Taking Lehigh to the World and Bringing the World to Lehigh

Iacocca International Internship Program
Student Report

Summer 2017

OFFICE OF
INTERNATIONALAFFAIRS2017 International Internships
Table of Contents:
Individual Interns:
Amarshi, Raahil………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Antoinette, Adrian………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Arbelaez, Juan…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……….
Balke, Alissa …….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Behre, Anne…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...........
Bergin, Alison …….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Bernal Torres, Angelica …….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Bogar, Kacie …….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Caguana-Salazar, Julaisei …….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Casciotti, Melissa…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Cheng, Cynthia …….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Ching, Siu-yee …….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Coughlin, Kendall …….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Cunningham, Dana …….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Daddario, Mitchell …….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Dent, Eliza…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
DeRaymond, Nathan …….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Dickens, Liyala…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Dillon, Sarah…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Dooley, Jacob…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Duggan, Kaylee…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Fahey, Mallory…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Falcon, Dominick…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Fan, Rachel…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Felipe, Carina…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Fernandez, Rafael…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Gifford, Jordan…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Gil, Jaehee…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Gomaine, Tejwant…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Granquist, Maria…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Graziano, Vincent…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Hicks, Jessica…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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James, Alexander…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Kent, Michelle…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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2017 International Internships
Table of Contents:
Khan, Mina…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………....
Kim, Grace…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....
Kleinhenz, Jonathan…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Kok, Ivan…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Kozub, Mariah…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
La, Winston…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Lin, Louis…..….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Linderman, Emily…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Luttinen, Rebecca…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Ly, Kevin…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Marrow, Shanice…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
McCulley, Victoria…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
McGowan, Michael…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Medina, Salome…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Miller, Abigail…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Mo, Hanna…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
Morales, Tristan…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Morin, Alexa…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Nasby, Elliott…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Nerreau, Jason…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Nguyen, Angela…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Ortiz, Tanairy…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Pepingco, Christianna…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Pinchbeck, Eleanor…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Randolph, Emily…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Razewski, Nicholas…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Remen, Gili…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Rivas Garcia, Diana…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Rodkey, Talia…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Rotem, Aaron…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Ruggiero, Brianna…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Ryan, Emily…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Sarkar, Preom…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Scobell, Malcom…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Seonwoo, Joon…….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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Snyder, Casey…….…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Wung, Jasmine…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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Iacocca International Internship Program
Growth Chart to 2017
Students in Lehigh University’s Iacocca International Internship Program live and work in aforeign country for six to 12 weeks over the summer. Whether working at an international
corporation, a non-profit, or performing research in a lab or in the field, students gain
real-world professional experience while being immersed in a different culture.

Interns learn how to navigate a new environment, meet professional expectations andcommunicate with people from varied backgrounds. Former interns say the experiencepushed them outside their comfort zone and gave them newfound confidence andawareness of their capabilities, as well as insight into how other people think and act.
The comprehensive program provides career coaching and cultural training before students
leave, opportunities for reflection and mentorship during the internship and formal re-entry
programs upon return to campus, all with the goal of ensuring that students get the mostfrom their internship experience and are ready to succeed in their careers after graduation.

The program has expanded rapidly—the number of students who participate each year
increased by 700 percent in its first five years. Today, more than 400 students have internedin 40 countries.

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2017 Iacocca International Internship Program
Student Demographics
COLLEGE DISTRIBUTION
OF SELECTED STUDENTS
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INTERNS WITH PREVIOUS
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCENo prior int'l exp.

IC

Had previous int'l exp.

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previous
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FINANCIAL AID REPRESENTATION
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Raahil Amarshi
Macedonia
Industrial And Systems
Engineering

American councils
Administrative
Management InternCompany and Position Description:
As an intern for the American Councils for International Education in Macedonia, I provided
technical, marketing, and administrative assistance. The office is responsible for running the
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (KLYES) program which involves high school student
exchange whereby Macedonian students complete a year of their high school in the USA andlikewise, American students come to Macedonia to complete a year of their high school. My
tasks included:organizing documents received from the selected students
managing social media to promote the program and the activities carried out by thestudents
performing weekly check-in calls with the students to make sure they are preparing welland are on track with the requirementspurchasing and keeping track of office and event (whenever an event is conducted)
supplies.

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Raahil Amarshi
Macedonia

Value Derived from the Experience:
This international internship has been one of the most fruitful experiences so far. Through it, notonly have I learned more about my interests, but also have I developed certain skills and traits
that boost my confidence when it comes to taking on new challenges. From coping with the timedifference to coping with the different lifestyle of my host family, each and every challenge has
contributed to making this a memorable journey. One of the toughest yet enjoyable challenge I
overcame was adjusting to the Macedonian tradition of dining. Both the different types of foodand the different meal timings did not fit well with my lifestyle in the beginning however, after
choosing to step outside my comfort zone and giving it all an attempt, not only did I manage toadapt well to the culture but also did I feel more comfortable living this lifestyle that I previously
identified as “outside my comfort zone”.
As an administrative management intern, one of the most notable skills that I obtained in these
two months was learning how to multi-task with maximum efficiency. Having to do multiple
tasks at once seemed the toughest challenge. However, with time, it became more of a passion
because I really enjoyed the feeling of completing all those tasks. As a stranger in the
Macedonian society, making new friends and exploring this beautiful country was my favorite
part of the experience. After some reflection, I surely learnt that stepping outside of my comfort
zone and experiencing new, different cultures is my ideal way of living. I will look forward toparticipating in another such experience because the more I explore about the world, the more I
learn about myself.

7Adrien Antoinette
United Kingdom
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering andApplied Science
Mechanicalengineering

WeengsOperations
research internCompany and Position Description:
Weengs is a startup which was founded three years ago. It is located in London. It is an ecommerce fulfillment business which works mainly with relatively small growing businesses in
London. It collects, packs in custom-made boxes and ships those businesses products to theirrespective customers anywhere across the world. My main task for the internship was to workwith the warehouse manager to design a more efficient production line for how they pack theirproducts in custom-made boxes. I was responsible for designing a new layout using AutoCAD,
for writing an algorithm that helps them to cut down on cardboard wastage, and to maximize
labor effectiveness and efficiency while maintaining product standards.

Testing new collection
bagsIntern center

8Adrien Antoinette
London, United Kingdom

Buckingham palace

The land of soccer

Value Derived from the Experience:
London was amazing. It was such an inspiring and eye-opening experience. It was so interesting
to live in such a diverse society where people are just so free to be themselves no matter what
their culture or religion is.
Being a soccer fanatic, it was such a blast to be in a country where you can talk about soccer on
the morning tube to work, at work, at the bar and icing on the cake, play pretty much every day.
It helped because it made me realize how important it is to pursue your passions outside of work
as it is what makes you happy and keeps you motivated and with the right frame of mind.

9Juan Camilo Arbelaez
Costa Rica
College of Engineering
Industrial and Systems
Engineering

Los Cusingos
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
Los Cusingos Refugio de Aves is a national bird sanctuary and biological reserve founded by Dr.
Alexander Skutch who was a naturalist and writer. Located in Quizzará of Pérez Zeledón in Costa
Rica it's home to various species of animals, petroglyphs, rivers, forests, botanical gardens, anda museum that used to be Dr. Skutch’s home. Our job primarily focused on sampling the waterfrom the Peñas Blancas River and the four tributaries that run through the property. To
accomplish this we used the Manta Ray 2 by Eureka, a water probe, that tested conductivity, pH
level, oxygen saturation, turbidity, temperature, and depth of the water. We couldn’t perform
continuous testing so we would test the main river (Peñas Blancas) 3 days a week and 3x/day
while the other tributaries were tested once a day on the other two days of the week. The data
we collected was valuable to our research because it demonstrated how different variables
could affect the quality of the water; such as reforestation, rain, and pollution to name a few.
When we weren’t analyzing the river and tributaries, we would help out with maintenancework around the property and other research projects that were also being conducted.

The main office at Los
Cusingos

Out on the field at one of
the tributaries with ourequipment
10Juan Camilo Arbelaez
Costa RicaAt the highest point in all of Costa
Rica, Cerro Chirripó. Altitude: 12,533ft

Hiking with part of our homestay
familyValue Derived from the Experience:
Considering that I come from a Colombian family where spanish is my native tongue, I was able
to fully immerse myself in the culture of Costa Rica because I spoke the language. This allowed
me to create meaningful and personal relationships with everyone I met. What I didn’t expectfrom this experience was to leave behind people that I now thought of as family and a country
that I called home for almost two months. By far the best part of my internship was myhomestay family and not just the immediate family that I was staying with but the close to 30
family members that lived in the same small town. My friend Tristan and I were both placed in
the same location and our homestay mother’s were actually sisters! After about a week we hadalready met most of the family members and could immediately tell that this was a very closeknit family. By the end of our internship, saying goodbye was the hardest part as tears ran down
our family member’s faces and it was in this moment that I realized they considered us a part oftheir family. Costa Rica is now our home away from home and we'll definitely visit the family weleft behind in the coming years.
Interning in Costa Rica has inspired me to travel and experience new cultures and perspectives
from people across the globe. I plan on hopefully visiting and working in different countries forextended periods of time to not only grow as a person but professionally as well. I will always
look back on this experience and be forever grateful for the impact that it has had on me.
¡Pura Vida!

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Alissa Balke
Spain
Collage of Arts andScience
Behavioral
Neuroscience

IES Abroad
InternCompany and Position Description:
I interned in two hospitals in Barcelona. I spent most of my time at the Vall d’Hebron, where I
worked under one of my professors from IES and his colleagues in various departments,
including Transcultural Psychiatry, Tropical Medicine, and Infectious Disease. I contributed tothe initial research and mapping of the My Health Plan project, which aims to create aninteractive map interface app to help refugees in 8 partner countries access mental andphysical health resources. I worked to find information related to assessing the needs ofrefugees and particularly the vulnerable populations within those communities in specificpartner countries of the project, the resources those countries provide to refugees, and whatapps may currently exist to help refugees access these necessities. I conducted a systematic
literature review for chronic and communicable diseases for this population and a web search
for resources. I learned to use Mendeley, and eventually restructured all my data into one easyto-use spreadsheet. At the Clinic Hospital, I shadowed the neurologist Dr. Domingo Escudero.
We attended weekly meetings and seminars for the first month of my internship, and I got toobserve a research study being done by his fellow colleagues once.

Front steps of the Clinic Hospital,
Barcelona

From the right: Adil (my boss andprofessor), Alexis and Caitlin (twofellow coworkers), and I on thefirst day of work.
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Alissa Balke
Spain

Gaudi’s Casa
Batlló on
Passieg De
Gracia,Barcelona

View fromabove thevillage/churchof Montserrat,
outsideBarcelona

Value Derived from the Experience:
I think that the biggest things I have learned are more along the lines of soft skills rather than hard skills. I
knew how to do online research, make spreadsheets, and edit papers before I went to Barcelona. Looking
back on the eight weeks I spent in Spain, I have to say I really think I’ve grown a lot in other aspects of mylife. This may sound cliché, but I really did become more confident in myself and my abilities, which I
think has a lot to do with a greater sense of independence and responsibility. I have always been an
extremely independent person, even before leaving for college. Being at Lehigh made me even more
self-sufficient, but also taught me to accept help when I needed it as well. Travelling and working
abroad has added another level to this sense of independence. It has instilled more than just a sense ofknowing what to do no matter where I am, but feeling confident while I do it, or believing in myself and in
the fact that I have the capacity to solve problems as they arise should plans change. Overall, I feel moreat ease. In the beginning it felt as if I was constantly outside of my comfort zone, but now it feels likeevery new experience is expanding my comfort zone, rather than venturing beyond it.
I have also become more patient overall after my experience in Spain. I have come to accept that I will
have failures—I can’t become fluent in such a short amount of time, I got lost, I have been accidentallylate (although culturally people in Spain don’t generally care about timeliness as much), I’m going to dosome things wrong—but that doesn’t define me as a person, and they don’t outweigh my successes. I
have become more patient with others, and after seeing how difficult it really can be to do simple things
when you aren’t a native speaker of the country’s language, I have a greater appreciation for thoseimmigrants I have met in America that have done so much more than I. I came to appreciate the patience
locals had with me when I made mistakes and blunders and hope I can mirror this for others in the US
and at Lehigh.
I think this experience also contributed to the greater sense of awareness I feel I now have. Seeing thecontrast of things that just seem like second nature to people in Spain versus back home has made me
recognize some American customs and mindsets that I never really realized we had. I hope that I canmaintain and share this with my family and friends who haven’t had the experience I have. Travelling
helps you become a more “worldly” person, and feel involved with more than just your own life orregion. It makes you conscious for more than just your own country, and helps you have well-roundedviews, rather than just having a two-dimensional perspective—so long as you maintain an open mindset,
you can become a global citizen.

13Annie Behre
Ireland
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Science
Bioengineering

NUIG Biomedical
Engineering Department
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
This summer I worked as a research intern at the National University of Ireland-Galway (NUIG)
where I worked in the biomedical engineering department. My research project was to test andevaluate the different mechanical properties in arthritic, osteoporotic, and diabetic humanfemoral bones. This summer I asked to cut up the human femoral bones into square pieces
using a slow-speed saw (as shown below), use a Zwick machine to do tensile testing on thebones samples, use Excel to analyze the stress/strain data from the Zwick machine, use themicroCT machine to scan, contour, and evaluate the trabecular of the bones, embed the bones
in an epoxy resin, and polish the embedded samples using a polisher machine. Since I wasworking with real unfixed human tissue, I had to be extremely cautious so most of theprocedures I did were performed under a SafeFlow fume hood(like shown below). The fume
hood filtered out any biological particles before air left the hood. We also had to diligently
clean up any tool or lab space we used for experiments by cleaning everything with 1% Virkon
spray and then 70% IMS spray.

Here I am using a slow-speed diamond bladed saw
to cut through a femoral bone sample into thesquare pieces.
14Annie Behre
Ireland

Kissing the Blarney
Stone for “goodluck”

Walking on the lovely
streets of Galway

Value Derived from the Experience:
The Iacocca Internship in Galway, Ireland has helped me with my professional skills in the lab.
Since I have never worked in a lab prior to this experience, I was not only able to acquire a
multitude of skills used in the lab (as listed out on the page before) I was also able to experience
what is was actually like to be in a lab. To be completely honest, it was not how I expected lab
work would be. I may be naive in saying this but I did not realize all the patience it took to
actually work in a lab since the repeated experiments can often become pretty redundant. I amvery happy with all the knowledge I was able to gain from the lab though. The Iacocca internshiphas also helped me become much more independent. Although there was not a huge language
barrier, since most people speak English in Ireland, there was still Irish “slang” I had to learn. I
also never knew that there is a native Irish language called Gaelic, which is written on every signin Ireland as well as the English translation, I had to learn to maneuver my way in a foreigncountry which is where I think was able to gain the most of my independence from this trip. I
was able to travel with a few other Lehigh students on weekends to places like Connemara Park,
the Aran Islands, Cork, Blarney Castle, Dublin, Derry, and Belfast. I decided to not leave Irelandon this trip, and instead try to explore as much of the island as I could to learn the different
cultures and histories of each of the places.

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Alison Bergin
London, United Kingdom
College of Arts &Sciences
Political Science

Queen’s Church of EnglandPrimary SchoolStudent AssistantCompany and Position Description:
This summer, I worked as a Student Assistant at Queen’s Church of England Primary School in
Kew, Richmond. I mainly worked in a Year 4 classroom and spent some afternoons working withYear 1. My responsibilities included marking assignments, supervising the classroom, leadinggroup discussions, assisting children with classwork, etc. I also had the opportunity to learn thebehind-the-scenes aspects of teaching, such as lesson-planning and how to function as amember of the staff.

With my Year 4 class on
my last day of work!

Me during my firstweek wearing mybadge!
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Alison Bergin
London, United kingdom

Taking the traditional
telephone booth photo!

View of Buckingham
Palace!

Value Derived from the Experience:
My time interning at Queen’s was excellent preparation for my future work in Teach for America.
While I hope to be teaching at the high-school level, this internship allowed me to become more
comfortable in the classroom setting and gain confidence in my teaching abilities. I was able toobserve various teaching methods and analyze another culture’s classroom practices. I plan toadapt these into my future classroom.
Following Teach for America, I plan to attend law school and pursue a career in education
reform. After my time in London, I have started to seriously consider attending law school in the
U.K. Prior to this opportunity, I had hardly left the east coast of the United States. Now, I am
enchanted by other cultures and hope to travel as much as possible in the future.
Furthermore, after experiencing the great diversity that exists in London, I am determined toincrease my cultural awareness by learning a new language: Spanish. This will help me in bothmy personal and professional endeavors.

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Angelica Bernal Torres
Santiago, Chile
College of BusinessBusiness
Management

IES- Hospital Soterodel Rio
Human Resources
InternCompany and Position Description:
I was placed at the Complejo Asistencial Dr. Sotero del Rio. The medical complex
is Chile’s largest public hospital serving most of the city of Santiago. Since thehospital is public, it lacks many resources and serves at full capacity. However, themedical complex still strives to serve patients with the upmost care and respect.
I was working as a Human Resource Intern. I was responsible for creating reports
through Excel about employee absenteeism and budgeting, as well as helping my
co-workers complete monthly reports about cost efficiency. I also helped withliberation of costs from the estimated budget using the hospital’s HR program,
SIRH, in order to give the HR department the capability to hire more employees
without maxing out the employee budget.

The main building of
the hospital complex

The Human Resource
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Angelica Bernal Torres
Santiago, Chile

At the peak of Cerro Manquehue
overlooking the Andes Mountains

The Sky Costanera is the largest
building in Latin America

Value Derived from the Experience:
As a result of this internship, I have become more independent and more
confident in myself. Living in a new country, so far away from my comfort zone, haspushed me to use my own voice and not be scared to ask for help or just strike upa casual conversation with a local. I also have gained more confidence in knowingthat I can accomplish things on my own like beginning a job in a different country.
This opportunity provided me the ability to meet fellow peers from across theUnited States with whom I developed great friendships and unforgettable
memories.
Professionally, the internship was very rewarding. I was able to develop the moreadministrative part of my major and understand how some public entities arelimited by the resources that they lack. I continued to develop my critical thinking
skills to analyze why problems arise. This opportunity has reinforced my ideal of
traveling and working with international human resources in the future. I had theopportunity to network with great individuals that had inspiring stories.

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Kacie Bogar
South Africa
College of Arts andScience
Psychology

Gender DynamiX
Intern andResearch AssistantCompany and Position Description:
Gender DynamiX (GDX) is an NGO focused on advocacy and the promotion ofhuman rights for the transgender and gender diverse communities. The
organization promotes the rights of trans and gender diverse people primarily
through education and research in law and policy and healthcare. My supervisor
was a national advocacy advisor who specializes in law and policy, so much of mywork and research was influenced by their area of expertise. While interning with
Gender DynamiX, my duties mainly revolved around conducting academic
research on international policies regarding the rights of trans and gender diverse
people, and research on the depathologization of transgender identities. I also
engaged in event planning through written and phone invitations, and gathering
necessary materials for seminars conducted by my organization.

Left: With mysupervisor in the
GDX lobby

Right: Working
on research at
my desk

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Kacie Bogar
South Africa

Value Derived from the Experience:
My summer in Cape Town has been one of the most memorable summers of mylife. I discovered the beauty of living in a city filled with so many diverse people,
and was exposed to numerous different cultures, foods, and traditions. The people
and culture are laid back and easy going, so while there is always something to do,it’s rare that I felt rushed or stressed. Cape Town was the perfect city for me
because I had access to so many fun events and experiences in the city, while also
being minutes from some of the greatest hikes and incredible views and outdoorsy
adventures in all of South Africa.

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Julaisei Caguana
Ireland
College of Arts and Science
Sociology

Global Experiences
Ethnographic Researcher

Company and Position Description:
I worked as an ethnographic researcher for a nonprofit organization named Cuala Hub in
Dublin, Ireland. This year, my supervisor Susan McKeown has launched a new program in the
Dun Laoghaire Youth Center where her goal was to demonstrate how an understanding of
cultural identity is essential for the development of youth as it creates an increase in empathy,
hope, and resilience among youth ages 18-25. As an ethnographic researcher, I collected dataon the Irish young people and information on Dun Laoghaire and Irish culture to help develop
educational and interactive program activities for the participants of this new program. As the
program began, I observed the youth accomplish activities, talk about social issues, interact
with one another, and reflect on their experience. I kept a journal on all my observations andtheir feedback on the program. My goal with the observations was to get a better
understanding of the Irish youth, especially since they were my age and we were able to relate,yet still keeping a distance so my input did not influence their responses to questions andobservations. My observations will aid Ms. McKeown in understanding the youth in Dun
Laoghaire and improving her program so that it benefits the youth the best it can by taking into
consideration all their interests, needs, and feedback. My qualitative research also helped
examine the type of results this new program had on the youth in ways that quantitative
research cannot, and offers insights from the participants themselves for future programs.

My supervisor,
Susan McKeown,
the participants ofCuala Hub, and me.

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Julaisei Caguana
IrelandTemple Bar, an
iconic Irish street.

Value Derived from the Experience:
Coming to Ireland, my biggest goal was to develop my social skills. I tend to be shy
sometimes and let go of opportunities because I do not have confidence in myself socially.
Dublin was the perfect city for me to step out of my comfort zone and let my voice be heard. The
first month of my internship I slowly started to be more outgoing and social with people in
Ireland. However, the second month I began going out more to Dublin at night and was able toexperience a different side of Dublin I’d never experienced before. I understood why so many
people said they love Dublin and why it is like no other place in the world. Initially hearing about
the Irish pub culture, you think a whole bunch of tourists will be drunk and act obnoxious.
However, on the contrary, the pub culture is more than just drinking; it’s about getting to know
people from all over the world, it’s about listening to traditional and modern Irish music, it’s
about dancing, laughing, and having a good time with people you’ve never met before. The nightlife in Dublin creates this safe and easy going space where everyone feels included, andoriginality and diversity are accepted and encouraged. I loved being able to connect with many
people and not only share my story how I got to Ireland but to be proud of who I am. I madeseveral friends while in Ireland, and believe it or not, most of them were not even Irish, they
were from all over Europe, Asia, and South America. I am so grateful for being able to travel to
Ireland because I was able to find the confidence in myself to make new friends, be proud of
where I come from, and experience new things. Now going back to Lehigh I want to be more
involved in clubs and activities and will not let insecurities stop me. I will always carry what I
learned in Ireland with me.

23Melissa Casciotti
Moldova
College of Arts and Sciences
Biology

Hospice Angelus
Fundraising InternCompany and Position Description:
Hospice Angelus is a non-profit organization that provides free palliative care forpeople with life-threatening illnesses. During my time there I worked with thefundraising team, which raised most of the money that went to said medical care.
My duties included helping plan and coordinate fundraising events, such as trivia
nights and a stand we ran at a festival. A large part of this consisted of creating
the trivia questions and the presentation that was used. I also helped with odd
jobs, such as counting money, translating documents to English, and making
things like rugs or small dolls that could be sold.

Making decorations for abicycle race fundraiser

Items we made andsold at a festival

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Melissa Casciotti
Moldova

Enjoying the lavender fields

Relaxing in a Moldovan village

Value Derived from the Experience:
Professionally, this experience confirmed just how essential communication is in
any workplace environment, and helped me develop the skills I need to effectively
communicate. Because there was such a severe language barrier, I often had tofind different ways to explain what I was thinking and effectively get my ideas
across. Personally, being abroad greatly strengthened my adaptability. I really had
no idea what to expect going to Moldova, as I hadn’t even really heard of it before
applying for this internship. Everything was an unknown, but as long as I kept myhead on and rolled with the punches, things generally turned out pretty great. It
also helped my ability to connect with people I didn’t have all that much incommon with, and find a way to form a meaningful relationship when we barely
even had a common language.

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Cynthia Cheng
Singapore
College of Businessand Economics
Business
Information
Systems

3M
InternCompany and Position Description:
Since its rough start in 1902, 3M has grown to serve its customers through 5
business groups – consumer, electronics and energy, health care, industrial, andsafety and graphics. With operations in 70 countries and sales in 200, the global
3M team uses their innovative mindset in creating the technology and productsthat advance every company, enhance every home, and improve every life.
3M has been improving lives in Singapore for over 50 years. Starting with only 8
employees, 3M Singapore has grown into a company with 3 different locations
and more than 1,600 employees with established capabilities to serve the needsof local, regional, and global customers.
My role within the company involved communicating and collaborating with mypeers and engineers from different business groups to highlight the impact that
3M has made in Singapore.

At the 3M
Innovation Centre

The Lehigh interns
outside the 3M
Woodlands location.

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Cynthia Cheng
Singapore

Hiking with the other
Iacocca interns

Stepping up to support
the local community

Value Derived from the Experience:

I am very grateful for having the chance to work at 3M in Singapore. My internshipallowed me to develop a highly collaborative role in communicating with my peers
and other engineers in the company. My supervisor was very helpful in helping
the Iacocca interns get acclimated and involved in the programs 3M had to offer.
We got the opportunity to participate in a case study and learned how to thinkwith a mindset geared towards innovating existing 3M technologies to penetrate
the evolving sustainability-focused market. Through this case study I also got tomeet and get advice from some of the top business leaders in Singapore. In
addition, we were able to participate in a program 3M has partnered with to giveback to the community while also showing off Lehigh strength in a challenge
designed to donate a 3M product to vulnerable residents in Singapore for every
500 steps climbed.
Being able to travel to Singapore has helped me develop so much appreciation andawe for how much this country has grown in the past 52 years since gaining its
independence. With its beautiful culture and quirky Singlish language, it is clear tosee why the locals have so much pride for their country. There is so much to learn
and do in Singapore, I would love the opportunity to go back in the future!

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Siu-yee Ching
FranceRCEAS
Chemical Engineering

Laboratoire du Futur
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
I was a research intern at LOF (Laboratoire du Futur) in Bordeaux, France. This
laboratory is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux and sponsored by Solvay
and CNRS (Centre National de le Recherche Scientifique). There I worked on a
research project concerning the drying of colloidal dispersions. The research I
performed at LOF allowed me to work individually in a laboratory setting under
the helpful guidance of a graduate student and project leader.

Studying a colloid drop
under the microscope

Laboratoire du Futur in
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Siu-yee Ching
FranceLa Place de la Bourse behind
the Miroir d’Eau in Bordeaux

IPCG Conference Center inArantzazu, Spain

Value Derived from the Experience:
This experience has developed both my professional development and my global awareness. I
have learned so many invaluable life lessons and skills from the Iacocca International Internship
Program. Working in a new environment in a different country tested my adaptability. Interactingwith co-workers every day was an added bonus and led to the establishment of professional andpersonal connections. Immersing myself in the French culture and practicing my language skills
was a truly enriching process. I was exposed to many different perspectives and opinions on avariety of issues. This opportunity allowed me to better shape my worldview and to approach
problems from different angles. I was able to challenge myself both professionally and personallyas I managed to work on my research project and adjust to a change setting.

