Spotlights

When I was around 14, NASA landed the Curiosity rover on Mars and it was an aha moment for me …

I grew up in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, but by the time I was in eighth grade, my family had moved …

I was born in China’s Hunan Province and came to the U.S. alone when I was 17 …

My first trip to London opened my mind to the idea that buildings can tell stories …

I work in Alison Marsden’s lab, where we study computational modeling of the cardiovascular …

I’m a designer by training …

I think I first became curious about space and science in middle school …

I was born in Salinas, and in those first few weeks I had episodes when I stopped breathing …

My curiosity about engineering has been a part of me since I was a little girl …

I never used to think of myself as someone who’d study computer science, and I didn’t think of …

I became an engineer to fight climate change …

I didn’t always have a word for it, but engineering has been part of my life for a long time …

I find my PhD work in linear algebra exciting because many problems in many different fields boil …

I knew I loved engineering after taking it as an elective in high school, but I fell in love with …

One of the most exciting days of my life was when I went to my first university lab in high school …

It’s hard to become something you can’t see …

Both my parents are lawyers, but my dad’s always been a tinkerer, making furniture and getting his …

My parents, who are both doctors, instilled in me a love of biology …

There’s not a lot of work being done on building habitats on other planets, but our Mars Team at …

Ethiopia, my country, is endowed with precious gifts of nature: fertile soil, a favorable climate …

#IAmAnEngineer: I work on developing algorithms that help robots understand the world around them, …