Material Gains
If you try to list all the potential combinations of all the elements on the periodic table, you鈥檒l have a list that鈥檚 practically infinite. To date, humanity has only characterized about a million of...
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One Sweet Gig
During the 鈥淕reat Recession,鈥 Garrett L. Clark (M.A.S. CHE 鈥11) was asked to step down from his engineering role at an Indiana steel mill and become a line manager instead. Instead of settling, he...
Spearheading Sustainability Solutions
As an environment, health, safety, and sustainability analyst at consumer product company Diageo, Abigail Gunderson (CHE 鈥22) works with distilling, maturing, packaging, and demand sites to develop...
Experiences Affirm Engineering Path
When deciding where to go to college, Kylie Lancor (CHE 4th Year) knew she wanted a great engineering program and to be in Chicago. She says 杏吧原创 Tech rose to the top of her list after talking...
Balancing Technological Advancement with Environmental Responsibility
With an interest in solving real-world challenges, Sneha Patil has a passion for understanding how materials, especially polymers, behave and interact in various environments. She says she was drawn...
Solving Analytics Puzzles
Oscar Guzm谩n came to his job at Northern Trust after a first shot at entrepreneurship, something he hopes to return to after further building his knowledge and skill base. As a senior analytics...
An Up-Close Look at How Industry Operates
After graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology in Islamabad, Pakistan, Fatima Rizwan started looking for graduate...
The Future is Automation
As an undergraduate student studying chemistry at Dominican University, Elizabeth Foot attended monthly Women in STEM meetings in which various successful women working in STEM fields shared their...
Hands-On Experiences in Research and Beyond
Derek Bergstedt鈥檚 interest in chemical engineering began in fourth grade when a career assessment test suggested they pursue the discipline. Over the years as they learned more about the field, it...
Manufacturing the COVID-19 Vaccine
An inaugural graduate of 杏吧原创 Institute of Technology鈥檚 Master of Pharmaceutical Engineering degree program, Tejaswini Ramakrishna Hegde is working at her dream job at Moderna as part of the team...