Daniel Shteinbok interned as an optomechanical engineer at Bruker Nano, an equipment manufacturer for nanoanalytics in Mountain View, California, USA. …

Lab animals can be genetically modified so their cells express fluorescent proteins. By engineering them to express a particular protein that only fluoresces in the presence of calcium, we can have the fluorescence of neurons turn on as they fire, and then turn off afterward. We can even select specific…

Athulya Nambiar worked at Exo, a medical imaging startup in Santa Clara, California, USA, that is using PMUT technology to improve ultrasound imaging. Keep reading to learn more about her journey in nanotechnology so far! How did you get to where you are today? When considering what I wanted to study for my undergrad, I was all over the…

All ultrasound devices in the market today use transducers which converts one form of energy to another. Ultrasound transducers specifically create sound waves in the ultrasonic region (sound waves with a frequency higher than 20 kHz) that bounce off the body and soft tissue and produce echoes. These echoes are…

Kailyn has completed her co-ops so far at the Capasso Group, an optics research group at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Keep reading to learn more about how she landed the position in first year and what her job is like! How did you get to where you are today? Where I am today is by total chance…

Nanophotonics is a branch of optical engineering that uses nanoscale structures to control photons. The ability to control photons opens up new possibilities in quantum chips, sensors, lenses, and holograms for the AR/VR world. One way that photons can be manipulated is by using a metasurface. A metasurface starts off…

Randy interned as a hardware systems engineer at Apple in Cupertino, California, United States. Keep reading to learn more about his co-op journey, what his job is like, and how to land a job in hardware! How did you get to where you are today? At the start of first year, I joined the Waterloo Rocketry student design team…

Hardware engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering, which focuses on the development of the electronics inside various technologies. Electronics are most commonly developed onto printed circuit boards, also known as PCBs. Most technological devices around you have PCBs, as any software cannot run without the necessary hardware. If you’ve…

Anna interned as a battery characterization engineer at QuantumScape, a company in San Jose, California, USA, that develops solid state lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles. …