Welcome to the MEGA Alumni Podcast!
This is a new endeavor we are initiating from Fall 2023. We will be uploading all the podcast episodes on our YouTube channel. Please subscribe and share with fellow MAE alumni to follow for podcast episodes and MEGA updates. For feedback, questions or comments contact Nehal Jajal(.2) via email or LinkedIn.
Available Episodes:
Episode 9 – Mohamad Al Nashar – He completed his BS and MS at OSU and graduated in 2021. Since then he has been working at Honda R&D as a NVH (Noise, Vibration and Harshness) CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) Engineer. You can connect with Mohamad on LinkedIn here.
Episode 8 – Dr. Sarah Roelker – She completed her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University. She remained at Ohio State to complete her graduate work in Mechanical Engineering. Following the completion of her PhD in 2017, Dr. Roelker worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at UT Austin until 2020 when she began her current position as an Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. You can find more information about her work here.
Episode 7 – Dr. Ata Esfahani – He completed his Masters at OSU in 2017 and graduated from OSU with his PhD in 2022. Since then he has worked as a senior propulsion engineer at Virgin Galactic and is currently working in Gulfstream as a flight test engineer. Connect with him on LinkedIn here.
Episode 6 – Ben Kellie – He has an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University. He is an Alaskan entrepreneur who brings over a decade of experience in deep tech startups and aerospace, as well as twenty years of remote logistics and critical operations management. He now serves as the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Center for Economic Development at UAA helping serve diverse entrepreneurs across the state. Most recently, Ben successfully exited “The Launch Company,” a bootstrapped aerospace startup that specialized in autonomous rocket launch ground systems and logistics, to Voyager Space. He previously founded K2 Dronotics, an Alaskan UAV startup, and served as a lead engineer at SpaceX.
Episode 5 – Dr. Elena Caruthers – Dr. Elena Caruthers is the guest for this episode. She graduated from OSU with her PhD in 2017 and since then she has been at Otterbein University, currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering, Computer Science & Physics. Her area of research is largely in biomechanics with emphasis on day to day movements. Find more information here.
Episode 4 – Dr. Michael Hudoba – He graduated from OSU in 2016 with his Ph.D. He was the first graduate student in Dr. Castro’s lab and his research focused on DNA based nanomachines. Since then, he has been at Otterbein University, currently an Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Engineering and Computer Science Department. You can find more details here.
Episode 3 – Katie Gears – She graduated with a master’s degree from OSU in 2021. Since then, she has been working as a New Product Development Mechanical Design Engineer in the Emergency Care Patient Transport division at Stryker Medical.
Episode 2 – Dr. Sarah Watzman – She graduated with a PhD from OSU in 2018. Since then she has been at the University of Cincinnati, currently as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Her research interests focus on thermal energy conversion, thermoelectric and thermomagnetic conversion and topological materials. You can find more details here.
Episode 1 – Abhijit Kale – Former Treasurer of MEGA and currently working in the industry (Spatial – Dassault Systems).