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Kendall Coughlin
Italy
College of Arts and Sciences
Journalism

LUXOS Magazine
Social Media Manager

Company and Position Description:
LUXOS is a multi-platform news company based in Milan, Italy focusing on luxury,
beauty, style and travel providing content for cities around the world. The
company publishes articles in print and online in Europe, the Middle East andAsia. In 2016, LUXOS merged with Handy, the world’s most visionary smartphone,allowing hotel guest users to utilize the mobile device as their own, uploadedwith content from LUXOS.
At LUXOS, I served as the Social Media Manager, working alongside thecompany’s Digital Manager and devised a strategy on how to highlight company
online content on various LUXOS social media platforms. I managed thecompany’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and was able to increase the online
traffic and reading of LUXOS content by 28 percent during my internship.
Additionally, I worked with LUXOS CEO on marketing Handy phones across Europe
and speaking with five-star hotel managers about partnering their hotels with ourHandy and LUXOS service.
Left: Iacocca
LUXOS interns
at our desk.
Right: Copies
of LUXOS print
magazine thatis produced biannually.

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Kendall Coughlin
Italy

Milan Iacocca Interns on
top of the DuomoI spent the weekends exploring
various cities in Italy such as Venice.

Value Derived from the Experience:
My Iacocca Internship experience provided me with more opportunities to growthat I would never experience on campus. I was able to increase my global
awareness, while gaining international experience in a professional setting.
Throughout the seven weeks, I was exposed to situations that contributed to thedevelopment of my professional and academic career. I was able to apply mywriting, critical thinking, analytical skills, and teamwork at an international level.
Since I had never left the United States, I had the opportunity to see and interact
with an entirely new culture of food, fashion, history and language. I seized every
opportunity to explore and learn about the history of the country and spent theweekends visiting Rome, Naples, Venice, Cinque Terre and Lago Maggiore. I
completely immersed myself in the culture of a new region, which allowed me tobuild on my self-reliance and confidence skills. I am forever grateful for thisopportunity which enabled me to grow as a student, employee and person.

31Dana Cunningham
Germany
P.C. Rossin College of Engineeringand Applied Science
Computer Science

3YOURMIND GmbH
Plugin Developer

Company and Position Description:
3YOURMIND is a computer software company that develops software for 3D printing services.
Our software allows individuals and businesses to easily compare prices, materials, shippingdelivery time, etc. of various 3D printing services, and users can order their products directlyfrom our website platform. The company is a fast-growing start-up that has won multiple
awards, including the 2016 German Innovation prize in the start-up category.
3YOURMIND also develops plugins for CAD software, which allows users to create a model
on a CAD program and upload it directly to our company’s website. As a plugin developer, I
helped update existing plugins for multiple programs such as Inventor, 3ds Max, and AutoCAD. I
also assisted in creating the new plugin for the Blender software. It was a great position thatexemplified what it means to be a computer scientist in the engineering school of Lehigh.

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3YOURMIND’s “chill room”

3D printed objects in the office32

Dana Cunningham
Germany

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photo here (withsmall caption
below)
Our company party in the
Tiergarten

Insert culture
photo here (withsmall caption
below)A German keyboard

Value Derived from the Experience:
During this internship, I encountered many intercultural experiences. The 3YOURMIND
team is special in the fact that many of my co-workers come from all different areas of
the world (Germany, Poland, Argentina, China, India, U.S., etc.). Often times, there weredifferent ideals held by multiple people concerning concepts such as time management,
attitudes towards status, attitudes towards authorities, and more. Throughout my timein Berlin, I had to adjust to the culture I was in and remind myself where other people
were coming from in order to understand why they did things a certain way that would
be different from my ideals. This internship has not only given me the opportunity towork in my field of study, but it has also given me the ability to better empathize withpeople from a multitude of various backgrounds.

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Mitchell Daddario
Malaysia
P.C. Rossin College
of Engineeringand Applied
Science
MechanicalEngineering

UTP
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
At my internship I worked on an eco-friendly air conditioning system that utilized photoelectric
panels as well as thermoelectric panels. This new air conditioning system was tested and wasproven to cool a small room by 8 degrees Celsius. I helped make the small rooms design in
AutoCAD. I also helped make a green house on campus with a few of the other interns. Bothprojects were driven with the goal of creating a more sustainable world.

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Me building the greenhouse.

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Mitchell Daddario
Malaysia

Me checking out Angkor Wat

Street art in Penang

Value Derived from the Experience:
I feel way more prepared for my future after having completed this internship. Seeing southeast
Asia was an extremely eye opening experience and I feel way more in tune with the world. The
things you learn abroad are unplanned and random, but, so applicable. I know how to deal withdifferent cultures better now. I was also reminded once more that there is so much to learn fromthe world. This was the best summer of my life and if anyone has the opportunity to partake inany type of study abroad program they should take it!

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Eliza Dent
UgandaCollege of Arts andScience
Earth andEnvironmental
Science and Art
History

Pathways Development
Initiative
TeacherCompany and Position Description:
Pathways Development Initiative (PDI) is an NGO based in Bududa, Uganda. It has multiple
branches that are all aimed towards bettering the community of Bududa. The part I worked
most closely with was teaching at the PDI education center. We helped with bookkeeping,organization, and giving advice as to what teaching methods might be better. The second
branch is the village savings and loans association. This program allows villagers to put money
away during a savings period and take it out as loans for school fees, bills, businesses, etc. The
third part is the small business program. This is similar to the loan program except villagers takeout loans exclusively to better their small businesses. Finally, there’s the sports clinic where
young men who play football professionally come and train village teenagers how to play andcommit to a sport.

Me with my class ofstudents aged 3-5 years old.

My student Damasco and I
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Eliza Dent
UgandaA visit to the KampalaCentral Mosque

Our campsite whenon the safari

Value Derived from the Experience:
I’ve always described myself as independent. From growing up as an only child to deciding I
wanted to go to college half-way across the country. However, I was missing one crucial aspect of
independence: I had never left the country. I was proud of myself for traveling from myhometown of St. Louis to Lehigh University and developing my own life. But in reality, St. Louiswasn’t much different from Bethlehem, PA. The same language is spoken, the currency is thesame, work ethics are the same, time management is the same. All these areas mentioned andmore are ones I struggled with when I spent my summer in Bududa, Uganda. Personally I learned
that in life we have an abundance of negligible parts of life that we don’t even realize. Luxuries
are wanted, of course, but they are nowhere near as needed as we Americans say they are.
Professionally, I’ve grown to have patience with different cultural norms. I’d never thought in
depth about doing business with people from other countries and I’ve seen just how much you
have to adapt to cultural standards to conduct business efficiently. I’ve also learned to not comeinto a new situation and think I know the best way to change things. Working at the school for
PDI is stressful because I wanted to make it more like an American school system as much as I
could. But in reality, schools there are different for a reason and it was important to just apply
my skills where needed and try to improve the systems they had in place.

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Nathan DeRaymondFranceP.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Science
IDEAS MechanicalEngineering/Physics

University of BordeauxResearch InternCompany and Position Description:
Over this past summer, I was a research intern in the I2M Trefle department, partof the mechanical engineering institute at the University of Bordeaux. The Trefle
department studies various fluid mechanics and transfer phenomena. The focusof the lab I worked for is the characterization of various heat and mass transfer
problems using thermographic methods. Thermography is the study andapplication of thermal imaging. For my work over the summer, I performedexperiments to characterize diffusion and mass transfer in microfluidic channels
as well as modelling heat transfer for a new thermographic technique.

Picture of me in the labwith the research team

Optical setup for the experimentusing microfluidic channels

38Nathan DeRaymondFranceSite of the ICPG conference

Monument aux Girondins

Value Derived from the Experience:
During my time in France, the greatest value I obtained was from my work as an intern.
Performing research at the University of Bordeaux allowed me to gain valuable lab experience ina unique setting as an undergraduate. Additionally, each member of the group I was a part ofhad very different projects, expanding my knowledge. Living in France for two months also gaveme insight into cultural differences. For example, the country surrounding Bordeaux is mostly
vineyards, making wine culture a large part of life. Also, most food in France is grown locally,
whereas in America there are large regional differences between where they produce and use
food. By living in Bordeaux, I got to learn about French history and culture by visiting various
museums, gardens, and cities. My favorite visit to a museum was seeing the reconstructed cave
paintings in Lascaux. Lastly, the internship group attended a scientific conference in the Basquecountry of Spain, the International Colloidal Polymer Group. This was my first scientificconference and I met several scientists and graduate students from around the world.

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Djenne Dickens
Czech RepublicCollege of Arts andSciences
Economics

Campaign for Social Inclusion
Romea
Journalist InternCompany and Position Description:
I worked for the NGO Romea, which is a news server dedicated to publishing objective accounts
on events that affect marginalized groups throughout the world. They focus on supporting theRoma through education and media efforts. The Roma are the largest minority group within the
Czech Republic. Within the internship, my primary job was to write objective news articles
about the Roma. For example, I wrote an article on how a Romani man was accused ofshooting an 11 year old boy, which subsequently sparked anti-Roma protests in Greece. I also
wrote articles about inadequate housing for Roma families within Bohumin, a city in the Czech
Republic. Additionally, I was able to attend events such as Dignity for Lety, which focused on
raising awareness of the pig farm currently located on the site of an ex-concentration camp.
Activists wanted the pig farm to be replaced with a memorial site for the victims of theconcentration camp. At this event I was able to conduct interviews, and live stream the event
for Romea’s viewers.

Preparing for interviews of Romani
students applying for internships.

Interviewing Benjamin Abtan, thepresident of the European Grassroots
Antiracist Movement.
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Djenne Dickens
Czech Republic

Left: Beautiful Church in Prague
CastleRight: Drinking coffee at a local
coffee shop
Value Derived from the Experience:
The time I spent in the Czech Republic was the first time I had ever lived in a location where I did
not know the language at all. This experience forced me to utilize all of my senses and helped
develop my adaptability. During this internship, I developed personally by discovering how tocommunicate non-verbally, via hand gestures, sounds, etc. This was a unique experience thatchallenged my perception of how I learned. I strongly relied on visual clues, and developed myability to infer and draw conclusions from my surroundings. Additionally, I was able to draw
parallels between my experiences as a person of color within the United States and the Roma
within the Czech Republic. Prior to this internship, I did not know of the Roma’s existence.
However, after my immersion into Roma history, working with the Roma, and befriending
Romani coworkers, I began to value their rich history and culture. I appreciate how thisexperience broadened my horizons and opened my eyes to the fact that social inequity is a
global issue, not solely a U.S. issue. This revelation has given me more drive to fight for social
justice, and strive for the social inclusion of all people—whether in the U.S. or abroad.
Professionally, this internship gave me real-world experience with writing objective articles
focused on real-life people and real events. Objective writing gives more power to words
because it conveys only the facts, and can help raise awareness about social justice issues while(hopefully) reducing defensive reactions.

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Sarah Dillon
Croatia
College of Business andEconomics
Accounting Major

PAR Business School
Program AssistantCompany and Position Description:
PAR is a small, private business school located in Rijeka, Croatia. It was established in 2007
with degree granting programs in Management, but has since grown to include other businessprograms and foreign language curriculums. As PAR is a private college in a country where
public college is the more affordable and popular option, they attract students throughmarketing and various international and domestic programs. One of these programs is Sail &Learn, a week-long sailing trip along the southern Croatian coast wherein students explore theislands and culture of Croatia, listen to lectures on Leadership, Management, andEntrepreneurship, work on group projects, and earn 5 ECTS (about 3 US credits) uponcompletion.
As an intern, I worked on target market analysis for the program, as well as constructed andexecuted a plan to attract more international (and specifically American) participants into theprogram. I contacted several US universities and travel institutions to build relationships. I
created feedback forms for 2017 participants and helped design the curriculum for the Sail &Learn program for 2018. I also created new marketing materials for the program and PAR as awhole, as well as updating and correcting previous brochures and web pages. My last task at
PAR was to design a website for the new affiliate travel company sponsored through PAR,
Croatia Destinations.

Designing a website at my desk.

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Sarah Dillon
Croatia
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Krka WaterfallsĆevapi, popular
Croatian dishValue Derived from the Experience:
It is hard to put into words such an incredible experience. Coming to Croatia, I had no idea what
to expect. By the time I left, I was so blown away by the beauty of the country and its people
that I know I must return one day soon. Being able to work and live in Croatia has totally opened
my eyes to the world and the multitude of perspectives. Despite cultural differences, I learned
how to better adapt, persevere, and communicate with authority. I also learned that I am
capable of overcoming great challenges and frustrating obstacles. I really believe that living in
Croatia definitely has and will make me more proactive and motivated in my personal andscholastic life. I became acutely aware of my specific strengths and how I use them in interactive
and professional settings, and this awareness has increased my overall in a way that I think will
benefit how I approach my peers, class work, job interviews, internships, and even more aspectsof my life in the future.
In working in Croatia, I also gained a sense of direction in my life. I had been struggling with
figuring out what I wanted to do as a career, or what I was particularly good at, or what I could
be passionate about. Working in Croatia, surrounded by colleagues who were entrepreneurs ortaught entrepreneurship made me realize that my goal in life is to start my own successful
business. This realization made me feel more secure in my chosen major, Accounting, for I knowthat accounting is one of the best ways to know the ins and outs of how a business functions andoperates. Working with PAR also allowed me to flex my creative muscles (in designing marketing
materials and a website), and to realize that that is one of my strengths.
I made so many friends in Croatia, soaked up the sun, swam daily in the Adriatic sea, and gained
valuable insight into myself. I am very, very grateful for the experience.

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Jacob Dooley
Singapore
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering andApplied Science
Materials Science& Engineering

3M
R&D InternCompany and Position Description:
I worked at the R&D office of 3M Singapore under David Julius, a Process Engineer at thecompany, designing and implementing my own experiment. My job was to independently
research a new potential product application, so for the two months of my internship I
designed my experiment, gathered supplies, built the setup, and collected data. By the end of
my internship I had a typed lab report on my findings and was able to answer my originalquestions which prompted the experiment, but was left with plenty more questions that I had
to leave behind in Singapore.

Outside the 3M Office

With my winning casestudy team44

Jacob Dooley
SingaporeAt the Tortoise Museum

On top of Bukit Timah

Value Derived from the Experience:
Being able to live in and experience a culture different from the American one that I am so used
to was the most interesting and fun part of my whole experience. ALL of the food was delicious;with Singapore being a port country there was so many countries that combine to create unique
dishes, leading to a summer without a single bad meal. Also the interns that I worked with wereso kind and introduced me to the culture, cluing me in to places to go, how to get around the
public transit system, and how to be in public. On multiple occasions I had the opportunity tohang out with all of the interns after work and those were some of the most fun times that I had
in Singapore. Everything in Singapore is clean, green, and new to experience. I spent my time notjust working, but hiking, swimming, shopping, touring, eating, etc. I had an amazing experiencein Singapore.

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Kaylee Duggan
Luxembourg
College of Arts andSciences
Biological Sciences

Luxembourg Institute of
HealthResearch AssistantCompany and Position Description:
This summer I worked as a trainee House of Biohealth in the department of Infection and
Immunity in Luxembourg. I worked with samples previously collected for a project called
EpiPath. This project involved analyzing the genome of over one hundred donors who were
either young adults who experienced early life adversity (in this case it was being an orphan or
growing up in adverse conditions) or were part of the control group, people who were not
adopted and had a less stressful upbringing. My job was to first analyze the genetic data on
these 100+ donors, data that described location of found differentially methylated regions indonors genome. I found the specific gene locations in donors’ genomes that included thelargest or most regions of methylation. These were regions of interest since the EpiPath projectis all about epigenetics and methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that modifies the functionof a gene (turning it on or off). Selecting these genes of interest, I then designed and optimized
primers for each gene to then use for the qPCR or amplification of the gene. We then analyzed
and quantified the differences in specific gene expression between the control group of donors
and the donors who experienced early life adversity. Our goal was to find a significant
difference in methylation or gene expression/function between the control group and the ELA
group since previous research in EpiPath has shown that those with early life stresses are more
vulnerable and susceptible to inflammation and diseases than the control group. The PhD
student I worked alongside of, plans to get to the bottom of this while performing further
experiments using rats and causing stress to the rat pups then performing tests on the samerats after they’ve aged. She hopes to find a significant correlation between early life stress andthe expression of targeted genes shown later in life.

Pippetting andpreparation for a
qPCR

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Kaylee Duggan
Luxembourg

Value Derived from the Experience:
Working at LIH was the greatest experience of my life. I met so many amazing people and waschallenged like never before. I was lucky to become friends with amazing, intelligent PhD
students who expanded my mind and inspired me every day. It’s amazing to work in a huge
research institution like LIH where you see the employees passionate and driven about theirwork and contributions to science. This experience has truly made me grow as a student in thesciences and has inspired me to get involved in more research when I return to Lehigh. Although
my intended career field is not in research, this experience has been just as beneficial. Science isall about dealing with trial and error and thinking critically in order to find solutions. Coming into
this internship was intimidating, but the people I worked with never looked down on me andonly treated me with respect. Coming out of this internship I feel like I have a huge advantage inthe field of science and like I’ve learned just as much as I would in a semester of school as I did in
two months at LIH. Also, just being around French, German, and Luxembourgish culture was eyeopening as well. It was my first time being in Europe and the small country of Luxembourg was aperfect starting point. It was a melting pot of people from all countries around Europe andtherefore allowed me to meet such a huge variety of people. It was also thrilling to be a shorttrain ride away from beautiful cities in France and Germany. Luxembourg was unlike anything I
have ever experienced and has definitely earned a special place in my heart.

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Mallory Fahey
Moldova
Collage of Arts and Sciences
Biology/HMS

CCF Moldovan
Organizational
Development
InternCompany and Position Description:
Moldova faces much economic struggle, and this is reflected in the lives of many
Moldovans. Oftentimes, families are split apart so that parents can work abroad to sendmoney back home. CCF (Child, Community, Family) Moldova consists of an amazing team ofindividuals working towards social justice in Moldova by concentrating on these issues andproviding help and resources for families. CCF believes that the splitting up of a family is ahuge impairment for the growth and development of children, especially those under theage of three. Initially, when a case is referred to CCF, they work to provide resources,
counseling, and education to the family in the hope that the family will be able to remain
together. If this is not a viable option, CCF also promotes foster families throughout
Moldova and looks to place children in loving homes. The work CCF has done has had awide-reaching impact on the lives on many Moldovan families, and while the work is noteasy, it is rewarding to see the smiles on the faces of children and know they are going to
be raised in a loving, familial situation.

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I attended a conference with
one of CCF’s partners,
UNICEFThe inside of a small group home,
Casa Comunitara,for 12 children with disabilities
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Mallory Fahey
Moldova

Lavender (“lavanda”)
field in Cobsuca Noua

Beautiful sceneryin Orheiul Vechi

Value Derived from the Experience:
My experience in Moldova was a life changing experience. I gained a new perspective that has
provided me with both a more open mind and a new set of skills for thriving in situations when I
am unsure. The language barrier both during my homestay and at my office provided me theopportunity to cope with situations that I have never encountered before. Additionally, thecultural differences, which seemed odd at first, became a normalized aspect of my experience in
Moldova . I now feel equipped to adapt in circumstances that may seem uncomfortable , in botha casual and professional setting. The most important takeaway I had from my experience wasthat no matter how different you may be from someone, you can always find commonalities thatallow you to understand more about a culture and a place. While Moldova is different from any
place I have ever been before, the people I met there were some of the most interesting andwelcoming. After this experience, I believe there is value in traveling to places different fromyour own, to learn about the culture and to also learn about yourself.

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Dominick Falcon
Luxembourg
College of Arts andScience
Biochemistry
Major

Luxembourg Institute of HealthTraineeCompany and Position Description:

The company I worked for this summer is Luxembourg Institute of
Health. This is a network of research facilities, and I worked in theHouse of Biohealth branch located in Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg. At
this facility, I worked with a team focused on specialized medicine forallergy and immunology. Part of my work included isolating PBMCs
from blood samples, then sorting them with a flow cytometer into
different white blood cells. The RNA was extracted from these cells,
then the RNA was used to synthesize cDNA, which was then amplified
and run on a gel. The goal of the project is to determine the response
to allergy treatment of different patients, then work backwards topredict who would be promising candidates for a treatment prior to
beginning it.
To theleft:Preparing
CD4+ white To theblood cells for right:The
team I
RNA
worked withextraction(from left)
Sebastian,myself, andDmitrii
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Dominick Falcon
Luxembourg

Luxembourg experiences
many cultural influences,such as large sausages
popularized in Germany

The armor of aknight from a 15th
century castle

Value Derived from the Experience:
The time I spent in Luxembourg was a time of growth both professionally andpersonally. The work I was doing in the lab increased my knowledge about theimmune system, allergy, and laboratory techniques. This knowledge will bevaluable in my future endeavors as I move forward in my medical pursuits.
Luxembourg also introduced me to many people of different countries andcultures, which has not only increased my knowledge globally and culturally, it has
also taught me more about my own culture by pointing out my own cultural norms
and ideals. My experience in Luxembourg allowed me to gain knowledge andexperience professionally, to grow personally and globally, as well as develop
lasting relationships. I feel my experience has left a lasting impression on me,
which will guide me in my future endeavors.

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Rachel Fan
Japan
College of Businessand Economics
Integrated Businessand Engineering
Bioengineering

Nagoya Institute of Technology
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
The Nagoya Institute of Technology, commonly known as NITech, is a publicresearch university located in Nagoya, Japan. While my living accommodations
were located at NITech, I had the privilege of working in a structural biology lab
under Dr. Ikuko Fujiwara over at Nagoya University, located twenty minutes from
NITech. I spent two months researching how actin is broken down and recycled
throughout the cell, specifically by a severing protein called gelsolin. Gelsolin
severs actin by cutting the longer filaments into small pieces. I used two different
types of gelsolin, a truncated version with three domains and a full-length version
with six domains. I also observed the severing of single actin filaments and actin
bundles, which consist of on average seventeen single filaments. Using an optical
microscope, I observed and compared the severing of actin on a glass slide withdifferent gelsolin concentrations using a solution exchange method. My researchconcluded with a final presentation given by all the Lehigh interns to our lab
peers and mentors.

Preparing gelsolin solutions
at my lab bench.

Outside the main entrance into
NITech.
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Rachel Fan
Japan

Catching water at theKiyomizu-dera temple in Kyoto.

Todai-ji temple located in Nara. It houses
the world’s largest bronze Buddha statue.

Value Derived from the Experience:
My time spent in Japan is arguably the most valuable experience of my Lehighcareer. Traveling abroad with a group of Lehigh students allowed me to both
improve my teamwork skills and become more self-sufficient. Living in aninternational house, I made many lasting connections from different countries
including Japan, France, and Spain, and they made these two months abroad feel
more like home. Professionally, it was interesting to see and compare the different
work cultures, specifically in a laboratory research environment. It was great to doresearch on a topic that I had never been exposed to before, and the internshiphas helped guide me on my future career path. For everyday life, it was a challenge
not being able to read or speak the language, but the people in Japan were allfriendly and willing to help in any way they could. Most of our weekends werespent traveling to other parts of Japan, and being able to see and experience
multiple cities in a foreign country made me feel like I was able to have a full,authentic experience of the country. Every moment of the trip reminded me of justhow grateful I was to be a part of this program.

53

Carina Felipe
England, United Kingdom
College of Business and Economics
Business Information
Systems,
Management

Apollo Tyres Ltd.
SaturnF1

Global Marketing
Intern (Business
Digital Model)

Company and Position Description:
Apollo Tyres Limited is a public tire manufacturing company that was founded in 1972 and isbased in India. One of the current goals for the company is to expand globally to European andNorth American markets within the upcoming years. In Europe, the company sells Apollo &Vredestein branded tires. These tires are produced in their manufacturing plants located in
Hungary and the Netherlands. In the United States, the company has a sales office located in
Georgia. The Vice-President and MD, Neeraj Kanwar, is a Lehigh alumnus and his office islocated in the London office.
The types of tires produced by Apollo include motorbike, cars, vans, trucks, industrial,
agricultural, etc. But Vredestein focuses primarily on premium passenger tires. The customers
that the company has are the following: dealers, individual buyers, and fleets.
As an intern for their business model, I was assigned to work with a company owned by Apollo
Tyres called Saturn F1 Pvt. Ltd. This company is in charge of maintaining and running Apollo’s
European web shop. My project was to create a data dictionary that would improve theanalyzation, processing, and maintenance of data for the company. This would allow forsmooth integration of multiple data sources with different formatting. With the completion of
my internship, I produced a data dictionary and other resources that would provide higher
value to both SaturnF1, Apollo, and their customers.

My supervisor and I at the office lounge

Office space for SaturnF1
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Carina Felipe
England, United Kingdom

View of Salisbury
Cathedral in the townof Salisbury

Buckingham Palace

Value Derived from the Experience:
My experience in the Iacocca Internship program has exceeded my expectations, improved
important skills, and left me with unforgettable memories. In regards to my internship, I havegained a better idea of how my information systems major can be applied in a corporate andsmall business environment. Another great aspect of my internship was that I worked withindividuals who had experience with data analytics and its application. It was fascinating to see
the work that they produced while I was in the office.
Personally, I enjoyed the project I had in my internship and I am excited to be able to go in theworkforce and apply the skills as well as knowledge that I had gained. Some of the skills that I
developed further include: collaboration, time management, organization, planning, andresearching.
After spending nine weeks in London, I can proudly say that I have developed personally in waysthat I never thought would happen. This summer was the first time that I was ever out of theUnited States for such a long period of time. Living and traveling through London has taught me
the importance of independence and responsibility. For nine weeks, I would have to budget myfunds and utilize public transportation around a major city every day. During my time in England,
I did face multiple challenges but I was able to “keep calm and carry on.” I made memorable
friendships on my trips and during my daily life in Europe. I learned the importance ofexperiencing different cultures through my time in Europe and it has allowed me to develop abetter global perspective in my personal and professional life.

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Ralph Fernandez
Japan
College of Arts &Sciences
Biochemistry

Nagoya Institute ofTechnology
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
Nagoya Institute of Technology is a Japanese research institution that has grown to one of
the leading engineering universities in Japan. Working as a research intern I studied theclustering and reconstitution of the light harvesting II complex in Professor Dewa’s
Biochemistry and Polymer Science Laboratory. The biomembrane is complex and dynamic
and acts as a selective barrier in all living cells, and because of this there are many labs thatare dedicated to understanding the structure, function, and role of this semipermeable
membrane. By studying light-harvesting complexes and their interactions I was able toexamine how this cluster of protein helps to capture light and subsequently convert lightenergy into electrochemical potential. My research for the summer focused on the role ofphospholipids in the organization and clustering of these light harvesting II complexes. At theend of the summer I presented my research in a symposium with the other Lehigh Iacoccainterns.

