I was one of the two or three undergraduates on this team, and, because I was surrounded by insanely smart graduate students, I was able to learn so much about the theoretical aspects of design as well as machining, and how to combine those two,” Schwartz says. Schwartz also worked on the MIT Hyperloop Team during his sophomore and junior years, to help design a concept pod for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. During his sophomore year, Schwartz worked on prosthetic devices in the MIT D-Lab and field-tested in Kenya and Ethiopia a pediatric transtibial prosthetic liner he designed. “What I love about mechanical engineering is that you create things that you can hold and build yourself, if you have the tools to do so.”Īs his studies have progressed, he has focused on two specific areas: engineering for the developing world, and nuclear fusion. “It was fascinating because we were learning these very complicated theories, and then every single class we were applying them to real problems,” Schwartz says. When Schwartz first arrived at the Institute, he wasn’t committed to engineering until he took 2.001 (Mechanics and Materials I), with Rohan Abeyaratne, the Quentin Berg Professor of Mechanics, during his freshman spring semester. Schwartz tends to make a lot of people smile with his work - both inside and outside of MIT. “It makes a lot of people smile,” he says proudly of his annual tradition, which is funded by the MIT SHASS-based de Florez Fund for Humor.
For his senior year, Schwartz aimed for something “bigger than ever.” He and his elves - his friends and classmates who also join in on the holiday costume-wearing - handed out thousands of pieces of candy while Christmas music played in the background.
“I came up with my sophomore year and thought it would be really fun,” Schwartz says. Nick Schwartz likes to describe himself as “a nerd with a heart.” Before finals period at the end of each fall semester, the mechanical engineering senior and nuclear fusion enthusiast dons a Santa Claus costume and hands out candy to students, staff, and faculty passing through the lobby of Building 7.
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