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Former MIT-Germany Interns: Career Success Stories

Carlos Gorbea (MBA '06) completed a three month internship with Siemens in 2004 and has since joined BMW/TUM for a three year PhD position in the Engineering Systems Division. He is in his third year now of finishing his thesis and has already hosted two undergraduate MIT-Germany interns in 2008 and 2009.

Margaret Horton did postdoc work at LMU in Munich after finishing her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2006. Now she has joined Beiersdorf in Hamburg as a technology scout. She introduced the MIT-Germany Program to Beiersdorf last summer and helped establish Beiersdorf as a host insitution for interns. In 2009, the MIT-Germany Program sent three students to Beiersdorf.

Dora Tzianetopoulou interned at Bosch as undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering in Schwieberdingen. She later finished her PHD (2008) and has now joined Bosch Mahle Turbo Systems in Stuttgart.

Wojchiech Giziewicz did an internship in 1997 with IBM in Boeblingen. Then an EECS undergrad, Giziewicz finished his PHD at MIT in 2007 and took a permanent position at Osram Opto Semiconductors in Regensburg.

James Hockenberry worked as an undergraduate intern at Bosch in 1989, then completed his PhD in EECS at MIT and joined the International Management Trainee Program. He continues to work for the company in Stuttgart.

Isaac Trefz completed a six-month internship with BMW in 1989 and received a job offer from the company afterward. He briefly returned to MIT to finish his graduate degree and has since worked for the company in New Jersey and Munich.

Carlos Gorbea (MBA '06) with MIT-Germany intern Tina Srivastava ('09) during her 2009 internship at BMW.