MIT’s annual Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE) gives graduate students, post-docs, and UROPs an opportunity to share their exciting mechanical engineering research projects with the wider MIT community! (Register here)
This year MERE will consist of two in-person poster sessions as well as Scientific Art and Photography Exhibition (ScAPE), where we invite participants to present artworks related to science, research and experiments. The event will also showcase outreach booths of several MechE organizations as well as a keynote address. We are excited to announce that MERE will take place on March 10th at MIT Campus (Room: W20-202, La Sala Student Center)
As in past years, there will be good conversations, interesting research, awards for the best presentations. Attendees get to vote their favorite art pieces exhibited in ScAPE and the winners in each category will be awarded. We will also have industry representatives (mostly MIT alums) eager to see what’s going on at MIT. Please don’t hesitate to contact our team with any questions at mere@mit.edu!
Check out the Event Booklet’23 for details!
News & Updates:
February 22, 2023 (Wednesday), MechE Comm Lab Info Session: Key takeaways:
- Poster design tips:
- Focus on understanding, impact and excitement
- Goals for presenting: Feedback from others, potential collaborations
- Hourglass strategy: Focus some of the content towards audience outside the field and rest on the specifics, connect these two
- Use data to quantify well and emphasize on the importance of research
- Why should people care about your work? Generalize your results to a broader category of people
- How to discover your story? Tell it to someone, sketch it out, half life your message
- ScAPE:
- Keep minimalistic content
- Eliminate anything distractive or irrelevant
- Use deformations, reflections to enhance specific parts of an image and features of an object in the display
- Use contrasting backgrounds
- Use colors to emphasize features
- Draw similarity of your work to daily-life objects
Read about previous editions of MERE: