Exploring the inner workings of materials (MIT)
Growing up in an “idyllic” area of farms and orchards in southern New Jersey,
Krystyn Van Vliet had little exposure to science or technology. And yet, it
was that very environment that she credits with kindling her interest in
engineering.
Van Vliet, awarded tenure this year as the Paul M. Cook Career Development
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological
Engineering, says working on a farm during her summers in New Jersey is what
initially sparked her interest. “Farmers are really creative engineers,” she
explains: They rely on extremely complex machines, such as potato harvesters,
and spend the off-season repairing them. In addition, she says, they are
constantly dealing with experimental questions in biology — “questions like,
how much nitrogen should there be in the soil for the pepper fruit to grow
faster than the leaves?”
Even though her farm jobs often involved the lowliest of tasks — “one of my
jobs at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center was separating
the rotten potatoes and the mud clumps from the good potatoes,” she recalls —
“the people I worked with were very smart engineers. I learned about how
things work, how complicated machines are …
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