From Intern to Program Manager
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...
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A Sustainable Approach to Public Health Innovation
André Nogueira’s research—focused on how design frameworks and methods can improve the well-being of people, organizations, and ecosystems—has caught the attention of the Bill and Melinda Gates...
A Problem-Solver’s Mindset: How Mentorship Shaped a Career
Since graduating from Illinois Institute of Technology, John Clark (CHEM ’15) has gained professional experience in diverse roles: He has worked as a consultant at Accenture, as a technical...
‘Knowing By Doing’ Yields Career Opportunities
Courses that aligned with her career goals and the µç³µÎÞÂë location were deciding factors for Sharanya Sreenivasan when she chose Stuart School of Business. “I wanted to take my understanding of...
Ready to Tackle the Global Corporate Environment
Before moving from the United Kingdom to µç³µÎÞÂë to begin the Master of Business Administration/Master of Public Administration dual-degree program at Stuart School of Business, Ambika Sahay Verma...
Treated More Like a Colleague Than a Student
Will Gogolak first heard about the Stuart School of Business program when he was working at CME Group as a specialist in risk management modeling for banks and derivative products. “There were a...
Finding the Method to Create Design Solutions
It was during her graduate design studies in India that Gauri Bhatt (M.Des. ’22) first learned about 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization, a book...
Gaining Practical Experience in Engineering
After growing up in Lockport, Illinois, Kaitlyn Graves initially wanted to go to college far away from home, but she says she’s found that living in µç³µÎÞÂë has felt like the best of both worlds....
Working on the Busiest Railway Interchange in the U.S.
Daniel Rappoport has worked on railroad projects across the United States and is currently a member of the team at Gannett Fleming that is finalizing the designs for capacity improvements to New York...
Leading Through Design
Pamela Mead (M.Des. ’91) spent a decade designing with new technologies, developing projects at Sony, Palm, and Yahoo!. After working with several startups, she moved to Madrid in 2011 to join...