Spotlights
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Sherrie Wang
I grew up assuming engineering was something I could do largely because of my grandmother …
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Alexander Ioannidis
MS ’18, Management Science & Engineering, PhD ’18
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Management Science and Engineering
I’ve always been interested in human health as an engineering problem …
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Elvis Ikwa
BS ’15
Bioengineering
I’m the first person in my family to go to college, and it only happened because when I was 12 I …
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Madeleine Udell
Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University
PhD ’15
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I’ve always been interested in how you can use mathematics to model and solve real-world problems …
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Widya Mulyasasmita
PhD ’13
Bioengineering
To me, engineering is all about using scientific principles to design and improve our natural world …
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Kathryn Hymes
MS ’13, MA ’21 Linguistics
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always had an appetite for both math and language, but for years I struggled …
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Sasha Denisin
PhD ’18
Bioengineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I work in biotech, where I make experiments more efficient and hands-off using …
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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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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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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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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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Tess Hatch
MS ’17
Aeronautics and Astronautics
Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, went to the high school I attended years before me …
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Ellen Ochoa
MS ’81, PhD ’85
Electrical Engineering
I was in Mission Control during the Columbia disaster in 2003 …
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Andrew Davis
MS ’18
Computer Science
I have a PhD in music composition and write music for orchestras and string quartets …
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Kendra Short
MS ’92
Aeronautics and Astronautics
I’ve been interested in space since I was in the third grade …
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Maria Spasojevic
Senior Research Engineer, Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL)
MS ’99, PhD ’04
Electrical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer and a scientist. My research focuses on the impact of solar storms on the near-Earth …
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Danielle Cojuangco Abraham
BS ’07
Mechanical Engineering
I grew up in the Philippines. When I reflect back on my high school days, I remember doing well in …
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Megan MacDonald
PhD ’12
Mechanical Engineering
Do you remember the scene at the end of the movie Apollo 13 where the team at NASA was concerned …
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Janna Rodriguez
MS ’14, PhD candidate
Mechanical Engineering
Every paper I’ve written as a graduate student has gone through the Technical Communication …
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Matt Vassar
Lecturer, School of Engineering Technical Communication Program
BA ’07, MA ’08
You probably knew a kid like me in high school …
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Ireena Erteza
PhD ’93
Electrical Engineering
For me, this means that I integrate knowledge to create new things …
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Maria Holland
PhD ’17
Mechanical Engineering
Quilting is a great analogy for the research I do in computational biomechanics. Quilts are made up …
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