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This Spring, GEARE Ambassadors is excited to continue spotlighting GEARE students whose experiences and work abroad have helped reshape their worldview and leave a lasting impact on the global communities they served. For our first highlight, meet Catherine Gemrich, a senior in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, who spent their spring semester and summer at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. Following the end of her study abroad semester, Kate stayed in Germany to help as a

Our GEARE Executive Board is full of students who strive to enhance the international engineering experience for Purdue students. Between helping to build professional skills, coordinating networking events with current and former students, and fostering a community of globally minded engineers on campus and around the world, our team focuses on helping GEARE students maximize their opportunities. We would like to thank all our members for the countless hours spent improving

This fall, we are spotlighting GEARE students whose experiences abroad have reshaped both their studies and worldviews. Meet Landon Goetz, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, who spent a semester - from April to August 2024 - at the Karlsruhe Institute of Kechnology (KIT) in Germany. Alongside his coursework, Landon completed an internship with Daimler Trucks in Stuttgart, a city renowned for its automotive innovation and engineering heritage. A

This fall, we’re spotlighting GEARE students whose time abroad shaped not just their studies, but their worldviews. Meet Grace Olden, a senior in Mechanical Engineering, spent Spring 2024 at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, Taiwan—a city steeped in history, food, and vibrant traditions. For Grace, Taiwan was familiar ground. She had visited during high school on a cultural exchange, staying with a local host family. Reuniting with them years later added a pers

The GEARE Executive Board is a team of committed students working to enrich the  international engineering journey at Purdue. Whether...

We are so excited to welcome the 2027 Cohort of the GEARE Program! This incredible group of students is our largest cohort yet, an...

Meet Dr. Riley Barta, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, with a background that exemplifies the impact...

The GEARE Executive Board is composed of passionate students dedicated to enhancing the international engineering experience at Purdue....

This spring, we're excited to keep sharing stories from our GEARE students as they return from their adventures abroad! This week, meet...