Finding a Home Away From Home
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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Leading Through Design
(M.Des. ’91)Pamela Mead (M.Des. ’91) spent a decade designing with new technologies, developing projects at Sony, Palm, and Yahoo!. After working with several startups, she moved to Madrid in 2011 to join...
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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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My Kind of Town
(CS ’22)Chicago is a world-class city full of culture, history, and excitement. Avery Peck says studying in Chicago added to her student experience while enrolled at Illinois Institute of Technology. “I love...
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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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Utilizing Data Analytics to Improve Food Stamp Access
(Social and Economic Development Policy ’16)For Cara Karter, who grew up on the southside of Chicago and now lives in Munster, Indiana, an interest in human service research and evaluation was sparked during her first year at Illinois Institute...
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From Middle America to Meta
(Psychology ’14)For Tim Carsel, who grew up in the Bloomington, Illinois, and Normal, Illinois, area—the twin cities are often referred to as Bloomington-Normal—in a blue-collar family, the possibility of working for...
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Working to Get Ahead
(M.S. Computer Science ’21)Bo Zhu was working 11 hours a day, six days a week, as a Java developer when he was looking for opportunities to expand relevant professional knowledge, which proved tricky during a global pandemic...