Engineers' Forum, September 2025

Abstract

Eden Enwiya covers the award-winning Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team (HEVT) at Virginia Tech, which is pushing the frontiers of sustainable transportation.If you are interested in joining a forward thinking design team, keep reading for more information! Internships are a pivotal component of engineering education. They offer experience, connections, and a glimpse into professional life. Matt Milliken shares a perspective on his most recent internship, and advice for how to both secure your own, and make the most out of the internship experience. Continuing on with the theme of prominent design teams on campus, Zoe Miloszewski covers Quality of Life Plus (QL Plus) a student design team seeking to construct meaningful assistive devices to solve the problems of injured veterans. It is a wonderful opportunity for any students wanting to hone their design skills while making a difference. Are you currently seeking more engineering or problem solving experience during the semester? Bradley Roos shares advice around how to find undergraduate research and what kind of skills and benefits you can gain from it. Do you have a passion for solving complex problems? Are you interested in the intersection of math, statistics, data analysis, and finance? If so, the Dataism Lab for Quantitative Finance (DLQF) at Virginia Tech offers students invaluable experience to undergrads. Fernando Rivas-Espinoza details exactly what this looks like and how you can get involved.