My lab group and colleagues

Myself presenting my research at
the end of summer symposium
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Ralph FernandezJapan

On the summit of
Mt. Fuji

Kinkaku-ji ‘Temple of the Golden
Pavilion’ a Zen Buddhist Temple in
Kyoto, Japan

Value Derived from the Experience:
My time in Japan allowed me to grow both as a global citizen and as a research professional.
Working in a Japanese laboratory helped me to understand the differences between cultures in
how research is accomplished. In the laboratory I learned a new skill set while being able tointeract and learn from a new group of students. My internship allowed me to grow as a scientist
while being able to test my ability to adapt to a new environment. Growing culturally, I was able
to taste new cuisine, attend a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, climb Mt. Fuji, and visit manyof the temples and shrines that are an important piece of Japanese culture and history. Though
the approach to research may have been different, I learned that science is a global community.
In Japan I studied the role of the biomembrane in protein organization. The biomembrane iscomplex and dynamic and there are many labs including the lab I work in at Lehigh that arededicated to understanding its function and role. Overall, my internship allowed me to gain new
professional skills and allowed me to explore the culture and history of Japan.

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Jordan Gifford
Netherlands
College of Engineering
Material Science &Engineering

Hutchison Holdings
IT/ Data Analyst
InternCompany and Position Description:
I was given several research tasks during my internship. A more prominent one was
researching blockchain programming technology and determining its viability for
Hutchison Holdings at Port Rotterdam. This is a relatively new technology and mybosses wanted to know how soon funding should be put into this technology for thecompany. Another was to fix the terminal’s discharge prediction algorithm for the
shipping containers leaving the port. As it stood, the algorithm they were using was
inaccurate and I analyzed data and ran tests to provide them with a more accurate
algorithm that the company could use to accurately give shipping times to customers. I
submitted reports with my finding and gave an extensive presentation at the end of myinternship.

Tour of Delta Terminal

View of the Delta Terminal
office and facility

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Jordan Gifford
Netherlands

The Rotterdam canals

The Cube houses

Value Derived from the Experience:
My time at ECT Rotterdam taught me how to effectively relay information. This
included being able to conduct research and distributing out information in theform of emails, memos, and reports. All of these had to be done in a professionalmanner. Also, I had to learn professional etiquette for meetings and presentations.
Most importantly, I learned how to act independently within a company setting.
Employees were usually busy with their own projects so my own time could not be
wasted in the pursuit of tracking down information from others. Otherwise, thecompetency and timeliness of my own work would be compromised.

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Jaehee Gil
Hong Kong
College of Business andEconomics
Marketing

PVH Calvin Klein
Marketing & Public
Relations InternCompany and Position Description:
Calvin Klein is a global fashion apparel brand under the parent company PVH. Calvin Klein
strives to bring minimal yet sophisticated and modern style as a leader of the fashion industry.
As a marketing intern in Calvin Klein PVH, I concentrated on performing intensive marketing
research regarding competitor brand marketing strategies, collection launch methods, andgroup research projects. I also worked on composing briefings for company copywriter,
compiling a model portfolio, and creative writing for internal company advertisement and news
posts. As a Public Relations intern, I translated news articles about Calvin Klein from Korean toEnglish, arranged product samples to be delivered to influencers, mailed out Calvin Klein
product endorsed celebrity editorials to Calvin Klein offices in other parts of Asia, filed
magazine clippings and organized sample data for upcoming season collection. My internshipalso arranged field trips to expose the interns to different aspects of the company outside theoffice setting. This included a field trip to Calvin Klein’s distribution center in Hong Kong,
volunteer activity at Soap Cycle, a visit to a local store location, and attending a presentation
about introducing the company’s corporate responsibilities. Not only did I get a professional
experience in a work environment that fits my major, but I also got to learn about thecompany’s culture and values to fully understand what it means to intern specifically for PVH
Calvin Klein.

Calvin Klein
Office Lobby

Calvin Klein Asia Pacific
Summer Interns
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Jaehee Gil
Hong Kong

Ferry Looking overHong Kong Island

Daytrip to Macau

Value Derived from the Experience:
Personally, this internship served to be a period of realization in my life. Prior to my departure, I
had only known the “attractive” side of Hong Kong. I often researched the major spots forentertainments, best restaurants, and picturesque sights of attraction. Once I actually arrived in
Hong Kong, everything I had researched was just as wonderful as I expected. However, I
discovered that there’s much more to this region. I learned that Hong Kong faces numerous
social, economic and political issues. It was ironic how this country boasted extravagant lifestyle,yet very few locals seemed to be in a position where they could financially afford to live one. The
living expenses were high, demand for housing exceeded the supply, and minimum wage wasnowhere near where many residents could make the ends meet. As beautiful and glossy as someparts of Hong Kong seemed, I came to understand that the actual people who lived in it may befatigued with economic pressure that they were having to face everyday. I learned to never takea country just by how it is advertised but rather try to immerse myself into the “less desirable”
side to appreciate and respect the country in depth.
Professionally, this internship became a physical representation of the future that I want tocreate for myself. I have always taken a great interest in fashion retail marketing and declaredmarketing as my major. However, before my internship I was unsure about my interests and thedecisions that followed them. Through the internship, I was able to get a first-hand experience as
to what it would be like to pursue a career that deploys my intended major. Adding on to myknowledge gained at Lehigh by learning from the projects and researches I was taking on alongwith my coworkers and fellow interns made me passionate about my job. Additionally, working
in the fashion industry gave me a broader perspective on what it meant to apply my major in thisspecific industry. I can confidently say that I feel more ready than before the internship to workin the field of my interest with the valuable skills I brought back from Hong Kong.

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Tejwant R. Gomanie
India
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
ScienceIndustrial & Systems
Engineering

AksharChem (I) Ltd.
Chemical Engineering
InternCompany and Position Description:
AksharChem (India) Ltd is a business engaged in the manufacturing of dyes, pigments, and dyeintermediates. While interning, I was taught how their process worked between the two sites.
The company had two main construction sites that had just begun so their main concern was
efficiency. I was tasked with following up with each of the contractors of one construction site
to ensure the building was on track. I was also asked to research the technical and financial
details of solar panels to determine whether or not it was a viable option for the company. Thistask circled back to the efficiency needs of the company, which was of interest to me being an
ISE major. The research included contacting local and non local solar panel companies which
was initially difficult because of the language barrier. I spent most of my time on the phone,emailing, and negotiating in meetings with vendors to discover the best company for
AksharChem. Proving my abilities through the solar panel project, I was assigned a second
assignment focused on the negotiation and communication with Reverse Osmosis (RO) and
Ultra Filtration (UF) membranes for the company’s water treatment facility. Overall, thisinternship has taught me patience while communicating with others native to a different
language as well as how to hold formal and informal business meetings.

In front of the company signat the manufacturing site.

Working on a Solar Report at
the Mehsana office, Gujarat.
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Tejwant R. Gomanie
India

At the Chapora Fort in Goa in front of
the Arabian Sea

Sunrise at the Taj Mahal in Agra

Value Derived from the Experience:
Looking Indian and being of Indian decent made my time in India different compared to theother interns. I was already used to the culture and a majority of the food; however, there wasa learning curve for the language. It was assumed that I knew Hindi or Gujarati when I didn’t.
Most of the locals and coworkers wanted to know what part of India I was from and when I
told them that my parents were West Indian (Guyanese) they always followed up with, “butwhere in India?” My parents immigrated to the USA for a better life for our family. Throughout
my internship and immersion in India, I had a voice in the back of my head saying, “this iswhat could have been.” I have taken not only a business and professional mindset from thisinternship but also a deep sense of appreciation for my parents.
I knew a majority of the culture but I still had to adjust for how they process time. An 11:00
meeting really started at 1 or 2. Although this isn’t ideal for quick progress, I believe that theirability to slow down and enjoy life is something we need in the United States. We took moretime to get to know each other and prioritize a familial bond.

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Maria Granquist
BermudaCollege of Arts and Sciences
Molecular Biology

Bermuda Institute of
Ocean Sciences (BIOS)
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
BIOS is an independent U.S. non-profit scientific research and educationalorganization based in St. George’s, Bermuda. The research done at BIOS is verybroad, including genetics and molecular biology, marine biology, chemistry,oceanography, optics, air/environmental quality, biogeochemistry, and climatechange.
The project I had the privilege of working on during my internship at BIOS wascalled “Bermuda Ichthyofauna Genetic Database Development.” The goal of thisproject was to sequence a specified region of DNA for all the fishes of Bermuda
and create a database for them. My specific tasks involved collecting fish tissue
samples from fish that had been identified by taxonomists, extracting DNA fromthe tissue, then running PCR and gel electrophoresis.

Left: extracting
tissue from a fish
Right: collecting
fish to taketissue samples
from

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Maria Granquist
BermudaI spent a lot of my freetime kayaking

The six flags of the countries thatparticipated in America’s Cup

Value Derived from the Experience:
This internship and overall experience have positively impacted me both
personally and professionally. Personally, I have made some friends in Bermuda
that will last past the summer. There were BIOS interns from all over the country
and world, and I know that if I’m ever in their area, I can call them up and have aplace to stay. It was like a big family living at BIOS and there was a great sense ofcommunity. It was always interesting to hear all of the different projects that
other interns were working on and learn about all the different fields of science
involved at BIOS. I was also lucky enough to be in Bermuda during the America’s
Cup which was very cool to see different countries come together to compete.
Professionally, I have gained a lot of lab experience and learned new lab methods
that will be very useful in future courses at Lehigh as well as in my future career. I
have also discovered new interests in science that I will pursue and explore morethrough courses at Lehigh.

65Vincent Graziano
SwedenCollege of Arts and Sciences
Philosophy andMathematics

Newsvoice
InternCompany and Position Description:
Newsvoice is a startup founded in February of 2017 by Viktor Lidholt. He left his
job at Google after the 2016 election season because of his interest in news andhow its purveyors influence society. The application he developed collects articles
from various sources on the internet and categorizes related articles into stories.
Therefore, his app systematically includes a variety of views. By exposing theworld to these perspectives, Newsvoice aims to break the user’s filter-bubble.
As an intern I moderated the website, beta-tested, performed community
outreach on social media, and collaborated in creative initiatives to implement
new features on the app.

My boss,
Viktor and I

Office coffee machines.
Swedes are notorious coffee
lovers. The red label reads,“Strong Coffee”.
66Vincent Graziano
SwedenDinner with Global
Experiences interns
at Aifur, a Vikingthemed restaurant

The Vasa, a 17th
century shipsalvaged in the ‘60s

Value Derived from the Experience:
I am by no means certain that the following conclusion I’ve drawn is due to my time in Sweden. I
only know that it is one I have arrived at while reading and observing in the past two months.
Nevertheless, I relay it with complete conviction. For the sake of brevity I’ve had to choose mywords carefully, thus the following is purposefully dense.
Consider these three events I’ve witnessed while in Stockholm: A man arrives at work after a latenight; hungover and regretful. Young lovers seclude themselves in the woods away from thenoise of the city, completely uninterested in others passing by. Friends laugh over lunch. All ofthese particular cases are united by momentum; a plunging forward. It’s common to hear theclassic bromide ‘Live in the moment’ from people trying to sound wiser than they are. However,
it is precisely the moment which should not and can not be lived in. The present is fleeting,evanescent, uncertain. The past is where certainly lies (if you can manage it), but to live in thepast is to live in constant anxiety and nostalgia. Instead, we need to live for the future.
The momentum of your experiences carries you into the future, but it isn’t in the future that weshould live; it’s in the realization of it. Rather than living at the expense of possibilities, we canlive for the sake of them. The metaphysical requirement of a life is activity, movement; and it iswithin the wave of force that spills over from this movement where we must stand. Returning toour examples above, notice: Had the man taken the day off, his momentum is gone. If the lovers
turned to acknowledge every passer by, the momentum is gone. If the friends pause to checktheir phones, the momentum is gone. Without a firm alliance with one’s momentum life
becomes scattered, inauthentic, and haphazard.
Thus, it is not in the present where we must live; where evanescence and chaos reign. Rather, it
is for the future where we must position ourselves; constantly plunging towards the fruits of our
choices.

67Ken Grenestedt
China
College of Arts and Sciences
Computer Science

University of Science andTechnology of China (USTC)
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is located in Hefei, the capital of
Anhui province, and is one of the top universities in China. USTC is among the C9 colleges,
China’s equivalent to the Ivy League, and is well regarded around the world and is one of the
top institutions for research in the physical sciences.
For six weeks I worked in a student lab apart of the USTC-Birmingham Joint Research Institutein Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (UBRI) supervised by Associate Professor
Jinlong. This student lab featured graduate students specializing in Machine Learning acrossvarious applications, from Natural Language Processing and text summarization, to image
processing with convolutional neural networks, to minimizing corrupted features in learningalgorithms of neural networks using noise. My research involved familiarizing myself with thebroad range of topics within the lab and implementing small scale neural networks capable ofclassifying the CIFAR-10 dataset of 60,000 color images in 10 classes. A large portion of mywork revolved around reading research papers pertaining to the topics of the graduate
students. Our supervisor’s research involved a War-Tank simulation game and creating an
artificial intelligence opponent which learns from the inputs of its human adversaries.

The view from ourIntelligent Computation and
Its Applications Lab

Lehigh Interns with
our primary USTC
guide / volunteer
68Ken Grenestedt
China

Lehigh interns with Universityof Western Australia interns at
Yellow Mountain

Trying boiled pig
brain

Value Derived from the Experience:
I am personally fortunate enough to have traveled a fair amount through my years, acrossEurope and Asia, however I was incredibly surprised by just how different this China experience
was from my previous international travels. China contrasted starkly with my previous first world
travels with it’s Second World nature. The dirty streets, the constant construction, the cheap
food, thick smog, etc. all being incredibly off-putting and foreign to me during the initial days
faded in strangeness as I allowed myself to slowly let this new world become a second home anda place of growth. Within days I found myself queuing along with the Chinese in the foodcanteens, taking mid-day naps, and biking, exploring the city with the rent-a-bikes and finding
myself able to appreciate this culture all so different from what I was accustomed to. I pushed
my limits gastronomically as I tried all the various staples of Chinese cuisine from rice, tea, andrice-porridge everyday, to the more exquisite pig brain, chicken tongue, pig intestine, goose liver
sushi, and more, trying to not miss any part of this unique cultural experience.
Traveling in China funnily enough gave me a greater appreciation also for my own background ofbeing half Japanese and motivated me to further try to maintain my connection to that culture
and language as I began to realize the very real possibility of pursuing a future outside of theUnited States post-graduation.
Professionally, this experience with Machine Learning established my waning interest and myinitial lack of understanding of the subject. I am infinitely grateful to have experienced firsthandwhat graduate level research looks like and how I can now more realistically and accurately
understand the various specializations within computer science and what futures in those fields
would look like.

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Paul Grocholske
People’s Republic of China
Computer Scienceand Business
Finance

USTC
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
For my Iacocca Internship, I worked in a lab at the University of Science and Technology ofChina under Jinlong Li. USTC is a university in Hefei, capitol of China’s Anhui province, and is amember of China’s C9 League (the Chinese ‘Ivy League’). My work was focused on machinelearning; topics studied included linear classifiers, hyperparameters, optimization, fully
connected neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and recurrent neuralnetworks/LSTMs. Personal projects involved the creation/training of several linear classifiers, a
FC neural network, and a convolutional neural network (on the CIFAR-10 dataset).

Ken Grenestedt ‘19, one of
my labmates, and myself inthe labDress in the workplace wasrather casual given theregular >100 degree heat70

Paul Grocholske
People’s Republic of China

Interns (Lehigh/USTC) and
USTC volunteers atop
Mount Huangshan

Riding around Hefei
on Ofo share-bikes

Value Derived from the Experience:
I found my labwork at USTC to be rather productive professionally and academically. I learned agreat deal about machine learning, a subfield of computer science which has long interested me
but was also rather intimidating. My labmates (graduate students at USTC) were helpful anddirected me to a significant number of interesting academic papers on various
facets/applications of machine learning. This internship has certainly laid an excellent
groundwork for future studies in ML.
My Iacocca Internship also helped me develop personally. This internship was my first timeleaving the United States, so the experience of traveling and being away from home for an
extended period of time was quite valuable to me in itself. Being immersed in China helped melearn a great deal about Chinese culture, history, attitudes, ways of life, language, and more. I
had the opportunity to travel to Nanjing, Wuhu, Beijing, Huangshan, and Shanghai, which further
allowed me learn about the diversity of Chinese culture. I made many valuable personalconnections, including the USTC students who volunteered to assist us Lehigh interns thissummer.
I am thankful to Lehigh, USTC, my labmates and Professor Jinlong Li, student volunteers,
supporters of the Iacocca Internship program, and all other involved parties for this experience.

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Holly Gwydir
Georgia
Office of the State Ministerof Georgia on European
and Euro-Atlantic
Integration
European Integration
Coordination InternCollege of Arts andSciences
Political Science andInternational
RelationsCompany and Position Description:
Georgia’s Ministry of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration is the governmental bodythat leads the country’s effort to further develop and become more similar to European
Union and NATO member countries. As an intern in the coordination department, I
worked to improve the Ministry’s communication capabilities and assisted indiminishing the language barriers between groups which the Ministry regularly works
with. This involved editing documents, policy papers, meeting minutes, and emails thatwere intended for English speaking representatives in the European Union. I also
attended many conferences and committee meetings where I was able to listen, takenotes, and analyze developments and needs of multiple different parties. By reading
and analyzing documents such as the Association Agreement and Georgia’s
Implementation Plans, I developed a better understanding of how International
Organizations operate and expand, and why nations would want to be a part of them.

Left-The Chancelleryof the Governmentof Georgia (myoffice!)Right-Conference on
the implementationof the Association
Agreement72

Holly Gwydir
Georgia

A view of “Old Town” taken
while hiking up to theMother Georgia statue

Gergeti Trinity
Church in Kazbegi

Value Derived from the Experience:
My internship in Georgia brought me farther away from home than I have ever been before. I
was placed into a culture that was exponentially different from my own, and was forced to rely
solely on myself for the first time. The challenges I faced throughout my time in Georgia caused
me to grow as a person and become more capable of handling and overcoming issues on myown. My internship with the Ministry challenged me to pursue my goals while respecting cultural
boundaries and differences, and also encouraged me to share my own culture and work habits inorder to help others succeed as well. While traveling around the beautiful country of Georgia, I
experienced a new way of life and developed new definitions for concepts of home and comfort.
The skills I developed during my internship will help me to be more adaptable in the future,
allowing me to take advantage of opportunities that I may previously have turned away from.
For my individual career path, my Iacocca internship allowed me to expand my understanding ofand experience with the governments and politics of nations other than the U.S., forcing me tolook at the American government in a new and more critical light. Because of my experience, I
will now consider political issues in comparison with those of other nations and in ways that
address their impacts on foreign entities. This will make me a smarter, more considerate, andmore compassionate asset on whatever career path I choose- whether it be politics,
international affairs, or U.S. law.

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Paige Hapeman
UgandaCollege of Arts andSciences
International
Relations/
Anthropology

Pathways
Development
Initiative
InternCompany and Position Description:
Pathways Development Initiative (PDI) is a non-governmental organization based in thevillage of Bududa, Uganda. The organization encompasses three different programs.
There is an education center that we worked as teachers in throughout the summer.
The school consists of 5 different classes; baby, middle, top, primary 1 and primary 2.
PDI sponsors Village Savings Loan Associations (VSLA’s). These groups allow individuals
to come together to pool their money to afford education, promote a savings culture,and invest in income generating activities. There are over 70 VSLA’s in the village. As
interns, we attended each group’s weekly meetings to gather data and collectinformation about the successes and complications each group was facing. The mostrecent addition to PDI is the sports program. This summer was the first session of theclinic and the program works with the community and the schools of the village topromote sportsmanship and the practice of soccer. As an intern, I attended practices,
planned a tournament for the program, and wrote up monthly reports on the status of
the clinic.

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VSLA group discussing theirsavings for the week.

Children before school at PDI
Education Center
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Paige Hapeman
UgandaThe Thursday market in
BududaSunset on the Nile River

Value Derived from the Experience:
The experience I had over the summer in Uganda through my participation in the Iacocca
International Internship Program had a significant impact on me. This internship allowed
to me to fully immerse myself into a culture sharing very few similarities with my own.
The work that I was engaging in allowed me to develop both personally andprofessionally. The way of life in the village of Bududa, Uganda served as an importanteducational experience. I have trouble finding the right words to properly capture theimpact of my journey. I had an extremely eye-opening and humbling experience living
alongside people who struggle with elements that I have never thought twice about.
Things such as clean water, electricity and power, paved roads, and education havealways been custom in my life. I have gained a new perspective on what is important inlife and am more appreciative of what I have than I was before.
I hope one day to have a career in human rights working for an NGO or a similarorganization. My participation in this program allowed me to work directly with agrassroots organization. This gave me the tools to understand the complexities andoperations of such organizations. I was able to learn how to overcome various difficulties
due to organization, communication, and language barriers. One of the most important
things I learned from this experience was understanding how to help other people basedon their own countries’ standards, rather than based on American standards. This
program has served to make this summer the most important one yet.

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Jafer Hasani
South Africa
College of Arts andSciences
Molecular Biology

IES Abroad
Dental AssistantCompany and Position Description:
Kromboom Dental Centre is a multi-speciality dental practice in Cape Town. The practice ismore on the high end side compared to other dental practices there. KDC provides
comprehensive family dental care, and serves both local patients and international patients.
At KDC, my role was both as a dental assistant and job shadower. I started off shadowing thedifferent doctors at the practice, and learning about the specific types of treatment they
performed. Within the first week of starting my internship I began to learn hands-on skills. Soonenough I began assisting multiple dentists. Some of my duties included room/instrument
sterilization, communicating with patients, document filing, and active assisting during dental
procedures. For active assisting my responsibilities included suctioning, retracting, curing, andgetting the appropriate instruments and materials to the dentist.

Taking a photo with our patientof the day!

Saying goodbye to some of mycoworkers on my last day of
work.
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Jafer Hasani
South Africa

View of Cape Town from the
top of Table Mountain

Visiting the famous Old
Biscuit Mill food market

Value Derived from the Experience:
Living and working in Cape Town was one of the greatest experiences in my life. During mysummer internship, several different “windows” of myself, my values and career goals, my skills,
and my cultural characteristics were opened. I have learned a lot through the various
experiences I’ve had over the past two months in Cape Town. I went there with an open mind
and an adventurous spirit. The philosophy I lived by this summer was “carpe diem,” “seize theday.” I did not want to waste a single day. My goal was to challenge myself in every possible way,
and try to take advantage of all the opportunities there while learning as much as possible. Living
in a foreign country for the first time on my own challenged me personally, professionally, andspiritually. I had a lot to learn before I could efficiently function in Cape Town. I was able toquickly pick up local slang, learn the culture, and become familiar with different modes oftransportation. In the future, I'd like to pursue a career in dentistry, and my internship at
Kromboom Dental Centre significantly expanded my skills and knowledge in dentistry. I believethat the most valuable things I learned from KDC were my soft skills. I learned a lot about
chairside manner, dental care ethics, and treatment philosophy. Furthermore, I now have a moreglobal perspective on dentistry, and I am certain that it will give me a competitive edge over mycolleagues in the future. Also, other skills that I acquired such as learning how to quickly adapt
and overcome various obstacles in a foreign environment will be a critical skill to have whenfacing future challenges.
In conclusion, I can confidently say that my participation in the Iacocca International Internship
Program has been the most impactful experience that I've had at Lehigh.

77Maggie HelmesCzech Republic
Intercollegiate
IDEASOtevřená společnost,o.p.s.
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
Otevrena Spolecnost, or in English, Open Society, o.p.s, is a non-governmental organization
working towards social change by taking part in the legislative process and advising for public
administration, supporting those who are socially excluded, and educating the public to think
without prejudice. Ultimately this NGO strives to implement long term projects that will work
towards a more inclusive Czech Republic. The project I was working on specifically was the“Campaign for Social Inclusion,” with an even more specific concentration on “Roma Housing in
the Czech Republic.” The Roma people are a minority group living in the Czech Republic who
face incredible levels of discrimination and unfair treatment. Currently, many Roma families live
in horrible social hostels and very poor living conditions. Open Society wishes to show thegovernment how providing better housing for the Roma will actually save public money and belargely beneficial both socially and economically in the long run. My position in this project was
to help the project team develop a cost-benefit analysis of the public spending on current social
hostels with their negative economic and social effects versus standard housing, to calculate
the monetary loss from vacant housing and finally, to create a business model of a social rental
agency.

The office space Jasmine
and I worked in to conduct
research

At the U.S. Embassy to giveour final presentation!
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Maggie HelmesCzech Republic

In front of the famous
John Lennon Wall

The gorgeous view of
Prague from Letna
Park

Value Derived from the Experience:
Having the opportunity to intern internationally through the Iacocca Internship program has not
only allowed me to enrich my knowledge about social exclusion but also has allowed me to growboth professionally and socially. I’ve grown to be incredibly independent; navigating the Czech
metro and tram systems, figuring out how to overcome barriers when something doesn’t goquite right, and communicating to those whose language I do not speak. Honestly, sometimes I
take a step back and just reflect how amazing it is that I am in a totally different country,
surrounded by a language and culture I am unfamiliar with and I am able to function successfully.
This internship has fundamentally changed who I am as a person in ways I did not anticipate. I
feel more confident in my communication and leadership skills and have developed a much
deeper understanding of social justice issues on a global scale. I have learned how to adapt andinteract with an unfamiliar environment while overcoming barriers more maturely and withease. I feel more independent, more confident, more mature and especially more culturally
aware. As a part of a group internship, I have learned how to more effectively work in a groupand continue to develop my collaboration skills. Additionally, I was able to become close friends
with people I never would have crossed paths with otherwise. Overall, this opportunity has been
an invaluable experience and I am sure that the skills I have learned will continue to shape who I
am for the rest of my life. I have grown so much as a person and have gained a pricelessexperience from this internship that I am forever grateful for.

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Kaitlyn Hennessy
Japan
College of Arts and Sciences
Computer Science

Nagoya Institute ofTechnology
Researcher

Company and Position Description:
Nagoya Institute of Technology is one of Japan’s leading engineering colleges.
Located in Nagoya’s Aichi Prefecture, the institution seeks to develop
groundbreaking sciences and technologies. With this, the school hopes tocontribute to the world’s well-being. My time was spent doing research in Dr.
Takayuki Ito’s lab. There, I studied Automated Negotiation and created my own
agent using Java and the Genius environment.
Additionally, I attended guest lectures by Dr. Reyhan Aydogan and Professor KweiJay Lin, academics studying Automated Negotiation and the Internet of Things,
respectively. During my time I also attended Japanese language courses in order
to continue my studies.

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here (with small
caption below)

Debugging code with my tutor,
Tatsuya Toyama.

Reviewing results with other lab
members.
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Kaitlyn Hennessy
Japan

Posing with the Hachikostatue in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Visiting the famousdeer in Nara.

