Tell us a bit about where you work and what you do in your role. I work in LA at SpaceX as a Mechanical Design Engineer for the Structures Team in Vehicle Engineering. More specifically, I’m part of a small team that owns the full design, development, build, and…Read More
Did you enter graduate school or the workforce after graduation? I was hired by Blackstone as their first undergraduate hire in 1989 when there were fewer than 15 investment professionals. I was a financial analyst being the most junior person responsible initially for the numbers on both advisory and private…Read More
Tell us a little bit about your grad program. What is a day in the life like for you? I am currently a 2nd year PhD student in the Joint Program in Financial Economics at the University of Chicago. The program is run jointly by the finance area at Chicago…Read More
Did you enter graduate school or the workforce after graduation? As someone passionate about transportation systems for my entire life, studying Systems Engineering was a natural fit for the engineering component of my M&T undergrad, but I knew I wanted to pursue an advanced degree in this realm with an…Read More
What is a day in the life like for you? Like most working new moms – it’s a juggle. I get up early, try to exercise (the one small window of time each day I get to myself) and have a little bit of time with my baby girl before…Read More
Arjun Srinivas, M&T ’07 Hometown: San Francisco, CA Engineering Major: Material Science & Engineering, Specialization in Nanotechnology Wharton Concentration: Finance Minor: Mathematics WHAT ARE YOU DOING CURRENTLY? Prior to graduation, I spun my senior design work out and formed a Company, Innova Dynamics, with my co-founders Alex Mittal, Cal Peng,…Read More
Alaric Qin, M&T ’16 Hometown: Los Angeles, CA Engineering Major: MS in Systems Engineering and BSE in Electrical Engineering Wharton Concentration: Management, Marketing-Operations Joint ACTIVITIES AT PENN Music Director of the Pennchants, an acappella group on campus that has been around for over 25 years Executive Board Member of the SEPTA Advisory…Read More
Neha Mathur, M&T ’14 Hometown: Houston, TX Engineering Major: Systems Engineering Wharton Concentration: Finance WHAT ARE YOU DOING CURRENTLY? I currently am a business analyst at McKinsey’s Business Technology Office. I primarily focus on work around the topic of Digital – how companies will modernize themselves, innovate, and prepare for…Read More
Ryan Marschang, M&T ’14 Hometown: Houston, TX Engineering Major: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Wharton Concentration: Finance WHAT ARE YOU DOING CURRENTLY? I am currently working as a reservoir engineer for ExxonMobil Development Company. My team is working in the North Caspian Sea (offshore Kazakhstan) developing two of the world’s largest…Read More
Sonali K. Shah, M&T ’96 Hometown: Champaign, IL Engineering Major: Bioengineering Wharton Concentration: Finance WHAT ARE YOU DOING CURRENTLY? I am a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research examines how innovation happens and the factors that determine the success of innovative high technology start-ups. HOW DID…Read More
