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Student going over materials and plans

Summer Symposium Series: Engineering Career Resources

Backgrounders

A career in engineering would let you help people through designing and implementing the things they use in their daily lives.

Working at laptop with stethoscope on desk

Summer Symposium Series: Health Sciences Career Resources

Backgrounders

A career in the health sciences would let you help people directly in a very 'hands-on' way!

Alok

Alok Shirolikar

Career Profiles

Specialist Engineering Project Management

I manage teams that design and build offshore oil and gas pipeline infrastructure. I also support offshore wind projects.
Aaron Waldt

Aaron Waldt

Business Development Lead

Nick Di Scipio

Nick Di Scipio

Co-owner of a 3D Printing Business

Alan Locke au travail

Alan Locke

Career Profiles

Research Technologist

I use Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to design and visually represent 3D models of parts.
Ignacio Tartavull

Ignacio Tartavull

CEO

Ignacio started a business that builds and operates remotely controlled food-delivery robots.
Electrical engineers at work

Engineering a Future Career

Lessons

Students explore the different branches of engineering and discover the similarities and differences between them.

Brandon Graf au travail

Brandon Graf

Career Profiles

Industrial Mechanic (Millwright)

Brandon Graf is an Industrial Mechanic (Millwright) for Keyera.
Embryonic stem cells

Resources on Stem Cells

STEM Explained

Resource page including articles and career profiles related to stem cells.

Medical staff distributing COVID-19 vaccines

What’s Special About the New COVID-19 Vaccines?

STEM Explained

Learn about viruses, vaccines and why the new COVID-19 vaccines are innovative.

Lakshmi Krishnan

Lakshmi Krishnan

Vice President, Life Sciences

Lakshmi Krishnan is the Vice President of Life Sciences for the National Research Council.
Research in a genomics lab

Genomics Resources

STEM Explained

Resource page including articles and career profiles related to genomics.

Fleet of autonomous trucks driving on reserved lane

A Case Study of Autonomous Trucks

Lessons

Learn how artificial intelligence is affecting the trucking industry as a way to explore how technology and society are related.

Researcher with automation equipment

Helping Patients through Drug Discovery

STEM Explained

Learn how researchers from Amgen are developing new drugs for cancer.