Value Derived from the Experience:
Living abroad in a nation like Japan has been an unforgettable experience. The
people were incredibly kind and helpful, making me eager to embrace challenges
associated with living abroad. This internship was my first time applying myknowledge outside the classroom, reinvigorating my motivation in my studies.
I was also able to grow as a person thanks to this experience. The resources
provided by the Iacocca program made this a great way to begin exploring theworld. Visiting historic cities like Kyoto and Nara and more modern ones like Tokyo
and Osaka, along with the associated food and culture, left me awestruck. Most
important, though, are the friends I made during my time in Nagoya. Living in theinternational house I met people from all over the world, giving me a chance tounderstand more cultures than I anticipated in going to Japan. Thanks to this trip,
I am all the more ready to embrace the rapid globalization seen today.

81Jessica Hicks
Italy
College of Arts &Sciences
Journalism &Communications

LUXOS Magazine
Personalized Guide
Writer, Web WriterCompany and Position Description:
At LUXOS, a travel and luxury magazine, I produced web content and helped
create “points of interest” for the magazine’s new personalized city guides. These
guides can be tailored specifically to a traveler’s interests and needs, and consistof historical and cultural locations, restaurants, theaters, and more. I was able toresearch and work on several guides, one of which was for the city of Milan,
where I was living.

Each print copy of LUXOS
focuses on a specificcountry or city.

A photo of me on my firstday at Luxos.

82Jessica Hicks
Italy

Throwing a coin in
the Trevi Fountain in
Rome

About to eat a
pizza in Naples

Value Derived from the Experience:
Serving as an Iacocca International Intern not only helped me develop myprofessional potential, but also allowed me to gain confidence and a stronger
desire to step outside of my comfort zone. I learned how to adjust and excel in awork environment with different norms and protocols than I was used to. On topof that, I was able to explore Italy and learn to appreciate the country’s rich history
and culture. While I was learning about a new part of the world, I was also learning
about myself, my vision for the future, and who I hope to become as I continue todevelop as a student, professional, and global citizen.

83Alana Hill
United Kingdom
College of Business andEconomics
FinanceApollo Tyres Ltd.
FinanceCompany and Position Description:
Apollo Tyres Ltd. is a company that produces tires and is based in India. Recently, the company
has pursued global expansion, by first starting in Europe and with hopes to enter the UnitedStates’ tire market. At this internship I was given overview of not only Apollo Tyres, but of theentire tire industry as I learned about Apollo’s product development and placement in the tire
market. Once I acquired the proper knowledge, I was asked to develop a communication
strategy for Apollo Tyres luxury tire brand, Vredestein, to enter the United States’ tire market
with a limited budget of two million U.S. dollars. This project required me to research thecommunication strategies of other brands, as well as the status of Apollo in the markets inwhich it already is established. This communication strategy included my thoughts on price,product, place, and promotion to require me to use all of the marketing skills I have learned
while at Lehigh. At the end of my internship, I was asked to give a presentation to members ofthe marketing department at Apollo’s U.K. office and the U.S. office on the communication
strategy I had developed. I received positive feedback and am honored to say that Apollo Tyres
has notified me that they will take my communication strategy into deep consideration whenentering the United States’ tire market.

Working at Starbucks

Outside the Apollo
Tyres UK Office84

Alana Hill
United Kingdom

Charing Cross Underground
Station (right by Trafalgar Square)

Shopping at Covent Garden

Value Derived from the Experience:
I feel this is best explained by a journal entry I wrote on July 17th while I was still in
London:“This is the part where you find out who you are.”
There is something so satisfying about that statement.
Anyways, I must say I am so extraordinarily happy. This is what I want for the rest of mylife. I know it. I have questioned whether I am so happy because I am fairly stress-free
here. I have had the luxury of not paying for my own food and living and such. I have hadaccess to luxuries that I never have before, such as new people and shows and food that
does not have yellow 5 in it, or whatever that is. However, I do not think that is the sole
reason I am so extraordinarily happy. Rather, I just feel at home here. I have not felt thatin regard to anyone or anything before, apart from my family and closest friends. I am
unfamiliar with this feeling. I was speaking to a friend this weekend and she said she felt
the same way in regard to Paris. She yearns to go back one day. I know I need to comeback here one day soon. It is an exciting and, hopefully, feasible dream. I think feeling so
hopeful has also contributed to my happiness. I now have a dream. Truly, though, I havea dream that I know I will work towards. I will save money (a difficult task for me) andwork endlessly to achieve it. I believe I’ll be able to come back. I need to do so.

85Joanne Huang
Malaysia
P.C. Rossin College of Engineeringand Applied Science
Chemical Engineering

Universiti Teknologi Petronas
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
During the summer of 2017, I worked as a research intern at Universiti Teknologi
PETRONAS (UTP) in Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia. With a mixture of concrete and glassbuildings on campus, this university primarily focuses on engineering and appliedsciences. My research topic was correlation of wall shear stress on cerebral artery andblood cell distribution to aneurysm rupture. Because studying real life aneurysm
conditions is difficult, this research involved running simulations on a computer. The
program used was ANSYS Fluent, where we were able to manipulate multiple variables
such as fluid conditions and flow speed in the aneurysm. We presented our findings toa neuroradiologist and a surgeon to obtain feedback for further studies. This researchexperience has given me exposure to computational research and allowed me tobecome familiar with a new software used in chemical engineering.

Lehigh research interns
with supervisors

Library and auditorium of UTP

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Joanne Huang
Malaysia

Tea plantation at Cameron
Highlands

Sky Bridge overlooking mountains
and ocean in Langkawi

Value Derived from the Experience:
My work at Universiti Teknologi Petronas allowed me to see the computational side ofresearch. It gave me an idea of what graduate school is like and the challenges I may
face. Being abroad allowed me to meet and work with many people who come fromdifferent backgrounds. My experience in Malaysia has truly been eye opening. Becauseof the diverse population in this country, I was able to learn more about multiple
cultures at the same time. The people here are extremely friendly and they welcomed us
with open arms. I was able to make friends in my research lab quickly and they happily
invited us to events in and outside of school.
Because of the close proximity of Malaysia to other countries in Southeast Asia, I also
traveled to many places, tried new food, and did new things. This summer was the firsttime I went to a tea plantation, visited a mosque, explored islands on a boat tour, fed agiraffe, and much more. All of these experiences have given me a deeper appreciation
for nature’s beauty and the diversity of cultures around the world. Lots of travelinginvolves lots of planning, and my time in Malaysia challenged me to communicate well,resolve conflicts, and take initiative. This internship was much more than just doing
research – I learned about other people and cultures while exploring new places andtrying new things.

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Molly Hwang
FranceCollege ofEngineering
Materials Scienceand Engineering

Université de Bordeaux –Laboratoire Ondes etMatière d’Aquitaine
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
Over 7 weeks, I worked at Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine (Laboratory
for Waves and Soft Matter of the Aquitaine Region), a lab associated with the
University of Bordeaux. The lab group I was placed in had a focus in optofluidics,
a combination of optics and fluid dynamics. I was given my own project to workon and reported updates of the project to the lab group director and at weekly
lab meetings. I gave weekly presentations to both the lab and to a physics
research group at Lehigh. I prepared weekly executive reports to my superiors
with more detailed updates.
My project researched the ability of infrared laser radiation to selectively movecolloidal particles to desired 2-D arrangements. I ran experiments for the majorityof my days. I discussed results and proposed ideas to my supervisors very often,allowing me to provide my own input on the project.
All Lehigh students on this project were put into different labs with different
projects. Future interns would likely be put into labs depending on their majors.

Running experiments in the lab.

Outside of LOMA.
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Molly Hwang
FranceInternational Polymer
Colloids Group Conference inArantzazu, Basque Country

Place de la Bourse, next to
the Garonne River

Value Derived from the Experience:
Living and working in Bordeaux, France was very different from what I had
expected. While France is an advanced country relative to the world, culturally,
there were many unanticipated differences. I definitely learned a lot about living ina different cultural setting for an extended period of time. Additionally, I had anintermediate skill level of French (not necessary for this internship). I definitely wasable to improve my language skills and adapt to the language out-of-book.
Our student dormitory was around 15 minutes by tram to downtown Bordeaux.
Bordeaux is a beautiful city with beautiful architecture, fountains, statues, and ariver running through the city. The weather was almost always hot and sunny andthe sun set at around 10:30 p.m. every night. The lack of air conditioning took
some getting used to. The city is very easy to navigate with the tram system. Locals
were incredibly friendly and were willing to speak English to non-French speakers.
The city is very alive with events and festivities occurring very often. In addition,
travel between countries is relatively cheap and easy in Europe. It allowed us totravel a good deal over weekends.

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Brendan Inglis
United Arab Emirates
P.C. Rossin College
of Engineering andApplied Science
MechanicalEngineering

DeSimone Consulting Engineers
Engineering InternCompany and Position Description:
At DeSimone Abu Dhabi, I helped out around the office in any way that I could.
For the most part, I was working on a project for Warner Brothers Hotel, a resortthat is going to be built in Abu Dhabi. I learned how to use AutoCad Architecture,a CAD program which I used to create floorplan drawings, geotechnical drawings,
and building elevations. I also helped on a project for 2020T tower in Dubai. For
this project, I helped one of my coworkers create a column schedule, and made iteasier to visualize the types of columns to be used on each floor. I attended somemeetings, and learned a lot about the structural engineering field. One importanttakeaway that I had was learning about the interplay between client, architect,and engineer. After this experience I am more confident in my ability tocontribute in a workplace environment.

Sendoff Brunch with
my Coworkers

Example of a
Column Schedule90

Brendan Inglis
United Arab Emirates

Skyscrapers on
Corniche Street

A trip to the desert

Value Derived from the Experience:
The challenge of living in a new environment on my own for six weeks taught me alot. I got comfortable with the public transportation system and getting aroundwithout internet or Google maps. I met people from very diverse backgrounds andmade friends in unlikely places. I learned a lot about the culture and history of theUAE, especially during the holy month of Ramadan. I forced myself to get out of
my comfort zone, and I tried a lot of new foods and experiences. I learned how tohave a professional working relationship with my coworkers, and how anengineering team works and interacts. Most of all, I learned that I can handle
myself in a totally different environment than that which I am used to, and makethe best out of adversity that I encounter along the way.

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Brent Jacobs
Netherlands
College of Engineering
IBE ISE

European Container
Terminals
Data/IT InternCompany and Position Description:
European Container Terminals (often referred to as ECT) is the leading container shipping
terminal company on Port Rotterdam, the largest maritime shipping port in Europe. The
terminal’s main function is handling logistics of container movements on both the port andinland sides of the business. Specifically, the terminal handles the transport of shipping
containers between large ships and the truck and rail carriers which pick up these containers
and move the shipments to mainland Europe. As an Intern at the company, I worked on avariety of projects during my 8 week stay. Some of the projects I worked on included researchof blockchain technology and its potential to serve as a medium of information transfer
between ECT and cargo owners as well as data analysis of one million+ container movements
and e-service requests from the company website to try to identify trends. This being said, mymain task during my time was to develop a working algorithm to predict discharge times forcontainers at the new and modern ECT Euromax Terminal, which was constructed in 2008.
When I arrived, the company had a prediction system in place, but the system was nonfunctional, and it was the responsibility of my partner Jordan and myself to create a new modelfor the system that was not only more accurate, but could potentially be applied to futureterminals as well.

ECT Delta Terminal

Large Containers Held In organizedautomated “stacks”
92Brent Jacobs
Netherlands

Love Locks Near
Erasmus Bridge

Cube Houses inRotterdam

Value Derived from the Experience:
Ultimately, my experience in Rotterdam was one of the most incredible 2 month
stretches of my life. Despite being thrust into a new environment, I felt as if thetransition came very naturally to me. I was very fortunate to work on a variety of
projects during my short time at ECT, and I think that this format was very effective
in preparing me for potential interviews or future work experience. Before I
arrived, I knew very little about the shipping industry and how container terminals
worked. After having worked on the terminal for a short amount of time, I not only
believe that I could sit down and discuss industry effectively with a professional,
but I could do so passionately and in a way which shows evidence of theknowledge I gained during my time abroad. Overall, being able to submit aphysical manifestation of my work in the form of our discharge model was very
rewarding and I am very thankful for the opportunity to do so.

93Alexander James
Japan
Intercollegiate
Program

Nagoya Institute of Technology
Research Intern

Computer Scienceand BusinessCompany and Position Description:
I spent two months working as a research intern at the engineering research
university, Nagoya Institute of Technology, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
While at the university, I worked in the Computer Science department under
Professor Shohei Kato and took Japanese language classes. The Japanese classes
covered Japanese grammar structures and the Japanese writing scripts. In thelab, I researched algorithms to allow artificial intelligence to process andrecognize different emotions. I also had to test an existing program with English
audio clips to compare the effectiveness for non-Japanese audio programs.

Working on project code

Presenting on research

94Alexander James
Japan

Standing on top of Mt. Fuji

Sitting with a tame deer

Value Derived from the Experience:
Prior to this experience, my exposure to computer science was only in class settings. Doing thisinternship gave me research experience and allowed me to grow my understanding of what
researching is like in computer science and the comradery that goes with it. The exposure gaveme motivation and perspective in what I want to do in the computer science field and the workneeded for it. Beyond the work environment, being in Japan has been a dream come true.
Before being in Japan, my knowledge of it didn’t go much further than anime. Afterwards, I wasblown away by both the day to day life and the culture of the country. Exploring both modern
and historical sites, I gained new perspectives of community and the importance of being able towork as a group. Being in Japan also pushed me out of my comfort zone and forced me to growas a person. I had never learned Japanese before, so I was forced to adapt and adjust in a newenvironment where communication was difficult. I was able to improve my soft skills and learn
to live more independently. Overall, this internship helped me refocus as a computer scientist
and improve as a more well-rounded person.

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Michelle Kent
China
P.C. Rossin College
of Engineering andApplied Science
Materials Scienceand Engineering

University of Scienceand Technology of
China
Research Position

Company and Position Description:
The University of Science and Technology of China is a prestigious research university in Hefei,
China in the Anhui province. The USTC has about 13,000 graduate students and only about
7,000 undergraduate students, most of whom study science and engineering disciplines. Hefei
is a relatively “small” city of over 3 million people. The campus of the USTC is populated withpublic-use bicycles, ponds, and parks, and mostly void of cars, similar to Lehigh. I worked in a
structural engineering lab group with graduate students who study cellular materials (i.e.
foams). The lab uses ABAQUS, a CAD software program used to simulate compressive impact
tests in this lab. The principle cellular material mesostructure studied, a Voronoi structure, isdesigned in three dimensions using Matlab. The lab does real tests with both metal foams andFDM printed polymer foams using a velocity-controlled compression machine and a high-speed
camera. While working in the lab, I read many papers written in the field of cellular materials
both by this lab and by others around the world. I studied Matlab code and learned how tosimulate a compression test using ABAQUS. I learned how to use the high-end 3D printeravailable to the lab and printed several models I designed in SolidWorks. I learned how to run
impact tests and gather data from the high-speed camera.

Cellular material impact testing
FDM printing machine96

Michelle Kent
China

Peak at the Yellow Mountain

Walking in a small rural village

Value Derived from the Experience:
The experience helped me understand a lot about China. I was immersed into a culture thatthinks and behaves differently from the American culture. I did a lot of research into the historyof China to understand why people act the way they do and was able to understand the culture
at a deeper level as a result. I asked lots of questions. One question that often came up waswhether or not a student at the university could swim, and then whether his parents could swim.
The culture has changed dramatically in the last 50 years to the point that people in their
twenties did not have the childhoods their parents had. The current generation is driven to findsuccess in a selective education system as no prior generation has been. The collective society
believes that educational success is the most important aspect of a young person’s life, and thisshows in the way the young people align their own priorities. I respect the students I worked
with because of all of their hard work to get to the point where they have the opportunity toattain a PhD in their field of study. They have worked much harder in school than I have in myundergraduate experience. Unlike the other Lehigh students, my experience of the university
was critical because my lab mates took me in and encouraged me to try new things. They took
me to eat and invited me to play games. I was immersed in their life for five days each week.
This was very helpful for my experience because it let me see the life they lived every day, fromthe time they woke up to the time they went to bed. Fortunately, much of this time was spent
as a group. I am thankful for their support and encouragement during my time in China. The
experience would not have been the same without them. I will likely not return to China in the
future, but I am glad for the opportunity to join on this trip to see China and learn from myinternship this summer. Thank you.

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Maryam Athar Khan
Ireland
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Science
Bioengineering

Dublin City University
Lab Intern at School of
Manufacturing &MechanicalEngineering

Company and Position Description:
The Centre for Medical Engineering Research (MEDeng) is a key research centre
at Dublin City University that is focused on translating engineering and materials
research into healthcare solutions. I was part of the Tissue Engineering andRegenerative Medicine team which focused on bone regeneration. My position
required me to study alginate hydrogels, develop a standard operating protocol(SOP) for PNIPAAm thermoresponsive hydrogels, perform chemical
characterizations such as FTIR analysis, and carry out various mechanical tests
such as compression, equilibrium swelling and degradation studies to better
understand the behavior of thermoresponsive hydrogels. In addition, I was
responsible with setting and maintaining a new lab setup on DCU’s campus.

Extracting NIPAAm hydrogel polymer
solution after dialysis

Setting up nitrogen gas cylinder for
Nitrogen Purging
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Maryam Athar Khan
Ireland

Sea of Moyle

Cliffs of Moher

Value Derived from the Experience:
The lessons learned, skills acquired, and growth obtained as a result from my Iacocca
Internship have been eye-opening, invaluable, and instrumental in my development,
both professionally and personally.
Professionally, the internship provided a unique insight into how research is conducted,
funded, and how much work is required when performing a simple procedure. We werein the middle of setting up a new lab so my first couple of weeks were spent hunting
down lab materials, finding cheaper alternatives to otherwise extortionately high-costequipment, and getting approval from various safety and regulatory departments andbodies on campus. In addition, I learned just how much is unknown when researching aparticular subject matter. There was very little literature on thermoresponsive hydrogels
so I had to start from a very rudimentary level and work my way upwards. A significant
amount of my time was spent reading literature to try to gain an understanding of howhydrogels work or why a certain protocol was used. In addition, I was able to understandhow a company’s business-minded incentives can vary drastically from those based in an
educational institution as my team in DCU collaborated with Biovotec Ltd, a private
enterprise.
Personally, I was able to adapt and navigate my way around in an unknown environment.
It’s amazing how quickly you grow when thrust into a foreign city. I formed friendships
and communicated cross-culturally and appreciated that even though we may comefrom different backgrounds, it is important that the work environment be set up as suchthat every individual feels welcome.

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Mina Khan
China
College of Business and Economics
Finance

Becton Dickinson
PR Intern

Company and Position Description:
Becton Dickinson is a medical devices company based in Franklin Lakes, NJ. The
Shanghai branch of Becton Dickinson is located in Jing-an Temple, a beautiful part ofthe city. At Becton Dickinson I was part of the PR team and given the opportunity towork alongside the majority of the department in assistance with several of their
ongoing projects. I began working on Healthcare Technology Assessment, the benefitsof which the PR team was trying to push to the government. This was a challenging
assignment because there was little to no precedent in HTA in China, my role being toprovide research on the methodology through which HTA was implemented in othercountries. I then moved onto another project regarding Digital Media Communicationsin China, specifically social media. This was once again challenging because healthcarecompanies overall globally, and even more so medical technology companies, do not
traditionally participate much if at all in social media promotion. Furthermore, thesocial media landscape in China is drastically different from that of the US. All of myresearch was culminated into a final presentation that I gave to the PR department, thegraphics of which will be used by the department going forward.

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China

Great Wall of China, Beijing

Jing’an Temple, Shanghai

Value Derived from the Experience:
Before I landed in Shanghai I had a drastically different perception of what the city would
be like. Not speaking Chinese (an incredibly difficult language to learn even keywords in)
was by far the biggest issue I faced, not having realized how little of the Shanghai
population spoke English. I also had a hard time making friends at first because of thelanguage barrier, and got lost quite a bit. A wave of unexpected homesickness hit, and I
found myself in a bit of a rut for the first week. Reaching out to my coworker Tiffany, wholater became a very close friend, led to meeting people within BD that were looking forlanguage partners (and later became the most amazing friends) and expats teaching
English nearby (also very close and helpful friends). Along with learning how to become
more independent, I also learned the importance of reaching out and admitting you arelost or need help. Chinese people amazed me with how patient and kind they were withmy questions and how far out of their way they would go to provide help. As my trip
progressed I visited the canal town of Xi tang with coworkers, the Great Wall of China in
Beijing, West Lake at Hangzhou, and various parts of Shanghai including Tianzifeng, Yu
Gardens, Jing-an Temple, the former French Concession and so on. The memories andpictures speak for themselves, and made the long journey to China more than worth it.
The work culture was also very different, and interesting to adapt to. Overall, adapting todifferences in work culture and culture overall and making new friends and contacts
halfway around the world helped me grow in ways as a person I would not havepreviously believed would be possible in the span of two months.

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Grace Kim
Japan
IDEAS
Bioengineering andPsychology

Taiho PharmaceuticalCo., Ltd.
CMC Dept. Intern

Organization and Position Description:
Taiho is one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in Japan, best known for their anti-cancer
drugs. They’ve expanded their operations to numerous countries, including China, the U.S.,
and, most recently, Canada. For five weeks, I worked as a research intern at the company’s
facilities in Tokushima, in various labs. A majority of my time was spent in the Formulation lab,
where I learned how to create my own tablets, what components go into a drug tablet, andcame up with my own formulation for a tablet with the active ingredient Ethenzamide. I spent
three weeks learning and working in this lab. Another week was spent in the Applied
Pharmacology and Toxicology labs where I learned about and practiced different procedures
and tools such as the Western blot and chromosomal aberration test. The final week was spentin the Analytical Science lab where we used HPLC to study how different crushing methods oftablets affected how much active ingredient was detected and also to compare different
methods of dissolution. At the end of each of these three segments of my stay (Formulationlab, Applied Pharmacology and Toxicology labs, and Analytical Science lab) I briefly presented
the work I did and what I learned, for a total of three presentations. For the remaining three
weeks of the program, I stayed in Tokyo and learned from different departments at
Headquarters, such as the legal and clinical trials departments, and visited the facilities in
Saitama, Tsukuba, and Kitajima.

The first tablets I made in
the formulation lab

Some of my colleagues from the Formulationlab. Without them, my experience would nothave been possible102Grace Kim
Japan

The view from the top of
the Tokyo Sky Tree

Miso ramen from aweekend lunch out

Value Derived from the Experience:
This experience was an incredible opportunity for me to develop professionally. This was my firstever internship and my first exposure to the kind of work that engineers might do in the industry.
I was able to see what happens at all different levels of a pharmaceutical company, from thediscovery of usable compounds to clinical trials, final production, and beyond. It really opened
my eyes to how much time, money, and work goes into making even the most simple drugs. I got
the opportunity to talk to and learn from people at all different levels of the company, from new
employees to the president of the company himself. One conversation that really stood out tome was with a new employee who lived in the company dormitory with me who had moved
from Korea to work with the company. She told me that when she was choosing a job, she
looked at not only the types of jobs, but the values of the countries of where she would bebased, and she chose a job in Japan because she thought her values lined up with the values of
the average Japanese person. Her insightfulness really resonated with me, and I’m so glad tohave met her.
Thanks to this internship, I’ve gained so much life experience on top of the work experience. It
was my first time staying in a foreign country for such a long time, my first time visiting a country
where I couldn’t speak the language, and also my first time exploring a large city on my own! It
was definitely a trip of firsts, and it helped me learn some life skills that will serve me well in the
future. I learned very quickly how to figure out public transportation, and the value of letting
myself just explore. The most important thing, I think, was that I didn’t have to force myself to goout and do exciting things just for the sake of doing them. The important thing was maximizing
my own enjoyment, and sometimes that meant staying in and taking a break once in a while.

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Jonathan Kleinhenz
Germany
Integrated Business &Engineering
Finance & Industrial
Engineering

NUMA Berlin
Junior Analyst

Company and Position Description:
The company I interned with is NUMA, and is based in Paris with 7 other offices all across the globe.
The name is derived from the French words for “digital” & “human” (“Numérique” & “hUMAin”).
Internationally, the company is a startup accelerator that connects corporations and startups to help
innovate and create disruption in various technology markets. Locally, the Berlin office was just 2
months old when I arrived, and they are currently functioning as an innovation hub, to foster startupdriven corporate innovation and to help empower mission-driven technology entrepreneurs to solve theworld's problems by the year 2030. I worked in a small co-working office with just 4 other employees,
where I served as a Junior Analyst focusing on Business Development and driving our company's
mission. The majority of work I performed involved doing market analyses to find technology trends ininteresting, relevant markets for NUMA. I found startups in industries such as food, health, energy andmore that are using technology to solve global issues. Then I tried to find larger corporations in thesesame industries to determine if they were doing similar technology innovation work and if they mightwant to collaborate with NUMA and the startups. I also participated in Tech Open Air, Europe’s leadinginterdisciplinary technology conference, where I pitched NUMA’s product offerings and mission torepresentatives from local and global companies. This experience was invaluable for me because I had
the opportunity to live and work in a foreign country where I was forced to step out of my comfort zone
and put together quality work for the good of this company. I learned much about the startup
ecosystem worldwide and in Berlin, and also how technology and data paired with an entrepreneurial
spirit can create many solutions to world issues. Working in such a small environment allowed me toreally feel like I impacted the business positively. Knowing what I now know about the functionality,
openness and creativity within startups and smaller companies, I can definitely see myself working for astartup in the future.

Standing at our “Smart City”
company booth at Tech Open Air

NUMA’s Growth Confessions
event that I helped set up and104
attendedJonathan Kleinhenz
Germany

Standing in front of theBrandenburg Gate

View from Friedrichstraβe
along the Spree River with the
TV Tower in the background

Value Derived from the Experience:
This international experience has easily been the most valuable and rewarding experience in mylife thus far. With the help and support of the Iacocca International Internship Program I havegrown as a person, both personally and professionally.
After studying German throughout my high school and college career, I was hoping to study inGermany to get exposed to a more practical learning experience in speaking and comprehending
the language, while also developing a better understanding and appreciation for German culture.
Living in Mitte, the political and historical center of Berlin, and working in Kreuzberg, the socialand cultural center, I was put right in the mix of the most interesting parts of this significant,amazing city. When I stepped outside of my apartment each day, I had to take a moment torealize what this city once stood for: oppression, ethnical division and totalitarian, dictatorial
rule. What has become of Berlin has transformed the city into one of the largest and mostintellectual and aesthetic hubs of Europe. This experience influenced me to become more
worldly and accepting when examining other cultures and people around me.
Additionally, working in the tech startup ecosystem, a niche that I was very interested in but had
no experience in, really served me well in expanding my working and learning horizons.
Examining small startups and analyzing how they plan to solve major world problems was very
rewarding and thrilling and opened my eyes up to a potential career interest as well as a new,innovative approach to leadership.
Overall this experience went even better than I had hoped it would and taught me so muchabout myself, about the world around me and about my future in business and management. I
am forever grateful to the IIIP for this tremendous opportunity.

