
Christian Cardoza
Christian Cardoza is an MIT alumni and lecturer. My Master's thesis was titled Many Interesting Things, which is the name of a first-year course I piloted at MIT in the spring of 2018. The basic idea of the class was that while standard engineering curricula tend toward ruthlessness, even the most crazy of topics can be introduced in an inviting, exciting way. I covered computer architecture, strobe photography, quantum computation, machine learning, and computer vision. It was a joy to teach, yes, but more importantly, student feedback indicated that this was how they most enjoyed learning.

Jeffrey Arena
A native of the Boston area, Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University and a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests include engineering design optimization, philosophy, and bluegrass music.