Each fall, graduate students, undergraduate students who have completed Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) projects, and postdocs gather to share their mechanical engineering research with the wider MIT community. They practice their presenting skills, explaining their research projects as attendees snake through rows of posters — a sight familiar to anyone who has attended a scientific conference. As with most events and conferences, the Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE) had to be held virtually this year. This presented the student organizers with a challenge: How could they help foster the…