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Ivan Kok
Hong Kong
College of Business
Computer Science &Business

Hutchison Ports
Operations Summer
InternCompany and Position Description:
Hutchison Ports is the port operating division within the conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings.
Their customers consist of shipping lines like Maersk and Evergreen as they load and unload thevessels when they arrive at the docks. They are currently the second largest port operator, with48 ports from UK to Mexico in their network. As a Summer Intern for the Operations
Department in Hong Kong, my goal was to contribute to the department’s efforts of improving
port operations and efficiency. This goal is achieved in diverse ways as some would acquire andanalyze data, while others ran simulations and wrote programs. I did my work specificallywithin Microsoft Excel, where I learned to code in a language called VBA. With VBA, I wrote
programs known as Macros that would automate time-consuming and tedious processes. The
processes could be summarized as opening the necessary Excel sheets, refreshing and adjusting
the data on them, copying them over to a Notepad file as inputs to a C program, run the C
program remotely, and channeling the output of the C program onto a table in the summary
sheet. This table would be able to show the correlation between adding more cranes (portmachinery) and its impact on the number of containers loaded and unloaded yearly. This visual
data allows for easier comparison on whether to increase the number of cranes.

Vessel tour aboard themegaship MOL Tribute

Terminal 9 Interns during
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Ivan Kok
Hong Kong

Devil’s Peak in Kowloon
with Hong Kong Island in
the backdrop

Victoria Harbour in the sunset,
Hong Kong on the left andKowloon on the right

Value Derived from the Experience:
During my eight weeks of internship in Hong Kong, I learned a lot about what is expected of me
as an employee/intern. I think the most valuable lesson in the professional setting is to always
maintain an open and committed channel of communication with my supervisor as anunderstanding between the two of us would go a long way in setting expectations and reaching
our objectives. Even with a language and cultural barrier, it was all the more crucial for me as aprogrammer to explain my code along the way to my supervisor so he can understand my
implementation should he need to change it in the future. I also learned the basic common
courtesies of working in the office, which includes dress code, professional conduct, and helping
fellow interns get through their day and work. Outside of the office, I think I developed
personally in knowing more about myself. Adapting to new surroundings, new people, and new
expectations was something I faced everyday. Not everything was comfortable to me, but I
accepted what life threw at me. As leadership was one of my developing skills, I tried tocommunicate and make decisions for our group from time to time. I think I am more outgoingand confident after finishing this internship because I really enjoyed the experience, though I
was at first nervous about going to a different country without a familiar face, so now I am
excited for what the future holds.

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Mariah Kozub
Australia
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering andApplied Science
Civil
Engineering

Premonition Designs
Business InternCompany and Position Description:
I interned at Premonition Designs, a small Australian fashion label. The company has
four separate labels which are branded differently. Its primary business is wholesale but
its individual online sales are increasing. During my internship I worked in the online
sales department. The primary tasks of the department are dispatching orders that
individuals have placed online and interacting with customers. In general, dispatchingorders involves picking the garments from the warehouse, quality-control inspecting
the garments, entering the parcels into the online system, then dispatching the parcels
to couriers. Customer service takes place on multiple platforms including email, phone,and live chat. Since the company is small, there were only one or two other people in
my department which gave me the opportunity to master all the responsibilities. The
department was short-staffed to begin with and due to staff absences, two weeks into
my internship I was temporarily the only person in the department and charged withcompleting all the daily tasks. Being at a small company, I had the opportunity to takeon more responsibilities and was able to gain an understanding of the businesspractices in all of the departments.

Desk at Premonition
Designs

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Mariah Kozub
Australia

Feeding a wallaby

Opera House during Vivid Lights
Festival

Value Derived from the Experience:
I went to Australia with a very open mind which allowed me to get more out of the experience
than I could have ever imagined. Because my job was not very related to my field of study, I did
not have specific expectations for the work I would be doing. I knew I would put my best effort inwhatever was asked of me and that anytime in a workplace would be beneficial to my personal
and professional growth. With this mindset I was able to take full advantage of my internship andgo above and beyond what was expected from me. The opportunities my position offered totake on more responsibility allowed me to become more confident in a real-world setting.
With an open mind I easily immersed myself in Australian culture and my home environment
with fellow Global Experiences interns. It helped that English is the national language but I madesure I made the most of my time. With new friends made I took a trip to snorkel the Great
Barrier Reef and went skydiving on the beach. I explored some of the many neighborhoods ofSydney and became confident in my ability to get around in such a new and busy city. I fully
realized that if you want to do something, you need to take the initiative and do it and not wait
around for other people. I explored places on my own and became okay with being alone. I
thought about who I am as a person and decided I will always try to be the best version ofmyself, always trying to be a little bit better.
I am so grateful for this opportunity and although I cannot fully describe all that I gained fromthis experience, I know that I am a more developed version of myself who feels ready to take on
my next workplace and cannot wait to travel more.

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Winston La
Cremona, Italy
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering andApplied Science
IBE Comp. Engineer

Net4Market
Intern Web Developer

Company and Position Description:
Net4Market is a startup e-procurement company based in Cremona, Italy. My responsibilities
included upgrading the company’s issue tracking software to be compatible with the rest of
their infrastructure as well as implementing new features to the software. Our project was
written in JAVA and XML using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) libraries and Sencha GXT.

Working at the Desk

A serious Winston and Aaron

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Winston La
Cremona, Italy

Terrace of the
Duomo in Milan

Sunset on the Grand
Canal. Venice

Value Derived from the Experience:
Being in a foreign country that doesn’t speak your language can be terrifying. Although some
Italians in Cremona spoke English, many did not and communication for everyday essentials,
whether ordering food or making friends, became difficult. Without the Italian language, I
became more adept at reading the situation and a few choice words combined with the correct
body language became a feasible substitute.
As far as work experience, I found programming software to be as I expected: a real pain in therear end. It was the largest project that I have worked on so far and as I was inheriting the workfrom a previous programmer I had to figure out the organization and structure. The lack of
documentation did not make things easier and I have come to appreciate such aids.
My time in Italy gave me a myriad of practical and fond experiences that I can look back on. Ifanything I’d only wish I was able to eat more.

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Louis Lin
UgandaCollege of Engineering
Civil Engineering

Pathways Development
Initiative
Field Officer

Company and Position Description:
Pathways Development Initiative (PDI) is a grassroots development organization that seeks toempower a community of self-sufficient members through targeting specific financial andeducational needs of the communities. There are four main programs that are in operationthese being Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA), Small Business Loans (SBL), an
Education Center (EC), and a Sports Clinic (SC). VSLAs are self-managing groups that allow its
members to manage their own savings and gain interest from loaning their money to an
association’s members. The SBLs support local entrepreneurs in creating or expanding theirown businesses by providing the necessary capital and business training. The EC provides
children within the community the chance to receive otherwise unavailable pre-primaryeducation. The Sports Clinic addresses a lack of formal activities for the children in the village toengage in by organizing football training sessions and games for the local primary schools andcommunity members.
My main purpose was to aid in the coordination and execution of the programs’ activities byorganizing the files on record and creating tools for the field officers to use during monitoring
sessions. I helped establish financial management books and a formal constitution for the
VSLAs, which I presented at an associations’ conference of over 200 executives. My
contributions were focused on making the programs more financially stable by gathering andorganizing the relevant financial records and presenting this to the Board.

Personal financial record books are being
handed out to start the Kigazi VSLA’s weekly
meeting for its members.

Jonah, a student in my P1 class, is fillingout the board activity with the P1 teacher,
Anthony, that I worked with.
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Louis Lin
UgandaChristy, the grandchild of ourHomestay’s family, posing with acolored-in house I drew with her

One of the first pictures wetook as a group, outside theLubiri Palace In Kampala,
Uganda.

Value Derived from the Experience:
Seeing the impact that simple activities could have on a community at large really put into perspective
the projects and career that I want to pursue. The Zaale family, which had started PDI, put so much effort
and dedication into bringing the organization to what it is now that someone like me can often overlookthat fact- as I had. To see just how PDI has affected the community, and empowered so many individuals
with simple tools, has really humbled the small contributions that I could make over this summer. The
simple projects I undertook could not compare to the work that they’ve done in developing thecommunity from the bottom up- whether that is with the savings groups, entrepreneurial loans, or theeducational center they’ve built.
Personally, I had chosen this internship to learn more about sustainable development but I came awaylearning more about sustainable living. Sustainable development in this community will not come frombuilding more roads or setting up enough schools, but in the quality of life that you can impart to others.
When you look at the internship as a whole, I did not learn how to build a road or construct a rain
harvester because this is not what they needed. What really needs to happen isn’t some large
construction project but more grassroots development initiatives like PDI that empowers and works withthe people you want to help. Teach them about business management, teach them about planning school
lessons, teach them skills that will allow them to be more self-sufficient and that will truly have a lasting
impact on the community. After we leave, these are the things that will stay with them, not the signposts,
not the notebooks, not the pens or markers but the interactions that we’ve shared and the friendshipsthat we’ve made.
I believe that you grow most from discomfort and though I am not one to complain, I was pretty
uncomfortable. The experience challenged me in many unexpected ways- with the work environment,with the food, with the lack of proper health facilities. I am also usually a reclusive type of person, butduring this internship, there were rarely any moments that you were alone. Eventually I got adjusted tothe swarming groups of kids, to the bodaboda (motorcycle) rides to work, to the hikes for our monitoring
sessions, and I was pushed to interact with others on a different level that I think I grew to really enjoy.
The interactions that I had with our homestay family and their grandchildren were the most special to me
and I could not have imagined it any other way. These are the moments in life you will never forget, as I
know I won’t.

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Emily Linderman
Italy
College of Art’s and Science
Journalism

DigitalBees
InternCompany and Position Description:
I worked for a digital video marketing startup in Milan, Italy for six weeks. DigitalBees createsvideo playlists with videos relative to a publisher’s content, which then runs on a video player
widget on the publisher’s website. Before the video playlist begins, a video advertisement
plays, called “pre-roll.” DigitalBees also creates videos for clients and runs a lyric database for
their publishers. As DigitalBees intern, I mostly updated video thumbnails and tracked newsong releases and added lyrics to the database. I also found videos for playlists and collectedvideo data. As the person with the best English in the office, I researched American companies
doing similar work to DigitalBees and looked for potential partnerships.

Working on DigitalBees video
playlists at my desk

Celebrating birthdays, company
milestones and my time at
DigitalBees with coworkers

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Emily Linderman
Italy

Visiting Cinque Terre,
meaning “five lands"

Pizza in Naples, thebirthplace of pizza!

Value Derived from the Experience:
I have never traveled outside of the United States before. I had no idea what I was getting myself
into and that terrified me. I don’t speak Italian, my office didn’t speak a lot of English, and I was
the only American intern. Most of the time, I didn’t really know what was happening, not just in
the office, but everywhere. On top of that, I was 4,000+ miles away from all the people I love.
Generally, I’m not a very go-with-the-flow type person. I rely heavily on my friends and family. I
like to know what I’m doing all the time. I like plans. While I didn’t have any issues adjusting to
the 6-hour time difference, adjusting to everything else was hard. I missed my friends. I feltslightly disoriented all of the time. All that being said, I am walking away from this experience somuch more independent. I had to learn how to be okay by myself. I went to Venice and Bologna
by myself and without a plan! I learned to be (at least somewhat) okay with change, with making
things up as I go along. I am still a very plan-oriented person, and I’ll always be more of a peopleperson, but spontaneity and being alone doesn’t make me so anxious anymore. I am going to bejust fine on my own.

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Rebecca Luttinen
UgandaCollege of Arts andSciences
Joint International
Relations andEconomics

Pathways Development
Initiative
InternCompany and Position Description
This summer I interned for The Pathways Development Initiative (PDI) in Bududa, Uganda. This
NGO was started by the Zaale Family for the goal of eradicating poverty and building
sustainable livelihoods. PDI has a pre-primary school, it helps manage many micro financegroups, and it has a sports clinic. I would usually work as a teaching aid 3-4 days a week and I
would spend most of my time going to VSLA (village saving and loan associations) meetings tocollect biodata and check in on how their saving is going. The internship was a group internship,
so we accomplished a lot individually and as a group.

This is the beautiful view from This is a photo of my typical attire for ameeting (a skirt, raincoat for the climate
the PDI office.
and sneakers to brave the mud.)116

Rebecca Luttinen
UgandaThis is a Ugandan woman
entrepreneur that received asmall loan from PDI to expand
her corn selling business.

This is a photo of me visitinga mosque in Kampala.

Value Derived from the Experience:
My internship experience taught me more than years in a classroom ever will. Being someonethat wants to work with NGO's in the future, it was really helpful to be involved with a grassroots
NGO. I got to see the successes and failures firsthand and be part of PDI's growth from theground up. Working in a different culture definitely taught me patience, but more importantly
showed me the importance of learning from that culture. I have seen how important it is to work
alongside the people you are hoping to help when involved in any sort of humanitarian aid. I also
have a strong appreciation for local NGO's after this experience because local groups havecontext and a better understanding of the culture they are working with.

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Kevin Ly
Malaysia
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Science
Bioengineering

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
Research and Data Analysis InternCompany and Position Description:
I interned at the High Performance Cloud Computing Center (HPCCC), a facility
located in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. I worked under the supervision of amechanical engineering professor who was investigating the effect of blood flowin patients with cerebral aneurysm. We used patient-derived models andformatted the proper parameters for blood flow simulation in ANSYS Fluent.
Additionally, my lab collaborated with doctors at the Univerisiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM) to confirm that our simulations accurately depicted real blood flow inpatients with cerebral aneurysm. As a result of this project, we hope to further
understand how blood flow affects the stress on cerebral arteries and determine
whether this stress is correlated with rupture of cerebral aneurysm.

Left: Meeting with
doctors at UiTM

Right: Analyzing
simulation results in
ANSYS Fluent

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Kevin Ly
Malaysia

Lehigh students visit
Cameron Highlands

Long Beach at Pulau
RedangValue Derived from the Experience:

Before choosing Malaysia for my internship placement, I had no prior knowledgeof its culture, politics, or even the location of this beautiful country. But after 10
weeks here, I became more aware of its diversity and fully immersed myself within
the Malaysian culture. Malaysians consists of Malays, Indians, and Chinese.
Because they typically live together in the same cities and towns, their foods were
easily accessible and there was something new to try everyday! But the majority of
the country remain Malays and Muslims, so the laws and common practices areoften based on Islam. For instance, most restaurants would close during Ramadan
to accommodate for fasting during breakfast and lunch. Many public buildings had
Islamic influence within its architecture and it was not uncommon to find people
praying while they were at work or in the office. This was my first experience being
surrounded in a lifestyle that was quite conservative and traditional. I was initiallyshocked, but also intrigued how a society could be heavily influenced by one
religion.

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Shanice Marrow
Spain
College of Business andEconomics
MarketingSpain For Weddings
Marketing AssociateCompany and Position Description:
I had the privilege of working with a company called Spain For Weddings. Spain For Weddings isa specialty wedding company that assists foreign couples in planning their dream wedding inSpain. I was a Marketing intern who helped Spain For Weddings get a jumpstart in the
Destinations Wedding industry while promoting Spain as a country and the rich culture thatruns throughout each region. I did lot of social media marketing in which I updated theInstagram and Facebook daily. I began posting personal pictures of Spain of beaches that I’ve
gone to, the food that I ate, places that are a must see when in Spain, and a variety of people
from different neighborhoods, specifically in Barcelona, to show how diverse Spain is in its
essence. With that switch, our response rating went up from 23% to 95% and our followers
grew from 452 to 1543 in four weeks. I created an interactive quiz that allowed brides tochoose pictures in order to get a sense of what sort of wedding they would like to have in
Spain. They were given pictures from vendors that Spain4Weddings worked with and were
given the option to choose their favorites and either get “Glamorous Mediterranean Seaside
Wedding,” “Trendy Modern Wedding,” “Classic Romantic Wedding,” or “Bohemian Wedding” togive them a sense of direction in what sort of wedding we can plan here in Spain. The quiz was
taken 345 times and we received four brides just from that quiz alone. I also launched asuccessful Facebook campaign in which I engaged in A/B or split testing in which I was able toreach 12,000 brides and have 15 contact us. Although it may sound as if it’s not a hugeaccomplishment, however to have 15 brides contact a startup destination wedding company
that began 6 months ago is a true leap toward success.

Co-working area. There are
10 startups here.

Group paddle boarding activity tobuild trust and team work.

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Shanice Marrow
Spain

Left: FC Barcelona vs.
Manchester

Right: Climbed over
10,000 steps to Montjuic
Value Derived from the Experience:
There were some difficulties adjusting to the cultural differences that my company illustrated. I
remember my first meeting, my co-worker who is also American but moved to Barcelona stated that I
shouldn’t bring a notepad or pencil because my boss would take notes specifically and send them to us
via email and most of the time we would be off-topic speaking about life and building connections. I
didn’t listen to her and bought my pencil and pad and my boss made a joke “what are you German?”referring to their seriousness in a professional environment. At the meeting, the employees spoke about
their weekends, their families, their dogs, upcoming events but someway somehow I came out themeeting with all of my questions about the job answered and everything on my mental checklist checked
off. The meetings are unconventional but are interesting and allowed me to open up more about myself
to build a relationship with my boss and co-workers. Back in America, I received my tasks and rarely
spoke to my boss. Here, I WhatsApp my boss on the weekends for restaurant suggestions and I feel
respected and a part of the team. Back in America, I feel as if I can be easily replaced and less valuable.
My boss emails me and asks every employee to vote on whether we should launch a new campaign andlistens to every single suggestion and believes there are no bad ones just ones that would not work withina certain timeframe. I felt very welcomed and appreciated as I continued to work extensively with people
from different cultures and be able to learn their language as I teach them mine. It was honestly arewarding experience. This internship did what most American internships do not do which is develop
both my hard and soft skills. Many internships in America teach you specifically how to do a job
developing your hard skills but there is little relationship-building communication and little leisure time,
so your soft skills are literally soften and not completely shown. Spain4Weddings taught me how to do
digital marketing, extensive marketing research, taught me to take initiative, interact with people whohave a different language with me, present my findings, ask questions, and essentially be adaptive and gowith the flow. I wouldn’t change it for the world and this internship and this experience definitely showedme that I value quality of life more than making money, and it made me want to come back to Spain in
the future to work.

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Victoria McCulley
Moldova
College of Arts & Sciences
Global Studies & English

American Language Center
InternCompany and Position Description:
The American Language Center is based in Chisinau, Moldova and was created by American
Councils Moldova to promote foreign language acquisition and the exchange of cultures acrossborders. The ALC mainly hosts classes in English for both general and business purposes, but it
also offers courses in Russian and Romanian. The center provides other services such as TOEFL
preparation and testing for those planning to studying abroad, and it is also home to various
youth programs and exchange experiences.
As a part of my internship, I did a variety of work for the center including using their social
media account to market new courses and share content to encourage students on theirlanguage-learning journey. I also researched ESL techniques to design content which could be
used to help students achieve fluency in English by learning the fine details of the language. Asa native English speaker, I frequently partnered with teachers to join students in classdiscussion to practice conversational English skills while also sharing our experiences as citizensof differing countries. My largest project involved designing, marketing, and hosting an
extracurricular event at the center which served to engage young students by testing theirconversational skills while learning about American history and culture. I did this on the Fourthof July by partnering with a teacher to discuss and design activities which would utilize both
written and verbal English skills.

The Fourth of July celebration I
hosted at the center

The outside of the American 122
Language Center

Victoria McCulley
Moldova

Moldova is famous for its monasteries;
This is the inside of one in the village ofCăpriana
Value Derived from the Experience:

I got to experience Moldova’s beautiful
countryside at the lavender fields in
Cobusca NouaMy time at the American Language Center was invaluable in helping me explore myprofessional options. This was a great opportunity to experience work within a smallscale, non-governmental organization and to learn about the logistics of both foreign
language education and study abroad/exchange experiences. I found that while in myworkplace it was important to take initiative in order to contribute as much as I felt I
could. As a result of my time at the ALC I became better at being more vocal whencommunicating with my supervisor and coworkers as well as more confident in pitchingand executing my own ideas and projects. I feel as though this made me much more
confident in my ability to contribute to the overall objective of the workplace and utilize
all of my talents.
Despite working in a center which serves to teach English as a foreign language, one of
the greatest things I gained from my time in Moldova was developing my own language
skills. I study Russian at Lehigh, and this proved to be very useful during my time in
Chisinau since it is one of two primary languages spoken there. Almost all people I
encountered on a daily basis did not speak English, and I regularly found myself insituations were I had to rely on my knowledge of Russian in order to communicate at all.
This has made me much more confident in conversing with people in Russian in
unexpected situations and has improved my overall vocabulary and skill.

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Michael McGowan
Ireland

P.C. Rossin
College ofEngineering
IBE
Bioengineering

National University of Ireland
GalwayResearch InternCompany and Position Description:NUI Galway is a large research university located in the west of Ireland. I worked in the
Cúram research group in the Biosciences building, mostly assisting PhD students andpostdoctoral researchers complete objectives related to their research projects. The
Cúram group mainly works in the fields of biomaterials as well as regenerative medicine
and medical devices. I learned many techniques including scanning electron andconfocal microscopy, cell and tissue culture, electrospinning, maskless lithography,
etching, spin coating, and more. I will be published in a journal in the future for myquantification work on our piezoelectric electrospun fibers. I also used a 3D printercalled the Nanoscribe extensively – this machine allows for the printing of precise
microstructures with nanoscale features and is a very powerful research tool. This
research experience was invaluable in helping me decide my future career path andgave me great insight into the field of academic research and the scientific community
as a whole. I also made many great connections with my mentors and supervisors andthe people I helped along the way. I will be pursuing an M.S. in Bioengineering as aresult of this internship.

Left: Researchgroup I workedfor

Right :Quantifying
output ofelectrospun fibers

124Michael McGowan
IrelandConnemara countryside
A Galway Hooker ship
Value Derived from the Experience:
Working in a foreign country for 10 weeks is an inherently fulfilling experience. I
feel like a much more mature person as a result, and I also feel confident that I
could excel in a situation such as this again. This internship taught me to be more
independent as well as proactive and gave me exposure to a country with a richhistory. The lab I worked in was more than half internationals (i.e. people fromother countries than Ireland) so I was able to meet and learn about these peoples’
experiences as well. Working with people from many different backgrounds gaveme an interest to travel more and absorb as much information about the world as I
possibly can. It also allowed me to explore the different perspectives that people
have on the world, and to make connections with people from all around theglobe. The landscapes of Connemara (a region near Galway) were absolutely
breathtaking, and the city of Galway is lively and vibrant. Overall, this experience
was extremely satisfying and has truly helped me develop as a student and person
in general.

125

Salome Medina
Croatia
College of Businessand Engineering
Supply Chain
Management

PAR Business School
Program assistantCompany and Position Description:
This past summer I worked as a program assistant at the PAR business school located in Rijeka,
Croatia. My duties as an intern consisted of researching entrepreneurial ship incubators aroundthe world that they could potentially contact and network with. I also had to reach out to many
students in Europe via email to spread awareness about this amazing sailing program theschool created known as Sail & Learn. In addition to that, I also had to do research on theEuropean Union and youth job unemployment in Croatia.

Office desk

Sending out some email topotential students

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Salome Medina
Croatia

Day trip to Krka
Waterfalls

Shopping in the cityof Rijeka

Value Derived from the Experience:
Aside from being able to take part in Croatia's enriching culture when traveling, at work I had theopportunity to meet and talk with so many brilliant entrepreneurs. I was given the opportunity
to network with so many people, and for that I am truly grateful because I can’t even begin to
explain how many doors it opened for me. Everyone I met had so much wisdom and advice togive that I can now honestly say I'm a lot more sure of my career choice. Being able to work withother people in your department and office is key. At the PAR business school I worked with one
other social media intern as well as the rest of the marketing and social media team. Interns
were encouraged to work together and brainstorm ideas to help PAR gain followers andultimately boost enrollment. Being able to work together and help one another was vital to thedepartment’s success. Teamwork is such an important aspect of running a successful company
and my internship has taught me how to do this on a business level. Most importantly, thisinternship has taught me the importance of communication, even when you're in a foreigncountry.

127

Abby Miller
Georgia
Integrated Businessand Engineering
Finance andIndustrial
Engineering

TBSC Consulting
Business Analyst InternCompany and Position Description:
TBSC Consulting is a boutique management consulting firm located in Tbilisi, Georgia.
TBSC helps organizations make better strategic and tactical decisions by performing detailed
analyses needed to support those decisions. TBSC’s services can be divided into market
entry/expansion, performance improvement, policy analysis and real estate and hospitality
services.
At TBSC, I interned as a business analyst with a Georgian counterpart. My role was towork with my partner in creating a manual for a local social enterprise, Kodala, to help them
gain access to the European market. Kodala is a small wood-working company that
manufactures toys and home decor. Their goal in entering the European market was to be able
to increase their revenue to support more employees. The reason why Kodala is a social
enterprise is because they hire disabled and homeless individuals in the Georgian communitythat otherwise would not be employed. To help them reach their goals, I analyzed data
concerning companies in similar industries, as well as businesses that would be interested ininvesting in their endeavors. The information I gathered through my research helped me tocreate recommendations for them to follow. In turn, helping them to increase the size of theirbusiness.

Left: Me sitting
at my desk

Right: Some of
Kodala’s products ona trip to the office128

Abby Miller
Georgia

Me sitting on a
mountainside in Kazbegi

The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi(Sameba) - main cathedral of the
Georgian Orthodox church

Value Derived from the Experience:
Before embarking on this trip, it was explained to me that although my internship entailed
a lot of hard work, it would also be one of the more culturally immersive internship experiencesof the Iacocca internships. Georgian is the only language spoken in Georgia and the alphabet
contains 33 letters. Although I can count the number of Georgian words I know on one hand,interestingly enough, I still found it possible to communicate fairly easily with locals. In Georgia,
speaking English is rather trendy, so more times than not, if I spoke to someone in English, they
typically understood what I was saying for the most part.
In my host family environment, it was quite a learning experience as my host motherspoke Russian, my host father spoke Georgian (although he could string together a few English
words), and my host sister spoke all three languages. However, she did not arrive in Tbilisi untillate June from studying abroad. This forced me to be creative when interacting with my hostmother with extremely expressive hand and facial motions. After some time, we used Google
translate and things became much easier to communicate until my host sister came home andtranslated for us instead.
In my workplace, since my boss was born and raised in the U.S., the environment was not
as “Georgian” as other interns had experienced. All of my coworkers spoke English and were very
friendly to me. But, the work environment was still noticeably more laid back. At first, this put
me out of my comfort zone as I enjoy being given many tasks and having strict deadlines tomeet. However, this experience did teach me how to adapt to unexpected situations, which will
be extremely valuable in the future.
Seeing as this was my first time outside of the U.S., I received many quizzical looks frompeople who were curious as to why I chose Georgia for my first trip abroad. This answer waseasy for me. I always enjoy being different and I thought Georgia was the perfect uniqueexperience to share with family, friends, and future interns.
129Hanna Mo
Germany
Integrated Business andEngineering
ISE & Finance

VIFAVI
Marketing & FinanceInternCompany and Position Description:
Based in Berlin, Germany, VIFAVI is a start-up company that provides current andpotential customers with an easy-to-use platform in order to adapt images into
useable and shareable 360° or virtual reality digital content.
VIFAVI is currently not selling its product at a price, therefore is not making any
revenue nor profit. At VIFAVI, my role was to research the current virtual reality
market in Germany in order to gain a sense of how VIFAVI can benefit different
target groups. Also, it was my responsibility to translate technical software terms
into easy-to-understand language for future customers, as well as explain how
the platform itself works. Lastly, I brainstormed a lean canvas model for VIFAVI’s
most recent product in order to outline potential problems, the consumers that it
caters to, the short-run costs, as well as the short-run revenue.

