I am a fourth-year student at Lehigh University studying computer engineering and finance as part of Lehigh’s Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program.
B.S. Computer EngineeringB.S. Integrated Business and Engineering - Finance
Expected graduation: May 2022
From linear systems to marketing strategies and data structures to balance sheets, my education has exposed me to a wide variety of ideas and skills that will allow me to succeed in my career, no matter what I choose to do.
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Lehigh's Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program (IBE) focuses on product development and entrepreneurship through a unique curriculum including simulations, specialized lectures, and case study projects. The fifty students per year who complete the rigorous 137-credit curriculum receive an AACSB-accredited business degree in the form of a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Business and Engineering with a major in their desired discipline.
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3.8 GPA
overall
MS Excel
MS Word
MS PowerPoint
Figma
Adobe Illustrator
MS Access
LabVIEW
Minitab
JMP
PSpice
HTML
CSS
Java
C/C++
JavaScript
Python
MATLAB
MongoDB
JQuery
Node.js
March 2020 - Present
Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) is the honor society of IEEE. At Lehigh, the chapter is dedicated to maintaining a level of academic excellence throughout the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. As treasurer, my responsibilities include managing the organization's budget, collecting dues, and helping to organize various academic programs, community events, and professional workshops.
March 2020 - Present
The IEEE student branch at Lehigh is committed to the students of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. As Vice President, I work to build interest in the department, offer academic and tutoring services, cultivate a network of student peers, and give our members quality resources to develop themselves professionally.
February 2020 - Present
The Lehigh Tea Club was founded in the Spring of 2020 with the goal of bringing students together through a mutual enjoyment of tea. As treasurer, I manage the club budget and work with the other board members to host fun community-building events. Despite its non-academic nature, co-founding this club has been an insightful experience.
September 2019 - May 2020
During my time as the Vice President of my residence hall, I was responsible for organizing fun events to bring our residence hall community closer. The position allowed me to experience event planning, marketing, and hosting and get a better sense of the logistics that are involved with such events.
January 2019 - May 2019
During my freshman year, I took an IBE-specific course that discussed fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Over the last seven weeks of the course, our class was split into groups and tasked with developing a product to solve some kind of problem. For example, my group had to design a product that would effectively remove snow and ice from the cars of daily commuters the morning after a snowstorm. The seven-week-long project involved talking with our target customers, industry professionals, possible manufacturers, Lehigh professors, and others to ultimately design a prototype and business plan to bring the product to market. We then presented this product and plan to professors, peers, and family.
Our original design for the product resembled a small snowblower that the user could move over the top of their car; however, we realized that this design was not realistic for a number of reasons, such as power consumption and usability. After trying to find ways to work around our problems, we realized we needed a completely new design. I mention this design pivot because learning that it is sometimes necessary to change direction entirely for the best overall outcome was one of the biggest lessons that I learned while working on the project.
We named our final product Avalanche. This snow shovel shown in the image below came with a number of features that make it effective. Its shape as shown is ideal for pushing snow off a car. The square face can also be rotated parallel to the shaft and turn the device into a shovel for digging a car out of a snow pile. The handle can be taken out to reveal a pointed end used for breaking up ice. Also, the user can attach a "de-icing" slip to a roller at the base of the square face to help melt stuck-on ice.
This project was very involved, and I enjoyed getting the hands-on experience of working through an entrepreneurial process. It was a great exercise to understand much of what goes into starting a business. Many of the skills I developed and insights I gathered while working on this project I will carry with me throughout my professional career.
