Spotlights

#IAmAnEngineer: As an undergraduate I was passionate about math and physics, and I knew I wanted to do work that really impacted society.

One of the things that’s really important to me is working to support marginalized youth to build the technical confidence they need to feel empowered in pursuing a STEM education, or really anything they’re passionate about.

I’ve been at SoE for almost five years and I love my job. I’m a science nerd, a Star Trek fan, and I’m always questioning everything.

My path to engineering started when I was 9 and went to see the movie ‘Iron Man’ with my family.

I moved to the U.S. in 2014 from Tokyo, Japan, where I was a personal executive assistant to a CEO in the financial industry. It was a very different world from where I am now.

My job has always been a roller coaster – in a good way!

I’m the first individual to be a Career & Affiliate Services Officer in the Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) department — it’s been fun to shape the role and make it my own.

I’m the Shriram Center building manager, which means my team and I keep things running in the building.

#IAmAnEngineer Ever since I was little, I’ve been curious about how things worked — what’s going on in a washing machine, for instance, or how magnets move paper clips without touching them.

I started out as an undergraduate majoring in physics at the University of Science and Technology in China, but in my senior year I had a chance to come to Stanford, where I learned there was a whole field that uses materials science to solve practical problems, which I’m very interested in.

#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve been surrounded by engineering my whole life; both my parents are engineers, and I was born and raised in Houston.

#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always liked research. I really became interested in both engineering and nanotechnology as a high school student when I had the chance to go to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab for a program where different scientists presented their work every Saturday.

There’s not a lot of work being done on building habitats on other planets, but our Mars Team at the Stanford Student Space Initiative is interested in just this.

There’s not a lot of work being done on building habitats on other planets, but our Mars Team at the Stanford Student Space Initiative is interested in just this.

#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always wanted to find solutions to problems that were really going to help society, like making sure people have access to affordable, reliable, clean drinking water.

#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always loved learning. I studied environmental engineering and eventually started a company in the environmental space, but ultimately, I really wanted to go back and do something related to human health.

#IAmAnEngineer: All my life I’ve had a passion for dance. Understanding the movement in the human body created a curiosity as to how the physical world worked, which fed my other passion for engineering.

I first became interested in combating climate change in high school, after watching An Inconvenient Truth.

As a chemical engineer, I’ve worked on a lot of projects that seem totally different on the surface

As an engineer, I work on a concept called ‘structure as a sensor.’

I’ve always had a lot of different interests. As a kid, I was very into math, science, engineering and physics.