Meet Anne Hu!
Pronouns: She series
Class Year: 2025
Hometown: Sunnyvale, CA
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Minor: Human Factors Engineering
Favorite Engineering Professor
Actually, it's my favorite pair. I took two courses with Professor Luisa Chiesa and Gary Leisk, who are both professors in the Mechanical Engineering department. They insist that they are introverted and so they must teach together or not teach at all! Professor Chiesa and Leisk have dynamic lectures that I'm always excited to attend. They incorporate demonstrations into their lectures (including pasta making), and ensure that we're given a taste of ethics and the social impacts of engineering.
Favorite Tufts Tradition
Picture this - It's Halloween. You wake up and get ready to walk to class like any other day. But the second you step out of your dorm, something's off. Why are there pumpkins everywhere? Pumpkining. That's why. On Halloween eve, students place pumpkins around campus in hard-to-reach places so that come Halloween, the campus is dotted with orange. It's a weird little tradition that anyone can take part in, and spotting well-hidden pumpkins is like an autumnal version of an Easter-egg hunt.