Spotlights
Christine Baker
Assistant Professor
I grew up in Renton, Washington, near Puget Sound, which is a beautiful part of the Pacific …
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Bryce Johnson
Coterminal MS candidate
Computer Science
My path to engineering started when I was 9 and went to see the movie ‘Iron Man’ with my family …
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Linda Esquivel
Career & Affiliate Services Officer
Management Science and Engineering
I’m the first individual to be a Career & Affiliate Services Officer in the Management Science …
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Sonia Travaglini
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Skilling and Learning Specialist
Aeronautics and Astronautics
#IAmAnEngineer Ever since I was little, I’ve been curious about how things worked — what’s …
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Jinwei Xu
PhD Candidate 2021
Materials Science and Engineering
I started out as an undergraduate majoring in physics at the University of Science and Technology in …
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Stephanie Schmidt
MS ’16, PhD ’19
Bioengineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve been surrounded by engineering my whole life; both my parents are engineers, …
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Wendy Gu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always liked research. I really became interested in both engineering and …
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Sarah Fletcher
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always wanted to find solutions to problems that were really going to help …
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Ziv Lautman
MS candidate ’21
Bioengineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always loved learning. I studied environmental engineering and eventually …
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Janelle Kaneda
Coterminal MS Candidate ’21
Bioengineering
#IAmAnEngineer: All my life I’ve had a passion for dance. Understanding the movement in the human …
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Anthony Kinslow
PhD ’19
Civil & Environmental Engineering
I first became interested in combating climate change in high school, after watching An Inconvenient …
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Joseph DeSimone
Professor of Translational Medicine and of
Chemical Engineering
As a chemical engineer, I’ve worked on a lot of projects that seem totally different on the …
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Haeyoung Noh
Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
As an engineer, I work on a concept called ‘structure as a sensor.’ …
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Grace Gao
Assistant Professor
Aeronautics and Astronautics
I’ve always had a lot of different interests. As a kid, I was very into math, science, engineering …
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Lynden Archer
Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University
PhD ’94
Chemical Engineering
I grew up in Guyana surrounded by culture, cricket and languages …
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Kelly Chu
Group Lead
Mechanical Engineering
I’m a group lead responsible for the Mechanics and Computation and the Biomechanics groups in the …
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Monther Abu-Remaileh
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
I study the biochemistry of an organelle called the lysosome. It’s sort of like the “garbage …
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Danielle Mai
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
I’m a biopolymer engineer, which means I tinker with molecules that are the building materials of …
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Hannah Li
PhD student
Management Science and Engineering
As an engineer, you’re taught to build things, to optimize things …
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Monroe Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I see “problems” less as impassable obstacles and more as things that can be …
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Meghali Chopra
BS ’11, Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: As a chemical engineer, I focus on improving the way we fabricate computer chips …
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Nicole W. Xu
PhD Candidate, Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Growing up, I thought I was going to be a doctor …
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