Spearheading Sustainability Solutions
As an environment, health, safety, and sustainability analyst at consumer product company Diageo, Abigail Gunderson (CHE ’22) works with distilling, maturing, packaging, and demand sites to develop...
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The Innovation Upcycle
Growing up, Dane Christianson (ME ’15) discovered a pair of passions—inventing and environmentalism—that put him on the path to entrepreneurship. “I always wanted to be an inventor,” he says. He...
Career Services Helps Get Internships
Of all the university tours that Robert John Soler (CCSE, M.A.S. CYF 5th Year) took when visiting Illinois from his home country, the Philippines, he says that Illinois Tech’s was the best. “During...
Building Broad Networks
As a master’s student in construction management, Saurav Ayyagari is no stranger to building things. On the verge of earning both his B.S. in Public Policy and a Master of Engineering in Construction...
Experiences Affirm Engineering Path
When deciding where to go to college, Kylie Lancor (CHE 4th Year) knew she wanted a great engineering program and to be in Chicago. She says Illinois Tech rose to the top of her list after talking...
Meaningful Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Abrar Rafi (ME, M.S. ASAR 4th Year) is from Bangladesh and considered colleges in Canada, the United States, and Australia before deciding to attend Illinois Tech, which he says now feels like a...
Maintaining Chicago’s Historical Bridges
Jenelle Hill (CE ’11, M.A.S. PW ’16) joined Illinois Tech with an interest in math and a passion for doing work that would be used by generations, and she found civil engineering to be a natural fit...
Cutting-Edge Biomedical Topics
Brennan Shapiro (BME, M.S. 5th Year) knew he wanted to be a scientist and says he started in biomedical engineering because it “sounded like the coolest science with the widest applications.” He knew...
Overseeing Urgency
By Tad Vezner You can’t tell by talking to her now, but there was a time when Tamakia “T. J.” Edwards (ARCE ’08) might not have had the confidence to go for her current job. That’s the one where...
Cutting the Cord
By Tad Vezner What kinds of things benefit from advances in high-frequency, high-power electrical systems? “Anything and everything,” Omer Onar (Ph.D. EE ’10) says. If that is so, Onar’s at the top of...