About Me
My name is Lauren and I love designing, building and instrumenting machines and other mechanical systems. I received my degrees, B.Sc. ‘12, M.Sc. ‘15, PhD ‘24 all in Mechanical Engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I am currently based in Cambridge, MA.
My PhD studied strategies to improve assembly speed when using acoustic trapping, aka acoustophoresis, to create heterogenous structures out of mixed phase material mixes in manufacturing. This work was conducted in the Computational Instrumentation and Device Realization Lab with Dr. Brian Anthony.
In my previous research life, I designed, modeled and built an artery phantom for medical ultrasound in order to validate using ultrasound to measure blood pressure. This work is summarized in my Bachelor’s thesis (DSpace link). My master’s thesis studied the response of a miuri-ori origami pattern to twist error under externally actuation (DSpace link).