Alumni Advice | Letters to First-Year Engineers
Six recent grads from Automotive to Mechatronics reflect on the question, “What do you wish you’d known in Engineering 1?” Their answers range from imposter-syndrome hacks to choosing electives that land international co-ops. The episode doubles as a highlight reel of Engineering Alumni Success Stories: one grad now designs rovers at NASA, another launched a cleantech startup in Toronto.
Prakhar Garg (Top Left, Mechatronics Engineering & Management)
Sophia Emerson (Top Middle, Chemical & Bioengineering)
Taylor DeVet (Top Right, Electrical & BioMedical Engineering)
Sharmin Kassam (Middle Left, DCP (B.Tech))
Victoria Zyma (Middle, Mechanical Engineering)
Mitchell Kurnell (Middle Right, Engineering Physics)
Katherine Jarzecki (Bottom Left, Materials Science & Engineering)
Omar Ali (Bottom Middle, Civil Engineering & Management)
Alex D'Souza (Bottom Right, Chemical & Bioengineering)
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