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“I wanted to explore how the aerospace engineering community could help speed up the pace of innovation in renewable energy,” she said. “Ninety percent of my family still lives in Nigeria and Ghana, and those areas are heavily plagued by the energy crisis and still subject to rolling blackouts. I wanted to see if renewables could be something that could benefit those regions of the continent.”
Shodiya applied her aerospace engineering training to redesign wind turbine blades that could optimize the amount of energy generated. She poured herself into the project, but she and her professor couldn’t come up with a design that worked with such low wind speeds.
Shodiya was intrigued by the world of research despite those setbacks. But she decided to switch gears and gain experience in the air transportation industry, joining Boeing after graduation as a product design engineer for the 767 tanker and 787 Dreamliner. [...]
International Women's Day (IWD) celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It is an official holiday in at least 20 countries and grows in recognition each year. This year’s IWD theme is Choose to Challenge because from challenge comes change, and collectively we can create an inclusive world. To celebrate International Women's Day the Women's Student Association is thrilled to feature 13 incredible women from across our Harvard Business School community - faculty, staff and students - who choose to challenge. [...]
“Every organization has a really old device that they think they can’t part with. They feel a responsibility to keep it in their network,” said Breen, who graduated from the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program, jointly offered by the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Business School, in 2020. “What are the solutions available to you to secure it, and increase its functionalities beyond that end of life and end of support?” [...]
SVMP and 2+2 Alumna, Alexxis Isaac
- 01 Jul 2020
How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself
We grew up with the foundation of a single mom, my grandparents, child support, and food stamps. In middle school, I transitioned to living in San Antonio with my dad who is Panamanian and who was married to my stepmom. Two more siblings came along and I found myself in a two-parent, relatively stable middle-class household. I learned a lot in my childhood, and something that I will always be grateful for was the opportunity to understand and live through a wide variety of circumstances. It built my empathy towards others and instilled in me a sense of gratitude for the small things in life. [...]
I made a calculated decision to have a baby at business school. Sure, I could have deferred for a year and taken advantage of my consulting firm’s generous maternity leave policy. Yet, while that would have been great for the first few months, business school would provide a much more flexible schedule than any job I have ever had. [...]
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