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David Pecoraro started his college career when he was 16 years old.  He planned to major in Physics, but it was a volunteer assignment in a hospital that changed his career plans. 

When Rod came to college, he was sure he wanted to be an engineer, but he wasn’t sure what type.  He tried ChE, EE, and ME before he decided that IE would be the best fit for him. “I liked the [...]

Dan Mullins began his college career at West Virginia Institute of Technology.  Since Dan had to pay for most of his own college expenses, he became involved in Tech’s co-op program. 

Jim Magro’s father stated: “I’m going to be the last coal miner in this family.” He was wrong.  His son, Jim, started working in a rebuild shop when he was 16.  When he was 18 years old, he was a [...]

Susan was good at math/science in high school but didn’t particularly like them.  She decided to go into engineering because several of her friends decided to study engineering.

Chad Schron grew up in a manufacturing family, so it was natural that he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father to follow a career in manufacturing as [...]

As fate would have it, not having a car in college influenced John Jackson’s entire career.  “When I was in college, we did internships during the regular semester.  Most of the students were [...]

Ron Pearson came to WVU thinking he would become an Aerospace Engineer. He switched to Industrial Engineering after his first year because of the broader perspective of IE.  It became clear to [...]

Mike Reid chose engineering because he was good at math and science.  He initially wanted to go to West Point but eventually decided to attend WVU.

When Robert Johnston came to WVU, he thought he would major in accounting or finance, but transferred to Engineering because he enjoyed science which was limited in his business program.