IEP alumni share some of their recent highlights and accomplishments.

Our IEP Directors discuss recent events and new developments within some of their different programs.

IEP students as well as recent alumni chime in about their experiences abroad, why studying abroad is so important, and what they have learned.

While still keeping virtual sessions as an option for students, the IEP was pleased to have been able to reintroduce in-person event options into recruitment and retention efforts for the 2021-2022 academic year.

For many engineering students at the University of Rhode Island, learning doesn’t end when the academic year comes to a close. Here are just a few examples of internships students conducted this past summer in laboratories and at companies. 

Zachary Smith ‘20, a IEP and Chinese Flagship graduate who triple-majored in electrical engineering, German and Chinese, recently won a Fulbright scholarship to pursue his masters in energy engineering in Taiwan. Recalled early from his study abroad experience there in 2020, now Zach will be heading back to continue his academic journey.

During the past year, the IEP has been working closely with its marketing committee to find fresh ways to encourage student participation in its wide variety of extracurricular offerings while also recognizing them for their engagement. Enter the new IEP Leadership Endorsement.

We asked a few of our outbound seniors their thoughts in regards to the last year as well as on their upcoming foreign study, having initially postponed this experience by a year. Below are the responses from IEPers Anastasia Paraliticci and Sean Babin, both fourth-year seniors headed to Europe this fall.

After over a year of pandemic-related uncertainty, at last IEP has received the green light to host summer programs in the IEP LLC as well as to send our students abroad in Fall 2021!