Learning to think like an engineer
Since she was a little girl launching air-pressure rockets in her back yard in Houston, Texas, Neerja Aggarwal knew that she loved math and science. “I was always up to something,” the electrical engineering major recalls. Aggarwal, now a senior at MIT, is still constantly up to something. She is the founder and leader of Voltage, an undergraduate electrical engineering club, part of the first group of students to graduate with a major in theater arts, and a member of sMITe, MIT’s Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team. This summer, she will start working on her MEng at MIT. Engineering mindset Aggarwal’s path to electrical engineering included a few stops along the way, as she discovered new disciplines and ways of approaching problems. “I think the biggest thing I’ve learned at MIT is that you really don’t know what you don’t know,” she says. “I had no idea what else was out there.” In high school, Aggarwal...