Insert work photo
here (with small
caption below)
My Place of Work: Factory HQ in
Berlin, a coworking office space.

Working on a step-by-stepchart describing how VIFAVI’s
product works!

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Hanna Mo
Germany

Rakotzbrücke Devil’s Bridge

The infamous Berlin Wall

Value Derived from the Experience:
Berlin is a very big startup city and that was a field that I was interested in testingout. Since most small startups do not have an office of their own, my place of work
was actually a coworking office space where my co-worker and I would show up
and sit at tables with other startup companies. VIFAVI was my boss’ second
business so he was never at the office, rather we would meet once a week todiscuss our tasks that we needed to accomplish. This was a very foreign concept
for me because I was accustomed to having a supervisor during the hours of ourwork. It taught me to be independent and accountable for my tasks, but it alsotaught me a lot about the power of communication. Since my boss was not easily
accessible, there was a lot of miscommunication and frustration from that. But
from all this miscommunication, I learned to become more patient in terms ofprofessional work and more understanding of other people’s workload and work
ethic. The overall lesson I learned from this internship is that the startup world is
not for me, and that is as valuable as finding work that does suit me.
Outside of the internship, I spent a lot of time exploring all that Berlin had to offer:
Brandenburg Gate, museums one after the other, street markets, and so muchmore. I also took some time to travel to southern Germany where I got to see
castles and cities that have so much history, and of course, amazing food!

131Tristan Morales
Costa Rica
I.D.E.A.S.
MechanicalEngineering
Product Design

Los Cusingos
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
Just about 20 minutes outside the city of San Isidro de General lies one of themost influential bird sanctuaries of the 21st century. Los Cusingos, based off ofthe Fiery billed aracari - a bird that is often present, was established by the late
Alexander Skutch. Though Skutch was a botanist, he purchased a 192-acre plot in
the early 1940’s to study vast numbers of undiscovered birds in the region. This
parcel of land not only includes his home and outside lab (which is now a
museum), but also a handful of trails leading to different sites as well as the local
river named Peñas Blancas. As research interns at the Los Cusingos refuge wewere in charge of testing the water quality of Peñas Blancas. We used a multisensor probe called the Manta Ray 2 probe by Eurika. This piece of technology
allowed us to read qualities of the river such as turbidity, dissolved oxygen,oxygen saturation, conductivity, pH, temperature, pressure, and more. Over thetime spent gathering data from the main river and nearby tributaries we wereable to better understand how water reacts to the environment and the climate.

Los Cusingos

Working with probe
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Tristan Morales
Costa Rica

Nature walks

Hiking to the tallest pointof Costa Rica

Value Derived from the Experience:
Words cannot explain the experience that I have received from Costa Rica. The
amazing views, the delicious food, the rich culture - it's easy to see why people
chose this country as their summer home, or altogether as their place ofretirement. One of the main reasons why my stay was so impactful was because of
the families that we lived with. Being able to be a part of their lives for more thana month was the most exciting 5 weeks of my life. Our families were the ones who
showed us what “pura vida” really means. “Pura Vida” is often said to be a phrasethat the locals of Costa Rica use in place of good or great, but I have learned that
Pura Vida is so much more than just a phrase - it honestly is a way of life. Throughthe 5 weeks I was there I pushed myself to the absolute edge of my comfort zone,
tackling things that I would never think possible. I was able to do amazing things
such as climb to the highest point of Costa Rica called Cerro Chirripó which isabout 3820 meters or about 12532 feet. This hike took us about 10 hours to getup, and about 7 hours to get down. We also went surfing for the first time- which
now I can finally say, is WAY harder than it looks. Five of us also found the time tobungee jump off of the highest certified jumping station in Central America. I will
never forget these times of my life and I sincerely hope that everyone gets totravel to another country in their lifetime.

133

Alexa Morin
Italy
College of Business andEconomics
Finance & Economics

Hotel Elisabetta
Hospitality Strategy andOperational InternCompany and Position Description:
Hotel Elisabetta is a family-run hotel, owned and operated by the DelGaudio
family for over 100 years. From the cooking to the cleaning, everything in the
hotel is done by a member of the family. In the past year, the hotel has
undergone new management to keep up with generational changes.
As an intern, I was there to help facilitate this change. We started by helping to
implement new marketing strategies for the hotel. We were in charge of updating
its online image, from changing the pictures on booking.com to creating andmanaging all social media pages. We also helped update the accounting books forthe hotel and came up with ideas to increase profits. Lastly, we created a businessplan to increase tourism in Castellammare di Stabia, the town in which the hotel
is located. We attended several town meetings with our boss and gained a uniqueperspective as to how Italian towns operate.

Me and a fellow intern at thereception desk.

The hotel where I worked
and lived.
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Alexa Morin
Italy

A view from Positano, Italy- anhour bus ride from the hotel.

The famous gondolas from Venice,
Italy.

Value Derived from the Experience:
This experience allowed me to grow professionally and personally. By living in thesame hotel where I worked, I was able to build everlasting relationships with myboss and other coworkers. My direct boss was the only person at the hotel who
could speak English, so this language barrier forced me to use other ways tocommunicate. It not only helped me to learn Italian, but helped me gain patienceand use my surroundings to communicate. I was able to learn how the hotel was
operated with a very hands-on experience. In addition, by attending numerous
meetings with important politicians, businessmen and -women, it made me feel
important and increased my confidence in these normally intimidating settings.
On a more personal level, while traveling around Italy, I definitely gained a lot of
independence. I normally would be scared traveling alone in a foreign country, butliving in Italy for two months has mitigated this fear. This experience has sparked
my interest to continue traveling and learning about different cultures. This
internship was truly a once in a lifetime experience that I will never forget.

135

Elliott Nasby
India
College of Arts &Sciences
Environmental
StudiesApollo Tyres Ltd.
Customer Service
InternCompany and Position Description:
Apollo Tyres Ltd. is a tyre manufacturing company based in Gurgaon, India. The
company is one of the leading suppliers of tyres to all vehicle ranges in India’s
growing automobile market. For my internship, I worked within the CS
department in the Head Office under the guidance of regional and national
department heads. Specifically I worked on customer retention and OE (original
equipment) conversion. For my project I was flown to several cities within the
country, along with Apollo support, to visit dozens of tyre markets anddealerships to conduct meetings with owners and tyre sellers. The locations
included Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, and Faridabad. Taking the knowledge gained fromthe markets I would report back my findings and suggestions to the Head Office,thus providing the company with a different, novel but nevertheless valuable takeon improving customer retention in the Indian tyre industry.

Visiting competition (MRF
Tyres) in Faridabad

Meeting with a tyredealer in Jaipur
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Elliott Nasby
India

Happy feet at Taj Mahal

Friends with Lotus
TempleValue Derived from the Experience:
This was my first time outside the U.S., and India, of all places, is an exceptionallybeautiful yet overwhelming place to start, overwhelming with its sights, smells,
flavors and people. It was a challenge culturally, obviously, but also emotionally.
Perhaps what comes to mind first is the incredible divide in wealth and privilege,
and then myself in the middle of it struggling to somehow wrap my mind aroundthis amazing opportunity. I didn’t deserve this. The exquisite food, the weekend
excursions, and internal travel with Apollo. It was at times too much, because how
could I begin to express my gratitude for something like this, beyond words. I am
truly, deeply grateful. The people I’ve met have given me a glimpse at what I’ve
taken for granted my whole life, however, it’s not that this should make me feelbad or sorry for anyone else. That doesn’t change anything, nor does it help
anyone. It’s simply contemplating and being open to listening, to just make an
attempt to empathize, and in some cases to merely acknowledge it’s beyond you
to explain. India is survival. Getting on in this country, no matter where one isalong the spectrum, is survival, and I had the chance to survive here for 8 weeks,
and to overcome my own self-doubt in the workplace. Meeting with people fromall over the country, communicating despite a language barrier, with the pressure
on me to extract information to give the Head Office. It was tough, and it was a lot.
It had me questioning why I was there. But in the end it’s these experiences thatmake a person, and challenge them to confront themselves in uncomfortableways. Thanks.

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Jason Nerreau
Hong Kong
Integrated Business &Engineering
ISE and Finance

Hutchison Ports
Operations InternCompany and Position Description:
Hutchison Ports is one of the world’s largest port networks with locations in 48 different
ports throughout 25 countries. Hutchison Ports continual innovation and optimization has led
to it’s successful global presence and high demand amongst their terminals.
For my summer internship, I designed and created a simulation of a container shipping
terminal using various real-world data sets and inputs. The simulation modeled all facets of aterminal that Hutchison operates, from quay side ship arrivals to the entry gates where external
trucks must be inspected and processed.
Once the simulation had been validated through various forms of sensitivity analysis, I wasable to perform analysis to determine how changes in various inputs effect the output areas ofinterest. Specifically, the goal for these analyses was to note changes in the pre-parking lot,
processing gates, and post-parking lots and how utilization and queues change when various
inputs are manipulated. Based on the analyses and being able to see how different factors
effect certain areas of the port terminal, I was then able to make recommendations on how
terminals of this size should optimize resources and be designed. For the final presentation, I
reported the findings and recommendations to my supervisors and management and explained
how, based on the simulation, the terminals should respond to changes of different inputs.
Overall, it was very interesting to learn about how container ports operate as they are suchan integral part of today’s society and economies throughout the world.

A group of us interns aboard the MOL
Tribute container vessel- one of thelargest vessels in the world with
20,000 TEU capacity

About to begin the annualintern pizza eating contest
that the Commercial Dept.
hosts
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Jason Nerreau
Hong Kong

Big Buddha statue on Lantau Island

View of Central Hong Kong
Island from the harbor ferry

Value Derived from the Experience:
Living in Hong Kong and being fully immersed in a entirely new culture has
allowed me to experience things that I may never have gotten to do in my life. I
have developed several new skills both professionally and personally that I’ll
continue to use for the rest of my life. The fast-paced motion of the city and theuncertainty that comes with new languages and culture have made me more
confident in taking on challenges that may come at me throughout life. It wasincredible to be able to become friends with local interns, as well as interns who
attend college in the UK and Canada, and be able to learn about their lives andexperiences and get a view into the world of college students outside of Lehigh.
Within the office, I was given a lot of independence as to how to approach myproject which led me into several challenges and problems, but, in the long run
was very useful within my professional development. The responsibility andindependence gave me the chance to create a very personal project and make myown recommendations to the managers which gave me a very strong sense ofimportance within the company.
Hong Kong was such a great place to live as it has so much to offer. A 20-minutesubway ride in any direction will take you from skyscrapers to hiking trails
throughout mountains surrounded by beaches. The exposure to so many new
things and experiences truly made this an amazing summer experience.

139Angela Nguyen
Malaysia
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Science
Chemical Engineering

Universiti Teknologi
PETRONAS
Research & Data
Analysis InternCompany and Position Description:
At Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, I was a Research & Data Analysis internworking under Dr. Yusoff in the Mechanical engineering department to study
cerebral artery aneurysms. The purpose of the project was to determine theblood cell flow distribution as it flows through various aneurysm geometries andthe wall shear stress on the arterial wall. With this information, further analysis
can be done to determine what circumstances will cause an aneurysm to rupture.
To conduct the research, ANSYS Fluent 15.0 was used to run simulations tovisualize the blood circulation through real patient cases. When a simulation wascompleted, I was able to view an animation of the blood cells as they flowed
through the artery and aneurysm as well as their relative velocities. In addition,
the wall shear stress could be displayed to see where the most shear stressoccurred on the wall. In the end, the results were presented to medical
professors at UiTM Private Specialist Centre for their opinions.
Left: Gathering dataon ANSYS Fluent
Right: Meetingwith medical
professor about
simulation results

140Angela Nguyen
Malaysia

Hiking up Bukit Kledang
with PhD students anda student from Texas A&M

Visiting a Ramadan Bazaar
with Lehigh students andthe GNC club

Value Derived from the Experience:
Traveling to Malaysia was a once in a lifetime experience for me. I was able toimmerse myself in a culture that was entirely different from life at home. I
discovered who I was as a person and how to adapt to new surroundings. I learned
how to get out of my comfort zone and try new things that I wouldn’t have done
before in America. In addition, I was able to expand my global perspective of theworld around me. One thing that will always have a lasting impression on me are
the friends that I made during my stay in Malaysia. Being that I stayed at auniversity, I was able to meet people from around the world. With that, I was able
to see a glimpse of other parts of the world and how they lived.
Participating in this research experience, it helped me to solidify what I wanted to
do after graduating. During my time, I got to meet a 1st year PhD candidate in
Chemical Engineering researching biodiesel. I witnessed what it was like to be
doing research in my field and the work involved. Every time he discussed with me
his research, it would peak my interest even more. As a result, I decided that I
wanted to continue my education after graduating and work towards getting a PhD
in Chemical Engineering as well.
Malaysia was an experience that I will never forget. I made lifelong friends that I
will always cherish and I was able to choose a career path after graduation.

141

Tanairy Ortiz
Hong Kong
College of Arts andSciences
Global Studies,
IR/MLLPVH Calvin Klein
eCommerce InternCompany and Position Description:
At PVH Calvin Klein, we strive to create a massive fashion impact and movementin Asia. PVH leverages a diversified portfolio of brands — including CALVIN KLEIN,
Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen, IZOD, ARROW, Speedo, Warner's and Olga, as well as
numerous other owned and licensed brands — and markets them globally. Ouroperational expertise, dedicated teams and commitment to each brand's
differentiated market positioning, allow us to gain market share and expand ourreach globally.
As an eCommerce intern, I was in charge of analyzing website data and details,
compiling a list of errors or fallacies found throughout our APac sites, and writing
product descriptions to market online. At the same time, I was in charge ofimproving website traffic and reducing online returns by recreating our online
size chart. I also worked towards researching and achieving various omnichannel
strategies where customers can purchase online within physical retail stores,
maintaining a clear connection between the offline and online world.

This is Liz, a Lehigh alum andthe CBO of Calvin Klein Asia
Pacific. Next to her is Jaehee,
the Marketing intern.

On our last day, all of the interns
had a mini photoshoot in front ofCalvin Klein’s logo.
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Tanairy Ortiz
Hong Kong

Hong Kong is full ofhidden temples, likethe one above.

One of my favorite
pastimes: taking picturesof signs.

Value Derived from the Experience:“Is this your first time in Hong Kong?” “Yes. Actually, it’s my first time in Asia
overall.” It was one the most frequent questions I got from coworkers, my fellow
interns, and acquaintances I made throughout my trip. It would be followed bypure shock and then a “Well, welcome! We have so much to see. Don’t forget toexperience as much as you can!” As a child, it was my dream to travel across theworld to Asia and be able to experience a different culture than my own EuroLatino mix I was brought up in. My parents and family never got to travel outsideof the Western hemisphere, so when I gave them the news that I would be goingto Hong Kong, they could not believe me. Not only was I going to somewhere noneof my family members had gone before, but I was also interning for one of the best
fashion labels in the world. The experience derived from this opportunity, alongwith the lifetime friendships I made with the local and international interns, hasgiven me a new perspective in life. It feels like a fresh breath of air; as a Global
Studies student, I would have never guessed I would do something completely
unrelated to what I’m studying for. It is also the thought that I will be back thatdrives me to continue working hard. Who knows when, but I know I will. Hong
Kong should definitely be in your “Places To Go” list.

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Christianna Pepingco
China
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Sciences
Bioengineering

University of Science andTechnology of China
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
During my 6-week internship, I worked as a research intern at the University of
Science and Technology of China. Located in Hefei, the capital of the Anhui
Province, U.S.T.C. is a member of the China 9 Research University Consortium(C9), which consists of the top 9 universities in China.
At U.S.T.C., I interned at the Lab for Multimodal Biomedical Imaging and Therapy(M.B.I.T.). I worked closely with a Post-Doctorate, masters students, and Ph.D.
students whose focus was on drug delivery and microfluidics, which are fields
that interest me. A portion of my time was spent reading scientific literature andlearning about different drug delivery techniques. I became most familiar with
the Coaxial Electrospray, a highly effective encapsulation technique that uses a
coaxial needle and electrohydrodynamic forces to encapsulate drugs into
microparticles. Another portion of my time was spent learning how to set up the
Coaxial Electrospray, understanding the logic behind their experiments, andanalyzing the resulting particles using microscopy.

The Drug Delivery Lab GroupThe Coaxial Electrospray and I
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Christianna Pepingco
China

Views of the Pudong Skyline at
Shanghai

Lehigh Interns at Tiananmen

Value Derived from the Experience:
After only finishing my first year at Lehigh and having my very first internship abroad, I could not
help but feel humbled, ecstatic, and apprehensive at the same time. Despite the nervous feelingthat accompanied living thousands of miles away from home and interning for the first time, I
discovered that the positives definitely outweighed the negatives. Living and working in China
put me out of my comfort zone, which allowed me to grow in many aspects of my life.
Culturally, I learned so much about life in China, not only through the various cultural trips todifferent cities, but in the academic setting as well. Almost all of my lab mates work from 8 AM
to 9 PM everyday, and they even work on weekends! This just demonstrates their hard work anddedication to their field, which caused me to evaluate my own work ethic. Also, I admired theChinese people’s hospitality. There were times when I got treated by my peers to eat at
restaurants and sing at karaoke bars. I learned so much about Chinese culture through my peers’
stories and by venturing out of campus to interact with the locals just by using basic Chinesephrases.
Professionally, I was able to explore my field of interest, and I had my first exposure to a researchsetting. I enhanced my public speaking skills by giving presentations at my lab group’s weekly
meetings. This internship made studying and working abroad something I could see myself doingin the future.
Personally, I learned to be more independent, more curious, more adventurous, and more openminded. Immersing myself in Chinese culture helped me see the world from a different
perspective, but it also helped me draw similarities to my Filipino-American identity (as thePhilippines is greatly influenced by Chinese culture). While traveling to breathtaking attractions
were fun, I learned that the people you meet and travel with enrich those trips. I made manyfriends during my stay in China, and I will forever cherish the memories I have created withthem. I am eternally grateful for the Iacocca International Internship Program, for I would never
have had this once-in-a-lifetime experience otherwise.

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Ellie Pinchbeck
UgandaCollege of Arts &Sciences
Undeclared

Pathways
Development Initiative
Sustainable
Livelihoods InternCompany and Position Description:
Pathways Development Initiative (PDI) is a grassroots non-governmentalorganization (NGO) aimed to educate, empower, and support the district of
Bududa, Uganda. Driven by the Zaale family, PDI has developed several programs
designed to directly benefit members of the community. PDI encourages financial
empowerment through a micro-finance group and small business loans program,
and works with the youth through an education center and sports clinic. As asustainable livelihoods intern, I assisted in the nursery and pre-primary school,
where I taught in conjunction with the teachers. I was also responsible forcollecting and recording data for the micro-finance group, Village Savings andLoans Association (VSLA), and Small Business Loans Program (SBLP). Final projects
included a Zaale family homestay flyer, updated PDI brochure, quarterly reporttemplate, and combined VSLA and SBLP report.

PDI Education Centre locatedin Bubiita sub-county, Bududa

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Uganda

Bubiita Football Pitch, asoccer field in thecenter of Bubiita subcounty

Farmers and vendors
selling their crops andsupplies at the weekly
marketValue Derived from the Experience:
My time in Uganda was nothing short of transformative, in more ways than I ever could haveimagined. It entailed obscure and sometimes overwhelming obstacles, but were far outweighedby the unexpected rewards that came in varying forms. My experience not only opened aprofessional opportunity to work for NGOs, but it also opened my eyes to East African culture.
Living without power, potable water, and access to a diversity of food, I gained a new
appreciation for first-world luxuries that I have so naturally taken for granted. As cheesy as it
sounds, cultural immersion made me realize that materials do not measure happiness, just as
income does not measure success. Westernization is not necessarily the answer to third-world
issues—different cultures require different solutions. Working with a grassroots NGO broadened
my understanding of the framework behind a model for effective community-based work. I am
beyond grateful to the Iacocca International Internship Program, Professors Mark Noble and
Kelly Austin, the Zaale family, and the people of Bududa, Uganda for this once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity.

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Emily Randolph
China
Integrated Businessand Engineering
ISE/FinanceBecton Dickinson (BD)
Project Management
InternCompany and Position Description:
The company I worked for was Becton, Dickinson and Company (commonly referred toas “BD”) in Shanghai, China. As described in their annual report, “BD is a global medical
technology company engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of a broad
range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products usedby healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, thepharmaceutical industry and the general public.” My internship was in the Marketingand Sales Operations division of the company. My role within this organization was toassist my department in gathering information about our competitors and helping withanalysis for emerging market expansion. This included reading financial statements andannual reports, doing pipeline product research, working with Excel databases, creating
visual representations of data in PowerPoint, and summarizing information into key
takeaways so the information could be easily presented. I also attended bi-weekly teammeetings and a two-day marketing training session, and gave a final presentation
summarizing my contribution to these projects.

Mina Khan and I at the
BD office in Shanghai

My boss Hubert Huiand I at the BD office inShanghai
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China

The Bund in Shanghai

Mutianyu Great Wallin Beijing

Value Derived from the Experience:
This experience helped me develop both personally and professionally. When you live in anotherculture instead of simply visit, you are in many ways required to assimilate, which adds to thedepth of your personal growth. There are many differences between Western and Easternculture, and having the time to engage in them instead of observe them has helped me develop
a much stronger global mindset. I also have found it quite incredible how valuable friendships
can form in the timespan of two months, regardless of background, language barrier or beliefs,
which is very inspiring of human nature. It was also a very eye-opening experience to be aminority, which I have had very little experience with in my lifetime. Lastly, I certainly havegained a new-found respect for those who leave their own cultures and homes to live in aforeign place, which takes a great deal of bravery.
Professionally, my growth was highly encouraged by BD, which I am incredibly thankful for. I was
given tasks that could have otherwise been done faster or with higher skills by someone else. I
was able to see the results of my work implemented and see the follow up beyond theassignment. Lastly, I got to see my skill set in analysis and programs grow tremendously. The
MSO team of BD very much reminded me of a family, and I was very grateful to be accepted intoit.
With all of this in mind, I am very excited to say I have been changed for the better. A huge thankyou to Carol, Alexis, Steve, Professor Costa, Hubert, Yiqing, Winnie, Crystal, the MSO department
and all of BD Shanghai, Yoko Hamada and her family for hosting us in Japan, and everyone else
who made this experience what it was.

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Nick Razewski
Armenia
College of Arts andSciences
International
Relations

Eurasia PartnershipFoundation
Summer InternCompany and Position Description:
Eurasia Partnership Foundation in Armenia is a non-governmental organization and acivil society organization. Their broad spectrum of work ranges from cross border peace
initiatives, anti-corruption, and human rights work to youth empowerment, local
governance and freedom of speech and media. Most of my responsibilities revolved
around supporting various projects, including doing research and gathering data from
reports, helping design infographics and presentations, and proofreading and editing
reports in English. While interning at EPF, I had the opportunity to attend various
workshops and events, and experience the dynamic and operations of their workplace.
The internship was less a job to go to each day, and more a learning experience about
the projects and operations of the organization, about my own professional interests,
and about Armenia and EPF as a whole.

Attending a seminar on teaching
young Armenians how to start
their own businesses

EPF’s office in Yerevan

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Armenia

The 2,000-year old temple atGarni, Armenia

Watermelon sculptures at the annual
watermelon festival in Yerevan

Value Derived from the Experience:
Having to adapt to a city where I did not know where anything was, did not speak
the language, and did not know anyone seemed quite the challenge at first.
However, through the experience I was quickly able to develop skills and overcome
nervousness about interacting with the people and the initial unexpected culture
shock. I stayed with an amazing host family who helped introduce me to the cityand culture, taught me a bit of the language, as well as cooked incredible
Armenian meals, and gave me an unparalleled immersion in Armenian culture. I
volunteered at Article 3 Human Rights Club in Yerevan to help start a program forArmenian students to practice and learn English through conversations abouthuman rights and other subjects that were important to them.
I got to travel to historical and significant sights throughout Armenia, see thebeautiful country and spectacular landscapes, experience the uniqueness of
Armenian culture, meet the friendly people, and not to mention eat some of thebest food I've had in my life. Living in the city and seeing the day-to-day way
Armenians lived was a fascinating experience, riding public transportation andseeing the differences in the way people interacted. Overall, Armenia and its
people and culture provided me with one of the best experiences of my life. It haschanged how I see and understand the world, it has influenced the goals I have formy future, and was an extremely valuable and unforgettable two months.

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Gili Remen
Italy
College of Arts & Sciences
Journalism and Global
Studies

IES Abroad
LUXOS Content WriterCompany and Position Description:
The company most of the Milan Iacocca interns worked at is called Luxos. It is a travel
and luxury magazine that is run by a parent company called Handy. The company
mostly produces online content for their online portion of the magazine which islocated at their website. The physical magazines are distributed to four and five star
hotels across the world, and they produce two issues a year for each city or country
they cover. The magazine is British and headquartered in Milan, so most of the content
is all in English. The interns get a lot of opportunities with producing online content for
their websites. Most of what we did was conduct online research about certain ‘points
of interest’ or POI’s in each city, or country, or continent we did an article on, and wrote
a travel style article about a certain theme in each place. We were guided by some very
friendly and amazing intern bosses in the company. Everyone who worked there wasalways super friendly and it was enjoyable to walk into the office every morning. We
had some company meetings and outings with them, which was really nice! Overall, a
good working experience.

Left: Some copiesof the physical
Luxos magazines in
the office.

