Students abroad

Current students abroad

Follow our current students as they travel, work, and study abroad! Here you will be able to keep up with our students and their adventures abroad via blogs, photos, and videos.

Fall 2024

• Freya Oesterle is a junior chemical engineering and German studies major who will spend the year living and studying in Aachen, Germany. Explore his blog.

Summer 2024

• Adam Gockley is a sophomore chemical and biomedical engineering major spending the summer in Dortmund, Germany. Follow along with his adventures.
• Lex Capestany is a junior Civil Engineering major who is spending his summer in Copenhagen, Denmark. Follow his journey through his e-journal.
• Belle Blanchard is a mechanical engineer spending her summer in Nantes, France. She is keeping an e-journal of her time abroad. 

Spring 2024

• Purva Bommireddy is a civil engineering junior studying abroad this spring. You can follow her experience via her instagram account. 

Fall 2023

• Josiah Miggiani is an ECE junior studying this fall in the Netherlands. You can follow his experience on his blog.
• Bradley Ma is a senior in ECE spending the semester studying in Thailand. Follow Bradley's blog to learn more. 

Spring 2023

• Katie Hart is a junior EnvE/EPP double major who is studying abroad in Rome, Italy this semester. You can follow her blog to learn more about her travels.
• Carla Gomez-Fonseco (environmental engineering) spent the summer between her sophomore and junior years studying in Costa Rica. She shares her experience through her instagram account. 

Past travelers

Read more about our students’ past experiences.

• Alby Penney is an ECE major who studied in Lausanne, Switzerland. He shared his blog with the goal to "inspire other students to come study at EPFL!"
• Jill Nelson is a junior in chemical engineering who spent her spring semester studying in Argentina. Follow along with her through her blog.
• MSE student Robin Kuo spent her summer studying and doing research in Japan.
• Roberto Rivas, a student from MechE, spent 10 weeks in Tokyo.
• MechE’s Willetta Wisely studied for a summer in Germany.
• James Nguyen from ECE spent a summer in China.
• Quincy Eaton, a student in MechE, studied in Tokyo.
• Matthew Fang, a student in ECE, spent some time studying in Shanghai this past summer. He put together a short video of one of his immersive cultural experiences, sampling 12 different types of Baozis, which is one of the most common and core cultural foods in China.
• Katherine Marcan is a BME/CHE double major who spent her fall semester studying in Argentina. 
• Tala Habbab of MSE studied and performed research in Germany.
• Emma Parks is a ChemE student who studied in Switzerland.
• Shivani Shukla is an MSE student who studied and conducted research at Technion University in Haifa, Israel.
• Sydney Baker, a student in MechE, is spent a summer studying in Shanghai. You can read about her experiences on her blog.
• Jeannie Michaels, a chemical engineering student, spent her junior year abroad, studying in London. Read her blog. 
• Wenting Chang of ECE spent her summer studying in Seoul, South Korea. Follow her adventures.
• Gaurav Balakrishnan, an MSE student, spent the summer performing research in Haifa, Israel. Follow his blog.
• Obianozo Chukwamu, a junior in Civil and Environmental Engineering, studied abroad in London this semester. Follow her on Instagram.
• Renee Rios of Civil and Environmental Engineering studied abroad in Barcelona. Follow her blog.
• Stephanie Tjan, a Civil and Environmental Engineering senior, studied in Germany. As a junior, she also spent time in Iceland on the GREEN program.
• Cari Hartigan, a junior in Civil and Environmental Engineering, traveled to Germany to study and research.
• Nikita Sharma, a Civil and Environmental Engineering student, spent ten days in Iceland for a special summer program.
• Megan Pudlo, a Chemical Engineering major, spent her junior year studying abroad on exchange with Imperial College in England.
• Thomas "TJ" Murray, a junior in Mechanical Engineering, studied in Qatar for a spring semester. Read about his experience.
• Maya Holay is a junior Chemical and Biomedical Engineering double major who did summer research in Dortmund, Germany. Check out her blog. 
• Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Katherine Wang studied in Florence, Italy.
• Crystear Liu, a Chemical Engineering sophomore, learned German in Berlin during the summer. 
• Jeffrey He is an Electrical and Computer Engineering junior who spent a semester studying in Istanbul, Turkey.
• Three engineering students traveled to Honduras over their spring break as part of the Carnegie Mellon University Global Water Brigades service group. They wrote about their experiences in their blog.

Please note that opinions and statements made by students in their personal blogs do not necessarily reflect those of the College of Engineering or of Carnegie Mellon University.