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Faculty Internship Pays Big Dividends
Once you've earned your Ph.D., worked in industry, and then landed a faculty position with a prestigious university, you may think your internship days are over. But that was not the case for civil engineering's Assistant Professor Hisham Said, who spent three months interning with Blach Construction Company.
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Undergrads Go to Extremes
Imagine holing yourself up in a conference room with two of your buddies for 24 hours. Now, imagine you're doing this as part of a global challenge to test the skills of student teams in solving programming problems.
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Bioengineering Student Publishes in Prestigious Journal
Providing opportunities for undergraduate student research is a hallmark of Santa Clara's engineering program, and recently the success of these efforts was illustrated when bioengineering senior Jeffrey Kunkel and Assistant Professor Prashanth Asuri had their paper, "Function, structure, and stability of enzymes confined in agarose gels," accepted for publication in PLoS One—one of the top five multidisciplinary journals in the United States.
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For Alum, Communication Makes it Happen
"I probably wouldn't be where I am today without networking," says Disney Interactive Producer Chris Menezes '10, who has worked—and talked—his way to career success. As a computer engineering student, Menezes knew he wanted to be in the game industry. But he soon learned that while he enjoyed programming, it wasn't his passion. Adjunct Professor Jared Finder helped Menezes discover how his particular talents could best be put to use.
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Global Internship = Real-World Engineering Experience
In preparation for work on her capstone project, Rachel Wilmoth, a senior mechanical engineering student, spent a month in Uganda last summer interning with Village Energy—learning about engineering in a developing country, teaching locals about the merits of solar power, and gaining the experience and confidence necessary to take on her year-long work.
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A Dream for Graduate Energy Education Becomes Reality
Professor Samiha Mourad's vision of an interdisciplinary graduate degree program in sustainable energy at Santa Clara University has become a reality. But the dream doesn't stop there, according to Mourad, the William and Janice Terry Professor of Electrical Engineering. The IEEE Fellow is now looking forward to creating an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in sustainable energy.
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The Language of Learning
When Maria Pantoja, lecturer in the Department of Computer Engineering, was the featured speaker last year at a weekly spring quarter faculty forum on teaching innovation, a fruitful collaboration and a new teaching tool were born.
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Engineering Management and Leadership Alum Has His Head in the Clouds
SCU alumnus Robert Kenny Joseph '02, founder and CEO of Step Ahead Solutions, Inc., is working hard to revolutionize cloud computing. "We are taking a radical new approach to leveraging the best of the clouds," said Joseph, who earned his master's degree in engineering management and leadership from the School of Engineering.