Inspiring the Next Generation Women's Technology Program at MIT
BARBARA HUGHEY: OK. So as Kristen said, I'm Barbara Hughey. I teach in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT. And I thought you might want to just see a little bit about me. So I was more or less from New Jersey. I was born in Philadelphia, lived in New Jersey and outside of Philadelphia. There we go. I moved back and forth about every two and a half years. Briefly moved to Southern California when I moved. And in fact I was an undergraduate at Princeton where I went in as a physics major. I had always loved math and physics. I ended up coming out with an engineering physics degree in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department, which was awesome for what I'm doing now, and also for a lot of the research I did before I came back to MIT. And then I came up to Boston to get my PhD in physics at MIT. Very highly esoteric subject that was great fun involving quantum mechanics, but not terribly useful. And then I worked for a couple small companies in th...