The Burchard Scholars dinner series helps create conversations between academic disciplines including physics, engineering, philosophy, and economics. The program pairs MIT sophomores and juniors with Faculty Fellows to discuss important ideas.
Ibuki Iwasaki came to MIT without a clear idea of what she wanted to major in, but that changed during the spring of her first year, when she left her comfort zone and enrolled in 4.02A (Introduction to Design). For the final project, her group had t
“Design most definitely involves aspects of both humanities and STEM,” says MIT senior Ibuki Iwasaki. The art and design and computation and cognition major seeks to develop technology that prioritizes how human users think.