Clark School of Engineering

Rita B. Leahy Ph.D. ’89

Asphalt technology authority, Graduate School Doctoral Careers Advisory Board member, founder of the annual Rita B. Leahy Doctoral Career Series

Through her service as a board member and a speaker series established in her name, Leahy has dedicated the past five years to helping doctoral students understand different career options.

Faez Ahmed Ph.D. ’19

Assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, head of the institute’s Design Computation & Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) Lab

Through his research on machine learning and engineering design, Ahmed hopes to automate and accelerate product design leading to the betterment of society.

Evandro Valente ’03, M.S. ’06, and Pramod Raheja ’91

Co-founders of Airgility

Former aerospace engineering students, Valente and Raheja founded Airgility to design and manufacture unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can improve and save lives.

Emily Leo ‘22 is a bioengineering major from Potomac, Maryland. Leo has strong roots to the University of Maryland with 27 Terp alumni (and counting) in her family.

This class of 2020 alumnus does not see his disability as an obstacle. He spent his time at UMD advocating for others like him.