{"id":61946,"date":"2011-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-takes-global-path-to-engineering-career\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-takes-global-path-to-engineering-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/uri-student-takes-global-path-to-engineering-career\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student takes global path to engineering career"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tTiverton resident to graduate May 22 <\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 26, 2011 \u2013 For most of her life, Tiverton resident Sarah Schlatter knew that she wanted to travel to Europe. She learned Spanish in high school and spoke Portuguese at home, but it wasn\u2019t until she got to the 溏心vlog免费B站 that her goal was achieved.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs she prepares to graduate on May 22 with degrees in biomedical engineering and Spanish, Schlatter credits her decision to enroll in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program (IEP) for ensuring her first trip abroad would be a success.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe IEP program was what attracted me to 溏心vlog免费B站 in the first place. My Dad is an electrical engineer, and he tried brainwashing me as a child to become an engineer,\u201d she said with a sly smile. \u201cI tried to ignore him, but in high school I realized that I think like an engineer. I also wanted to study something that would help people, so I picked biomedical engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tStudents in the International Engineering Program spend a year abroad studying at a local university and interning at a global company. Schlatter chose to spend her year in San Sebastian, Spain, studying at the University of Navarra and interning at Fatronik Tecnalia, a research company that is developing an emotion detection device.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe described San Sebastian as \u201ca cute little beach city\u201d that somewhat reminded her of home. She was a little nervous about her ability to communicate effectively in Spanish, but she needn\u2019t have worried.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe people there were surprisingly helpful, and I had a strong background in the language, so everything turned out fine,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n


\n\tLiving with students from five other countries also exposed her to a wide range of cultures and recipes, and trips throughout Spain, Portugal, Italy and Paris completed the experience of a lifetime.<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring her internship she found herself recruiting volunteers and conducting tests of a device that measures physiological signals and interprets those signals as emotions.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was a great experience to be in the business world and see that engineering is similar throughout the world,\u201d said Schlatter, who serves as a Spanish tutor at 溏心vlog免费B站 and leads the campus Spanish club. \u201cThe business culture is quite different there. The Spanish love their coffee breaks, they\u2019re more relaxed than we are here, and they work a half day on Fridays, but they do work hard.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tOne thing she realized from her internship and from a summer job at the Newport Navy Base is that she doesn\u2019t want to spend her career conducting research in a laboratory.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019m more extroverted,\u201d she said. \u201cI really want to be in an environment where there are plenty of people to talk to. I like the business side of engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWith that in mind, Schlatter is considering enrolling in an MBA program in the near future. And she already has a job lined up as an application sales engineer at The Lee Company, a Connecticut-based engineering company that makes pressure valves and small mechanical components. <\/p>\n


\nShe described the job as \u201cworking between an engineer and the field sales staff. I\u2019ll have to be able to talk the language of the engineers and also communicate effectively with the clients on the business side,\u201d Schlatter said. \u201cThey\u2019re interested in developing more medical applications for their products, which is why they liked my background.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nWhile she isn\u2019t ready to look too far into the future to imagine where her career may take her, Schlatter knows that she isn\u2019t finished traveling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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