“UMass Amherst is filled with opportunities to grow and learn as a student and an individual. The College of Engineering is a strong community, both on campus and through the active alumni network, where there is a place for each and every student who wishes to be a part of it. They say you can make a big school feel small and the communities within the College of Engineering are a testament to that.”

Jessica Durkee '24

Jessica Durkee is an electrical engineering major, engineering management minor, and member of Commonwealth Honors College. During her time at UMass, she was an active member of the UMass chapter of the Society of Women Engineers and served as its Community Service Outreach Chair for the past two years. Over the past two years, she also worked on an NSF-funded project under Professor Dennis Goeckel studying the effect of RF Fingerprinting on covert communications. In addition, she played on the UMass Women's Club Rugby team (which placed second nationally last spring!) and participated in Project Connect, which allowed her to attend the 2023 International Microwave Symposium. After graduation, she began working on airborne radar systems at MIT Lincoln Laboratories.