The combinations possible with an IDEAS degree are limited only by one’s imagination. However, this horizon of possibility can be a bit overwhelming. This page is a place to demonstrate what previous students have done with their degrees. Students focus on a number of different concentrations during their undergraduate studies and each individual who has graduated the IDEAS program forges their own path beyond their years at Lehigh.
This is in no way a complete representation of what has been done in the past, nor should it serve as a limitation for what is possible with the program in the future. This page should serve as a snapshot of past students and an inspiration for future students.
Benjamin Bonner
About Me: Graduated medical school, currently engaged in a research fellowship, aspiring radiologist. New Orleans native.
Graduation Year: 2017
Current Employment: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Favorite thing about IDEAS: The diversity of subjects we are able to study
Robbie Daitzman
About Me: Outside of professional life, I’m married (to Lauren, a fellow Lehigh alum that I met and started dating in our first year!). We have a two year old son and a daughter on the way this summer!
Graduation year: 2015
Current employment: I am currently the Senior Manager responsible for resiliency architecture and testing at Vanguard.
Favorite thing about IDEAS: My favorite thing about IDEAS was the opportunity to build a network among peers with such varying interests.
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Current employment: I am currently the Senior Manager responsible for resiliency architecture and testing at Vanguard.
Favorite thing about IDEAS: My favorite thing about IDEAS was the opportunity to build a network among peers with such varying interests.
Adam Janes
About Me: I’m an avid Formula 1 fan and I continue to enjoy playing tennis with friends (even though I’m not as good as I was back in college!)
Graduation year: 2014
Current employment: I am a trial lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, focusing on intellectual property litigation (patents, trade secrets, etc.).
Favorite thing about IDEAS: IDEAS allowed me the flexibility to pursue courses and interests that inspired and challenged me.
Graduation year: 2014
Current employment: I am a trial lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, focusing on intellectual property litigation (patents, trade secrets, etc.).
Favorite thing about IDEAS: IDEAS allowed me the flexibility to pursue courses and interests that inspired and challenged me.
Abby Farrell
About Me: My husband is a fellow Lehigh-alum! We live near the beach in SF with our two fluffy cats.
Current employment: I am currently serving as a temporary advisor to the Regional Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest Headquarters in San Francisco. Once this temporary promotion is over, I’ll return to my regular job as an engineer in the groundwater protection section.
Graduation year: 2015, 2016 G
Favorite thing about IDEAS: The coursework flexibility!
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Current employment: I am currently serving as a temporary advisor to the Regional Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest Headquarters in San Francisco. Once this temporary promotion is over, I’ll return to my regular job as an engineer in the groundwater protection section.
Graduation year: 2015, 2016 G
Favorite thing about IDEAS: The coursework flexibility!
Tim Krentz
About me: I enjoy choral and brass music, reading for fun, and recreational weight lifting. In my academics and career, I have synthesized micro-scale lens arrays, harvested brain cells from live fetal chickens (and shot them with lasers), formulated composites with surface engineered nanofillers and destroyed them with high voltages, and worked with metallurgy and nuclear material to study plastic deformation and fracture mechanics.
Graduation year: 2011
Current employment: I am a federal program manager for the Dynamic Materials Properties program at the NNSA, a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy
Favorite thing about IDEAS: Being in the first year of IDEAS, the program offered a large amount of freedom in designing my own course of study, something I think is still a core value of the program.
Graduation year: 2011
Current employment: I am a federal program manager for the Dynamic Materials Properties program at the NNSA, a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy
Favorite thing about IDEAS: Being in the first year of IDEAS, the program offered a large amount of freedom in designing my own course of study, something I think is still a core value of the program.