The Journey From Student to Professional
As a systems engineering intern at NASA鈥檚 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
An inaugural graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology鈥檚 Master of Pharmaceutical Engineering degree program, Tejaswini Ramakrishna Hegde is working at her dream job at Moderna as part of the team...
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鈥檒l also map out a way to achieve it. If you don鈥檛 believe it, consider your smartphone. In the...
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鈥檚 exactly the kind of hands-on work that Josh says...
A Pathway to Computer Chip Design
It was in ECE 218, Digital Systems, that Eduardo Calix realized he wanted to pursue computer chip design. 鈥淓verything my friends hated about the class, I loved,鈥 he says. 鈥淭hat course was the first...
Leading Construction and Design Through a Human-Centered Approach
Krystal McDoom currently manages a $35 million portfolio across six projects at the University of 海角乱伦 in her role as project manager. Each construction project holds a unique set of demands, and...
Exploring Engineering Pathways, From Research to Startups
Marissa Redington has always loved solving problems, whether it鈥檚 navigating large blocks of code or figuring out how to make summer camp activities adaptive for children with different needs. 鈥淚...
Streaming Video Through a Metal Pipe
Communications in nuclear facilities can be difficult. It鈥檚 a harsh environment for physical cables that may degrade faster than usual, but there are also many substantial physical barriers such as...
A Draw to the Futuristic
As a student at Morton College, Victor Quiroz joined his college鈥檚 chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). One day Quiroz visited the Illinois Institute of Technology campus...