Diversity News and Experiences
Jun 07, 2019
Abd-Alla Receives Society of Women Engineers Boston Scholarship
BS/MS Environmental Engineering student Areeg Abd-Alla, E’22, received a 2019 Society of Women Engineers Boston Chapter Scholarship, an award given to women studying engineering and engineering technology.
May 02, 2019
One to Watch
Carlos Fuentes, BS Mechanical Engineering and Physics 2018, balances a job at Amazon with a startup born of his passion for vintage timepieces For his sixteenth birthday, Carlos Fuentes, E’18, received an unusual gift from a family friend: a broken vintage watch movement. “My dad’s friend knew I was enamored with mechanical stuff,” explains Fuentes. […]
May 02, 2019
A Paradigm of Interdisciplinary Engineering
Atalaya Milan Wilborn is graduating soon, but that is just the beginning of her academic career.
May 01, 2019
ChE Student Wins Global Impact Award for Entrepreneurship
ChE student Vidhan Bhaiya, E’21, and Danny Jooyoung Kim, PharmD’21, won the Global Impact Award at the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge. Their business submission was Dr. Brinsely, a footwear manufacturer for diabetics that combine medical performance with chic style. E-Fest is a celebration of entrepreneurship in which 25 student ventures are selected each year to compete, collaborate, […]
Apr 29, 2019
Enabling Engineers Group Builds Prototypes to Improve Lives
The Enabling Engineers student group have designed products such as a bow and arrow for the visually impaired and a one handed guitar to improve the lives of people with physical and cognitive disabilities. ‘We don’t just build something in a vacuum’ Kevin Leiser starts with his eyes closed and his back to the target. […]
Apr 23, 2019
Journey to Medical School
Aanie Phillips, BS Bioengineering 2019, a pre-med bioengineering student with a concentration in cell and tissue engineering, chose her field based on her love of math and science and the possibility of becoming a physician. “In the back of my head, I always knew that I wanted to be a doctor, so I chose bioengineering […]
Feb 26, 2019
Rich Harris Receives 2 NSBE Honors
Assistant Dean Richard Harris was selected as a STEM Advocate 2019 Honoree by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Boston and received the NSBE 2019 Golden Torch Award as a Minority Engineering Program Director of the Year for 2018-2019.
Nov 27, 2018
Prof. Koppes at AIChE WIC
The AIChE Women’s Initiative Committee (WIC) hosted a full day symposium of female speakers at AIChE 2018 to highlight the significant contributions of women to the chemical engineering field, including ChE Assistant Professor Abby Koppes who presented on “Engineered Models of the Gut-Brain Axis”.