Right: Meworking at theoffice152

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Italy

Left: Enjoying Italianpizza in it’s birthplace:
NaplesRight: Making Gnocchi
in Naples with theInterns
Value Derived from the Experience:
This experience taught me so much about myself and about the world as a whole. First of all theinternship experience taught me a lot about myself in the professional working world. And it’s
the little things, from packing your own lunch and taking public transportation to work every
morning, that make me realize what it’s like to be an adult working a full-time job, not tomention in a different country where you don’t speak the language. Not being able tocommunicate with the people that surround you is really hard, but everyday I learned more
Italian and I always relied on body language, facial expression, tone of voice and a bit of myknowledge of other romance languages to get by. It was truly a challenge but it showed me thatit’s not hard to adapt to a place even when you don’t speak the language. The internship taught
me a lot about what I actually want to be doing when I graduate. Sometimes I would tell myself I
definitely want to do this, and sometimes I would say to myself I know I don’t want to do that.
And it’s that process of trial and error that is really helping me hone in on what exactly I want to
do in my professional life and what I want to accomplish. This experience gave me a chance topush myself out of my comfort zone to places and situations that are very challenging and thosewere the situations and conversations that I learnt from the most. Also this gave me an
opportunity to explore part of the world I am unfamiliar with, and I will forever be grateful tohave the opportunity to learn from these different cultures and different people. This summer
really offered me a genuine look at the professional, global world and gave me multiple
opportunities to learn outside of the typical classroom or textbook. And I got to experience it allwith an amazing group of students from Lehigh and Middlebury and our fantastic program
coordinator/director Jack Lule.

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Diana Rivas Garcia
China
College of Arts andSciences
IR/ECON

Oriental Danology
InstituteInternCompany and Position Description:
The Oriental Danology Institute is a non-governmental organization dedicated to advocate fornature conservation mainly in the Chinese society but drawing from different international
ideologies and differences. The essence of the ODI is in Danology’s Dan of Taoism(Danology is aterm coined by the founders of ODI), a term which covers all that is natural. We try to convey
the subject of Dan and the ideas that stem from it to different generations so that theintangible can become tangible. This is achieved through events such as the World Water
Summit, Ode to the Sea, renovating community centers for the elderly, or even paper art
exhibitions. The Oriental Danology Institute also has under its wing the school of China PI (PIstands for Parental Independence). China PI operates with different principles than regularschools and focuses on the individuality and potential of each individual student and how they
can help society in the future. With this, the Oriental Danology Institute is ensuring that it caninstill nature conservation ideas into all generations: elderly generation by working incommunity centers, young working generation by creating events to advocate for nature, andchildren by shaping their education and steering it to Dan ideas from early on. This is the main
way in which the Oriental Danology Institute is present in the Shanghai community and brings
international principles to a local arena.

NGO Exposition Fair

Teaching oceanography class at
China Maritime Museum
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China

Yuyuan trip with classmatesfrom program

Chinese cooking class

Value Derived from the Experience:
My major is International Relations joined with Economics. This combination of studies set me
up to work in a global arena but I can’t learn everything from books! This internship showed mejust how flexible I have to be in the dynamic world that Lehigh is preparing me to enter into.
Being an intern is already challenging enough, but doing it in another country with a completely
different culture than what I know, was very challenging. Everything from the business hours towork etiquette were different, so the tactic I employed the most was “observe and mimic.” Myexperience was also very unique because I did not work for a big company, but for an NGO so
the relationship with my coworkers and connections I made are a bit unorthodox for my field ofstudy. Being in China for my Iacocca Internship, though, was very helpful for my studies if I
consider my future professional goals. Since I am studying Chinese, I would like to in the future
perhaps work in China or conduct business there, and this experience has set me up for that andhas given me a head start that I could not have predicted before going. The obvious benefit fromthis internship is my language development, since even though I have studied Chinese for two
years in college, I had not used Chinese much outside the classroom. In China, my listening
comprehension skyrocketed and my sentence construction improved a lot since I had to getcreative when I did not know one word but still wanted to convey my thoughts. I noticed a lot of
cultural differences (some of which I adopted, like using an umbrella when sunny?) but insteadof trying to keep my American ways, I put that on hold and made a note of every difference so it
would later become normal to me. After this internship, I have decided to declare a Chinese
language secondary major and to study abroad in Shanghai during the spring 2018 semester. I
am very grateful for this opportunity.

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Talia Rodkey
BermudaIDEAS
BioEngineering &Environmental
Science

Bermuda Institute of Ocean
Sciences
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is a U.S. non-profit research andeducational organization. Researchers and visiting scientists collaborate to
explore the ocean and address environmental issues, both local and global. BIOS
has been transformed into a prime ocean science research facility and partners
with international research initiatives.
MAGIC, the Mid-Atlantic Glider Initiative & Collaboration program, was launchedat BIOS in 2014. The program’s overarching goal is to better understand thewhere, when, and how of nutrient budget in the ocean. MAGIC utilizes
autonomous underwater vehicles – Slocum G2 gliders from Teledyne Webb
Research. The gliders are equipped with sensors to collect measurements anddata while they dive up to 1000 meters. Measurements include chlorophyll andoxygen inventories, temperature, salinity, depth, pressure, and backscatter data.
The gliders remain in the ocean, piloted through a computer on shore, until thebattery runs low.

Deploying glider atop 1500
meter depths

Compass calibration for “Jack”
the glider

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Talia Rodkey
BermudaLocals enjoy 30 ft
cliff-jumping

BIOS hosts the annual
Lionfish Tournament

Value Derived from the Experience:
Interning at BIOS was extremely beneficial professionally and personally.
Ruth Curry, my mentor, was the foundation of my professional development. She
revealed “how science works:” constant communication, collaboration, andconsorting data. My presentation and verbal skills are exponentially improved, as
she would sit, have me repeat my script, and offer suggestions accordingly.
Research cannot be performed singularly – I observed meetings of scientists
collaborating for grant proposals. Snippets of data of ocean properties arrived
daily, and over time, I could see changes and patterns occurring in the Sargasso
Sea. All of our efforts painted a bigger picture, contributing to an overarching goal.
Personally, I could not have been happier with Bermuda, its people, and fellow
interns. Bermuda and its people are the friendliest folks: it is a sin to avoid casual
greetings, even on the street. Bermuda taught me how to be neighborly to
strangers, a facet outside of my comfort zone. Since BIOS hosts more interns, I
enjoyed bonding with peers and learning about their own research, 3 meals perday. We explored the island on weekends, soaked up the sun, snorkeled, andjumped off of the BIOS dock on end.

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Aaron Rotem
Italy
College ofComputer Scienceand Business

Net4Market - CSAmed
Software Engineer

Company and Position Description:
CSAmed is a company that specializes in solutions for electronic management ofpurchasing and invoicing processes. The European Union regulates thismarketplace and requires many forms to be completed for each purchase. My job
for the summer was to work alongside the regular employees of the company tocreate a web application to manage these forms, among other things. Instead offilling out the forms by hand, a user would be able to fill out the forms online andhave the information sent automatically to a database. Working with others withyears more experience than me was difficult, but everyone was eager to help andit was fulfilling work that I felt had a real impact on the company. I’m glad I had
this opportunity for this internship and to be able to experience the Italianculture.

Winston and I at the office

Hard at work

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Aaron Rotem
Italy
Insert company logo here

Trip to Cinqueterre

Napoli with other
Lehigh Interns

Value Derived from the Experience:
This internship gave me firsthand experience developing software alongsidedevelopers in a professional environment. Not only was I able to practice mycoding skills but I was also introduced to the processes of developing software in
the real world. Overcoming the language barrier in the workplace was actually
pretty fun and my deductive reasoning skills are much stronger because of it. I
learned how to work on a large team with little day-to-day supervision.
Living abroad was an awesome experience. The Italian culture puts anemphasis on enjoying the smaller parts of your day. So much time is put intoplanning meals and then eating meals every day. One of the hardest parts of myexperience was going out to a meal and then sitting at the restaurant for hours
after we were done eating. Italians are also very interested in American politics.
While I could not name a single current Italian politician, some of our coworkers
could name over a dozen US politicians and where those politicians stand on
certain political issues. Overall my immersion into the Italian culture made mequestion some of my personal beliefs but also made me really appreciative ofsome of the things we normally take for granted in the US.

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Brianna Ruggiero
Malaysia
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering & Applied
Science
Chemical Engineering

University Technology
Petronas
Research & Data
Analysis InternCompany and Position Description:
For the duration of my internship I studied the transesterification reaction of biodiesel in a
microchannel reactor at segmented flow regime conditions. Our primary objective was in order
to increase the biodiesel yield from the transesterification process, it has been proposed toincrease the total interfacial area inside microchannel reactor at segmented flow regime.
Factors affecting the total interfacial area included the oil-to-methanol volumetric ratio andtotal volumetric flow rate. Other factors such as catalyst concentration, residence time, andtemperature were kept constant throughout the experiments. Over the past ten weeks, I havefabricated several microchannel reactors according to given designs, performed
transesterification reaction using the fabricated microchannel reactors, analysed the biodiesel
yield produced using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and performed literature
review to compare with other people's findings. Overall. my experience researching abroadtaught me that the global research community is closely-knit despite its size. I was able to
network with fellow students and researchers from around the world, while experiencing a
different culture. Completing my internship abroad helped me develop my professional skills
within an international setting and work with people from diverse backgrounds. I feel more
confident in my future endeavours pursuing my PhD after graduation with my newly founded
global perspective.

Microchannel reactor Fabrication
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Malaysia

Visit to the mosque

Pangkor Island

Cameron Highlands

Value Derived from the Experience:
Travelling abroad this summer has had a powerful impact on my personal and professional
growth. This experience as a research and data analysis intern has had a profound effect on myfuture educational endeavours, which includes my decision to pursue a graduate degree inchemical engineering. After collaborating with researchers of similar passions and interests, I
have a greater vigour for my academic pursuits following graduation and a renewed interest in
learning. Interacting with researchers from all over the world who have put forth tremendous
effort to pursue research have inspired me to accomplish my own academic goals. Upon
returning from my international travels, I have more motivation to search beyond my immediatesurroundings for opportunities that will allow me to grow professionally. The most significant
impact I have experienced living in a foreign culture for 11 weeks was my personal growth. Thisabroad experience enabled me to learn new things about myself and served as a catalyst for myincrease in self-confidence. Before this program, I have never travelled outside the country, but
now I have the ability to rapidly and seamlessly adapt to any new conditions. With exposure to a
new culture, I was able to gain a broad and sophisticated worldview while diversifying mythoughts and values. In the future, I hope to use my newly founded perspective to form
relationships across all groups of people and work effectively to overcome challenges. Over the
past 11 weeks, I have travelled to 5 countries and 15 cities across south east Asia and have been
exposed to a variety of different cultures that widely differ from my own. I have a new
appreciation for my own culture, but I hope to diversify myself more by surrounding myself withpeople who can offer me a more global perspective of the world.

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Emily Ryan
Germany
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Science
Environmental
Engineering

HIIG
InternCompany and Position Description:
I spent 8 weeks working for the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internetand Society (HIIG) in Berlin. The HIIG is a research institute with a focus oninternet policy and governance and the various intersections between society
and the internet.
My time at the HIIG was split between the management team and a researchteam investigating user innovation in online communities, with a focus on
innovation in the energy sector. For the management team, I spent the majorityof my time updating and translating the website, tracking research publications
and events and developing an organizational system for the institute library. My
biggest task, however, was assisting with the reframing of a research paper aboutuser innovation. I collaborated with the authors on ideas for improvement, andthrough research I did on the topic, I contributed to a restructured version of thepaper with an entirely new focus.

Attending a lunch
discussion

Celebrating my teammember’s birthday

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Emily Ryan
Germany

View from the top of theReichstag dome

East Side Gallery withmy roommate

Value Derived from the Experience:
My experience in Berlin shaped me both professionally and personally. Although
my internship was not necessarily related to my studies, I was able to develop myprofessional writing, communication skills, and cultural awareness. Similarly, one
cultural difference I noticed was that I was generally given less information about
my tasks than I am used to receiving at home. This taught me to take the initiative
to learn what I did not know and to ask for help if I needed it.
My internship gave me the opportunity to experience working full-time, but it also
allowed me to create connections with people from a different country and culturethat I would not have been able to meet otherwise. I learned to explore by myself,
which increased my confidence and sense of independence. One goal I had formyself this trip was to travel somewhere completely alone, and I completed mygoal when I went to Salzburg, Austria for a weekend.
Before Iacocca, I was interested in living and working abroad at some point in mylife. After my internship experience, I feel confident that I could move to a new city
and adjust to the culture and lifestyle.

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Preom Sarkar
Japan
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Science
Bioengineering

Nagoya Institute ofTechnology
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
During my time in Japan I interned at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. I
studied conservative biology under professor Michiko Masuda. The Nagoya
Institute of Technology is located in Nagoya, Japan with over 4,000 students. I
was assigned to a project in which I studied the June and July flora of Kaisho
forest to understand the resources available to the insects of this newly regrownarea. I went on a three to five hour hike every week and documented all the
species of flora I saw. After my hikes I would work to identify the species I saw
and produced a map every week identifying the species I saw and where I foundthem. At the end of my internship I studied my data and drew conclusions on how
we may preserve the forest and the biodiversity found within.

My lab and I at thesummit of Mount Nyukasa

After my presentation at themain gate of NiTech164

Preom Sarkar
Japan

Me at the Fushimi Inari
Shrine in Kyoto

Ginkakuji Temple in Kyoto

Value Derived from the Experience:
This experience truly was extraordinary. This was my first trip abroad without any
close family or friends to surround me. While I wasn’t completely alone, I was still
able to understand who I am as a person without my strong influencers. I was able
to draw my own opinions of my surroundings and people I met without any
background noises or thoughts to fog up my own perception. I was able tosubmerge myself in a culture entirely different from my own, which helped mefurther understand what it means to be a global citizen. I found that even in aforeign environment I was able to create lasting connections with people who I
could barely communicate with. My time in Japan also helped me clear some ofthe doubts I have for the future and brought me closer to figuring out what I want
to do with my bioengineering degree.

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Malcolm Scobell
Costa Rica
IDEAS
Environmental Engineering
And Global Studies

University of Georgia CR
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
I worked at the University of Georgia Costa Rica campus for 7 weeks. During that time I workedon three main projects: water quality, bird strikes, and the herbarium collection. For water
quality, we identified and counted little creatures called macro-invertebrates under
microscopes. Then, with the help of the Bosque Eternal Index (BEI) we could assess the water
quality. For bird strikes, we observed different buildings on campus for any kind of bird activity
and catalogued any dead birds or took photos of silhouettes left on windows. Finally, for theherbarium, we helped mount and catalogue plants native to Costa Rica. The plants had beenpressed in books but stored in old newspaper since the 80s. During my final week there, I andthe other Lehigh interns focused on a larger scale water quality project which included fieldwork and extensive lab work. We went to different elevations across the Bellbird BiologicalCorridor in Monteverde to collect water samples from rivers. After using the BEI again andconducting physical and chemical testing we concluded our internship with a presentation on
our findings to the staff and other interns at the University of Georgia Costa Rica campus.

One type of macro-invertebrate(under the microscope) used todetermine water quality

The final stage of amounted plant from theherbarium on campus

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Costa Rica

The main Catholic
church in Cartago

Tarantula from themen’s restroom at UGA

Value Derived from the Experience:
On the cultural side, I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated my extensive homestay experience. I
feel as though I have a second family now and the homestay definitely let me form a stronger
attachment to the Monteverde area of Costa Rica. I was able to practice my Spanish speaking
skills daily, and being a part of the family gave me a greater sense of purpose in my work as theresults of the research would eventually give back to the community. The trip also had an impact
on my networking. Every other intern at UGA was a graduate student from an American
university and the academic staff at UGA are some of the most impressive experts in ecology
from Costa Rica. I worked with Jose Montero, the Costa Rican butterfly expert, and Fabricio
Camacho, an expert on composting. Professionally, I am excited by how closely related the work
was to my major as an environmental engineer. I was able to test water quality using processes I
had learned to calculate in class at Lehigh, meaning the work was valuable lab experience. All inall, the abroad experience has definitely enabled me to grow as an individual and be more awareof the vast amount of cultures that exist and differ from what I deem to be a “normal” lifestyle.
This internship has confirmed my desire to take my professional career abroad and has made mygoal of international work with water quality seem like a realistic and reachable possibility.

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Joon Seonwoo
United Kingdom
College ofComputer Science& Business

Tutamantic
Internship

Company and Position Description:
As an intern, I worked on a variety of tasks. First, I had to learn basic cybersecurity knowledge before I started on anything. I also had to learn software
security basics: Azure, OWASP top 10, Agile, Visual Studio, C#, and Git. During theinternship, I had to update Tutamantic’s social media daily with different cybersecurity articles that people may find interesting. I also explored different
blogging platforms to use for marketing purposes. I researched multiple diagram
platforms other than Visio to see which one would be best for the product. Whena couple weeks had passed, I had the opportunity to explore different codes forthe company’s product. I also got to develop a SQL code that helped the programpull up necessary data. In addition, to make the product more user-friendly, I
explored Visio, Visio add-ons, and Excel. In the end, I found a way to make theproduct more user-friendly by using Excel and Visio together. After that, I createdmultiple Visio templates to use for threat model.

Metro on the way to work
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Joon Seonwoo
United Kingdom

People enjoying live music

People enjoy picnics at a nearbypark during their free time

Value Derived from the Experience:
During this experience, I learned a few professional things that were very
important to me. The first thing that I learned was that the communication wasvery important. Since my boss and I did not work in the same place, we did not see
each other everyday. That was why communication was very important. I had toreport on any progress I made. I also had to communicate with him if I was having
any trouble with anything. When we did talk, I had to make what I am saying clear
and concise to convey my message. I realize that this will help
me significantly when I got another job in any field. Furthermore, I was able todevelop more interest in Cyber Security. As I was reading many articles to update
the social media, I realized that cyber crime is everywhere. Since technology has
become extremely important to society, cyber security became just as important. I
realized that there are many victims of cyber crimes and lack of cyber security. This
will definitely help me in the future when I work for any technology company.

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Sarah SiddiquiFranceCollege of Engineering andApplied Sciences
Materials Science andEngineering

University of Bordeaux / Laboratoire deChimie des Polymeres Organiques(LCPO)Lab InternCompany and Position Description:
The Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymeres Organiques (LCPO) is a joint polymerchemistry research lab affiliated with the University of Bordeaux, CNRS, andBordeaux National Polytechnic Institute. The lab is split into 4 teams thatspecialize in fundamental research topics: (1) polymerization catalysis andmacromolecular design, (2) biopolymers and bio-sourced polymers, (3) polymer
self-assembly and life sciences, and (4) polymer electronic materials and devices.
In the lab, I worked in Group 1 under the guidance of Professor Michel Dumon toresearch the expansion processes and infusion processes used to produce porous
polymers.

Preparing a solution

My professor
checking samples

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Sarah SiddiquiFrancePyrenees mountains in
Arantzazu, Spain when we
attended a Polymers/Colloids
Conference

Place de la Bourse. At night time,a beautiful reflection is seen in
the mirror of water in front of thebuilding.

Toured the vineyards andrural country of Saint-Émilion

Value Derived from the Experience:
This experience helped me learn more about myself and opened me up to theworld. Before this trip, I was a very close-minded person- I wouldn’t really go out
much, even to explore, and I was a very picky eater. When I got to France, I forced
myself to try new things, to eat everything that was on my plate, to spend lesstime in my room binge-watching shows while playing games on my phone. Once I
got out there, I forgot about bumming around back home, and once I got backhome, I anticipated my next excursion. In two months, I even took so many
pictures on my phone that I filled up my 64 gigabyte storage 2.5 times.
But I also learned patience and flexibility. I realized that the language barrier was aslightly larger obstacle than I was expecting, and in turn, learned the magicalwonders of the Google Translate app while I was still learning French. I discovered
new ways to hold a conversation when even the app wasn’t working, and felt prideand motivation when I could converse without the assistance. All in all, this trip
was a great learning experience, and was plenty of fun, too!

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Casey Snyder
India
College ofEngineering andApplied Sciences
Civil Engineering

Viva Group
Construction InternCompany and Position Description:
Viva Group is well-diversified company in the northernmost region of Mumbai.
Although Viva’s niche is in Real Estate Development, the company also serves as a
hub for Construction, Media, Travel, Education, Retail, Finance, Logistics, andmore. At Viva, you are able to choose your area of interest as well as explore
other sectors of the company that you want to learn more about. The city of Virar
is one of the fastest growing regions in Mumbai at this time, largely due to Viva’slarge-scale commercial and residential infrastructure projects. An intern at Viva
will have the opportunity to make site visits to the various projects as well as sit
in on meetings discussing the progress of these projects. Building codes are also
rapidly evolving as India develops, allowing for a broader perspective into how
codes are developed and utilized in a country growing as fast as India.

Internal Construction oflarge warehouses

Foundations forlarge warehouses

Viva City, Residential
High-Rise

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Casey Snyder
India

Elefantastic, a sanctuary forrescued elephants in Jaipur

A traditional Rajasthani dinner

Value Derived from the Experience
Going into my internship abroad, I knew that I would be challenged and that I
would grow from the experience. However, I didn’t realize how my world would
turn upside down and I would develop into a better person. Viva Group is aphenomenal group of people with so much to offer. The culture of India wasprominent in the workplace, allowing me to be immersed deeply in the culture
from day one. As I adjust back to American life, I am constantly thinking about allof the values and perspectives I learned by working in an environment completely
different from what I am used to. At Viva, I was encouraged to go outside of mycomfort zone and be a part of their culture. I came home with a greaterappreciation for my life than I could have imagined prior to my internship. Before
my internship, I would have never expected that I’d come out of it with a desire towork abroad (let alone India!). Now, I am thinking about my future globally and I
am so excited for the opportunities the world has to offer me. I truly feel as though
I have become a global citizen and I feel so fortunate that my Iacocca Internshipallowed me to gain another family on the other side of the world.
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Chris Sohn
Japan
College of Arts and Sciences
Molecular Biology

Taiho Pharmaceuticals
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
The program was divided into two sections: 5 weeks in Tokushima and 3 weeks inTokyo. Our time in Tokyo was spent mostly at the company headquarters receiving
lectures from all the different departments at Taiho, or we were given free days to
explore Tokyo. The other 5 weeks we worked in Taiho’s Tokushima anticancer plant.
Three of these weeks were spent at the formulation research laboratory, where the two
pictures below are taken from. During these three weeks, we synthesized tablets fromscratch and tested various properties of these tablets. We would use high techequipment that a student normally would not have access to at school, such as SEM
and UV spectrophotometer. At the end of our time at the formulation researchlaboratory, we gave 30 minute presentations on our work during our time at the lab.
The other two weeks in Tokushima were spent at the toxicology lab and applied
pharmacology lab, where we observed chromosomal aberrations in mice cells underthe microscope, and performed a Western blot. The last week we spent at theanalytical science laboratory, and used HPLC to analyze API content in the tablets wemade. At the end of our times in each laboratory, we gave short presentations, otherthan at the formulation research lab.

Insert work photo
here (with small
caption below)

Members of formulation
research laboratory

Before and after pictures of ourtablets174

Chris Sohn
Japan

Miso ramen
from Tokushima

Small gathering atcompany outing

Value Derived from the Experience:
My favorite part about my time in Japan was learning the new culture and integrating
myself into it. I was very nervous about coming to Japan because I wasn’t able to speak
any Japanese. Thankfully, most of the people I interacted with at Taiho were able tospeak English well enough that we could communicate well. Although at times there wasa bit of a language barrier, this provided a valuable experience in improving nonverbal
communication. It was also very surprising to me how nice the workers at Taiho were tous, and how I was able to become friends with a lot of the people I met, even with a bitof a language barrier.
My favorite part of working at Taiho was the Japanese work culture that I experienced.
I’m normally used to co-workers being separated by cubicles or in different offices, but at
Taiho, a whole department would be in the same room, including the bosses. I feel this isa great work environment, as this promotes more interaction between co-workers, andhelps to develop better relationships at work. Some of the lab techniques I learned
during my time at the Tokushima plant will help in any futures years that I will be in alaboratory. My eight weeks in Japan helped expose me to a new work environment, andgave me valuable international experience.

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Amanda Stratton
Dublin, Ireland
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering
Bioengineering

Move4Parkinson’s
InternCompany and Position Description:
Move4Parkinson’s is an organization that is determined to improve the lives of people livingwith Parkinson’s in Ireland. Founder and CEO Margaret Mullarney founded the organization in2011 with the purpose of educating and empowering people with Parkinson’s about how tobest manage their symptoms. Margaret herself lives with Parkinson’s disease and has
discovered many different activities that people with Parkinson’s can engage in for exercise.
Move4Parkinson’s offers Irish set dance classes, creative dance classes, and choral classes. The
main goal of these programs is to create a community where people with Parkinson’s can gain
confidence, share experiences, and support one another. The classes offer a much neededsocial and creative outlet for participants while engaging their minds and bodies. In addition to
the exercise options that are offered, Move4Parkinson’s is involved in the community to raiseawareness for the disease throughout South Ireland. As a Move4Parkinson’s intern, I had manydifferent responsibilities in the organization including funding research, writing proposals, andparticipating in the dance classes. The most important responsibility was finding and applying
for grants that were applicable to the charity. Because Move4Parkinson’s is a not-for-profit, it isessential that money is raised in order to continue to offer the much needed dance and choralclasses. Outside of the office, interacting with the people with Parkinson’s during the classes
was a vital part of the internship and the most rewarding.

Move4Parkinson’s Irish Set Dance Class

Receiving fundraising check from a
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Amanda Stratton
Dublin, Ireland

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge

Cliffs of Moher

Value Derived from the Experience:
The opportunity to intern with Move4Parkinson’s and live in Ireland was the experience of alifetime. I learned so much that I had not known before about the Irish culture and Parkinson’s
disease. Being able to interact with the people with Parkinson’s was the most rewarding part ofthe internship. I was able to listen to their stories first hand and witness their determination forbattling their disease. This experience has made me a much more empathetic and understanding
person. Seeing the passion that the organization has for generating awareness for Parkinson’s
disease and finding ways to improve quality of life is truly empowering. Professionally, thisopportunity has allowed me to grow as a writer, as an articulate speaker, and as a caring
individual. I have been able to use my nurturing nature when working with the people with
Parkinson’s while also utilizing my strengths as an achiever to complete my work in a timely andtidy manner. Overall I have emerged from Ireland with improved professional skills while also
becoming a more independent and confident person. Having to navigate the challenges thatcome with being in a different country has helped me grow the most as an individual. I really
loved being in Dublin City surrounded by strangers but feeling completely content and at home.
Traveling abroad has compelled me to reflect a lot on my life and get to know myself better. At
the same time, by immersing myself into the local culture, my eyes have opened to different
ways of living and to different cultural norms. I have such a raw appreciation for Ireland andtraveling after this experience, and I plan to continue implementing global experiences into mylife after Lehigh and into my future career. The wonderfully exciting experience of working in
Dublin, Ireland has helped me gain the confidence that I can be comfortable being
uncomfortable in both personal and professional settings and adapt to whatever challenges I
may face.

