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Yonn Rasmussen '83, '86 MS, '89 Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering If you were to draw a circle centered on Gaithersburg, MD and having a radius equivalent to a six-hour drive from that center,...
Paul Osenar '92 Materials Science Raising money to get a tech start-up off the ground is never an easy proposition. The odds are generally not in your favor and you need a bit of luck. A good rule of...
Jen Weidman '13 Environmental Engineering For many students and parents there are simple “rules for college:” you apply to several schools, you weigh your options, you enroll at the school that “fits”...
Ray Li '14 Applied and Engineering Physics and Michael Ndubusi '14 Computer Science To play music, you need an instrument, right? You can pluck a string or vibrate a reed or strike a surface or force...
John Amos '85 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences John Amos ’85 EAS spent much of his childhood in the hills and gorges of Upstate New York with his father, looking for fossils. Fossils are plentiful in...
Charlie Sporck '50 Mechanical Engineering When Charlie Sporck was hired in the late fifties to oversee the production of silicon semiconductors, he didn’t really know how they worked. That did not...
Padmasree Warrior '84 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Padmasree Warrior M.S. ’84 ChemE has had a thirty-year career in the tech sector, rising to her current position as Chief Technology and...
When Dan Simpkins was a freshman at Cornell, he had two majors. “When I started as an undergraduate, I was a double major in engineering and pre med. As you can imagine, life wasn’t pretty. After one...
Jeremy Blum '12 Electrical and Computer Engineering, '13 M.Eng "If you see something that needs to be made, make it. If you see the need, so does somebody else. If you don't work on the solution,...
Kristen Graf '01 Biological and Environmental Engineering Kristen Graf '01 BEE says of herself, "I have a strong set of personal rules, and where those butt up against the world's rules I think it is...
