Electrifying Homes For Free
At Elevate, a nonprofit whose mission is to ensure that the benefits of clean energy reach those who need it the most, Honnie Aguilar Leinartas is the lead engineer for its single-family...
Student and Alumni Stories
Find Stories
Currently selected filters
- Armour College of Engineering
From Intern to Program Manager
As a technical program manager at Tesla, Ava Kelly is responsible for the beginning-to-end process of launching new power electronics products, starting from the initial concept and taking a product...
Working on a Groundbreaking Wireless Prosthesis Device
Omar Tawakol is the recipient of the 2024 Dr. Bhakta B. & Sushama Rath Endowed Research Award, recognizing the significance of his research, conducted with adviser Philip Troyk, executive director of...
Gaining Practical Experience in Engineering
After growing up in Lockport, Illinois, Kaitlyn Graves initially wanted to go to college far away from home, but she says she’s found that living in Chicago has felt like the best of both worlds....
Finding a Home Away From Home
Teni Akinwale (BME 4th Year) came to Illinois Institute of Technology for the unique opportunity to specialize in biomedical engineering as an undergraduate student. Coming from Lagos, Nigeria, she...
Working on the Busiest Railway Interchange in the U.S.
Daniel Rappoport has worked on railroad projects across the United States and is currently a member of the team at Gannett Fleming that is finalizing the designs for capacity improvements to New York...
Building Confidence and Industry Knowledge
Sierra Strandberg had been working as a mechanical design engineer for five years creating work holdings for tooling inside CNC machines, but she was looking for an opportunity to leverage her...
Launching Experimental Aircraft
Rosemary Johnson’s Camras Scholars interview as a high school senior turned out to be even more important than she bargained for. Not only did she receive the scholarship, securing herself full...
An Engineer in the Operating Room
Chris Osswald is in his seventh year at ClearPoint Neuro, but he only recently learned that when he first started working at the company it was barely holding on, not sure how they were going to keep...
The Journey From Student to Professional
As a systems engineering intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in summer 2021, Seth Graham worked on code to analyze flight trajectories for a proposed mission called Mars Sample Return. The...