Maya Ayoub

MIT '26

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Hello! I am a class of '26 undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Energy Studies.

Experience

  • Undergraduate Researcher at ETH Zürich
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Undergraduate Researcher at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics. Working to experimentally find collision rates of bi-dispersed particles in quiescent and turbulent air to characterize late-stage rain.

  • Mechanical Engineering Team Member at Electric Vehicle Team
    Sep 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

    V2 of the hydrogen-electric powered motorcycle. Finance team lead for spring semester '24.

  • Moving Health (On-site)
    • Mechanical Engineering Intern
      Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

      Helping to design and fabricate a mobile clinic attachment to the ambulance. Collecting data from the current ambulance (engine efficiency, MPG on different terrains, energy content in Ghanaian gas) to assist in converting the vehicle to battery-powered.

    • Powertrain Researcher
      Oct 2023 - Aug 2024 · 11 mos

      Moving Health develops ambulances to traverse the bumpy roads in northern Ghana. I am an undergraduate researcher with MIT Professor Slocum's Precision Engineering Research Group assisting in their conversion to electric.

  • Undergraduate Researcher at GEAR Labs
    Dec 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Working to create a more efficient, customizable pumping system for electrodialysis (ED) water desalination systems designed for villages in India. Tangentially, physically prototyping home-scale ED water desal systems. PI: Amos Winter.

  • Mechanical Engineering Intern at Zipline
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    Helped design parts for the safety systems on Zipline's new delivery drone, as well as develop and run tests for existing and newly designed parts.