“It’s very rare that you come across a program for which you take a chance, sacrifice a piece of your life to take part in, and of course expose yourself to the possibility of being vulnerable with complete and utter strangers. Now, to extrapolate that feeling into the context of engaging in an extra course in another country entirely, is an experience that many of us cannot say we have ever engaged in and yet, here I am.”

~Rachna Kumar (February 20, 2018), The Netherlands

- Five students, including myself were chosen from our Masters program to take part in the ACE Urban Air Quality Challenge at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands.

- Split up into five teams, and expected to work with engineers from all around the world, we were expected to tackle and help solve a very serious problem: “air pollution”.

- My team quickly recognized the value of having the disciplines of design, technology and engineering intertwine to create a solution that was not only human-centric but also life-centric