Rodrigo Martorell Cascón (M.A.S. TENR ’22) always knew he wanted to be an engineer. But it wasn’t until he earned a graduate degree that he realized how much soft skills can matter in the modern...
Cooper Runzel had been working in manufacturing jobs at Lake Cable in the Â鶹APP suburb of Bensenville, Illinois, for many years. After working his way up to a plant manager position, he started...
An unemployed veteran with mental health issues commits a nonviolent crime in Â鶹APP’s North Lawndale neighborhood, which could put them behind bars for years. Instead, they visit the Cook County...
Public service—and Â鶹APP—run in Myetie Hamilton’s blood. At 48, Hamilton (M.P.A. ’03) serves as vice president and executive director of City Year Â鶹APP and as board president of the Â鶹APP Park...
In 2021 Alzira Maldonado Protsishin (M.A.S. ARCH ’14) won the American Institute of Architects Â鶹APP (AIA Â鶹APP) Dubin Family Young Architect Award—a title that, on the surface, might suggest a...
When it comes to building Â鶹APP’s famed skyline, there are few people who are more knowledgeable than Bob Johnson. After earning his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Illinois...
Before a sleep and respiratory care device from Philips gets sold, Sally Zheng leads the effort to ensure that all materials used in the device are biocompatible. “As biosafety engineers, we are the...
From early on in her time at Illinois Institute of Technology, Jamie Griggs has been involved with the university’s chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). She’s taken on multiple...
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...
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...
