When the White House Calls
A call from the Federal Communications Commission interrupted Eric Burger’s career in research and development and academia to become the Chief Technical Officer of the Federal Communications...
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The Journey From Student to Professional
As a systems engineering intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in summer 2021, Seth Graham worked on code to analyze flight trajectories for a proposed mission called Mars Sample Return. The...
Manufacturing the COVID-19 Vaccine
An inaugural graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology’s Master of Pharmaceutical Engineering degree program, Tejaswini Ramakrishna Hegde is working at her dream job at Moderna as part of the team...
Intersection of Law and Science
What really motivated me to go into environmental law was having a child,” Yesenia Villaseñor (LAW ’05/M.S. EM ’06) says. Before applying to law school, Villaseñor was environmentally conscientious to...
Space Ace: Keeping ISS Astronauts Alive
Brandon Lloyd took a trip to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center when he was in middle school and says that he fell in love with human space flight then and there. He selected Illinois Tech because it...
How a Phone Call Sparked a Technological Revolution
With his signature charm, Marty Cooper will not only tell you an improbable idea is possible, but he’ll also map out a way to achieve it. If you don’t believe it, consider your smartphone. In the...
Shooting for the Stars
Kaya Jones aspired to hone her computing skills the summer before beginning her college experience as a computer science major. She found her chance with NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation...
A Business Storyteller with Cutting-Edge Tech Skills
Throughout his career as a consultant and now as lead data scientist at Chamberlain Group, Jack An has used his expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and business strategy to help businesses...
Discovering Tech Skills to Train Tomorrow’s “Cyberwarriors”
At Illinois Institute of Technology Juan Vasquez knew he found a technically focused cybersecurity master’s program, but he didn’t expect to find a new inspiration as well. “Illinois Tech also made me...
Navigating Illinois Tech as a Commuter Student
Josh Coburn is building a trebuchet in his Design for Innovation course as a mechanical engineering student at Illinois Institute of Technology. It’s exactly the kind of hands-on work that Josh says...