Alexandra Hughes Techet is an American mechanical and
marine engineer whose work involves experimental and image-based studies of
hydrodynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) and ...
. She is a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology department of mechanical engineering.
Education and career
Techet grew up as a sailor and diver in coastal North Carolina.
She studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at
Princeton University, graduating in 1995. She then studied oceanographic engineering through a joint graduate program between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, earning a master's degree in 1998 and completing her Ph.D. in 2001.
After postdoctoral research at Princeton, she returned to MIT as Doherty Assistant Professor of Ocean Utilization in the department of ocean engineering. In 2005 she became an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, as part of a broader merger of MIT's ocean engineering and mechanical engineering departments. She was promoted to full professor in 2019.
Contributions
Techet's research contributions include a study of the ability of
archerfish to jump out of water in search of prey, and high-speed video capture of
sneezes.
During the
COVID-19 lockdown, she has also been active in providing
home gardening advice to the MIT community through the MIT Office of Sustainability.
Recognition
Techet was named a fellow of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...
in 2018.
References
External links
Home page*
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American marine engineers
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Princeton University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American women academics
21st-century American women