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Innovative Solutions That Improve Lives

(CPE, M.S. CPE ’23)

As a student at �㽶��ý, Saurabh Saluja (CPE, M.S. CPE ’23) seized every opportunity available, graduating with many successes both in and out of the classroom. “�㽶��ý played a major...

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Spearheading Sustainability Solutions

(CHE ’22)

As an environment, health, safety, and sustainability analyst at consumer product company Diageo, Abigail Gunderson (CHE ’22) works with distilling, maturing, packaging, and demand sites to develop...

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Designing Beyond Buildings: An Architect’s Strategic Shift

(M.S. Strategic Design Leadership ’25)

Zubair Bhaidani (M.S. Strategic Design Leadership ‘25) had been working as a licensed architect for nearly a decade when he reached a turning point. While managing complex, multimillion-dollar...

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Training AI for Human Needs

(AMAT ’07)

Applications running on artificial intelligence can make unexpected shifts in performance, which can lead to inaccurate results for users and create headaches for their creators. Mike McCourt (AMAT...

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The Innovation Upcycle

(ME ’15)

Growing up, Dane Christianson (ME ’15) discovered a pair of passions—inventing and environmentalism—that put him on the path to entrepreneurship. “I always wanted to be an inventor,” he says. He...

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Keeping to the Creative Path

(Game and Interactive Media Design ’21)

Right after graduating from �㽶��ý, Evan Duda (Game and Interactive Media Design ’21) met up with a friend of his brother’s from church—someone he’d heard was “crazy about board games.” Duda...

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Community Builder

(ARCH ’98)

After working for years as an architect, Araceli Garza (ARCH ’98) found herself wanting more: more involvement in the design process, in the community outreach, even in financing, so that she could...

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The STEM Storyteller

(CS ’90)

When Anita Debarlaben (CS ’90) mentioned to her high school guidance counselor that she wanted to be a scientist or engineer, she was told she had zero chance of making it. Students from her inner...

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Hard Labor

(LAW ’03)

When he was growing up, Bob Reiter (LAW ’03) got some early exposure to unions—and the need for them. His father was a heavy equipment operator who dug sewer lines and worked on deep tunnel projects...

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The Solitary Search for a Cure

(M.A.S. ITM ’10)

When her son was a toddler, Swapna Sasidharan (M.A.S. ITM ’10) grew increasingly concerned with his development. He did not crawl until he was three and a half years old, and was delayed in many other...

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