Spotlight Stories
May 28, 2020
Industrial Engineering Grad Balances STEM with Pro Cheerleading
Main Photo: Nia Jones, E’20, industrial engineering, part of the first cohort of S-POWER Scholars, achieved the Huntington 100 and will be going to graduate school at the University of […]
Apr 10, 2020
Providing Face Masks to Front Line COVID-19 Workers
Mechanical Engineering alumni Mostafa Lotfi and his two cousins who co-founded Lacerta Group Inc., have converted the focus of their company that normally manufactures plastic packaging into making face masks to help the front line workers of COVID-19.
Apr 07, 2020
Benjamin Gincley Awarded 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Interdisciplinary Engineering PhD student Benjamin Gincley received a prestigious and highly competitive 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP).
Mar 24, 2020
Medical Inventor with a Sense of Purpose
MIE Alum Bob Rioux, E’85, has used his mechanical engineering knowledge to develop 110 patents for medical devices to help solve difficult medical problems.
Mar 23, 2020
Working with the Peace Corps to Develop Sustainable Practices in Senegal
After he graduated, MIE Alum Tavish Fenbert, E’18, joined the Peace Corps to help people in Senegal as an agroforestry volunteer.
Feb 26, 2020
Co-op to Full-Time Job at Amazon
Vaishali Tripathi, a second-year MS in information systems student, completed a co-op at Amazon in December 2019 and was extended a full-time offer upon graduation. The co-op lasted six months […]
Feb 26, 2020
MS Student Lands Co-op at Schneider Electric in India
Picture caption: Vatsal Prakash, MS’20, MS in engineering management, in the Level 2 Technical Support lab while on co-op at Schneider Electric in India. After coming to a new country […]
Feb 26, 2020
Defining Experiences on Co-op at Philips
Picture caption: Left to right: Jie Dai, MS’19, electrical and computer engineering, and Wangbo Jia, MS’19, electrical and computer engineering. Co-op can be a defining experience for students, and for […]