Overseeing Urgency
By Tad Vezner You can’t tell by talking to her now, but there was a time when Tamakia “T. J.” Edwards (AE ’08) might not have had the confidence to go for her current job. That’s the one where...
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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...
Growing Passion for Environmental Work
Genna Gaitan started at Illinois Institute of Technology as a social, economic, and development policy major, with the intention of eventually specializing in environmental law. She was recruited by...
Balancing Technological Advancement with Environmental Responsibility
With an interest in solving real-world challenges, Sneha Patil has a passion for understanding how materials, especially polymers, behave and interact in various environments. She says she was drawn...
Solving Analytics Puzzles
Oscar Guzmán came to his job at Northern Trust after a first shot at entrepreneurship, something he hopes to return to after further building his knowledge and skill base. As a senior analytics...
A Welcoming Atmosphere
Simon Hwang says two things brought him to Illinois Institute of Technology: the abundance of resources available to students and excellent financial aid. “From building an electric race car from the...
Charging Ahead in India
The COVID-19 pandemic was a blessing in disguise for Akshay Goliya (EE ’10) in a single, significant way. He’d married his wife the year before the outbreak. For 10 years he’d been working for his...
Capturing Real-World Fluid Dynamics
As a graduate student in Taiwan, Min-Lin Tsai conducted research projects in computational fluid dynamics and flow control. He started reading research papers by Illinois Institute of Technology...
Exploring Problems Without Obvious Answers
Declan Mulroy joined Illinois Institute of Technology as an undergraduate student, transferring from Oakton Community College. As an undergraduate student, Mulroy joined a research project developing...
Excellence in Cybersecurity
David Arnold joined Illinois Institute of Technology as an undergraduate student. Now, eight years later, he has completed his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. As a student in the...