Jacob Milman, from Barrington, Rhode Island, has attended the University of Rhode Island for seven years and earned three degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Milman began his journey in the International Engineering Program<\/a>, earning bachelor\u2019s degrees in Mechanical Engineering<\/a> and German. \u201cI lived abroad in Germany from 2022-2023\u2013I got to travel Europe and work a cool job at Porsche AG,\u201d said Milman. \u201cMy knowledge and interests nowadays lie in manufacturing, materials science, and human factors, but I have a soft spot for automotive engineering too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He advises new college students to not be afraid to not know what you want to do; before, during, or after college. \u201cI\u2019m still figuring it out,\u201d says Milman. \u201cEven if you try something that you end up hating, you\u2019ve learned something useful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Milman credits URI for providing many opportunities to gain relevant experience and knowledge, between lab work, internships, and a chance to earn an advanced degree. He also interned at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence and was an undergraduate research assistant for Associate Professor Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi<\/a> in the Submarine Simulator Lab, as well as in the Digital Photomechanics Lab under Associate Professor Helio Matos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It wasn\u2019t always easy, and he\u2019s especially proud of passing the heat and mass transfer summer class while working full time, and managing a two-hour round trip commute to school every weekday for three years. He found it was worth it at the end of the day. Not only did he meet his long-time partner at URI, he also just successfully defended his graduate thesis \u201cQuiet Bunks,\u201d a research study characterizing noise levels on ships and how to mitigate them with different materials for better sleep, done under advisor Maier-Speredelozzi, completing his master\u2019s in Systems Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is now working full time in the plastics industry as a process engineer, continuing to focus on materials science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three degrees in seven years was no easy feat, but worth it for Jacob Milman, a 2024 graduate of the German IEP, who just completed his master\u2019s in systems engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5094,"featured_media":88746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[789,33,786,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-students","category-iep","category-industrial-and-systems","category-student-success"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89409,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88745\/revisions\/89409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}