Eliseo Navarrete

Degree: BS Electrical Engineering 

Scholarships/Awards received: President's Award Scholar

Student organizations/extracurricular activities: SHPE, Illini Strings

What's next for you? I'm attending the University of Pennsylvania beginning this Fall 2021 to pursue an MSE in Nanotechnology.

Favorite memory from your time in ECE: My favorite memories are the long nights I would spend with friends in the ECEB study rooms and classrooms. They were both a great struggle and a lot of fun.

Favorite class in ECE: It's a tie between ECE 44/481. I remember the day I finally stepped foot in the fab lab for each of those classes. 481 gave me the chance to step inside the yellow-tinted lab I had seen since freshman year! It's the first thing you see when you walk into ECEB.

Future plans? After grad school, I want to work for a semiconductor company as either a process or yield engineer.

Advice for future Illinois ECE students: Don't sweat it if you do poorly in a couple of classes. ECE has so many subfields and paths to different careers that all require unique skill sets. I struggled a lot in the beginning and it took me until Junior year to figure out what I was most passionate about and now I'm going to grad school to study the subject more.