Fall 2013 – WIT Magazine

A Scholarship Inspired by Passion

Alan Fournier, third from right, with (from left): Billy Ortiz, BMET ’16; President Zorica Pantic; wife Jennifer Fournier; Clifford Freeman, BSIS ’16; Malinda Som, BMET ’17; and Abriana Nash, BCOS ’16. Ortiz, Freeman, Sorn, and Nash are Fournier Family Scholars. Photo: Heratch Ekmekjian One could say that Alan Fournier, BSET...

Mr. Fix It

When John-Paul Perron, BELM ’10, looks at a Kindle e-reader, he sees much more than words. He sees all the nuances of the display and front-light technology, things that—as a material research and processes engineer for Amazon-Lab 126—he helped make happen. “I’m highly critical. Because I was working on...

Thinking Big

For Gensler interior design associate Megan Dobstaff, BINT ’10, a big idea can come out of the smallest moment. This was the case in 2011, when a schematic design for Philips Lighting’s North American headquarters—and all its block-like shapes—suddenly took on a very familiar appearance. “I made a joke...

Climbing for a Cause

When Phil Berenz, BCNS ’07, was young, he used to make up excuses for his limp. It’s hard enough being a kid without having to tell people you have cerebral palsy. Now, he’s shouting it from the mountaintops. Last February, Berenz became one of a just handful of people...

Building Dreams

DESIGNED TO LAST Dennis Colwell, BSA ’06, who completed 135 commercial and residential projects last year with his small architecture firm,Dennis Colwell Architects, Inc., is often reminded of his Wentworth days as he puts in 80-hour workweeks in his home office. “It’s just like studio mode,” he says....

Men’s Rowing Dives In

Buoyed by by years of success as a club sport, Wentworth men’s rowing is taking the plunge into varsity athletics. The team is competing at the Division III level this fall and is the Institutes’s 15th varsity sport. “They have proven over the years to be a very dedicated...

A River Runs Through It

Photo: Vasco Szinetar Convert a former military airport into a sustainable urban park? Now you can imagine the challenge faced by Associate Professor of Architecture Manuel Delgado (left) when he entered the Venezuelan design competition La Carlota. Along with a team of Venezuelan and Colombian architects, Delgado won the...

Wentworth Hosts Polytechnic Summit

Photo: Heratch Ekmekjian More than 200 academic leaders, faculty members, and students from approximately 20 U.S. and international institutions participated in the fifth annual Polytechnic Summit in June on the Wentworth campus, which addressed the theme of “Bridging Boundaries.” Attendees exchanged ideas on cross-disciplinary learning and student-faculty collaboration, and...

College Think Tank Debuts

When the first College Think Tank Boston rolled into town in June, it brought with it a bevy of challenges facing the City of Boston that Wentworth students could not wait to address. Spearheaded by Monique Fuchs, associate vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship and co-founded with the City...

For Freshman Engineers, A Leg Up

Photo: Caleb Cochran At Wentworth, even freshmen have the chance to work with industry—right from the get-go. In last spring’s Introduction to Engineering Design course, first-year students worked together to tackle a challenge from Dr. Sang-Eun Song, a surgical robotics expert at Brigham and Women’s Hospital: Come up with...