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Kelsie Strobel
Ahmedabad, India
RCEAS
IDEAS MechanicalEngineeringand Sustainable
Development

Aksharchem India Ltd.
Environmental
Engineering InternCompany and Position Description:
Aksharchem is a pigment and dye intermediate manufacturing company located in the chemicalbelt of Gujarat, India. Although you’ve never heard of them, they are the largest manufacturerof CPC Green, a universal green pigment that colors fabrics, paints, plastics, etc. So your green
sweater, green phone case, and green cup are so colored because of Aksharchem. Beyond theircurrent exports, the Managing Director and Lehigh Alum, Mr. Jaykrishna, is passionate about
creating a greener company in order to achieve a more sustainable India. During the time I wasinterning there, I got to witness two construction projects that were underway. One, which I
got to follow for the two months I was there, was a massive spray dryer plant to treat thewastewater of not only Aksharchem, but of surrounding companies that could not afford tobuild such a unit. Along the same line of sustainability, my main project for the summer was tohave a solar energy system installed at the main office. This included researching the topic
globally and locally, requesting quotations from local companies, and negotiating technical andfinancial details with those companies. Daily, I would alternate between the local Ahmedabad
office and the factory office in Mehsana, learning from all of the head engineers at both sites. I
learned both engineering and business skills throughout my internship.

In front of the company signat the manufacturing site.

My office, writing a report,
drinking masala chai.
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Kelsie Strobel
Ahmedabad, India

At the Taj Mahal

At the Adalaj Stepwell

Value Derived from the Experience:
My experience at Aksharchem gave me many opportunities to grow professionally. As this was
my first real job, I faced many new challenges but also many successes. Working in a foreigncountry can be quite challenging when a lot of the work you’re doing is based oncommunication. I spent much time sending emails and making phone calls to professionals who
are not fluent in English. While this often made me feel ignorant and embarrassed at first, I
learned that there is always more than one way to make a conversation work. After many clumsy
phone calls, I gained a new kind of professional confidence in my ability to convey important
information.
I also experienced a lot of personal growth by living in India for two months. With a new level of
independence came a new level of responsibility that I, surprisingly, fell into quite easily. But mytrip was also enlightening in a different way. For the first time in my life, I was the racial minority.
This was very humbling and I hope that I can carry the positives and negatives of such a feelingwith me as I continue in my education and working life beyond. While in India, I had every
intention of letting go of my personal preferences of food and clothing, etc., in order to keep mymind completely open to an entirely different culture. Because of this, I was able to experience acompletely new way of living and communicating. Although I already had an interest in Indianculture before my internship, I feel that I have a new respect and empathy towards the people ofAhmedabad and their culture.

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Alana Telesford
Czech RepublicCollege of Education
School Psychology

InclusioInternational Connections
InternCompany and Position Description:
Inclusio is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that works to promote inclusion inall social spheres (i.e., housing, media, workplace), particularly in the sphere of
education. Inclusio hosts a variety of educational programming in Czech schools which
promote children’s learning and parents’ self-efficacy. My role as an international
connections intern was to provide research support to Inclusio and to partnerorganizations in the Czech Republic that also work to promote social inclusion. In
addition, I was responsible for disseminating information about inclusion practices inCzech schools and to illustrate how educational inequity is linked to other areas ofsocial life (i.e., housing, employment). Specifically, I conducted electronic databasesearches on educational policies and practices that aim to promote educational equity
for Roma students, summarized empirical articles and government documents on
education in the Czech Republic, and presented this information to other NGOs,
government workers, and the general public in an easily digestible manner.

Final presentation at theAmerican Embassy.

Visiting the community center at
Coexistence Village in Ostrava.
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Alana Telesford
Czech Republic

View fromPražský Hrad.

Group visit toWallenstein Palace.

Value Derived from the Experience:
During this experience, I had to research, write, and present more information in ashorter timeframe than I’ve had to in my career thus far. Being in a completely different
environment with rigorous work demands sharpened my professional skills. As a result, I
am a stronger writer, a more critical data analyst, and an even more fierce warrior forsocial justice. I believe that the point of the Iacocca International Internship program isthat our learning and development of worldwide social justice issues doesn’t stop when
the internship concludes. Each member of our team will carry a critical eye for analyzing
issues of equity in our home country. It will be easier than ever to draw parallels
between what we’ve seen this summer and what we see at home, and to problem-solve
the ways in which we can effect change, and move others to do so as well.

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Fortunate Tshirangwana
India
P.C Rosin College ofEngineering
Industrial
Engineering

Apollo Tyres Ltd
Business Quality
InternCompany and Position Description:
During my time at Apollo Tyres my objective as the Business Quality Intern was to design aquarterly top management meeting where the VOC ( Voice of the Customer) for Apollo Tyres iseffectively discussed. My assignment required me to set up and run interviews with top
management, perform and present an as-is analysis of the current system, recognize the gaps
in the system, research and categorize current VOC reports and procedures, and finally developa VOC system for top Management. My mentor expected a high standard of work and I relied alot on my Lehigh education of data analysis. Knowledge of HTML, SAS, Arena and SQL is highly
encouraged and will make going through the internship easier.

Standing outside the entrance to the Head
Office in Gurgaon India
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Fortunate Tshirangwana
India

Calagunta Beach in Goa India

Visit to the Taj Mahal

Value Derived from the Experience:
My Iacocca International Internship Program was a life changing experience. I grew
so much as a person but also as a professional. Navigating the professional world
in a developing country helped me confirm that my desired field is indeed the field
I want to go into after graduation. I also learnt new skills that will help me as I go
into my first job. This experience helped me develop my flexibility in theworkplace, working with older people, being innovative as well as working beyond
what is expected of me to further help the team reach their goals. Personally, as aperson, I learnt how to thrive in uncomfortable situations as well as how to be
standout and be proud of the differences between me and my peers. I pushed
myself beyond my limits, and I am able to say I have completed the program and it
has changed how I view the world now.

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William Ulrich
Hong Kong
College ofComputer Scienceand Business

Hutchison Ports
IT Intern

Company and Position Description:
Hutchison Ports (HP) is the largest port operator in the world with 48 international
ports spread across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Central America. The company
provides advanced logistics and technological support for each port to achieve highlevels of economies of scale that are unattainable by individual port operators. To be
successful though, HP must continue to be a truly global company by working across
many cultures and languages.
At HP, I was an intern for the IT department and worked on an exploratory project tochange the scheduling process for port laborers. At a few of HP’s ports, operators use
flat schedules to employ laborers. While this guarantees that demand for labor will be
supplied, often there is an over supply of laborers that leads to high labor inefficiencies
and operational costs. Variable schedules reduce these problems, but they are hard to
implement because they are very complex to manually create. Over my two months
with HP, I demonstrated that variable schedules were a real possibility by designing aworking Genetic Algorithm that could generate useable variable schedules
automatically. My department was very happy with my work and plans to implement aversion of the project in the coming year.

A picture of Jason, Ivan and me aboard the
MOL Tribute in Hong Kong. The Tribute is oneof the largest ships in the world and can holdover 20,000 TEU.

A photo from Hutchison Ports annual
pizza eating competition. I’m very proudof my second place finish.

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William Ulrich
Hong Kong

One of the many Temples
scattered around HK.

A smoggy view of Hong Kong from atop
Lion Rock. The hiking in HK was incredible.

Value Derived from the Experience:
This summer, I made the most of my Iacocca internship by immersing myself in theculture and working hard to complete my assigned project for Hutchison Ports.
I believe the best ways to immerse oneself in a new culture is to learn the culture’s
language, so before I left for Hong Kong I began learning Cantonese. The learning
process taught me a lot about the culture before I arrived and allowed me to make moremeaningful connections with the locals during my two months there. I barely speak
Cantonese as well as a three year old, but it was very empowering to be able to orderfood and direct taxis in a language I’d only studied for two months.
At Hutchison Ports, I was given the difficult task of building an algorithm that could
generate variable schedules for the port laborers. I enjoy being challenged, so I was
happy to be given such meaningful work. Over the course of two months I learned
Node.JS and completed a full web application that met my assigned requirements. It
was extremely rewarding to successfully complete the project, and I’m very happy that
Hutchison Ports plans to use the software in the future.

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Casey Urban
Costa Rica
P.C. Rossin College of Engineering University of Georgia
and Applied Science
Research Intern
IDEAS

Company and Position Description:
The University of Georgia (UGA) campus was involved in supporting outside
research projects, as well as being a space for school or family tour groups, andfor hosting college courses. At UGA, I primarily worked on three projects. The firstwas collecting bird strike research data, by doing daily observations and searchesof the buildings on campus. The second was mounting and classifying plants in
the herbarium on campus so that the collection could be preserved for the
future. The third was a water quality research project studying water quality inthe Bellbird Biological Corridor. I cleaned river samples for macro-invertebrates,
which then had to be classified and counted. This was so that the water quality
could be assessed using the Bosque Eternal Index that was created for the area.
At the end of the internship, the other Lehigh interns came to UGA and wecompleted a water quality assessment project which included field days, lab
work, and a presentation.

Water Quality Station in Lab

Dead bird found from Bird Strike

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Casey Urban
Costa Rica

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photo here (withsmall caption
below)
Trail in Monteverde
Cloud Forest Reserve

View of the Gulf of Nicoya
from Santa Elena

Value Derived from the Experience:
At the University of Georgia Costa Rica campus I had the opportunity to work on avariety of research projects, including data collecting for bird strike research,herbarium mounting, and water quality assessment of local watersheds. It wasvery important for me to be able to do lab work on various projects in the field ofstudy that I was interested in. Even if it is not exactly what I am planning to doafter my college career, it gave me insight on different avenues of research that are
being done and other options that may be available. It also enabled me to connect
with other interns and professionals that I feel comfortable contacting in the
future. The staff at UGA was extremely respectful and supportive, and they madeit clear that the work I was doing there was very important.
Through the internship I stayed with a homestay family which was an amazing
experience. The families in San Luis are extremely welcoming and kind-hearted,and take you in as one of their own. This enabled me to learn more quickly about
the culture and the language.
This internship experience expanded my views of other cultures, and I think will
make me a more open-minded person. It also gave me a taste of whatenvironmental and conservation work is being done in Central America and what
opportunities I may have after graduation. This UGA site is especially well suited
for students who want a cultural immersion as well as an intensive and serious
research experience, and would enjoy being in a rural area.

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Mariangelica Vargas
ItalyCollege of Business and Economics
Economics

Hotel Elisabetta
Hospitality Strategy andOperational InternCompany and Position Description:
Elevated in the city of Castellammare di Stabia lies Hotel Elisabetta and Giovanni Di Pozzano Restaurant.
The immense, family-run property boasts a two-star hotel and a restaurant characterized by Neapolitan
flavors. It’s management has been recently passed down to Ms. Giovanna del Gaudio who holds a PhD
in Hospitality and Tourism and recognizes the existence of immense potential in the business. Currently,
visitors of the business are in for scenic views of the Gulf of Naples and a fruit and vegetable garden
visible from their room balconies or their dinner table. Hotel Elisabetta is now rated as the best value
for money in Castellammare di Stabia (according to booking.com). Its fresh food ingredients,
comparably low prices, and easy access to other touristy locations differentiate it from nearby
competitors. As a Hospitality Strategy and Operational Intern at the property for two months, I assisted
Ms. Del Gaudio in analyzing customer reviews to identify points of dissatisfaction with both Hotel
Elisabetta and its surrounding town. After this, came the creation of a marketing strategy that included
revamping the hotel’s official website and social media pages, as well as making suggestions for
improvement of the city’s app. In addition to exploring opportunities for enhanced customer reviews, I
also helped develop more detailed plans aimed at tapping into the business’ potential for great profit in
the long-run. Part of the internship also included carrying out daily operations such as handling checkins, waiting tables, and translating for international guests of the hotel in its period of generationalchange.

Standing behind the front desk,
ready to help any and all guests.

Conference about
Castellammare di Stabia’s ruins–
one of the city’s treasures.

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Mariangelica Vargas
Italy

The view of Florence,with a chance of rain.

Exploring Positano
with Alexa M.

Value Derived from the Experience:
I had never been to Europe and spending two months there was an experience of a lifetime.
Physically, I came back tanner since I worked near the beach, and also a little chubbier thanks toexcessive intake of mozzarella, pasta, and gelato. It was obviously an experience that I willremember forever and this is because I really put myself out there. Before leaving I was told thatinterning abroad would be what I made of it. This was definitely true.
Interning at Hotel Elisabetta I got to interact with people from all over the world, making me a
bit more open-minded. This has aided my professional and personal development because it
opened my eyes to multiple cultural perspectives and ways of doing business. Wanting to take inas much as I could, I learned my way around Castellammare di Stabia in order to give directions
to hotel guests. I asked a lot of questions and paid very close attention to everything said by the
Italian family running the hotel, in order to absorb as much Italian as possible. This experiencepeaked my interest in languages and I already registered to continue learning Italian at Lehigh.
Furthermore, being born and raised in Honduras I also noticed how I, in comparison to Italians,or people from the United States would approach customers, meetings, and even behave in asocial setting.
Wanting to really explore my surroundings, I pushed myself to get out of my comfort zone. I
traveled around alone on multiple occasions and loved it. Of course traveling with someone isalways best, but I was not about to let go of the opportunity to visit somewhere new. I think no
one should.

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Samuel Velez
Stockholm, Sweden
College of Business & Economics
Barnebys
Finance
Market Research InternCompany and Position Description:
Barnebys is the leading search engine for art, antiques, and collectibles from
more than 2,000 auction houses around the world. At Barnebys, I spent much of
my time conducting research and gathering relevant data to forecast the future
performance of the Art Market. This research was then communicated to myproject manager and organized as part of a yearly industry report. Interestingly
enough, I was able to work in an industry that is slowly, but surely growing. The
idea of investing in art and certain artists/styles is a rather new concept, however,
it is almost equally as lucrative as placing investments in other more common
areas. Being a Market Research intern at Barnebys, I found that the most difficult
thing for me was knowing that many people would read the research I conducted
and make very important decisions based on whatever information was
published in the yearly Art Market Report.

The entrance to Barnebys.

Chris and Pontus; thefounders of Barnebys.

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Samuel Velez
Stockholm, Sweden

View of Stockholm froma neighboring island.

Taking a well-deserved “Fika”
break from work.

Value Derived from the Experience:
This is 8-week internship proved to be the greatest experience of my life. I wasable to see how my work directly contributed to the progression of Barnebys.
Maybe more important than any other benefit of working at a startup is therealization that hard work, creative thinking, and tenacity are worth a whole lot.
The atmosphere was incredible and made me feel as though there was nohierarchy in the workplace. It was even encouraged to communicate ideas freely
across different platforms of coworkers which allowed for a more collaborative
work environment. Aside from an invaluable work experience, I was able to learn
so much about the Swedish language, culture, and history. Coming from a family
whose roots are primarily in South America, I was surprised at how willing I was tostep out of my comfort zone and try to practice a language other than what I am
used to.
Nonetheless, being put under pressure and having an experience in a field I am
interested in studying has given me the confidence to continue doing well nomatter the situation in the workplace. By living in Stockholm for roughly twomonths, I was not only able to create everlasting friendships, but also able tocreate a network beyond all boundaries, which to me, is one of the most fortunate
things I could ask for in my life.

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Kiana Wright
UgandaP.C. Rossin College
of Engineering
Materials Scienceand Engineering

Pathways
Development
Initiative
Primary School
TeacherCompany and Position Description:
I worked for Pathways Development Initiative, an NGO that serves thecommunity. PDI is a community center that includes a pre-primary/early primaryschool, a sports clinic, and micro financing groups. I mostly worked at the schoolwith the primary two class (an equivalent to second grade). Every morning I went
to school and stayed until around 4:00 p.m. Then I would go to the sports clinic
and play soccer with the students.

A picture of me teaching myclass (primary two)

Teach Justine was blowing bubbles
and playing with the students
during break time at school

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Kiana Wright
UgandaA view down the mainstreet in Bubiita

A football match on
the field in thecenter of Bubiita

Value Derived from the Experience:

I've learned a lot on my Iacocca trip- cultural sensitivity, how to adjust toother cultures, what culture shock really feels like and how it impacts people.
I have a better understanding of different lifestyles. After working withchildren and just living in a community that is mostly children I feel more
confident with children.
However I think the greatest impact my internship left me with was a better
understanding and stronger connection to African culture. I grew up within
the black community and my family has been in America for over 300 years
so I am a part of black American culture. But I always felt a disconnect toAfrican culture- maybe I didn't understand a lot of the customs or I wasn't
exposed to that way of life enough. I'm not sure exactly why but I always felt
a strong disconnect to Africans and African culture, as if I just neverunderstood it. This was a particular issue at Lehigh because the black
community is so small and so close and I often felt like I couldn't relate to
many of the African students. After my Iacocca internship I feel extremely
comfortable with African culture and I've made stronger relationships at
Lehigh because of it. I don't think that would have happened if I hadn't wenton my Iacocca internship.

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Jasmine Wung
Czech Republic
IDEAS
Computer Scienceand WGSS

Otevrena Spolecnost
Research InternCompany and Position Description:
Otevrena Spolecnost is an NGO working towards social change by promoting tolerance
and diversity. They strive to implement long term projects that will work towards amore inclusive Czech Republic, doing research and advocating for policies on genderequality, crime, housing, and employment, just to name a few.
I worked on the qualitative analysis of inequitable housing situations by researchingadequate housing conditions, problems with the current social housing system, housing
conditions for the socially excluded, barriers to accessing better housing, the effects ofstereotypes, and possible goals and solutions, and then compiling some of that
information into infographics. I also edited the videos from the social housing
interviews Maggie and I conducted with other NGOs, such as Centrum, Romodrom, and
The Life Together.
We spent the last two weeks of our internship putting a Story Map together, aninteractive website that combined all of our research and work into a cohesive storylinethat explain the inequities the Romani face in the Czech Republic.

Working in Otevrena
Spolecnost’s office
At the US Embassy to giveour final presentation

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Jasmine Wung
Czech Republic

Peacocks in theWallenstein Palace
gardens

Rose Garden in
Petrin Hill

Value Derived from the Experience:
This Iacocca Internship was an amazing opportunity to experience a different country’s culture aswell as international social issues. It was interesting to draw parallels between the problems in
America and the Czech Republic, and realize that although they’re in different contexts, ourproblems are fundamentally similar. I learned about the cycle of socialization and the web ofracism that keeps disadvantaged groups from rising up in society, and I learned more about
independence, teamwork, and global issues. This internship has only strengthened my belief that
this kind of work is important and something I want to continue doing both on Lehigh’s campus
and after graduation.

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Angelika Wyzlic
Ireland
P.C. Rossin College of Engineeringand Applied Science
Bioengineering

National University of Ireland,
GalwayResearch InternCompany and Position Description:
The National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) is a University that has been rated in the top
one percent of universities worldwide. It contains 5 colleges, including the College ofEngineering and Informatics, which is the college I interned in. The Biomedical Engineering
department at NUIG works heavily with companies in the biomechanical industry. The students
are placed on teams that help find solutions to problems set forth by the companies, similar to
the Technical Entrepreneurship Capstone Design Projects that we have at Lehigh. Theinternships are personalized via a match between the ongoing research at the university andthe interests that you specify before going abroad.
This summer, I was able to work on a collaborative effort between Professor Chao Zhao at
Lehigh University and Professor Ted Vaughan at NUIG. Under the supervision of Prof. Vaughan, I
used images taken by Prof. Zhou’s lab group in order to create a 3D model of a fruit fly heart
using an advanced image processing software called Materialise Mimics. Next, I used thesoftware application Abaqus to create and analyze the mechanical properties of the heart. In
the Abaqus software, I mainly used a finite element analysis, as well as the Coupled EulerianLagrangian (CEL) analysis method. This allowed me to show what the flow looks like throughthe heart, and how the fluid in the heart behaves when undergoing contractions.

My work station at NUIG

Exploring the lab andlearning about what anotherintern is working on
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Angelika Wyzlic
Ireland

Cliffs of Moher

Aran Islands

Value Derived from the Experience:
This internship has been very rewarding for me. I was able to grow academically through the
project that I was working on, as well as personally through the experience of living in a different
country on my own. During my internship, I learned how to work alone while checking in withmy supervisor. On a daily basis, I worked independently on the computer and made sure tocheck in with Prof. Vaughan every time I needed help or finished a specific task. I imagine that
this is very similar to what it is like to work in some companies, therefore this was a great
opportunity to see what kind of environment I would like to be in once I begin working.
Additionally, I was able to see what some of the other students there were working on. This gave
me a glimpse into other types of research-based work that is available within the bioengineering
field. Overall, this setting was perfect for me to explore different interests within the
bioengineering field, including the chance to see whether I enjoy the computer aspects.
Living in Ireland for the summer really allowed me to grow as a person. I loved getting to knowsome of the local people and asking questions about their culture. There were plenty ofopportunities to travel Ireland over the weekends, and it was nice to have the huge group of
Lehigh in Ireland students nearby to travel with. Before going to Ireland, I was very excited but
also unsure about living in a completely different country for ten weeks. After this experience, I
have become more confident in myself and I will have no reservations if given the chance totravel again.

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Sydney Yang
Singapore
P.C. Rossin College ofEngineering and Applied
Science
Bioengineering

3M
R&D AssistantCompany and Position Description:
I interned at 3M’s location at Woodlands, Singapore. There I worked in the
research and development department where I was an assistant in a lab. The lab I
assisted in specialized in electronic transport materials, and I specifically worked
on creating different coatings for cover tapes. Cover tapes are a film used to cover
carrier tapes which are utilized in transporting small electrical components suchas those used in phones and circuits. Current cover tapes often may have chargebuild up which can damage the components in transit. Thus, my job was toexperiment with different types of coatings for films to find a coating that could
help dissipate charge build up. I worked with mostly graphene and resin coatingsand experimented with different mixtures of the two.

Left : 3M Woodlands
Singapore location
where the R&D
department alongwith all the researchlabs are mainly
located.
Right : My employee
ID for the company.
Most doors can only
be accessed by using
the ID.

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Sydney Yang
Singapore

Left: Buddha Tooth
Relic Temple
located in the heartof Chinatown.

Right: traditional
Singaporean dish,chicken and roasted
pork belly rice.

Value Derived from the Experience:
Interning at 3M Woodlands Singapore has helped me grasp what the workplace dynamic
at a company can be like. While I expected to be working in a lab in the R&D
department, I never fully realized that I would also be required to be working in an officefor half my time as well. For me, it was different than working in an academic researchlab where I worked full time purely in the lab only. My experience of working at 3M, ofworking for a company, has helped me understand what I want to pursue after I obtain
my undergraduate degree. This experience helped me confirm that I do like conducting
research and solidified my determination to pursue graduate studies.
Going to Singapore had also been my first time abroad, and in Singapore, I was warmly
surprised to see parts of my culture reflected in Singaporean culture. Seeing myself
reflected in society is not something I experience often in the US, and the experience ofbeing able to relate to another culture helped me embrace myself for who I am more.

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Faculty/Staff Contributions
Thank you to the Lehigh University Faculty and Staff who created opportunities forgroup programs. Their efforts went above and beyond their responsibilities to theuniversity and they took the time to prepare and lead a group of students in theirinternational experience.
Cheryl Matherly (Vice President & Vice Provost International Affairs)

Faculty/Staff Program Leaders:Jack Lule; Italy
Steve McIntosh; Malaysia
Don Morris; Costa Rica
Mark Noble; Uganda
Christy Novak; Czech RepublicDaniel Ou-Yang; France
Susan Perry ; Ireland
Dimitrios Vavylonis; Japan
Zhiyuan Yan; China

Special thanks also to the Steering Committee:
Lia Assad (Lee Iacocca’s daughter)Paul Brockman (Professor, Finance and Law)
Marie-Helene Chabut (Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures)
Carol Ham (Director, International Internships)
Lori Kennedy (Director, Career Services)
John Savage (Associate Professor, History)
Robert Storer (Co-Director, Industrial and Systems Engineering)Tamas Terlaky (Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Cameron Wesson (Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs,
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Thank you to the donors who make this program possible!

Trisha S. ‘11G andJames J. Alexy ‘16P

Lauren E. Bloch ’10

Claudia De Dougherty
and Eugene T. Dougherty'87 '12P

Judy and Donald M.
Gruhn '49

Allison L. Land '88 '19P

Rene Obregon '97P

Ronni and Arthur C.
Tauck Jr. '53 '79P

Evita and Jefferson F.
Allen ‘67 ‘97P

Kim and Robert W.
Bohny ’84

Marianna R. Deal '16PCharlene Y. Fergus '99

Harry B. Levine '56 '91P

Noah O. Ongoro '14

The Freeman Foundation

Anonymous

Elizabeth T. Brinkman ’88

Terri R. and Charles J.
Delaney '81

June W. and Leon C. Holt
'48 '85P through the Holt
Family Foundation

I. Henry Lewis '63

Kristin C. Perry '93

Cheryl A. and Paul D.
Thomas '78

Susan K. Archer ’82

Yutong Chang ‘17G

William A. Draper Jr. '65

Katherine J. Howlin '16

Alice E. and Howard T.
Lieberman

Donald R. Phillips '84

Christine and Vincent R.
Volpe Jr. '80 '81

Kevin E. Augustyn ’17

Jane L. Johnston andTimothy G. Chelius ‘16P

Patricia and Stewart Early'66 '96P

Linda P. Huber '80

Victor Lopez-Balboa

Bonnie L. and Frank T.
Pratt '65 '66G '03P

Laurence J. Walsh '92

Becton Dickinson

Maria L. ‘87 and John R.
Chrin ‘85 ‘86 ‘10P

Jennifer Satz Enslin andJeffrey D. Enslin '88

Lee A. Iacocca'45 '69H '17GP

Sharon O. and James R.
Maida '85 '17P '19P

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ryan L. White '14

Elizabeth and Joseph J.
Bailey ‘80 ‘14P

Kieren E. Connor ’16

Yiyi N. and John C. Evans'66

The Iacocca Foundation

Haley G. Maruschak '15

Seneca S. Rasey '17

Arielle K. Willett '15

Barbara and David M.
Baldwin ’51

Joan and Curts Cooke‘58 ‘82P ‘15GP

Wayne D. Freese '59

Ingersoll-Rand Company

Hannah and James D.
Miller '64 '67G '87P '90P

Kathryn Y. and Alan G.
Rieper '62

Huan Xie '17

Christina E. Bauer ’15

Doreen M. and Bryan A.
Costantino '14P '16P

Linda L. and Peter M.
GilbertBrodi D. Jackson
Borchardt '98 and
Gregory C. Borchardt

Ann C. '91G and Vincent
G. Munley'74 '02P '04P '05P

Ilyana Sangadzhyieva

Angela K. Young '17

Jessica M. DeSantis-Berg‘03 andJonathan J. Berg ’03

Gretchen F. Cusick

Stephen F. Goldmann '66

Christopher W. Kohler'08

Barbara and Ronald
Muse '06PAlex P. Tamm '12

Deborah E. Zajac '97

Beverly and Harold P.
Bitler ‘64

Amanda L. and John R.
Day '98

Christine and Steven H.
Goldthwaite '87

Kelsey LaBosco '16

Sarah J. Muse '06

Patricia M. and Lawrence
J. Tamm '12P

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http://global.lehigh.edu/internships
Carol Ham, Program Director
csh205@lehigh.edu (610) 758-3467
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