Kaili in a gold-yellow kimono in a traditional way of sitting "seiza" looking to the side to show an elaborate floral head piece that holds her hair up

Youngest engineer in the room

Graduate student Kaili Glasser gained valuable clean-room etiquette, engineering writing skills, and honed her engineering skills after her internship at ispace inc in Tokyo. 

She worked in the assembly and integration team at ispace inc in Tokyo by assisting with assembling the spacecraft—supporting ispace second lunar lander mission efforts. "I expected to do a typical engineering internship, but it ended up being so much better than I expected because I was treated like any other incoming full-time employee. This gave me the experience of what it’s like to onboard as a full-fledged engineer," Kaili shared. 

  • Kaili in white shirt holding up a round object with three other MIT interns at the MIssion Control Center in Tokyo
I believe I grew in my ability to be the youngest engineer in the room, and balance asking for help and self-investigating solutions when I became stuck in my work. The experience of actually working along internationally trained engineers from all over the world was truly one that I cannot replicate at MIT.
Kaili Glasser
Kaili in the middle of two other MIT students in a selfie pointing to a blue sign that reads Johnson Town on a sidewalk of Tokyo
Major & Class Year
Mechanical Engineer '24
Location
Tokyo, Japan
MISTI Program
Internship
MISTI Host
ispace inc
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