Gaining Practical Experience in Engineering
After growing up in Lockport, Illinois, Kaitlyn Graves initially wanted to go to college far away from home, but she says she’s found that living in Chicago has felt like the best of both worlds....
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Finding a Home Away From Home
(Biomedical Engineering 4th Year)Teni Akinwale (BME 4th Year) came to Illinois Institute of Technology for the unique opportunity to specialize in biomedical engineering as an undergraduate student. Coming from Lagos, Nigeria, she...
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Working on the Busiest Railway Interchange in the U.S.
(Civil Engineering ’21)Daniel Rappoport (CE ’21) has worked on railroad projects across the United States and is currently a member of the team at Gannett Fleming that is finalizing the designs for capacity improvements to...
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Building Confidence and Industry Knowledge
(B.A.C. Industrial Technology and Management, M.A.S. Industrial Technology and Operations ’21)Sierra Strandberg had been working as a mechanical design engineer for five years creating work holdings for tooling inside CNC machines, but she was looking for an opportunity to leverage her...
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Launching Experimental Aircraft
(Aerospace Engineering, M.Eng. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 4th Year)Rosemary Johnson’s Camras Scholars interview as a high school senior turned out to be even more important than she bargained for. Not only did she receive the scholarship, securing herself full...
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An Engineer in the Operating Room
(Biomedical Engineering ’10, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering ’15)Chris Osswald (BME ’10, Ph.D. BME ’15) is in his seventh year at ClearPoint Neuro, but he only recently learned that when he first started working at the company it was barely holding on, not sure how...
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The Journey From Student to Professional
(Mechanical Engineering/M.Eng. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 5th Year)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...
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Manufacturing the COVID-19 Vaccine
(M.A.S. Pharmaceutical Engineering ’21)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...
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Space Ace: Keeping ISS Astronauts Alive
(Aerospace Engineering ’08)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...
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How a Phone Call Sparked a Technological Revolution
(Electrical Engineering ’50, M.S. Electrical Engineering ’57)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...