Sreya Vangara was ready to get her hands dirty. In February, the sophomore was starting her first Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) project at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), having spent two semesters more theoretically occupied writing algorithms for self-driving cars. Now she would be working on MIT’s latest fusion experiment, SPARC. Under the guidance of PSFC Director Dennis Whyte and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) Chief Scientific Officer Brandon Sorbom PhD ’17, she would be developing a data acquisition and testing system for its new superconducting magnet…
